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(...) I have a few comments--based on my experience writing LDView--that I think could improve your load performance. First of all, I believe what you are saying above (and a little later in your post) is that you only cache complete bricks. If this (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) I'm aware of this and you'll find that when you save and re-open the file, MBC will have truncated these very small numbers to 0, this code should however one day be incorporated into the rotation routines. Andrew... (22 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Yes, When loading I make a list of all the unique bricks in the model (colour and type) these are then cached as OpenGL lists of so when drawing, I then just call the various OpenGL lists. For the imperial star destroyer, this means even a (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Just out of curiosity, do you cache pieces once they have been loaded, so they only get loaded once? If not, you can speed things up rather enormously by doing so. --Travis Cobbs (22 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Thanks for the MBC update! PowerBook G4, 400MHz, 512MB RAM, IBM TravelStar 40GN 40GB HD (4200 RPM), OS X 10.3.3 (build 7F44), 8MB Rage128. I don't have the .mpd extension mapped to MBC, so I dropped the Star Destroyer MPD on the MBC app. Timed (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Following the comments by James with Orion Pobursky's version of 10030 (Imperial Star Destroyer), I took a look at the file. In it's original form there was 3 problems: 1. MBC is case sensitive when referencing sub-models (don't know if this is good (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) The sort url for the above is: (URL) (22 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) (URL) (22 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Very nice. It tells me when there are missing parts! (URL) it displays the Star Destroyer much better... meaning it displays more than 1 part, which is what 2.2b1 did. (URL) can get the dat here: (URL) op=modload&name=News...=0&thold=0 It slows my (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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Well folks, I've been busy again and MBC2.3b1 is the result. This represents a fairly significant upgrade with new major features including: * Multiple Part Data (.mpd) files can be directly edited. * Exporting to instructions sequences is possible (...) (22 years ago, 12-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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