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(...) Your expectation is certainly justified. I don't know what the driver architecture is on the Mac, but I suspect that the video hardware manufacturers are responsible for the OpenGL implementation for their own hardware, just like on the PC. If (...) (22 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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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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(...) After careful consideration of this offer, I Andrew Allan accept the nomination (22 years ago, 13-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I, James Reynolds, second this nomination. James (22 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Larry pointed out a spelling error in my last attempt at this nomination so I'll try again. Also, I'm cross posting to the Mac subgroup so maybe this'll be seen by the interested parties. Anyhow... I Don Heyse nominate Andrew Allan. (22 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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(...) Two quick things spring to mind... One is adding on the Deletion of objects for Powerbook users, right now we need to keep the Fn-key pressed down in order to be able to delete a selected piece. Perhaps you could map the Backspace key as well (...) (22 years ago, 31-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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Great stuff Jim, where possible I'll answer interspersed with your comments (...) I've noticed this too on some bricks. It has to do with the fact that some parts use negative scaling when drawing some primitives. Both OpenGL and LDRAW can handle (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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Hi Andrew, I've been occupied lately but I was finally able to test drive 2.2b1 for many hours this past week. So, weighing in again... I'm absolutely enjoying MBC!... most especially now that I understand what you were saying about moving the field (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, FTX)
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| | Re: lugnet.cad.dev (2004.03.03.1000) #9551 (1 article)
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(...) Well, there is Mac OS 8-9 and Mac OS X. Mac OS 8-9: The search path for the ini/pref file is: /System Folder/Preferences There is no where else it should be saved. Andrew can tell you what the format is (I don't think it is xml/plist). Mac OS (...) (22 years ago, 3-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac, lugnet.cad.dev)
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Where to store the preferences? While I've been aware of this thread, I haven't actually been following it, so correct me if I've got the wrong end of the stick. (...) MacOS 9 and earlier is a single user environment and it was easy to place (and (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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| | Re: Mac Brick CAD 2.2b1 New Release
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(...) Many thanks for yet another update on MBC! Can I vote for yet another key mapping...? You've added the Delete key for deleting selected pieces, can you please also map the Backspace key to the same function, so that Powerbook users won't have (...) (22 years ago, 2-Mar-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.mac)
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