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hi steve, and thanks for the response. i've been watching the voting thread. in your original announcement you said it would be a "fairly small update" of parts but that is one jam-packed update of great stuff! big thanks to you and all of the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: LDraw Help Desk/Reference
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Tim, I thought you once mentioned an 'under development' area on ldraw.org. Does this area exist, or am I mis-remembering? Steve (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: next ldraw part update, space/minifig accessories?
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(...) Yes. :) (...) At some point, the parts in the Castle, Town, and Space categories need to be reorganized, moved to other categories. Generally, the theme-based groups make parts harder to find. Steve (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) Maybe he meant something like: (URL) or (URL) And as you can see, not more polygons, but actually less. as a rule of tumb, "less points implies less polys". NOTE: both examples could be even more simplified (less points) if we removed the disc (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) complete half disc: It would obviously be better to use a half disc in the first place. What John meant above was, if I understood him correctly, a disc with a diameter larger than the quad's height. That way, the problem is non-trivial, and (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) This depends only on the actual part, the point of view and in which order the overlapping polys are given (also depends on view). (...) Not exactly, see what I mean in the following example image: (URL) points are marked in RED 1 - Quad and a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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Some more comments on parts ! Maybe I will repeat some other notes, I don't know, I haven't checked all the other mails to compare, so here goes nothing. - [2466p07.dat] This part as 2 bowtie quads in the front panel See the following image: (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | 2000-01 Voting Closing Soon
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The votes have been trickling in. If you want to make your opinion known, please vote soon! I will probably be taking the vote-page down tomorrow night. That's Tuesday, April 18th. If you have fixes for any of your parts that you want included in (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote in message news:Pine.GSU.4.10.1...0@is-sv... (...) solution, (...) which (...) their (...) No argument here. (...) are (...) But the amount of superpositioning is generally small compared to the overall size (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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First I would like to point out, that some of the renderings I supplied specifically represent quads in GREY and tris in WHITE, and some have all the polys edge lines (the intrinsic edges) drawn, to be able to see the tesselation applyed. (...) Yes, (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Rui Martins <Rui.Martins@link.pt> wrote in message news:Pine.GSU.4.10.1...0@is-sv... (...) Superimposed polys are allowed, AFAIK. Maybe not the most elegant solution, but they render fine. (...) petals, (...) better (...) aprxomiation (...) I've (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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Another file - [3471.dat] This file has a lot of work on it, but still has some problems, specifically almost all the quads from the base are bowties. See the following image: (URL) there are a few (maybe many, but few as far as our yes can see) (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Voting Open for LCAD Parts Update 2000-01
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(...) I have been able to test only a few parts iet, but here are my findings: - [flowers.dat] This file shows superimposed polys (tris and quads) in the petals of the flower, this is a problem in the flower itself (3742.dat), not in the flowers.dat (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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[FUT lugnet.cad.dev] I've (finally) posted the page for voting on the next parts update. Before you run off to check things out, I've got a couple of items of business: First off, I want to extend apologies for taking so long on this thing. The last (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Greetings The ldraw.org website is in serious need of a help section for troubleshooting installation problems. It seems that on a weekly basis I receive a few emails asking about the RTE200 and Error 003. I am not very technically up to par on (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dev) !
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| | Re: Technic Wingback Piece - 2744.DAT
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Thank you Steve and Mike! -Tom McD. when replying, spamcake was served on Jabba's barge, but for some reason no one complained. (...) site Mike (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Technic Wingback Piece - 2744.DAT
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(...) That file should be in the ldraw\p directory. It appears that the only update release with this primitive file is lp97-14.exe. This update is available from the LDraw homepage, at (URL). Download times from Australia can be slow, you can try (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Technic Wingback Piece - 2744.DAT
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Firstly, let me say (because I don't think it's said enough) thanks to all the LDraw wizards that keep those new parts coming! Secondly, I must regret that I'm piping up in here at the moment cuz I found something that needs fixin. Let me also say (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: MOTM April
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Thanks John! -Tom McD. when replying, spamcake scouring pads remove everything from your dishes, including the pattern. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Is James' website finally gone for good?
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(...) Sure. They said they'd be in contact with me as soon as they returned, so I'll bring it up then. -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (24 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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