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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:50:02 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, braml@juno.com (Bram Lambrecht) writes:
> I really like the idea of using subdirectories.
Me too -- in a big way -- it's so clean. If the two most vital applications
(LEdit and LDLITE) do support subdirectories, then IMHO the win is so big
that it's hard not to justify using subdirectories, even if it breaks a few
things for a short time while a bit of scrambling is done to account for it.
> It will keep the \models
> directory uncluttered and be easy to understand.
Yeah, that's awesome!
> Now you still have to
> deal subassemblies in the directory system. Would you name them:
> m1-a.dat 1st component of first main model
> m1-aa.dat 1st sub-component of 1st component of first main model
> m2-a.dat 1st component of second main model
> a1-a.dat 1st component of first alterante model
> I think that allows for enough levels of components and sub-components
> while staying within the 8.3 limitations and not going overboard with the
> sub-directories.
That sounds awesome to me. I like the abbreviations "m" for "main" and "a"
for "alternate" too.
> Now we should really test how well sub-directories work with the
> current software and how to handle them correctly.
> For example, if main1.dat calls m1-a.dat, should the reference be:
> 1 ... sets\xxxxz-yy\m1-a.dat
> or
> 1 ... m1-a.dat
> ?
Heh heh. Excellent point. It depends if the software does a chdir into the
model's directory after loading it (or equivalent hand-waving). I'd be
*extremely* impressed if LEdit & LDraw did this.
> How necessary is the sets\ directory? Do we want to just go with
> c:\ldraw\models\xxxxz-yy\
> to keep things simpler, or will that put too many directories in the
> models\ directory?
IMHO, you can't really have too many subdirectories in the models directory
unless the software doesn't easily support lots of them.
I only suggested the SETS directory because (a) it tucks them cleanly away
from other models someone might be working on and (b) it might also be nice
to have a SCENES directory for assembling scenes of models/sets.
--Todd
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