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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:29:19 GMT
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John, you bring up an important point.  One of my goals with the OMR was to
be able to recreate them in scenes, but doing it completely by the books
would restrict that.  We should rethink this a little, but not enough to
lose track and take a week on it.  What would be the best filenaming system
within subdirectories that would allow for rotating and moving parts?


Using "main-" and "alt" gives us at least three more characters for referencing
submodels and sub-submodels.  I think Bram's idea of
main-a        main instructions, model "a"
main-aa      main instructions, model "a", sub-submodel "b"
main-ab
main-b
main-ba
altA-a          first alternate model, model "a"
altA-aa
altA-ab

would work just fine.  For this purpose model would mean a separate physical
entity within a set, such as separate pod-racers, while sub-model would mean
any component of the model, either sub-models in the instructions, or
sub-models needed for rotating movable sections.

Now that gets me thinking about how to do alternate models.  I don't think all
the alternate models should be bundled with the main model into one giant .mpd
file.  I think there should be an .mpd file called Sxxxx-yy with all the main
model stuff in it, then a file called maybe SxxxxAyy for alternate model 1,
SxxxxByy for alternate model 2 etc.  All the subfiles could still go in a
single directory called Sxxxx-yy.

-John Van



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