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Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date: 
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 22:50:13 GMT
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At 09:02 PM 6/2/99 +0000, Sproaticus wrote:
Steve Bliss wrote:
I'd recommend going with MPD.  LDLite will render a (properly formatted)
MPD file, and the MPD format allows downloaders the possibility of
splitting the file back into its separate pieces.  Inline is a one-way
operation.

Is there any way to reverse the inlining to the original file (lossless
outlining, I guess it would be) using the comment that the inlining function
writes?  Does the matrix math work in this direction?

Sounds like a good feature to have around as well.  What is the format
difference between inlining and mpd anyways?  They both contain multiple
ldraw models in one file...

(sorry I sound a little clueless...but all I use LDraw/LDAO for is making
models..I do little with pacaging them nice and neat) :)

-Tim Courtney
ldraw.org Project Coordinator

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  Re: Lossless outlining (Was: [ldraw.org] Progress)
 
(...) Inlining isn't a format, it's an operation. A file-reference (type 1 line) is replaced with the contents of the referenced file, but the color and transform (position, rotation, scaling) from the original command are applied to each line from (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: [ldraw.org] Progress
 
(...) I'd recommend going with MPD. LDLite will render a (properly formatted) MPD file, and the MPD format allows downloaders the possibility of splitting the file back into its separate pieces. Inline is a one-way operation. Steve (25 years ago, 2-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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