LDraw (www.ldraw.org) : 1697


CAD / Development / Organizations / LDraw / 1697	1696 \| 1698

Subject:	Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
Newsgroups:	lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:13:44 GMT
Viewed:	397 times

In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney wrote: > "TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in message > news:Pine.SOL.4.30.0201211219110.13657-100000@abel.math.purdue.edu... > > > I like the picture of the three minifigs on > > http://www.ldraw.org/community/ > > but that shield is not a real LEGO part---all of the Black Falcon shields > > LEGO released have either a blue border or a yellow border (pick, pick. . > > .) > > Doh! Can't ya tell I'm not a Castle fan? :-) I think I used a gray shield > with the printing on it for the model.... it might be a part error? Steve? What are you asking me for? You did the rendering. It's part 3846p43. It's one of those special patterned parts, where main color specifies the *pattern* color, not the base part's color. In this case, it's the border color. If it rendered gray, chances are you set the color to 7. > > Not bugs, but issues: > > > > Shouldn't > > http://www.ldraw.org/download/ > > include a space for "Other" operating systems, even if it's currently > > empty? Surely there must be people who want to or have written tools for > > Solaris, FreeBSD, IRIX, BeOS, etc. (In fact, searching LUGNET shows lots > > of messages in CAD about SGIs, although I suppose they could be running > > Linux. . .and I see that POV-RAY should run on Amigas.) > > IMO there's not enough critical mass to support them. Not closed to the > idea, I just don't want to put the effort into putting something > up/maintaining something that not many people will use. So what? If someone wants to contribute a GUI editor that runs on X Windows from a Solaris server, we should support it on the site. If there's nothing there now, it's a good place to put an plea for more tools. Steve

Message has 2 Replies:

		Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
(...) My mistake. I totally forgot about that when I made the rendering. I chose the shiled color as gray, because all shields are gray, I forgot it was hard-coded. And I gotta get rid of the Red Futuron's yellow hands too ;-) (...) Of course. To my (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

		Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
(...) Basically somebody needs to feel like maintaining such a page. The Linux pages didn't come until I started writing them, so just start writing, if you feel there is a need. (...) Certainly. Has anybody tried to compile LDGLite on Solaris? I (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

Message is in Reply To:

		Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
"TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.SOL.4.30.0...due.edu... (...) Doh! Can't ya tell I'm not a Castle fan? :-) I think I used a gray shield with the printing on it for the model.... it might be a part error? Steve? (...) (22 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

38 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:: Nested: All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear: All | Brief | Compact

Custom Search