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(...) I think that putting any more constraints on the submissions would be counter productive. We (I, in this case:) want to see as many contestants as possible and don't want to impose any restrictions on the kind of work submitted. If someone (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Added a couple new news items - a mention of LCD and a BricksWest update. Check it out: (URL) soon I'll throw a new poll up. Any suggestions for questions? -Tim (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Limits on participation in MOTM/SOTM? (Was: ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for January 2002)
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(...) I disagree! The objective with MOTM and SOTM is to show off the best LEGO renderings (preferably with LDraw based tools, I suppose) we can make. The only kind of "limit" I can imagine is that you have to put together a description of _how_ you (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:GqzAus.MIE@lugnet.com... (...) No prob! (...) Hmmm... I don't see that on mine, but what I do see is the 'View Polls Page' link is VERY tiny, unreadably small on my IE5.0 for Windows. The (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Anthony Sava" <savatheaggie@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Gr3v12.GG8@lugnet.com... (...) Yep, Brad was another example I was thinking of, but forgot to mention it. He does some absolutely incredible stuff no doubt!! I'm just wondering if it is (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I thank you for coming to my defense. Yes, the two dragons are different. In fact, they are very different when you have them up close. However I will admit that from a distance, as they are in the pictures I sent in for MOTM, they do appear (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for January 2002
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(...) No, no formal rules. (...) Well... I think Anthony Sava's two dragons are different. Similar, but different. And Cale Leiphart's entries are quite different. Somewhat similar in theme, but only broadly. You could also cite Brad Hamilton's (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | To all PAST winners of of the LDraw.org MOTM or SOTM
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Hello to all, Just a short request. In the conversion to the new LDraw.org site format, it occured to me that many of the past winners in the archive could use a little "oomph". What I would like to see is a little more in-depth coverage of your (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: ldraw.org MOTM & SOTM Winners for January 2002
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"Terry K" <legoverse@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Gr3Cun.4q8@lugnet.com... (...) Cool :-) Hey - here's something I wanna bring up with everybody. There are a few people up for voting right now who have won recently, with models/scenes of the (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Vote Now! LDraw.org MOTM/SOTM for February
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Eat an energy bar now.... The voting pages for LDraw.org's Model & Scene of the Month are ready and waiting at: (URL) are a LOT of entries this month. Its going to be tough. Perhaps even grueling. So get on over and do your civic duty. Now you know (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw) !
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A little late.... The first winners for 2002 are: Model of the Month - Ralph Döering's "My House". A beautiful virtual version of the building Ralph lives in. I would like to see more of this one. Ralph, any more images we could link to? Scene of (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones
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"Tutorials: Introduction to Creating LDraw Parts" contains a missing link to "which primitives are available" (3rd paragraph). Best regards, thanks for your work ! Philo (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Sorry - the filetypesfaq page is still under construction. When I put up the numberfaq page, I thought the filetypesfaq would be available very soon afterward. My bad. Steve (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) please don't say that :) though with Galeon (which is mozilla based) it looks ok, so it passes that test. FUT to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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Tim, The site looks alot better with Internet Explorer and Mac OS 9. Netscape 4.x is still too small. But I think Netscape is dead enough that you don't need to worry about it. I don't even bother with Netscape 6. In Mac OS X it looked fine with (...) (23 years ago, 4-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Thanks Tim, that's looking a lot better! Only thing I noticed was the "Do you find the new website..." sentnce is still real small (unreadable) in Netscape 4.6 / Solaris, unless I set the default font size to 24pt. This may just be limited (...) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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(...) Using Netscape 4.76 on MacOS 8.6, looks pretty good to me. Ray (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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I changed over the fonts on the LDraw.org website to em instead of point sizes. I hope this helps for people who have complained about small fonts, such as on the Mac. Please take a look and let me know if there are any problems. Thanks! (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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The "FAQ for LDraw Part Numbers" ("(URL) has a reference to a "File Types FAQ" ("(URL) but there is no such page! (I get a "page not found" error when using this link.) Franklin ===== Franklin W. Cain Programmer for Hire "fwcain@yahoo.com" "(URL) (23 years ago, 3-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | [Parts Tracker] Status, Updates, Etc.
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Here's some brief news about the Parts Tracker. First, everything seems to be running smoothly. At least, as smoothly as it was before the website redesign. There are some fixes needed at the top of some pages, and I still need to figure out where (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) Don't forget the postrequisites![1] Also known as "where do I go from here?" or "What's next?" links. :) Steve 1) Not a real word, AFAIK. (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I think that either the four-letter abbreviations or the full words would be preferable. The four-letter abbreviations are easier to figure out and learn. Just my 2¢ --Ryan (23 years ago, 31-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqqL5v.9IK@lugnet.com... (...) I (...) programs (...) been (...) jumpstarted (...) it. (...) Good idea! One of my other tasks (this email reminds me) is setting up URLs for the redirect (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Now that ldraw.org has a user-based rating system for software downloads, I think it would be a great idea if everyone here went and rated the programs they have tried out. As a software author, I know I'm curious what people in general think about (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) I think that the shorthand abbreviations are much less cryptic than the single letters. Jimmy 8(:O)) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) That's how the site works now, minus the <h1-6> tags. And, once a few other things get addressed - like the Download section updating, Variable-width tables on certain pages, etc, I'll address the <h1-6> issue of making headers. That will go (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'm not entirely sure. It's actually a line segment with an emplied endpoint of <0,0,0>. I tried to duplicate the math that went into that vector, got stumped (I think there's at least one more assumption that POVRay makes with vaxis_rotate() (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) easier to follow than redefining L3Location in terms of itself. That made my head spin until I worked it out on paper. Perhaps if l3p put a comment before these lines it might be easier to follow: // Set the camera location. #declare (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Gah, my previous attempt didn't get through due to slashdot... (...) Thanks! (...) Again, thanks! (...) Okay, that's like 6 for, and 0 against. It's in there. :-, Thanks, - jsproat (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I shouldn't really second-guess Lars Hassing, but judging from a recent post he might be doing just that. (URL)My only suggestion for improvement would be to move the "How can I (...) I've been thinking on that, actually. I initially put it in (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | RE: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) Well, you could just use regular old HTML the way it was meant to be used: <H1-6></H1-6> for headers, and <p></p> for paragraphs and then use CSS and includes to make it fit the LDraw design... Or you could add an FTX interpretter to (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That's a good idea. I think I'll do that. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) How about Related Information? Jimmy 8(:O)) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Absolutly correct! I was coming from the other end with the amount of work that is needed to format the pages. (...) If we could think of a way, I'ld be happy to help. I do have web page formatting and programming skills. (...) Again I agree, (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) Would this hinder the non-webbuilder/non-HTML knoweldge from submitting tutorials. I agree that we need to unburden Tim from all the .txt file tutorials but just 'reading' the ldraw site it seems that he wanted txt files so that anyone can (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Don't forget the UldeaMediaStudio 6 (recommened)or other Video Editing software in the software requirements. Plus File Requirements: Authors may provide start files (model1-started.ldr, convertedfile.pov, etc) so the reader can follow along (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) Kinda sorta. Note, replying to this out of order. (...) You're absolutely right here. I would like as many tutorials as possible to be hosted on LDraw.org. (only limited by author consent, but I doubt that will be a problem). FTX is great for (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) I essintialy agree. The format of the tutorials was not the point of the original post. I do like the numbering, I think that it helps not to label the groups with an encoded prefix, I would prefer LDRAW ANIMATION 101 vs. LA101. (...) I think (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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I think you guys are missing Tim's point. Currenlty when you go to the LDraw tutorial section you have a list of tutorials. What Tim envisions is you go to the ldraw tutorial webpage and you see what? A list of categories, groups, etc... So when you (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Jeremy H. Sproat writes: [snipped] (...) Love it! But why not submit it to Tim Courtney of LDraw.org. He/they really want some user input/experience of LDraw related issues. Think about it! Jeroen (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I hate to respond to my own post, but I had another thought. Is there a format that would make your life easier to post and that fits within the ldraw.org layout? Maybe putting the entire tutorial into a html table. If we can find some way to (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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(...) I think that the directory way is the correct way to manage the files. I also like the numbering idea. That might help break down beginning or advanced nature of the tutorial. It would also help make a nice clean index page. I have some (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This has probably been suggested before, but why not give each tutorial its own directory? Unless there's a very close limit to the directory depth, I'd recommend using the web server's existing namespace rather than inventing a new (and more (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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I've gotten quite a few tutoraial submissions recently, and a bunch more promised. This is so cool!! Keep it up, folks! For this reason, we need to discuss how we should store the tutorials on LDraw.org. We should develop a system now with room for (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Request for Comment on my L3P camera tutorial
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(...) Great! I've been experimenting with these values in POV-ray, this really helps! Critiques: orthographic, para 1, "as it is the camera type used by LDraw most if not all the other LDraw tools" is missing an "and" between LDraw & most. Maybe a (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Wow, lots of good stuff in there! I especially liked the way you broke up the sky vector in the "How to roll the camera" section, and the way the camera_range declaration really clears up what the PCT values are doing. Perhaps we should add (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Request for Comment on my L3P camera tutorial
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(...) Okay, I've whipped up *something*. If you're intimately familiar with the L3P camera block, or if you're just plain curious, here's my L3P camera block tutorial ready for review: (URL) kinda beta-quality right now, so I'm soliciting criticism. (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.ray, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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Hello (...) advantages, (...) Yes.. i would agree to this method too... Sounds better to me! Play well Carsten (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I prefer a regular update, on a month base or so. This has some advantages, as some parts will be faster released than on a volume base, and the files to download will be also less large than on a volume base. Anyhow, every method has his pro (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thanks for the update, Steve I think I'd prefer the "volume method", though it's not something I'd die for 8?) ROSCO (23 years ago, 28-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This week has been a little busy. And I didn't want to do a lot of work in the Parts Tracker until I was sure it was stable and ready for use again. Steve (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve, I haven't heard back from you on this, yet... Thanks, Franklin (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Steve, I haven't heard back from you on this, yet... Thanks, Franklin (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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After the site reorganization, I thought I should post an update on the Parts Tracker. Since yesterday, the Parts Tracker has been online and active. Everything seems to be running fine. There are a few layout details that still need to be resolved, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Good point. But as long as the LDGLite source code is distributed in a ZIP file it does not make much of a difference. I will keep it in mind and do something about it at some point. Jacob (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqGtr6.7Bv@lugnet.com... (...) distributions. (...) Looked on my hard drive, I don't have a tar.gz copy of the file. Otherwise I'd throw it up now. Jacob will have to fix that problem. (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) So, there is no longer a tar.gz version for Linux users? While unzip is available for Linux, tar and gunzip should come standard in all distributions. --Travis Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:rm115ukq6l1f4jk...4ax.com... (...) set (...) Ok, I'm uploading that file now. It will be done in a few minutes. -Tim (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) (URL) the ldraw027.zip file needs to be copied over from the old site. Steve (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Aha. Those three choices are links to instructions, and the links at the bottom are to download areas. I should have actually thought about why they had differently named links. . . ---...--- TWS Garrison tgarriso@math.purdue.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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There is a broken link in the Linux Getting Started section: (URL) link to the LDraw Parts Library in Step 1 is broken. It current is set to the following: (URL) Cobbs (tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Announcing All New LDraw.org Website!
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The application LDraw-mode, for which I am the author, is also useable for Linux and Macintosh (basically every OS for which Emacs is available, which is a fair number os OS'es): (URL) is also an application which has the source code available, so (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I suppose it should, but until somebody writes a page for it, it doesn't make all that much sense. Jacob (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: A couple of tutorial items (Was: Known bugs on the site and how to report new ones)
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(...) Back to boot camp for you, mister. :-, (...) Here's what it appears like: // Camera (Latitude,Longitude,Radius = 0,180,0) camera { #declare PCT = 0; // Percentage further away #declare STEREO = 0; // Normal view file://#declare STEREO = (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thanks, Manfred. This link is now fixed. Steve (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Hello Team, On Ldraw.org I've found a link that is still broken: On page: (URL) the text body just above the list there is a link named "Certification Report" (behind "Also, view the "). Currently this points incorrectly to: (URL) believe it should (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'll wait for your public response. Steve (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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This has been addressed privately. I will deal with the contents publicly later. -Tim (...) [SNIP] (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Why not? It's not like anyone has said, "I don't like fixed-width pages; they really waste space on my super-duper hi-res monitor". Most of the postings I've read have been useful and to the point. If people have problems with the website, (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Yes, this is definitely on the list of enhancements for the Parts Tracker. It will either be accomplished when the two part-list pages are combined into a single dynamic, sortable, searchable page, or when we create a "My Parts Tracker" page. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) This area is mostly online, but still being checked for errors. Use it with caution. (...) The Part Updates area is all fixed. Steve (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I don't think this has been reported yet (I think the page is pretty new). On this page (URL) are asked to select an operating system, and given three choices. Should DOS be there too? (It's in the navigation bar just below, along with the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I don't know when Jonathan Knudsen wrote his tutotial, but the camera angle option -ca has been there since January 1999. (URL) or he just overlooked it. In stead of uncommenting the orthographic keyword, it's better to use e.g. -ca1. The (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Travis Cobbs" <tcobbs@san.REMOVE.rr.com> wrote in message news:GqBoGq.L5I@lugnet.com... (...) Yeah I was thinking that too. :-) I hope this will be out of the way soon, after the content/link issues are worked out I'll sit down and play with the (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:GqBIK3.76F@lugnet.com... (...) a (...) all (...) I don't see a problem in my window. I do remember forcing a line break with a <br> a few times with POV code, but I don't see the problem. Maybe I'm (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"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? (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Matthew Gerber" <matthew@digitaliris.com> wrote in message news:GqDKA4.8ur@lugnet.com... (...) we (...) encourage (...) is (...) Thanks Matt. :-) A clarifiacation: I do not want to hear complaints about the website design, the code, or anything of (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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In lugnet.cad, Tim Courtney writes: <snip the known to be broken/missing thigs, most of which have likely been fixed by now> (...) Interestingly, I don't see anywhere in this post where Tim requires anyone to critique the new design of the LDraw.org (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) That was fast. Thanks again to Jacob for such quick work. I have re-enabled the voting link from the Contests page as well: (URL) Terry K -- (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"TWS Garrison" <tgarriso@math.purdue.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.SOL.4.30.0...due.edu... (...) The table issue is being resolved among the website team privately. -Tim (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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About the new, improved www.ldraw.org (...) Isn't the problem with the tables not that they exist, but that they're hard-coded to be 700 pixels wide? I would think that simply using percentages or proportions instead of fixed widths and heights (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) In the Windows Users download page (URL) Stl2dat is reported to be "STL2DAT BETA 9" It has actually version 1.0 as reported when you follow the link (URL) a bug, but a wish in the part tracker : Could it be possible to see a list of reviews of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Agreed. Netscape (Unix) & fonts have never got on particularly well 8?( but the user should be able to decide what size font to display (and all other characteristics) with hints only from the site developer. ROSCO (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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Picking out the bits I'm qualified for replying to... (...) It's not surprising that these two pages are weird/broken - they never existed before this new web layout. For the new /library/unofficial/, we copied the Part Tracker's Download page. For (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Not too hard. But it would be somewhat slow right now, because it would be searching all the files on the site. I'm working on a new database for the PT, that will include more data (like Author information), and will make it more available (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I tend to agree with you on this. Steve (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I have tested the voting system on the new site, and everything seems to work fine. Those who haven't had a chance to vote yet in the January 2002 MOTM contest can do it at: (URL) "I am an old man now, and when I die and go to Heaven there are (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Noooo! Just make things right. Also, all those annoying, much too wide tables, makes the site almost completely unusable for me (unless I use lynx). If you want to make a multi-column layout, please do it with CSS. Jacob (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) Certainly! But I think Tim actually has _tried_ to move closer to the intentions with HTML with this redesign. I have not had time to look properly at the pages yet, so I can not say how close he managed to get. (...) :-) Jacob (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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1. I don't know about anyone else, but the Downloads column of each of the various OS download pages (all of which say "Not Yet Available") make it sound like none of the tools can be downloaded yet. Perhaps it should be something like "# of (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Okay, I've found a few, just in the tutorial area. I'm replying online as requested, but warning, my item #2 could be a little insensitive. 1: In Brad Hamilton's Freeform Camera position tutorial, (URL) , the POV source code of a camera block (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Just to let everyone know... The Model/Scene of the Month competition is on "hold" for a short time. We have to get the scripts and html to all work together again with the new site structure. And we couldn't really do anything until the site went (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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TWS Garrison (...) Agreed...logical markup allows people without a new browser or everything turned off to interpret the site correctly, even if it isn't pretty. CSS still allows you to modify the way the headers and such display, even if it doesn't (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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(...) like the smallest font size is 8 pt. Perhaps Tim should change the fonts to be declared in relative font sizes instead of absolute point sizes. Tim: use TD { font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: normal; } (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I've put together a tutorial. It is the first in a series on how I put my LDRAW POVRAY animations together. I'm looking for feedback and mistakes. It's at (URL) if you think it is worthy, feel free to link to it or repost it. (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Out of curiousity, I tried this on my Mac (iMac 333, MacOS 8.6 - yes, I am a ludite). I got the same 'too small' with MSIE 4.5, but got a good font display (I assume the issue is the radio buttons on the right) using Netscape 4.76. Ray (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) different sizes? Of course, I can't see that, because *everything* has fonts that look too small in Solaris/Netscape, so I require all basic text to be displayed at what Netscape calls 24pt (more like 14pt). HTML is designed for that kind of (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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