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This makes sense as I agree that it's gotten a little silly to have only 2 entries up for voting some months, (albeit, this month in particular, really good ones) but I also think that the result of this currently is going to be that there will only (...) (17 years ago, 9-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw.org's August 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Thanks to everyone who voted for my scene and congratulations to the other winners! w. (17 years ago, 7-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org's August 2007 Model, Scene and Part of the Month Winners
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Congratulations to the winners of the August 2007 Model/Scene/Part Of The Month (MOTM/SOTM/POTM) contests: (URL) MOTM, German Rail Bus VT 95 by "Primus" Burkhard> (URL) SOTM, Backlot by Willy Tschager> (URL) - Best Part, Minifig Mechanical Head and (...) (17 years ago, 7-Sep-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | L(EGO)Draw parts
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Hi folks, as announced in this thread: (URL) members of the Steering Committee (SteerCo) have been in contact with LEGO to look at ways of working together to ease the conversion between the LEGO Digital Designer and the LDraw System Of Tools. This (...) (17 years ago, 27-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.announce, FTX) !!
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) As the person who wrote the current rules here's my reasoning behind this. The issue is not the fear of models being sold or something like that, it is simply not forcing someone to do something they don't want to do. The MOTM contest doesn't (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) OK. I will probably do this. (...) ;> to entirely custom alternate models as well? (By "alternate models" I mean (...) Right. Sounds good. (...) Ha, a good point! Sounds like LDView is used for the contest renders, so it probably wouldn't be a (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) OK. I think I will stick to the conservative naming scheme for now, just to be on the safe side. LDView's automatic part downloading is just killer. I suppose a reason to use submodels is to guard against the chance the unofficial parts are (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) How is this different from photographers sharing high-resolution images of their work on Flickr, or developers contributing to open-source programs? I would argue that with the original material available for others to compare, it is even (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) no, not at all! (...) this is a critical point. not everyone wants give away in-depth info of his/her models fearing that people copy and sell them. w. (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) Travis is correct. I use a command line script to render the images, with LDview gracefully downloading unofficial parts from the PT. w. (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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Some quick answers... (...) Excellent. Thanks. (...) You should include the unofficial parts as submodels. (...) So long as you invent it then it's yours to submit. We don't want someone to post an MPD of the alternative model shown on the back of (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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(...) ... (...) I'm not a contest admin, but I would like to point out that LDView is currently used to render the MOTM/POTM contest entries. So from a purely technical standpoint, it's unlikely that problems will be encountered with unofficial part (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | MOTM Contest Questions and a Proposal
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The new minimum-entries rule has inspired me to enter the LDraw.org Model of the Month contest. I have a few questions: 1. Should entries that use unofficial parts (real LEGO parts that are not yet LDraw certified) include those parts in the MPD (...) (17 years ago, 23-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)
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| | Re: New rule for SOTM/MOTM
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(...) That sounds like an excellent change! Spotlighted. Cheers Richie Dulin (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | New rule for SOTM/MOTM
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Dear all, We have decided to introduce an additional rule to the MOTM and SOTM contests on LDraw.org in order to make them a little more interesting. We will now only run these contests if there are a minimum of five entries. The current situation (...) (17 years ago, 22-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce) !
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| | Re: RACHAL Polar - changeover day
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--snip-- (...) For future ones I'll try to include them but I simply didn't have time for this one. Sorry. Tim (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: RACHAL Polar - changeover day
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(...) Wow that is huge. I was wondering when we do have RACHAL if it would also be possible to include a .zip of the unofficial parts used in the .mpd file? Thanks. Looking forward to try it. Have some ideas. Zach Best (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.ray, FTX)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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(...) I'll take this back to the SteerCo and see if we can come up with something working better. Sorry for the mess. w. (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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(...) I believe I switched to the GPL for version 3.0. (3.1 is definitely under GPL.) I think I could still release the Windows version under a different license if I chose, since it doesn't use any GPL software (probably; I'd have to check to see (...) (17 years ago, 8-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: LDraw All-In-One-Installer - Seeking permission from software programmers
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(...) I take it the latest version of LDVIEW is under the GPL? Ahui (17 years ago, 7-Aug-07, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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