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Re: LDconfig.ldr - missing colors
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Mon, 1 Sep 2008 08:34:04 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Joshua Delahunty wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Willy Tschager wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> > > In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote:
> > > > I remember the time when we were graving for those figures and now that we have
> > > > them I simply ignore them. Can anyone put some light on this? LSC?
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty sure that the (2006-2007?) LSC agreed to leave the contents of
> > > ldconfig.ldr up to the LDraw part admins.  We saw it as our job to specify the
> > > format of the !COLOUR meta-command, but not to have anything to do with the
> > > actual list of colors.
> > 
> > Hmm ... I found some sources how the colors are defined:
> > 
> > http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=11937
> > 
> > and it looks like LDraw colors http://www.ldraw.org/Article93.html still refer
> > to a color chart which was defined long before we got our hands on the official
> > LEGO colors at http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors and are the reason why our
> > values differ. Question is: Do we still define the colors the way we do because
> > of compatibility with LDraw 0.27?
> > 
> > Could Joshua's file http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=14408 hop in - taking for
> > granted that a year is enough time to write it ;-)
> 
> I wrote it, finished it about a month ago.
> 
> But I had a great deal of trouble trying to work in the official numbers into
> the LDRAW numbering system.  Since there would be no consensus on how to add the
> "missing" color values (and that number of colors outnumbers what's currently
> included), I didn't want to try to open a can of worms by defining them myself.
> 
> For the time being, I've used all the official numbers, plus 30000 (so 30001 is
> TLG white, 30002 is TLG grey, etc.) in the ldconfig.ldr that I use; plus I
> upgraded the RGB of the existing colors to use the TLG values.
> 
> If anyone wants that file, I can put it up on the web for sharing.
> 
>      -- joshua

Hi Joshua,

please post. Could you be a bit more specific about the problems with the LDRAW
numbering system?

If guess the bit-mapping http://news.lugnet.com/cad/?n=11937 was a requirement
for backwards compatibility with LDraw which is obsolete now giving room to new
solutions. Read: www.ldraw.org/Article299.html

***************

CODE x - The LDraw color code. For LDraw compatibility, x is an integer 0-511.
If strict LDraw compatibility is not required, x is any identifier recognized by
a rendering program as a color code. Code is a required element.

***************

w.



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