 | | Re: 2009/2010 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I nominate Philippe Hurbain. -Orion Pobursky (15 years ago, 4-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: 2009/2010 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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I nominate Travis Cobbs. -Orion Pobursky (15 years ago, 4-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | 2009/2010 LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) - Call for Nominations
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Hi folks, it has passed another year since the last election of the LDraw.org Standards Committee (LSC) were held - and again the SteerCo missed the actual deadlines :-( Nominations are now open. All nominations must be received and recorded by (...) (15 years ago, 3-Nov-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) And I'll start on the 57565.dat as soon as I've finished the competition cannon. I've got the front cover, trigger and spring all three done and it doesn't look like it'll take too long for me to model the bulk of the cannon so I guess it'll (...) (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) Good point! Changed. w. (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) Great, thanks! "If you wanna contribute just download the file you want work on, but don't forget to email the LDraw Administration Team telling the part number your working on - your name will be associated with the part in order to avoid (...) (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) I've uploaded the .dats to my website (the upload module at LDraw.org would have me driven crazy if I had to upload 1200 files one by one). The links can be found at the wiki. w. (15 years ago, 19-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) (URL) (15 years ago, 18-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) What do they gray and green colors signify? Mike (15 years ago, 18-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) You won't believe! Seriously, all the cheers go to the LEGO Universe Team!!! w. (15 years ago, 16-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) .dats are on my hard disk. I upload them once the list is clean. (...) A wiki page has been created at: (URL) sure you understand how wiki tables work. w. (15 years ago, 16-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) Thanks! (15 years ago, 16-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) Ahem... (URL) It will let me model some parts I've been wanting to do (...) You're welcome! Philo (15 years ago, 16-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) <BIG SNIP> (...) I can spot some *VERY* interesting parts, like the minifig hairs and mermaid tail, etc.. I'd myself love to go for 57565.dat (count that as a reserve-that-for-me)! Also I can see we got the rectangular ball joint (62712.dat) - (...) (15 years ago, 16-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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(...) Awesome harvest! - Where can we find the .dat files? - What about a wiki to hold the comments? Philo (15 years ago, 16-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | L(EGO)Draw parts - 3rd batch
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Hi folks, the LEGO Universe Team has shared another batch of part shapes with the community, with the purpose to make them fit for the LDraw Parts Tracker. This time things are a bit different. The package we've got contains also shapes which are (...) (15 years ago, 15-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.announce, FTX) !
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) Let me stop this before it gets started... It's not an offense, Tore, nor were you wrong at the time. There is no witch hunt, finger pointing, or conspiracy. We are not on a crusade against you or anyone else. We simply want to upgrade the (...) (15 years ago, 2-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) It appears so, even if I wish it was just the opposite. I still haven't been convinced why it is so wrong to use the backwards compatible color number range when possible. I used color 462 for the orange part of the German flag because number (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) Hi, All these colors are in the 'dithered' range, if the actual dither color is wanted by the part author it has nothing to do with mlcad or has it? And isn't declaring new colors in the LDConfig using the dithered range breaking some kind of (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) There may be problems matching these colors. As you note, these are patterned parts and the colors Lego uses for the printing on patterned parts do not necessarily match the colors used for the plastic brick. -Orion (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) When we updated the LDConfig.ldr 462 was already defined as Medium_Orange #FE9F06 and has therefore been kept. If Medium_Orange is appropriate for the German Flag is another story. The chart only list colors which are used in parts but are not (...) (15 years ago, 1-Oct-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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(...) How about color 462 in 777p01.dat? (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Official Parts using MLCad colors
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Hi, Scott Wardlaw has written a prog which matches the colors used in the official parts against the now updated LDConfig.ldr colors chart. This is a list of parts that use colors which were mainly defined in MLCad and have never been LDraw colors: (...) (15 years ago, 30-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Website slow
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(...) I'd guess that this time there is a mass downloading of the newest parts update. Tim (15 years ago, 27-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Website slow
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(...) The visitors are also spiders, bots and the rest of internet fauna. LDraw.org is hosted on a Peeron.com server. Last time we had been slow it was lack of memory: (URL) drop Dan a mail an see what can be done. w. LDraw Administration Team. (15 years ago, 26-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Website slow
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Whis is LDraw.org so slow? Is someone hosting it from their home/work PC? Are there really that many visitors? -Mike (15 years ago, 26-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | LDraw.org's September 2009 Part of the Month voting is now open
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The voting for the September 2009 contests is now open. Visit the (URL) page> to cast your vote. Sorry, no MOTM or SOTM this month. So far we have only three entries for every contest. Willy Tschager LDraw.org Administration Team (15 years ago, 3-Sep-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) Yeah, I actually wanted to do that too in the begining. I can't remember how long we have been working on the release of this file, but it has been a long time for me. I'm not sure I have enough fight left in me to support (and drag this out (...) (15 years ago, 19-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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Oh yeah, one more thing. If you've gotta sort alphabetically, I say don't discriminate. Sort the Lego core colors in the 30000 range alphabetically too. What? You say can't do that, because those numbers mean something? How could that be? I'm gonna (...) (15 years ago, 19-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) Personally I find it harder to remember all the silly names than to remember the basic colors by number. If they aren't sorted by color then I still want red, blue, yellow, black, white, and grey near the top of the list. The numeric order has (...) (15 years ago, 19-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) Each program that reads and uses the LDconfig.ldr file should know how best to display the colors. If the program shows color swaths, then it does make good sense for the program to display them in a Hue-Saturation-Brightness order. For (...) (15 years ago, 18-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) Now that's what I'm talking about! I just didn't say it right. ;) If you're not going to list the colors in ldconfig.ldr sorted by number then pick a useful ordering like Hue-Saturation-Brightness. Alphabetic order is not much better than (...) (15 years ago, 18-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) Duplicated colors are my deepest concern. Below is a screenshot of Bricksmith's color picker using the new ldconfig.ldr: (URL) I can't just hide the TLG colors. For one thing, some of them don't seem to have non-TLG counterparts (like (...) (15 years ago, 18-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) I think group sub-sorting might be more trouble than it's worth. Editors can just sort the colors by Hue-Saturation-Brightness. That's what Bricksmith does. It's a simple mathematical transformation. (URL) Allen (15 years ago, 18-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) The 2006-2007 LSC agreed with this also, which is why we added the part about "(needs work)" to the (URL) LDraw.org Official Library Header Specification>. --Travis (15 years ago, 14-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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--snip-- (...) The majority of LDraw users I know of outside LUGNET (flickr, facebook and TBB) use MLCAD and LDview for their LDraw experience. It's not a full poll and it's not a big sample but it's probably a better example of 'new users' than (...) (15 years ago, 14-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) Quality is important, but the first priority of Ldraw should always be to make it easy to create and share the models. Photo-realism is nice, to be sure, but certainly a somewhat lower priority. I'm not aware of any photo-realistic realtime (...) (15 years ago, 13-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Kickin' in open doors, are you? I have absolutely no reason to disagree. (...) You are right about one thing: newer LEGO colours isn't one of my obsessions, but I may download other peoples' LDraw MOCs... (...) I'd love to, but I don't think (...) (15 years ago, 13-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) Couldn't find the word "vitriol" in my dictionary, just "vitrify". But from the context I conclude it's something like aggressive, rude, grumpy, impolite, or emotional. And yes, I admit I've been unnesessarily grumpy and I am truly sorry for (...) (15 years ago, 13-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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(...) No need for the vitriol Tore. (...) Yes but, as with all things, people come and people go. I, for example, am much more withdrawn than I was in 2004 since I'm on an operational submarine now and only have a limited amount of time in port. (...) (15 years ago, 13-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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