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Re: Color page updated
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:24:02 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Andrew Westrate wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Scott Wardlaw wrote:
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However, if you want a part to have a color that is not in LDconfig, you can
still spell out the RGB values instead of using the Color Codes. LDconfig is
a
reference for standard colors and does not limit you to only using these
colors.
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I have never seen an official LDraw part that defines a custom RGB color,
nor
any part on the part tracker do that. How would you even do it? I
don’t know
the syntax, and haven’t found any part tracker documentation
saying what the
syntax is or saying it’s ok for official parts.
Plus, how many programs actually support custom-defined colors? If this
becomes
the mandatory way for part authors to do printed parts, how many
programs are
going to be broken?
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Neither did I but if you really cannot find a suitable color for your pattern
an RGB say in the form:
1 #F2F2F2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 part.dat
would surely solve your problem. And I’m going to propose this to the new
elected LSC. As for the broken progs. We will surely break L3Lab
http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/org/ldraw/?n=4503 ;-)
Since it usually takes a considerable amount of time to get a part through the
PT I don’t expect popping up parts with such a code before a year. Do
you think
it will be enough time for the still active programmers to update
their code?
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Once again, it is a mistaken assumption that the LDraw color codes apply only
to
actual brick colors. The the LDraw color codes have to allow for any
color of
line or polygon which appears in a part file, be it plastic, rubber,
metal,
printing, or sticker color. By saying that any part using a color in
the
dithered color range is no longer allowed on the part tracker, we are
seriously
limiting the ability of part authors to render a “good enough”
approximation of
stickers and printed parts.
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Well also the old historical RGB values are what they are - approximations.
Since we allow parts carrying “needs work” in the title I guess a “good
enough”
color is fair enough. But seriously as I stated above I started fixing
parts
using MLCad and guess what I came across? Since these:
have been considered “good
enough” to be released as official patterns don’t
you think you’ll find a color
that resembles what you are looking for?
w.
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| (...) Of course it would - as well as it does LDView. But after adding x, y, z coordinates and correcting RGB code syntax would work fine with both LDView as well as L3Lab! 1 0x02F2F2F2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 part.dat Don't know about MLCad, but I (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
| | | Re: Color page updated
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| (...) There are already two very old ways to specify RGB colors in LDraw files. One comes from ldlite with somewhere between 12 and 15 effective bits of color information, and the other from L3Lab/L3P with 24 bits of color information. If we're (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
| | | Re: Color page updated
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| (...) It might fix it (I think it would still gum up the PT with over-zealous hold votes); but why break anything when we're just talking about adding fewer than 200 lines to the config file? I think it's a terrible idea to make dozens of (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| (...) I disagree that this was the original purpose of the ldconfig file. I can say that definitively, since I was the one who first proposed the file here: (URL). The purpose was that when *new* colors were added, ldraw software tools would have a (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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