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(...) Congratulations Tim! Play well, Jacob (15 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Congrats Tim! - Eric (15 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Congrats Tim! - Eric (15 years ago, 15-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Congratulations, Tim! Michael (15 years ago, 14-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Congratulations, Tim! (15 years ago, 14-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thanks, Mike! Tim (15 years ago, 14-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thanks so much, Anders. Tim (15 years ago, 14-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Thanks, Philo! Tim (15 years ago, 14-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Wow, I'm humbled, honored, and surprised. Thank you. The LDraw system has always been a great way to enhance peoples' experience with LEGO bricks. I'm grateful to have been a part of growing the community and the user base, and seeing people (...) (15 years ago, 14-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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My congratulation to you Tim. cu mikeheide (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) And well deserved it is. Congratulations Tim! (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Congratulations, Tim! Philo (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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The SteerCo is pleased to announce that the James Jessiman Memorial Award (JJMA) for 2009 will be awarded to Tim Courtney. Tim's work on behalf of LDraw cannot be understated. Upon the sudden death of James, the LDraw community was in turmoil. Tim (...) (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, lugnet.people) !!
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(...) There's also the interactive timeline project that I recall starting but never finishing. Sad to say right now I'm overbooked, but would be happy to hand it off to someone else if they want. Here's one of the last posts from that thread: (URL) (...) (15 years ago, 13-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) From personal experience I can tell you that the natives here are very collaborative when it comes down to corrections or sanding your words so just write down your thoughts and post them - I'm sure someone will be found to get them into right (...) (15 years ago, 12-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Really great work! I would have liked to contribute to the article by writing in it, but I'm aware that my English is far from perfect. So I just add some of my thoughts as an input. The main focus seems to be on the various administrational, (...) (15 years ago, 11-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Guys, quoting Jim Morrison (The Doors) I'd say: "The end is near". Obviously I'm talking just about 2009. Updating LDraw's history page: (URL) have to admit that I've forgotten to update the page last year. I would appreciate if you could fill in (...) (15 years ago, 11-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Congratulations to the winners of the November 2009 Part Of The Month (POTM) contests: (URL) POTM - Best Part, Electric Power Functions IR Handset Incremental (Complete) by Philippe Hurbain (Philo)> (URL) POTM - Most Desired Part, Tyre 37 x 22 ZR by (...) (15 years ago, 8-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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(...) OK, I'll update my programs to use this algoritm for colors not stated in ldconfig.ldr /Lars (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) SKIPPING "C:\LDraw\ldconfig.ldr" Line 40: Illegal color code: 0 !COLOUR Main_Color CODE 16 VALUE #7F7F7F EDGE #333333 SKIPPING "C:\LDraw\ldconfig.ldr" Line 54: Illegal color code: 0 !COLOUR Edge_Color CODE 24 VALUE #7F7F7F EDGE #333333 WARNING (...) (15 years ago, 7-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I'm gonna explain (and quit afterwards) why I hesitate adding new and old - what I call "MLCad" - colors to the LDConfig.ldr file: * The current LDConfig.ldr contains only colors you'll find in official LEGO Bricks (with two exceptions (...) (15 years ago, 6-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Hi Steve, good to hear from you again. Would you mind lokking into this: (URL) (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Tore, Feel free to add any color, RGB, name or number you like to the LDConfig.ldr. file. I really won't stand in the way of 100% backwards compatibility to L3Lab. w. (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Oh. Oh. I... I wish somebody had told me this before, instead of arrogant and provoking things like: "Welcome to 2009". Or maybe someone has tried, but I've been the write protected that time? /Tore (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Yes, exactly. 48 is rendered as trans-black, 65 is blue, and 133 should be dark pink (or whatever we're calling color #5 today). Steve (15 years ago, 5-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Do you mean that original LDraw accepts color 48, 65, 133 without error message? I didn't know that. Pity L3Lab (and L3P v1.3 which I no longer use)don't act that way. If so, I guess I stand corrected. And blushing. But yet, with a little (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Just to be clear: all colors from 0 to 511 (except 16 and 24) are true LDraw colors. For color codes less than 256, LDraw would use the lowest 4 bits to determine the color value. The sixth bit would determine transparency. The other bits were (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I for one would have been very happy with that approach. That's exactly what I have tried to tell over and over and over again. Could those of you who have their intellectual write protection on, pretty pretty please unlock it for just a few (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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Nobody ever listens to me on the issue of colors, but that doesn't mean I'll go quietly... (...) I don't see why they need to be added to the ldConfig file as long as they're documented somewhere and accepted as the standard default LDraw pallette. (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Sorry, but I really cannot understand the need to encode dithered colors. Personally I think that only colors used for parts should be coded, while, when you create a patterned part you can choose to use a "good enough" already coded color or (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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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 have had parts on the Part Tracker held because they used one of these colors. That means it is limiting. (...) Color numbers 32-47 and 256-511 is not every color under the rainbow. (...) This is exactly the problem. (...) If this is the (...) (15 years ago, 4-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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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)
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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)
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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 (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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(...) I never said that it was meant to limit, only that it is made up of these colors now. Please don't take this to mean that new colors can't be added, or that it invalidates other colors. We already know of at least one color that should be (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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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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(...) This isn't the first time that LDconfig.ldr has been updated - and it is just that, the file has been updated with MORE colors than before. I think we are loosing sight of the purpose of LDconfig.ldr... The LDconfig file is meant to be a quick (...) (15 years ago, 3-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) Although I have decided to refrain from participation in this thread (you already know my position and you totally neglect it), I make one exception and say "Amen!" to all of Andy's points above. /Tore (15 years ago, 2-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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(...) I apparently have missed the discussion when it comes to certain colors are suddenly "not supported," but I'd like to register my opinion on it. It is a huge error to be calling colors in the ranges of 32-47 and 256-511 as "MLCad color codes" (...) (15 years ago, 2-Dec-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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