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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:54:51 GMT
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On 6/11/99, at 3:08 PM, Tim Courtney wrote:

We can accept inlined models, but we will be breaking them up • and
reconstructing them as submodels in an mpd format.  So please • send them if
you would like to contribute.  We need to take all the models • we can to get
a substantial repository going right away.

Tim, I'm the person who was supposed to be helping with the
reviewing and
editting so that 'we' also refers to me. Who else was willing to
help? I'll still
review and edit, but could someone else do the MPDing and
un-inlining?

Actually, the way I thought we had agreed on was
0 name: M7140-99.dat
0 X-Wing Fighter
0 Author: LEGO(or TLG)

This line (above) is not needed if we put 'official model • repository' in it
- because in the description of the official model repository • it states
they are models of TLG sets.

Fine, replace that line with 'o. m. r.'

0 Author: Ryan Dennett(& whatever else you want for yourself)
and if you want, the web address could be added, but • personally
I hate
long headers.

No web address, I agree its too long.


How is this for a header?  5 lines isn't bad IMO.  It gives
all the necessary

information as well.  This header should be on the submodels • too, with Set:
being replaced by something identifying it as a submodel for • a
certain set
(ie. Submodel: Upper Left Wing Assembly for 7140 X-Wing • Fighter)  Please let
me know what you all think of this.

Like Jeff mentioned, submodels should have the same header
except it should be
something like this
0 Name: M7140a.dat
0 X-Wing left wing
etc.

Yes, but the word 'submodel' should be mentioned in there as
well.

so change the 2nd line to read
0 X-Wing left wing submodel

Who else besides Jeff and myself were working on this? I was
under the
impression that we were the ones heading it up. I just want to
know because
it seems that the standards we had agreed upon are be
disregarded and not
accepted. Just to try and make my self clearer what I am trying
to say is that
if we were 'put in charge' of the model repository, then we
should be the ones
making the decisions on headers and model title, etc.  We had
done that, but
it seems to me that what we had come up with is being regarded
as inadaquate,
even though it was quite thorough.
Ryan
"Build or build not. There is no try." - Lego Master Yoda



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  Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
 
(...) I suggest that this or other simmilar lines about the model go on the *first* line of the file, as that is the normal place for the title of a DAT file. That way, if LDAO or some other utility is ever improved to show the title of the model, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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(...) Ryan and I had decided on M####-**, where #### stood for the set number and ** stood for the last two digits of the year it was released (i.e. M7140-99 for the X-Wing). The date would be replaced by a letter to denote that it is a submodel. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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