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Re: IMPORTANT - [ldraw.org] Official Model Repository
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Sat, 12 Jun 1999 20:12:42 GMT
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lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) writes:
> Bram,
> I think that's definitely on the right track!  (At least with the
> double-and triple-letter combinations.)

Thanks!

> Anyway, your proposal above obviously breaks the 8.3 rule

Actually, the only set I can think of in which it would is 7171.  Does
any other set have that large a hierarchy of submodels?

> BTW, the year could even be written as a four-digit number if 8.3
> wasn't an issue.

I don't think a four digit year is really necessary until LEGO is more
than 100 years old.

> [alt. models]
> 
> Regardless of all of the mixed opinions here on this subject (of the
> dataifcation of alternate models without instructions) -- I think it
> would be a very good thing at least to _plan_for_it_ in the namespace.

I agree, especially because some alt. models do have instructions.

> Could it work???  How might it work in practice?
> Does LDLITE handle embedded /'s in "0 FILE" invocations?  How about
> type-1 lines in DAT files?  Can you have something like this?--
> 
>  1 <affine transformation> foo/bar/glort.dat

It works in DAT files (with \, not /), and it'd be great if it worked in
MPD, but I don't know if it does.  We should probably test how it works
in LDraw\LEdit, ie, where does it look for the directory.

> Say, BTW, instead of an "S" prefix on the filenames, couldn't there be
> a SETS directory beneath the C:\LDRAW directory?  There is already a
> MODELS and a PARTS subdirectory.  It could maybe even go beneath the • MODELS
> directory...
> 
> Then (this is maybe getting out on a limb) you could have:
> [...]
> If there's going to be potentially multiple files per LEGO set, then
> it seems like a bad idea *not* to use subdirectories -- if it's possible

> to use them...?

Your example looks great to me, especially for people who will want every
LEGO set ever built in DAT format.
--Bram


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(...) Bram, I think that's definitely on the right track! (At least with the double- and triple-letter combinations.) A great example of double-lettering is the 7171 Mos Espa Podrace™ set -- each of the three submodels of 7171 has itself three (...) (27 years ago, 12-Jun-99, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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