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Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
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lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray
Date: 
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 15:35:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.cad.dev, Kevin Loch writes:
Is there any desire to have povray rendered images for each part?

IMHO, the best thing is having both (a) super-quick-loading GIFs and (b)
high-quality POV JPEGs, and then letting the user decide which one to view.
A while back, someone even suggested having spinning/rotating POV-rendered
images for each part in MPEG, or DAT->VRML conversions...  :)

I'm not super-duper POV-fluent, but if anyone wants to make POV-rendered
versions of the LDraw parts, I can stick 'em in the partsref as an alternate
view, if that's OK with Steve.

That's fine with me.  The only downside is applying updates.  When new parts are
released for LDraw, I don't update individual partsref images and pages, I just
regenerate the whole shebang.  So any manual edits would probably get
overwritten.  Anyone got a good idea on avoiding this?

Actually, if parts/ref is going to be a reference specifically to the LDraw
library, I need to un-fix some stuff.

During the last update, I made some arbitrary decisions to clean up some of the
categories, consolidating some some categories which were odd or too small, and
splitting up some large categories into multiples.  Some of this was
accomplished by hand-editing my local install of the parts-library.  Which made
it more user-friendly, but less accurate as a reference to the LDraw library.

So maybe I should install a vanilla copy of LDraw, generate a new partsref, and
upload it.

Steve



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  Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
 
(...) Are you familiar with the make utility? It allows you to describe an arbitrary set of modules, with their associated interdependencies, and then re-build only the modules which have changed and modules dependant upon them. Of course, using (...) (25 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)

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  Re: Partsref is Moving to LUGNET
 
(...) IMHO, the best thing is having both (a) super-quick-loading GIFs and (b) high-quality POV JPEGs, and then letting the user decide which one to view. A while back, someone even suggested having spinning/rotating POV-rendered images for each (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.cad.ray)

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