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Re: "Sticker" images
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Mon, 3 Sep 2001 19:05:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Bram Lambrecht writes:
> Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > http://news.lugnet.com/cad/ray/?n=366
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> > seems to give good details on how to do it... Off to go try. I am not
> > sure how to figure out the sizing and placement parms except by trial
> > and error though.
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> L3P output uses the exact same scale and coordinate system as LDraw, so to
> place the part, figure out where the center of the sticker should go (in
> LEdit, MLCAD, whatever). To scale the sticker, remember that there are 20
> LDU per stud, and 8 LDU per plate height. In order to maintain the aspect
> ratio of the sticker, you may need to do a bit of calculation.
> --Bram
Cool, thanks.
One thing I just thought of though... the sticker isn't rectangular, it
actually would be an ellipse... does that make a difference?
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| (...) You can make the portion outside of the ellipse transparent by defining which color index should be transparent (in the POV image map declaration), or you can change the "clipped_by" to a cylinder instead of a box (might be easier/more (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | RE: "Sticker" images
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| (...) L3P output uses the exact same scale and coordinate system as LDraw, so to place the part, figure out where the center of the sticker should go (in LEdit, MLCAD, whatever). To scale the sticker, remember that there are 20 LDU per stud, and 8 (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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