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| | | Hi, [By the way, the "bgok" user is probably me--if it shows up as some contrived awful stupid Gomer name. Why it took that and still gave me an error message, I don't know.] (...) OK. I didn't know if the seller-approval would be automatic in the (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek
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| | | | (...) zero? (...) knowing (...) you. (...) I thought that not removing each item when quantity gets down to zero is more to the seller's benefit. If I part out a new batch of sets and they contain some of the pieces that I already have in my (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Ideally, of course, this would be configurable, but my preference would be for C) and B) thereafter. In other words, display the item as SOLD for a day or so, and then have it disappear. (...) Again, ideally the choice is C). Failing that, I'd (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | (...) Configurability would be the very best solution IMHO as a seller, but probably an ordeal to implement (though I may be wrong on this). However, the second option James mentions sounds good as well; the more I think about it, the more I like (...) (25 years ago, 24-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek
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| | | | (...) perhaps a (...) more (...) contain (...) the (...) selecting (...) they (...) shopping (...) for (...) probably an (...) option (...) implying (...) in a (...) again (...) get (...) A) (...) to (...) perhaps the (...) stores that (...) site (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) The (currently unwritten) terms of use for LDraw specify that you can do whatever you want with the images you generate from the LDraw data. Will you have an image for each part, in each color? It would be very nice to not have strictly gray (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | (...) I don't think grey images should be necessary--but why not a white part on a white background, to indicate monochromaticity instead of the colour white? That would keep bandwidth as low as possible and keep us to a single image. However, if (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek
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| | | | (...) Highly unlikely. There are 2,500 parts * 20 colors = 50,000 images! It would be nice if you could generate parts from MLCAD in Batch Mode. That is, you'd just specify the color, part and image size as parameters on the command line and the (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) So? ;) (...) LDLite will do this. The only drawbacks are that the output always goes to ldraw/bitmap/, and the filename is munged with the step number. So make sure the bitmap directory is always kept empty, generate the file, and just take (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Jake McKee
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| | | | | Steve, do tell! How does one get this function to work in LDLite? Thanks jake (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | You just start LDLite from a command prompt, with a -MS option. MS is for "Mode Save". Something like: c:\ldraw\ldlite\ldlite 3001.dat -MS (assuming LDLite is installed in c:\ldraw\ldlite\) Steve (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.cad)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti
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| | | | Would it be possible to set up a script to do all the parts in all the colors? If so, I'd be willing to run it, process the pictures, and host them from my simplenet site. As it is right now, making each one in MLCAD would probably take me a year to (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Dan Jezek
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| | | | (...) The 80x60 thumbnails take at an average 3K. To have 50,000 of them would require 150MB of disk space which is about 1/2 of the total Brickbay webhosting disk space so it _is_ possible. The question is, who would do all the rendering? And what (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Mike Stanley
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| | | | (...) If Steve (or someone else) can give directions for doing this in a mostly automated way I can leave my new 850 at home running it while I'm at work. I have scads of free hard drive space and a fast connection (from work - I can burn the images (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Christopher L. Weeks
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| | | | | (...) This is one of the biggest things I miss about running the computer labs at The University of Missouri. I had what felt like ubiquitous computing. I could have slid >20GB onto the web or more onto the campus backbone, assigned any.edu as a web (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Mike Stanley
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| | | | | | (...) I know what you mean. Especially since I run the computer labs at the University of Tennessee. :) Actually, though, the space I could provide would come in the form of space on either an account I paid for, a machine I own (but it IS on the (...) (25 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) Hmm. It needs just a bit of programming. Something like the following, depending on your development toys (view in fixed-pitch font for best results). Note: CONVERT.EXE is part of ImageMagick, available for most platforms. // Process all (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Troy Cefaratti
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| | | | Is there a way to get LDLITE to have the image of the part take up all of the available space in the image file? I've been playing with this off and on, and am trying to get the part to be as big as will fit in the image. All I seem to get is an (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)
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| | | | | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available —Steve Bliss
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| | | | (...) No, there isn't any kind of 'auto-zoom' setting for LDLite (nor LDraw). It would be nice if there were. Both for the really big models (to scale them down) and the really little ones (to scale them up). Steve (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.cad)
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