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Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Fri, 26 May 2000 03:48:29 GMT
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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 ever finish.
Troy
"Steve Bliss" <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:Fv4ps8.3Is@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Dan Jezek writes:
> > In lugnet.market.shopping, Steve Bliss writes:
> > > Will you have an image for each part, in each color? It would be very • nice
> > > to not have strictly gray images.
> >
> > Highly unlikely. There are 2,500 parts * 20 colors = 50,000 images!
>
> So? ;)
>
> > 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 part would be generated without starting up MLCAD.
> > This way in the part selection process, you'd just select the part and • color
> > and by clicking a button, you'd run MLCAD in the background and the part • would
> > be generated for you.
>
> 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
> whatever file gets dumped into the bitmap dir. You'll need to convert it • to a
> GIF or JPG, anyway.
>
> Steve
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 | | Re: Brickbay Temp URL Available
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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
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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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