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| You asked for it, You got it... Toyota! er... Pallas Spaceworks! The moment has arrived :) Due to popular demand, I have gone ahead and launched the new Pallas Spaceworks site early. Existing links to Pallas Spaceworks will no longer work, and the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) somewhere) 'cause I clicked on a link...more kudos to come... :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) models :-) ...my site (which is basically empty at the moment ((URL) is Jain's Guide to the fighting men and women of the sector. Anyway, if u make up a 'banner ad' for Pallas Spaceworks, I'll gladly put it on my page :-) ...you can go back to (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Some of your links to the DAT Specifications files (Destroyer "Stormer" Class for example) don't work. The link goes to "stormer.dat" when the file is actually "stormer.DAT". Great work on the site and the models! (...) in (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Oooh, Thanks. <sarcasm> Isn't it great how Windows has *improved* personal computing?? </sarcasm> --Karim (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) I can't help it... what does this have to do with windows? ;) Dan (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) *click* Dang. *click* Wow. *click* Dang. *click* Oh, my heck. Some thoughts: I really like *all* your capitol ships. They definitely have a Starship Yamato feel to them. The Stormer's a boomer, right? Wait, okay, it packs the CHarGrll (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) allow people to automagically launch LDLite / MLCAD / etc. directly from the browser. Jacob's got the mime-types in the LDraw FAQ (Q. #32): LDraw files (DAT): application/x-ldraw Multi-part DAT files (MPD): application/x-multi-part-ldraw (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Hehehe... (...) Yep... speaking of acronyms... :) :) My next update includes 3 more cap ships... (...) Thanks :) (...) I was really debating including several resolutions/sizes of that image so people could use them as wallpaper... I guess (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Cool! :-, (...) It's only one of the coolest starfighter designs of all time...next to the Starfury, of course. ;-) Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) OK, I think they are all fixed. --Karim (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Yeah, I'm planning on doing that. It should be implemented by the time I move over to karimnassar.com. --Karim (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| <Wow. Wow. Wow.> Again I am blown away by your creations. The Ryu and Hissha are the best incarnations of anime style mecha I've every seen. I'm trying very hard not to use a lot of exclamation points and capital letters. See my hands shaking? (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Whoops! Just found the image gallery. That'll teach me to look before I post. err, leap. Ben Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) Vaughan" <buster@marsbase.com> wrote in message news:FrHGor.FAx@lugnet.com... (...) not (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) As always, amazing models! A little bit of constructive criticism on raytracing (not that I'm an expert...[1]) Take, for example, this image: (URL) model is great, but I'd love to be able to see the detail better. Instead of moving the camera (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.cad.ray)
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| Just when I think I'm getting really good at making models, you come along and destory my ego :) I really do like the new layout and of the course the models. I'll be going it in depth later tonight. However, I did notice a problem when I downloaded (...) (25 years ago, 15-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Vengeance Class Light Cruiser Forager Loader taF-122 "Avatar" Husky Class Gravity Tug/Repair Ship They're all very original and have great little details. It's a pity you decided to retire the Vigilis Class Light Destroyer. I guess capital (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Wow, didn't mean to destroy any egos... :) (...) it (...) using (...) Thanks. I thought I had weeded all of those out. It results from a slight glich in the program I was using to inline the files. I'll try to get those fixed. In the mean (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Good choices :) I really like the Vengeance too :) BTW, Although, as described in the last posting, the rendering was pretty much mindless, I personally *like* the rendering where the ship is in shadow... It's almost pictorial in effect... (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) For anyone going "huh?", check out Ben's recent changes... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| So...would it be better to map .dat to ldraw.exe or ldlite, or l3lab.exe or mlcad? What about mpd files? Ben -- Ben Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:FrHFGJ.9I6@lugnet.com... (...) the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| I guess my question is: What app are most folks using? I'd want to address the widest audience possible. Hmm...sounds like a question for lugnet.cad... Ben -- Ben Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) I've mapped both dat and mpd to ldlite. I had them set to l3lab for a while; l3lab didn't come up as quickly as it pops up dialog boxes if it hits any errors in the file which slows down the action. I think I remember seeing some folks mapping (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| [I shoulda trimmed .publish and .build.mecha, and XFUT to .cad, but I didn't. Oh, well] (...) I've tried just about every option, both for Windows file-type association, and the MIME-type association. At various times, I've used LDLite, LDraw, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) I'm not sure if I follow. You can't do much from the server end to optimize this. The user selects which app to associate to the different mime-types. All the server has to do is to declare what mime-type a file is, and the browser launches (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) ...I get that all the time... windows politely uses caps but shows me lower case and when I xfer it to a good unix system, all my links suddenly stop working :-/ It seems to catch NT worse than 98 tho, for some reason, 98 doesn't create caps (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Quite possibly I don't have a clue what I'm doing. The mime type you listed and that are listed in the FAQ have the extension: .dat and an application type: application/x-ldlite application/x-ldraw etc. If it doesn't matter, why specify then? By the (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) animated gif/'ad' for your 'mecha production company' I'll gladly place it on Jain's Guide ((URL) (someday on its own site)). In return, I steal all ur ideas and make my own mecha!! (not like I don't already, I'm just admitting it now :-) PS (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) The application matters to the user/browser, but not the server. The application type tells the browser what kind of app to launch. This allows a greater flexability for the end-user. See, from the server end, an application type doesn't map (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Ding! (Insert light bulb here) Oooooohh! Thanks! I appreciate it, now I'll setup marsbase.com I'm keeping the survey though. 8) Ben -- Ben Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:FrIt4K.289@lugnet.com... (...) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Groovy! Any particular size requirements? Ben -- Ben Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) F Roberts" <wubwub@wildlink.com> wrote in message news:q=TQOK+yQ5=uEcc...4ax.com... (...) not (...) Pallas (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) ...Nyah... Just 'ad sized' or so :-) something 400-500 wide and < about 100 or so seems to look good and somewhere around 50k seems to load ok even at home. I've got the ad-rotator up now so u can see the two ads I've got so far to get an idea (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) That one's for files which use the LDLite extensions to LDraw: 0 COLOUR, 0 SCALE, 0 ROTATE, etc., etc. The real question: what if a file is both MPD and LDL? Then which mime-type should it be? Steve (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Nope! Go ahead. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com (URL) F Roberts" <wubwub@wildlink.com> wrote in message news:Qw=ROEm1cAbkRWQ...4ax.com... (...) (25 years ago, 16-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| <slowly getting down on knees> <starting to chant some kind of jibberish that ends in Nassar> <repeating jibberish again and again...> Wow, and wow, and ooo...ooohhh...hhh aaa...aaahhh...hhh, and ooo...ooohhh...hhh aaa...aaahhh...hhh....... Okay (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| (...) Hehehe, the truth is out there :) (...) Thanks! :) :) (beaming in the praise) (...) mecha (...) mean (...) not (...) You will have to take that up with the Director of the Yakumo R&D Division ((URL) kidding :) I personally agree with you, and (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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| Well, and isn't that just the far side of cool!? (Looking at what I just wrote) err...whatever. Ben -- Ben Vaughan ben@marsbase.com (URL) <knassar@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:FrJroH.Hns@lugnet.com... (big "snip!") (...) drawing (...) new (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.build.mecha)
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