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In lugnet.cad, Karim Nassar writes:
> http://www.etymon.com/kn/test/artemis/
> I now open the floor for discussion ;-)
The single greatest contribution (IMO) that the Artemis Project has to offer is
the concept of Stages, its OO approach to model and submodel storage.
Essentially, a model can be associated with a Stage or a set of attributes --
origin offset, camera positions, read/write locks, parent Stage, etc. -- that
can be used by the tool and inherited by child models. Anyway, Karim describes
it much better than I could. (1)
This is (again IMO) an *extremely* powerful capability, and is what I was
alluding to in my message in .cad.mlcad (where I started spewing :-). (2) A
first step to implementing some of this capability in DATland is to allow
"inheritable" attributes, probably 0-line directives; these could appear at any
point in a DAT or be referred to by including a DAT with some form of
not-yet-implemented include mechanism.
Okay, that's fine in theory, but how about some real-world examples? Here ya
go:
Do you want to have a different default viewing angle for your new model? Use
a Stage.
Does your new part have an unusual default color? Use a Stage.
Want to set a standardized look-and-feel for the models on your webpage? Use a
Stage.
Want to assemble a large DAT-minifig army using a set of pre-canned rotation
centers for their limbs? Use a Stage.
Want to use someone else's model but you don't want to change their DAT and you
don't like their defaults? Inherit the Stage and change only what you want.
Obviously, I'm very excited about this possibility. :-, This is one of those
knock-their-socks-off, lets-see-if-anyone-can-do-something-cooler features that
comes around once in a blue moon.
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. http://www.etymon.com/kn/test/artemis/artemis_functions.html
2. http://news.lugnet.com/cad/mlcad/?n=306
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