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Re: Station Compliment
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lugnet.space
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Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:38:50 GMT
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In lugnet.space, Patrick Justison writes:
> I have a sugestion for the uniforms of the defense personnel. The link below
> is a 'concept' picture of the ASSDF (Armstrong Space Station Defense Force).
> the uniforms are not terribly uniform, but it is a start. Slight unifrom
> changes will be made to denote Specialist, Flight Officer, Tactical Officer,
> and Command ranks. No infantry or unskilled military personnel will be
> onboard. Only the best of the best of the best, as that idiot said in Men in
> Black.
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> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=5537
I've nothing against those kinds of uniforms, but are they available in LDraw
yet? Do those printed helmets exist in the parts library yet? Remember the
criteria for this entire station: it's an LDraw-only universe here.
Now that I've said that, I can throw another wrench in the machinery, and
please read this carefully, as I want everyone to realize the full potential
here: given a utility that can put custom drawings into .dat parts, we can do
any uniform scheme we want on a torso. Somewhere I downloaded a utility
written for Windows awhile back written by the LDraw wizards that changes a 16
color .bmp to a .dat part. I've made a number of custom uniforms thus far in
LDraw for myself, and one for Tim Courtney.
Here are some of examples:
· Custom uniforms with medals, ribbons, zippers, pockets, (open) collars,
printed epaulets, belts, buttons, insignia, rips & tears, little things
sticking out of pockets that TLC will never make into pieces (such as
cigarettes, etc.), ID badges, rank stripes, rank colors (since 16 colors are
available in the utility)
· Custom armor
· Custom pilot suits
· Funky radiation suits
· Different kinds of boots (printing applied to the flat parts of legs..
perhaps magnetic boots for non/low-grav environments; you can also take a
minifig with yellow legs, supposedly in shorts, and give him shoes)
· Other printing on any flat surface, even transparents, for labeling, custom
control panels, indicators, wallscreens, maps, padds, and laptop pictures, etc.
· Other realistic touches like wrinkles on chair seats, labels on flat food
containers, and no doubt more cool things.
If this seems like to much work and hassle to maintain, it really isn't when
you consider the awesome possibilities. DAT parts really don't take up that
much room. I can also make these custom parts available at the Armstrong page
so that everyone can download them so that we're all working from a common set.
BTW, after having said that, this process should not take the place of pieces
where they can be used. In other words, I hate guns printed on a torso: just
give the fig a stupid gun in his hand!
-Tom McD.
> In lugnet.space, Tom McDonald writes:
> > We should probly start thinking about a crew compliment here
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Armstrong Page Update 06-20-2000
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| (...) Two items 1) Pat J's name has been added to the appropriate areas.. yay! Thanks Pat! 2) I have made available for download BMP2DAT.ZIP, which contains the above- mentioned utility. Self-admittedly, it's not very friendly, but it works for me (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.space)
| | | Re: Station Compliment
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| (...) Another idea for Bmp2dat. We could each make a symbol, and paste it on the parts of the spacestation that we make. :) Kinda like the ISS. (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.space)
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| | Re: Station Compliment
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| I have a sugestion for the uniforms of the defense personnel. The link below is a 'concept' picture of the ASSDF (Armstrong Space Station Defense Force). the uniforms are not terribly uniform, but it is a start. Slight unifrom changes will be made (...) (24 years ago, 20-Jun-00, to lugnet.space)
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