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Re: 9V Train track DAT files?
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lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains
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Wed, 13 Jun 2001 02:39:07 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.!spamcake!chem.tulane.edu
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> In lugnet.cad, Christopher Masi writes:
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> > I found an unofficial straight track model. The weird thing was that it had
> > yellow conductor rails. I changed the color to light gray, and they look good.
> > (Other than the yellow rails, I think that they are excellent models.)
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> I believe they are yellow because in older LEGO instructions and flyers, the
> electric contacts on things like plates and wires are shown in yellow. So
> the other electrical parts modeled in LDraw also use yellow. But IIRC it is
> a special yellow that is not color 4 (or 14, I forget)...
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> If you changed it to gray in your version, great, but I would hate to see it
> changed to grey in the official part if and when it is released. Instead it
> ought to be some special color that means metal (the same way that there is
> a special color that means "chrome plated")
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> IMHO.
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> ++Lar
Lar,
I totally agree with you. Light gray for the conducting rails is not right,
and it should not be made the official color. I was thinking about changing the
metal rails to the color of the conducting wheels. However, I can think of two
reasons not to change the rails to shiny chrome. (1) It would require figuring
out what shiny is (not that hard I guess). (2) Shiny isn't quite right for the
rails anyway; in reality, the rails aren't as shiny as the wheels, are they?
Anyway, the light gray color was just because I didn't want to look at the
yellow. Has anyone tried to render the yellow rails? Do they come out yellow? I
didn't think to try that before changing the color.
Also, I would never distribute ".dat" files of models that include unofficial
parts. I think distributing models with unofficial parts detracts for the whole
LDRAW feel. What I mean is that an uninitiated user should be able to open a
".dat" file of a model and see the complete model without having to install
extra unofficial stuff.
The next unofficial part I need is the left hand opening 6 pane glass door (a
part that doesn't exist unless you rip apart a right hand opening 6 paned glass
door and turn it into the left handed version.) But I have no idea how to do
that (the .dat file...I have not problem modifying those doors.)
Chris
PS I didn't know about the yellow in the old flyers. Learn something new everyday.
--
See some of my LEGO creations at http://cmasi.chem.tulane.edu/~lego/
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| (...) In lugnet.trains, Christopher Masi writes: (...) The color appears yellow in MLCad. Used L3P to convert to the POV-Ray format. When rendered in POV-Ray, the yellow "turns into" the shiny metal you see in the images of my APT at The BrickShelf. (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I believe they are yellow because in older LEGO instructions and flyers, the electric contacts on things like plates and wires are shown in yellow. So the other electrical parts modeled in LDraw also use yellow. But IIRC it is a special yellow (...) (23 years ago, 12-Jun-01, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.trains)
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