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Again, thanks to all of you for your commitment to the goals of the
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Willy Tschager
On behalf of the LDraw.org Steering Committee

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For some reason, I decided I wanted to make all the Adventurers sets in LDraw, but complete including all missing patterns etc.
Aside for a bunch missing parts which I hope someone can make (for example this, this, this, this or this), there are also a lot of missing stickers and patterns.

Now, I have no idea if I'll ever finish all these Adventurers sets (sadly, I'm known for not finishing things...), I do have a few 'general' questions.
I'm quite new to making LDraw parts. I did a few patterned parts about a year ago (with help from Philo, thanks Philo!), but I'm stuck now with 2 things:

1. How can I make a patterned minifig head? Does someone maybe have a LPC template?
   
2. I wanted to make this pattern (I do have this part in real life btw ), but when I import the 'projection' data in LPC, a lot of the shape is missing. Is that because it uses these 'primitives' or something like that?
   

Hi folks,

I just updated the MLCad.ini file accordingly to the latest LDraw.org parts update 2015-02. The .ini file defines (among other things) the parts available in MLCad's minifigure generator.

Download the file from my website: http://www.holly-wood.it/mlcad/mlcad_ini-en.html

Bye, w.

OMR specification requires to include unofficial files (a very good thing!), but what to do when this unofficial part contains TEXMAP images? Can we imagine a way to include these images in MPD? How to make this compatible with applications that support TEXMAP (afaik LDView, LDCad, LeoCAD and Bricksmith)?

And a 2016 good new year's resolution: have TEXMAP images on Parts Tracker !

All models of official models should go here.

Couldn't find part 92220 anywhere so I figured I'd add it to the request list. Thanks to everyone contributing to the libraries, it's super helpful.

I like to express my happyness if I look back and see what has been done on LDraw in the past year. I think it was a great year and I like to say "Thank You" to all volunteers.
Let us go forward this way also in 2016

cu
(next year)
mikeheide

When doing the 30398 I stumbled over a strange behavior in LDView.

To conclude:
If a file uses a cone larger than 9 from the Hi-Res primitives, i.e. starting from 48\4-4con10, AND LDView is set to use Primitive Substitution, the curve is not smoothed.
However if the file uses the standard primitive, 4-4con10, the smoothing works.

Anybody noticed this as well?

This code

The 2015-02 LDraw Parts Update has been now been released. This adds 439 new files to the core library, including 218 new parts and 15 new primitives. This update includes another batch of improved and corrected parts. This is largely due to the work of Roland Melkert with the 'libfix version' of LDCad. Significant effort has also been expended by Magnus Forsberg to inline dithered colour subfiles (a now obsolete technique).

Thanks are once again due to all the part authors who created or corrected parts for this release. The reviewers also play an important role in keeping files moving through the tracker and deserve just as much credit. I am pleased to see that some attention has been paid to the backlog of parts held for further work.

You can preview the new parts in 2015-02 here, download the zip-file update or Windows install package here. Alternatively you can use the LDView menu option File | Check for Library Updates... to install the update.

The old / vintage sets should go here.