I just moved to a new flat and did a hardware / VR / system upgrade on my desktop machine as well.
The upgrade inlcuded a new powerful GPU configuration (2x NVIDIA GTX 1080, SLI).
Currently, there are no open source linux drivers for the GPU, yet.
I need about a week to play a little bit with my new workstation / VR headset and will then continue to work on LDPartEditor.
Of course, I will not raise the hardware requirements for LDPE... :)
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but the new forums don't seem to have a favicon. The old ones had the blue brick favicon. For reference, I'm in Firefox; not sure if that matters.
I have a question / discussion point regarding 64 bit programs and the AIOI.
I noticed (far as i know) the AIOI only uses the program files (x86) folder to install programs. Is this also true for 64 bit programs or are there currently none?
I'm thinking about this as LDCad 1.6 will be available in a 64 bit windows version (upgraded to a minGW64 that finally supports the native windows threading model) and I'm considering the setup options for this change.
The main goal here is to also support the AIOI install location so it can upgrade if needed.
I fixed some hold voted parts today and came across some hold parts which IMHO should deleted from the PT 'cos they are clearly wrong are aliases or somthing else is not right. Have a look at these:
I remembered that spherical TEXMAP was not implemented in LDView, but actually it's worse: LDView crashes on parts containing that
(using 1.2 beta 1). Attached an example...
When I use part 6141 (plate 1x1 round) LDCad crashes on my machine @ home (old laptop with low specs).
This is an alias ("~moved to" or "=moved to") parts. Isn't that strange too?
Using 4073.dat everything runs fine.
I know there must be more parts that cause crashes.
The problem is, I'm not sure where to go from here. I am a newbie when it comes to parts authoring (and this is cheating at best!), but I really need these parts in LDraw. Frankly, I could really use all of the parts mentioned in my post:
but none, to my knowledge, have been put on the parts tracker. The second pair aren't even in LDD. I know the community is not responsible for part requests, and I completely understand that it is a lot of work, but I still need those pieces, so I have tried to get as far as possible. I think one of the major things that needs to be done is the setting of the part center/rotation center. There may be more work beyond that which I don't even know about. If someone could guide me through the remaining steps, at least to the point where the part is functional, I would be much obliged.
-- I attached the parts if you would like to take a look at them. They are raw geometric data (if I have my vocabulary right) which runs up the file size, compared to official parts.
