Greetings everyone,

I am the creator of the "Black Falcon Armory", a set of mock-up parts based upon modern military small arms and gear.



These were made about six years ago, they are crude but somewhat cool looking; and I had received some emails asked whether those are real parts.

And recently, my interests on LDraw had made a return, and I am thinking to remake those guns at a much higher quality, akin to those real-life custom made counterparts, do you think this is a good idea?

(i.e.:Most of the guns are still available here)

I've gotten into thinking that the old blue patterns may be better represented with color 272 Dark_Blue, rater than the normally used color 1 Blue, which IMO is way too bright. See attached mpd for comparasing and tell me what you think.

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this hook seems to be missing....

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=x99

Here is a list of 10 parts in order of how much I need them.

[COMPLETE] 2677 (Monorail Rail Ramp Lower Part) (I know they already are mentioned, but I really need these)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2677

[COMPLETE] 2678 (Monorail Rail Ramp Upper Part)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2678

[COMPLETE] 2483px1 (Windscreen 4 x 4 x 3 & 2/3 Helicopter with Space Police II Logo Pattern)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2483px1

[COMPLETE] 3039px31 (Slope Brick 45 2 x 2 with Ice Planet Controls Pattern)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/3039px31

x168 (Minifig Accessory Helmet Underwater with Hose)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/x168

[COMPLETE] 2890 (Monorail Point Left)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2890

[COMPLETE] 2889 (Monorail Point Right)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2889

[COMPLETE] 30295 (Car Base 12 x 18 x 1 & 1/3)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/30295

[COMPLETE] 30298 (Windscreen 10 x 14 x 2 & 2/3 Roll Cage)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/30298

[COMPLETE] 2507px1 (Windscreen 10 x 4 x 2 & 1/3 Canopy with Shark Pattern)
http://peeron.com/inv/parts/2507px1

Ps. If it is possiple to request some some of the patterns to the raised baseplates. I can see that there isn't a single one of them that have a pattern on them yet.

Hi,

I'm totally new to anything CAD (well, except LDraw and MLCad, but only moving bricks from A to B). I'm building some Star Wars models, but there are so many printed parts missing. I was trying to recreate the pattern for 30116pb03 (Panel 14 x 14 x 2 2/3 Quarter Saucer Top with Millennium Falcon Pattern) (yes, I know, maybe hard stuff for a beginner, but that's the part I really want) and came across all the programs like LPC and LDP. The principle is clear. Import a part, draw a lot of triangles, save, done. But there are the things between these points, that I don't get. At least not by tial and error. For example: I'll import the part 30116.dat. Fine. And now? How do I get one of the 15 facets to the right position? How do I position the background image right? When I zoom in the part, all I see is the middle. So, how do I scroll left/right or up/down? Since I'm stuck here and did not even get to the "draw a lot of triangles" point, I turned to the Sticker Generator, which was a suitable alternative (for me). I made stickers for every single facet of the part (and after 3 days work, not every sticker 100% accurate, be it in size or position), the final part and subparts being about 12 MB (!), which made the pov file quite heavy. Anyway, I really like to do it right, so anyone who has some experience with LPC or LDP could you please at least tell me, how do I get to the "draw a lot on triangles" part?

Thank you.

Hi,

Normally in LDraw if you are making a model you'd probably have to view it from different angles and use the zoom tool.

However when I do this, it changes all of the brick position coordinates (e.g.: X ***, y*** z***).
If the numbers change then I have no idea what number to increase that value by, as numbers like 'Y axis, 11.1584912784' are hard to work with, and it is not very builder friendly as I just want to get the brick(s) adjusted correctly. (Even if I use then 'hand' tool to change the model, or use the default angles in the right click menu it still changes the co-ordinates.)

Can't we have a tool that allows us to three dimensionally change the viewing angle of the model to how fine we need it, but will also leave the brick co-ordinates to how they are.

If this was fixed:
Let’s say for example I had two 3001's placed on top of each other, if I moved the bottom brick somewhere to the left' then changed the angle to '90 degrees, left' then change that brick coordinate again, it would keep the brick position coordinates but change the axis the brick moves since we are looking it from the side it would move closer or nearer but in the original viewer angle it would move left or right.

Maybe there can be a quick finder gauge in the workspace where there is a brick icon or something but has a red dot near it, telling you where you are viewing it from, a bit like a ball compass.

Regards, Kris

I just installed LDraw, and am new to it. Everything downloaded fine, and all was well until I tried to put shortcuts onto another account (I did not want to put them on all profiles, this is my family computer). I coped them onto the other account, and everything crashed. All of the LDraw stuff is not where I installed it, and for that matter, GONE! Where did it go, how can I get it back, and why did it do this? IT would really help to know this. Thanks

Hey,

I created a new project on sourceforge and uploaded the brand new 1.2.1 release of the LD-Pattern-Creator!


Please uninstall older versions of this software before installing a new version.

I am going to upload some tutorial videos on youtube in the next week.

Furthermore there will be a next release in June 2012 and I'm looking forward to implement and fix more of J.C.'s <<Améliorations souhaitables>> (desirable aesthetic repairs).


PS: Take a look at J.C.'s great French LDPC manual.


Cheers & Leg Godt


Nils

Just wanting to add some stuff to this discussion:
I'd like to see clarified the status of color 16 for sticker bounding box. This idea (originally proposed by JC Tchang) has already been discussed here and there, but no clear decision has been made. Point is, using color 16 brings more flexibility for stickers, as they allow user to choose
- color of sticker dominant border color (as suggested today in spec),
- color of the underlying brick (useful to make borders disappear if sticker has several colors on border,
- or even... for purists, white to show the paper white border!

Hello all, I am working on a complete layout within Ldraw. I have design a train and crossing so far. My biggest issue is that I can not create a full loop. I have spent nurmrous hours trying to connect it but I am always short. I have my rotation set to .1 in corse edit mode. The current file I have above is as close I have gotten the parts together. If anyone has info or even tricks on how to connect tracks together it would be greatly appreciated. I am hoping to add a complete mini city to this as well.

thanks to all,

Mike M

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