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  Really Big Colour Code: 117313504
Posted by: Eric Himbeault - 2013-01-11, 16:32 - Forum: Help - Replies (20)

I am working on an import feature for LDraw models, and when I tested it on the Front End Loader model that comes with the LDraw download (model 8464.mpd), I encountered a line with a very large colour code:

Code:
0 FILE 8464.ldr
0 Front End Loader
0 Version: 1.0a (20071123)
(...)
1 117313504 -125 -208 -400 0 0 1 0 1 0 -1 0 0 3941.DAT

In LDraw, the part looks like this:
[Image: eo0J5.png]

I thought it might be a blended colour, like the filespec would suggest, but the colour code is still too large for that. What is this colour, and how do I interpret it?

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  Eurobricks Official Sets Contest
Posted by: Steffen - 2013-01-10, 22:23 - Forum: Official Models - Replies (6)

just to let you know, l just noticed this Eurobricks official LEGO sets LDRAW contest:
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.ph...opic=77949

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  2013/2014 LDraw.org Steering Committee: List of nominees
Posted by: Willy Tschager - 2013-01-10, 22:18 - Forum: LDraw.org Announcements - No Replies

A quick reference to the candidates for the 2013/2014 LDraw.org Steering Committee (SteerCo) election. The information is drawn from the nomination process and corrections are welcome, please email the webmasters.

Candidates are listed in alphabetical order by last name and no ranking or endorsement should be inferred from their position on the list. The following table summarizes the status of each candidate in the format:
Nominee name : Nomination Status (Nominator, Second)

Chris Dee : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Michael Heidemann : Accepted (Philippe Hurbain, Travis Cobbs)
Orion Pobursky : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Max Martin Richter : Accepted (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Willy Tschager : Accepted (Orion Pobursky, Michael Heidemann)

Magnus Forsberg : Declined (Michael Heidemann, Philippe Hurbain)
Tim Gould : Declined (Orion Pobursky, Michael Heidemann)
Steffen Lohse : Declined (Philippe Hurbain, Michael Heidemann)
Scott Wardlaw : Declined (Orion Pobursky, Philippe Hurbain)

Replies to this have been disabled. The nominations thread is where they belong.

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  Minifig head and torso request
Posted by: Tyler Clites - 2013-01-09, 7:46 - Forum: Part Requests - No Replies

Anyone up for creating a minifig head and torso?

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3626cpb704

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=973pb1003

Thanks in advance!

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  Looking for huge (mpd) models
Posted by: Roland Melkert - 2013-01-08, 18:15 - Forum: MOCs (My Own Creations) - Replies (22)

I'm looking for some huge (jet serious / realworld) LDraw models. I'm talking 10.000+ pcs in MPD format.

Does anyone know of good websites offering LDraw files of such mocs ? Or maybe you got some of your own.

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  ldraw.org - static page !?
Posted by: Michael Heidemann - 2013-01-07, 17:29 - Forum: Website Suggestions/Requests/Discussion - Replies (4)

I just wanted to go to www.ldraw.org, but I got only a static page without layout !? Is the cms down?

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  MPDCenter 2.1.0.0
Posted by: Michael Heidemann - 2013-01-06, 0:36 - Forum: All Other Programs. - Replies (1)

After long time of coding I have now finished the next version of MPDCenter.
As there are not only new functions, but also a lot of bug fixing, please update your version soon.

You can download from MPDCenter webside as usual.

My special thanks to Willy and Philo for taking time to do some testing.

Any comments and/or wishes please place here as answer to this thread. Thanks!

Have fun!

Michael

PS: I just added a sample file for the new possibilities Smile



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  Horizontal and Vertical Ruler finished
Posted by: Nils Schmidt - 2013-01-03, 18:10 - Forum: Parts Author Tools - No Replies

edit: sorry.. this should be a response message to this topic.
Happy New Year! Smile
[Image: lpe_09.jpg]

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  0 ROTATION - meanings
Posted by: Michael Heidemann - 2013-01-03, 11:58 - Forum: LDraw Editors and Viewers - Replies (1)

I played a little bit with MLCad and found the following. Maybe it is also interesting for some else.

Code:
0 ROTATION CENTER 0 0 0 1 "Custom1"
0 ROTATION CENTER 2 3 4 1 "New Custom"

There can be several lines like above in your file, depending on how many rotation points you have defined.
The first three numbers are the xyz values of the rotation point
The fourth number indicates the "Allow on-screen change"
The string at the end is the name of that rotation point.


Code:
0 ROTATION CONFIG 1 0

There is only one line like the above with the parameter "CONFIG".
The first number indicates the current aktive point from above list of defined rotatin points.
The second number indicates "Show rotation point"

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  Reducing part complexity
Posted by: Mike "Pomax" Kamermans - 2013-01-02, 18:50 - Forum: LDraw File Processing and Conversion - Replies (5)

hey all,

now that I have a working JavaScript .dat to .obj converter for using LEGO parts in a WebGL context, I was wondering whether anyone had already tried implementing a complexity reduction algorithm for parts meshes.

At several thousand vertices per part, some of these parts might be better rendered as reduced meshes with some bump/texture mapping that fakes some of the more intricate details (like teeth on cogs, or profile on an axle joiner), not to mention help load larger models, as WebGL only allows ~65k vertices per scene.

Has anyone experimented with this yet?

- Mike

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