hi,
i recently ran into problems with conditional lines from inlined subfiles, it seems to me that the control points get damaged. i discoverd this when i was inlining c-lines from the minifig head 3626b.dat file.

to reproduce, do the following steps:
1.take original head without inner part s\3626bs02.dat (or use attached file "head.dat")
2. view it with ldview, all c-lines are correct (-> screenshot 1)
3. select all subfiles within "head.dat", and inline them (i used lddp 2.0.4)
4. save, and view it again in ldview
5. notice that the conditional lines are not displayed as they should (-> screenshot 2)

here are two screenshots, taken by this steps and viewed from same angle.

using subfiles:


inlined subfiles:


after that, i tried to inline the subfiles with other tools (like slicer pro, edger2, ...), but the result was the same for me, all lines were there, but displayed not correctly.

am i doing something wrong, or can anyone confirm this behavior?

Attached Files

  head.dat (Size: 449 bytes / Downloads: 0)

Aloha,

I created a model with Bricksmith and then I did the instructions with LPub. When I open the result in Bricksmith, it does not know how to parse it.

Is there a way that I can get the two to co-exist? Right now, when I want to modify the model I have to re-generate the instructions in LPub.

I have attached the original (lpr) and the instructions (mpd).

Mahalo,

Ramón

Attached Files

  F1 Racer.mpd (Size: 3.69 KB / Downloads: 0)
  F1 Racer.ldr (Size: 3.06 KB / Downloads: 0)

could for example be the amazing new song by Pomplamoose I like so much
the sounds of the 50's + what you see is what you hear + the lyrics about the problems when you love a Mafia girl ;-)

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Hi,
Here is my 10212 Imperial Shuttle.
Not OMR compliant.
Renders visible here : http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=373669

Chris

Attached Files

  10212.mpd (Size: 275.06 KB / Downloads: 9)

This file is (mostly) OMR compliant.

Things to fix:
- No minifigs
- No stickers (probably will not be fixed)
- The mini Star Destroyer hasn't be added (yet).
- The angle on the hull pieces needs to be adjusted
- Other model clean up

I'm just throwing this up since it's good enough to play around with and render but the perfectionist in me won't let the above minor issues go.

Attached Files

  10221 - Super Star Destroyer.mpd (Size: 153.71 KB / Downloads: 38)

Folks,

with the next AIOI I'd like to include OMR files of the modular building serie: Café Corner, Market Street, Green Grocer, Fire Brigade and Grand Emporium.

Please post your models below. Make sure the respect the new OMR specs: http://www.ldraw.org/Article593.html

Thx, w.

Hi,

I found a program named Blender today and it's free like POV-RAY.

It looks like having very powerful rendering and animation capability.

Here are the homepage that can download the program, and

little bit old version tutorial, and a video tutorials.

Is there anybody who have used this program to render LDraw model?

I saw the video tutorial part 2 and he recommend to use LeoCAD to convert model to 3DS format, but

then it should drop by v2.49 of Blender for latest version Blender because of unknown reason.

If I would use LDview to export 3DS file, the latest version of Blender could read my model correctly?

In case the model contain only one simple brick, Blender can read, but when I convert my another model 21005 fallingwater,

Blender didn't answer, just showing sandglass.

I have no idea and newbie using Blender, and any comment will be very helpful.

Thanks for reading.

KWON

Hi,
When I tried to make sticker part, I faced a problem with Sticker Generator.

I saved 256 color BMP file from scaned real sticker image like below.





I tried to convert it to DAT file by Sticker Generator and got below result image.







When I saw this DAT file by LDview 4.1 and MLCAD 3.3, it showed like below.



I was disappointed at the result image so much.



Corresponding sticker part is here : http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...22303i.dat
It shows very high quality like below.
It looks like not from BMP image.





Here are my questions:

1. Why couldn't I get correct DAT file by Sticker Generator? Did I neglect any important option or anything else?

2. How can I get better quality sticker rather than from BMP file?

How come 3024.dat is exported as LDX_3024_dot_dat,
while 3008.dat becomes LDX_3008_dot_dat_sub_part?

This makes it impossible to create generic Datshine Attribute files compatible with LDView POV export.

And yes, I use unmodified, official versions:
3024.dat - !LDRAW_ORG Part UPDATE 2002-03
3028.dat - !LDRAW_ORG Part UPDATE 2004-03

/Tore

Would there be any interest in having an LDraw IRC channel?

I found one Tim created a long time ago but it's long dead.

I can see the potential for more in-depth discussions between LDraw software developers/users and discussions among PT admins about specific parts.

A real-time discussion format would allow for a higher level of discourse that would not be otherwise happen due to the long delays between post/read times between LDraw users.

There is also the disadvantage of these communications not being logged and thus matters discussed would not be on public record for reference by those who come after. Although a bot could easily log the public channel and publish it someplace, private discussions between two people would be nowhere to be found, and so it would not be ideal. For instance, I like how the LSC has done everything publicly so I was able to catch up on what I missed, if some of the debates had happened over IRC, I might not have been able to understand why some decisions were made because I could not find record of them, so we as a community would need to be careful about what discussions we have on IRC and publish transcripts of them if something noteworthy was concluded.

Just thought I'd throw the idea out there.