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Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Chinche86 - 2022-08-11
I was building a star wars set and this piece is missing. would you be so kind to add it? thank you and have a nice day
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/search.page?q=sw0984#T=A
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Magnus Forsberg - 2022-08-11
(2022-08-11, 10:59)Chinche86 Wrote: I was building a star wars set and this piece is missing. would you be so kind to add it? thank you and have a nice day
That one has been around for a long time. Strange number at BL though...
https://www.ldraw.org/parts/official-part-lookup.html?folder=parts&partid=2454aps5
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Sylvain Sauvage - 2022-08-11
(2022-08-11, 11:28)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: Strange number at BL though...BL considers it’s a minifigure.
2454ps5 (the old number) is indicated as alternate ID on BL.
It’s a bit of a treasure hunt for such parts (= decorated parts that are categorized as minifigures).
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Travis Cobbs - 2022-08-12
(2022-08-11, 11:28)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: That one has been around for a long time. Strange number at BL though...
https://www.ldraw.org/parts/official-part-lookup.html?folder=parts&partid=2454aps5
That part could seriously benefit from a TEXMAP upgrade (leaving the existing pattern as the fallback).
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Travis Cobbs - 2022-08-12
(2022-08-12, 6:00)Travis Cobbs Wrote: That part could seriously benefit from a TEXMAP upgrade (leaving the existing pattern as the fallback).
I couldn't find either of my copies of this part, so I had to rely on a picture I found on the internet. I'm don't think I'm allowed to distribute my touched up texture version of that picture, but this is what I ended up with:
Here is the current geometry-based version of the part:
If anybody has a high-quality scan of the part, I can do the same treatment to it that I did to the picture I found on the internet (basically normalizing the "mostly black" bits to pure black and then converting the black and white to an alpha channel, then maybe playing with the levels). I can then submit the updated part to the parts tracker.
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Magnus Forsberg - 2022-08-12
(2022-08-12, 7:04)Travis Cobbs Wrote: I couldn't find either of my copies of this part, so I had to rely on a picture I found on the internet.
Don't have the part, so I can't help.
But it looks great, and would be a big improvement.
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Travis Cobbs - 2022-08-13
(2022-08-12, 9:19)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: Don't have the part, so I can't help.
But it looks great, and would be a big improvement.
I managed to track down my copy of this part. My scanner's not the greatest, but it does work. I see that the print is actually silver, which isn't supported by TEXMAP, so I guess I'll use white.
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Travis Cobbs - 2022-08-14
(2022-08-13, 1:55)Travis Cobbs Wrote: I managed to track down my copy of this part. My scanner's not the greatest, but it does work. I see that the print is actually silver, which isn't supported by TEXMAP, so I guess I'll use white.
I submitted a textured version to the part tracker:
https://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cgi?f=parts/2454aps5.dat
It should be noted that LDView will ignore this updated file if you store it in <LDraw>Unofficial/parts, because it by default prefers official parts to unofficial updates. I'm not 100% satisfied with how the texture came out, and I don't like the fact that there's no way to indicate that the texture should be metallic silver instead of white. But I think it is better than the geometric version with its hundreds of skinny triangles.
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Orion Pobursky - 2022-08-14
Could this be a use case for the, as yet unused, gloss map feature of the TEXMAP spec?
Also, IDK if the PT supports gloss map submission. Answer: yes
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Travis Cobbs - 2022-08-14
(2022-08-14, 2:49)Orion Pobursky Wrote: Could this be a use case for the, as yet unused, gloss map feature of the TEXMAP spec?
Also, IDK if the PT supports gloss map submission. Answer: yes
I had forgotten that GLOSSMAP had been approved. Yes, this would be a great use for that. Does LDCad support GLOSSMAP? (Because LDView doesn't, and I'd feel a lot more comfortable about adding one if I were able to test to make sure I do it properly.)
RE: Han Solo in Carbonite (Brick 1 x 2 x 5) - Orion Pobursky - 2022-08-14
Roland will have to speak to LDCad but I checked and Lasse's buildinginstructions.js WebGL package, which we use for the 3D view on the PT, does not.