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5-8cyls - Philippe Hurbain - 2024-11-06
For the arm with hand (109866), I have a need for a 5-8cyls primitive (attached). This one renders fine in LDView with primitive substitution. Opinions, objections? Other way to do that with existing prims?
This is directly related to this discussion:
https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-23917-post-36070.html#pid36070
RE: 5-8cyls - Gerald Lasser - 2024-11-06
I do not see an issue, I made 11-48clys for the new panel.
a standalone of this would be interesting. i.e. minus the 2-4cyls, how to cal it and how to define it
RE: 5-8cyls - Magnus Forsberg - 2024-11-06
(2024-11-06, 13:16)Philippe Hurbain Wrote: For the arm with hand (109866), I have a need for a 5-8cyls primitive (attached). This one renders fine in LDView with primitive substitution. Opinions, objections? Other way to do that with existing prims?
This is directly related to this discussion:
https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-23917-post-36070.html#pid36070
I don't like 5-8, since it is equal to a 2-4 + a 1-8, but in this case I see the benefits.
But a half slope, like the one discussed in that thread, is better.
We need a way of naming them.
RE: 5-8cyls - Philippe Hurbain - 2024-11-06
(2024-11-06, 15:47)Magnus Forsberg Wrote: I don't like 5-8, since it is equal to a 2-4 + a 1-8, but in this case I see the benefits.Not sure the half slope is a solution here. To be scalable it needs to eliminate the cylinder padding. But then this padding introduces a t-junction with neighbor 2-4cyls.
But a half slope, like the one discussed in that thread, is better.
We need a way of naming them.
For now I'll use the 5-8, if we find a better solution I'll change.