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Thread: Instruction making rant
Post: RE: Instruction making rant
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Roland Melkert Wrote: (2020-06-02, 22:12)
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Inventing new metas might be fun, but these kinds of metas (begin end etc) are a nightmare to parse while reading LDraw content.
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This discussion may ... |
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Daniel R |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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N. W. Perry Wrote: (2020-05-31, 18:54)
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Same example using my envisioned syntax:
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0 !FLOAT [id=x] [color] [matrix] [file reference]
1 [file reference line-part or submodel]
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0 !FLOA... |
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Daniel R |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Merlijn Wissink Wrote: (2020-05-31, 13:17)
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If anyone has any good or better ideas, sure post them :)
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I have posted my suggested syntax in this topic. It is not ideal either as honestly is re... |
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Daniel R |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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| I like the idea with NEXT. But would you allow the parts in between the POS sections to be different (like different count or different references)? Because if so, what would you display in the PLI (a... |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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N. W. Perry Wrote: (2020-05-28, 16:37)
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But why would it have to be manual editing? There's nothing about this idea that says it has to be; I'm always assuming that editing programs would (continue... |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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N. W. Perry Wrote: (2020-05-28, 15:32)
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My first thought was to make n take the form (a,b,c…), where each member in the set refers to a higher containing model. So if you had a sub-submodel, you co... |
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Daniel R |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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N. W. Perry Wrote: (2020-05-27, 22:14)
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Assigning some kind of ID to each FLOAT command could be a way around that.
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Exactly. That is what I was aiming for with groups.
N. W. Perry Wrote: (20... |
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Daniel R |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Jaco van der Molen Wrote: (2020-05-27, 19:33)
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This can be done with REMOVE GROUP using MLCad Group meta.
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I know of that command and I did use it in my instruction (once again thank you for yo... |
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Daniel R |
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2020-05-27, 20:20 |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Daniel R |
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2020-05-27, 19:59 |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Roland Melkert Wrote: (2020-05-27, 17:41)
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I'm not sure if people would be that happy working on LDCad code as I like to do things the hard way
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Okay. Feel free to make a private Github repo if... |
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Daniel R |
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2020-05-27, 19:58 |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Johann Eisner Wrote: (2020-05-27, 16:32)
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Where all users sacrifice their free time and make everything free of charge.
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Certainly. I understand this and do not ask anyone to implement some cha... |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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N. W. Perry Wrote: (2020-05-27, 16:55)
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I actually took the presumption the "applies to more situations" would be objectionable rather than desirable
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That is correct. Nevertheless, there should... |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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N. W. Perry Wrote: (2020-05-27, 16:22)
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What would be a better way?
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I described my vision (which is similar yours) in the following message. I am not saying it is the way, but I think it is ea... |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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N. W. Perry Wrote: (2020-05-27, 3:14)
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For parts that need to hover for more than one step, you could either devise a BEGIN and END system, or just add a parameter [n] to the FLOAT line, telling it... |
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2020-05-27, 16:01 |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Jaco van der Molen Wrote: (2020-05-26, 7:58)
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IMHO I think you expect too much of the software. We could never make official LEGO like instructions, but can get very close.
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Perhaps I do expect... |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Jaco van der Molen Wrote: (2020-05-26, 17:24)
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Only recently I discovered the usage of other letters the A for a buffer (see my showcase model for the Telehandler)
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I think you are referring to... |
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Daniel R |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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N. W. Perry Wrote: (2020-05-26, 17:49)
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I have a specific use case in mind for buffer exchange, in fact, based on a recent convention in official building instructions. The habit these days is to s... |
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2020-05-27, 1:39 |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Jaco van der Molen Wrote: (2020-05-26, 7:58)
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To work with it and understand fully, please refer to one of the many tutorials that are out there, like mine: :blush:
https://sites.google.com/view/w... |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Johann Eisner Wrote: (2020-05-26, 6:40)
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I think the speed problem is more of a graphics card problem.
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I assumed it is not a graphics card problem, as the task is quite simple and it is clearl... |
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Thread: Instruction making rant
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Philippe Hurbain Wrote: (2020-05-24, 7:05)
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If I understand correctly what you want, you need to use ROTSTEP to change viewpoint of your current view. Note that ROTSTEP is to be placed at the END o... |
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