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Thread: Bricksmith and Allen Smith
Post: RE: Bricksmith and Allen Smith
| Hi everybody! I'm sorry it's been such a long time since I've been able to do anything with Bricksmith, and that I largely vanished. My story is a sadly common one in the LDraw community: when I start... |
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Allen Smith |
LDraw Editors and Viewers
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2018-11-29, 18:58 |
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Thread: Bricksmith 3.0: Oh so Flexible!
Post: Re: Bricksmith 3.0: Oh so Flexible!
| Don, I would appreciate write access to the LSynth repository. I'm not volunteering to be a "caretaker," but I definitely don't want to preside over a forked codebase. My Sourceforge user ID is 'light... |
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Allen Smith |
LDraw Editors and Viewers
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2014-04-15, 17:48 |
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Thread: Bricksmith 3.0: Oh so Flexible!
Post: Bricksmith 3.0: Oh so Flexible!
| http://bricksmith.sourceforge.net/images/icon32.png
Bricksmith 3.0 (http://bricksmith.sourceforge.net/) adds the following features:
LSynth integration with real-time, drag-and-drop constraint ed... |
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Allen Smith |
LDraw Editors and Viewers
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2014-04-08, 6:20 |
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Thread: [LSC Request] End of header meta command
Post: Re: Call for LSC Vote Re: [LSC Request] End of hea...
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Chris Dee Wrote:
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The fundemental mistake we made was to allow conventional "0 // ..." comments in the header to describe needs work actions
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I think the fundamental mistake was not scoping the... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2014-01-12, 0:55 |
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Thread: [LSC Request] End of header meta command
Post: Re: [LSC Request] End of header meta command
| No, it proves that making the statement optional doesn't fix the problem.
It's currently impossible to write an algorithm which BOTH reliably detects the header AND is future-proof with no addition... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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129,811 |
2014-01-07, 19:07 |
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Thread: OpengGL color / material properties
Post: Re: OpengGL color / material properties
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Ben Supnik Wrote:
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1. I don't think the slope bricks actually notate their angled side as smooth and the flat sides as rough. (Is there a tag or meta data I don't know about here?)
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No, there ... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-09-05, 17:03 |
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Thread: Aligning Categories to user expectations
Post: Re: Aligning Categories to user expectations
| Wow, this gives me an incredible warm fuzzy feeling! Thanks!
To the ones with outstanding questions, here are my humble opinions:
Duplo
I suspect most people don't build with Duplo. About the o... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-08-29, 23:09 |
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Thread: Aligning Categories to user expectations
Post: Re: Aligning Categories to user expectations
| From my (outdated) notes, I would make the minimum following suggestions:
Unofficial categories which should be added to the official list
Cockpit now in the official list
Duplo (personally recom... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-08-29, 16:58 |
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Thread: Aligning Categories to user expectations
Post: Re: Aligning Categories to user expectations
| Here are the unedited notes I made on 2012-03-20:
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Unofficial categories implicitly defined by the first word in the description (from parts lacking a !CATEGORY)
Axle // u9132c01 move t... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-08-28, 22:50 |
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Thread: Aligning Categories to user expectations
Post: Aligning Categories to user expectations
| Someone just posted the following to a local LUG mailing list I'm subscribed to (emphasis added):
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Thinking about it, I can remember what derailed my learning LDraw/Mcad/ et al... it was ... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-08-28, 21:34 |
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Thread: Parsable Meta-Data for High-detail vs. Low-detail parts and primitives
Post: Re: Parsable Meta-Data for High-detail vs. Low-det...
| Wow, I'm pleasantly surprised to see this suggestion. I never would have thought anyone else would go for it either.
XML parsers are widely available, which reduces implementation time. XML is also... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-08-22, 17:29 |
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Thread: Parsable Meta-Data for High-detail vs. Low-detail parts and primitives
Post: Re: Parsable Meta-Data for High-detail vs. Low-det...
| But now you have introduced order dependency and content limitations. Parsing syntax in this kind of format is an unnecessary headache, because it's inherently very fragile.
Most structured languag... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-08-21, 20:39 |
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Thread: Parsable Meta-Data for High-detail vs. Low-detail parts and primitives
Post: Re: Parsable Meta-Data for High-detail vs. Low-det...
| We need a configuration file in order to make this fully machine-readable, so that software authors don't need to update their software if new detail levels are defined.
At first I thought simple n... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-08-20, 16:26 |
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Thread: Should "Part Alias" files be listed in parts.lst
Post: Re: Should "Part Alias" files be listed in parts.l...
| I implemented alias detection using !LDRAW_ORG Part Alias.
That was correct, right? |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-08-05, 18:44 |
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Thread: Help with fitting?
Post: Re: Help with fitting?
| Unfortunately, there's no automatic detection of how one piece fits on another. So for a non-painful buiding experience, you need to build on the grid. If the first piece you placed wasn't aligned, no... |
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Allen Smith |
Help
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2013-05-17, 16:52 |
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Thread: Compatibility issue in MPD submodel file names between MLCad and Bricksmith
Post: Re: Compatibility issue in MPD submodel file names...
| The race to advocate correct behavior is a bit premature, considering Bricksmith already does what is being advocated. This file opens with no errors:
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0 FILE righttrack.ldr
0 Right track... |
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Allen Smith |
LDraw Editors and Viewers
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2013-04-29, 20:53 |
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Thread: Compatibility issue in MPD submodel file names between MLCad and Bricksmith
Post: Re: Compatibility issue in MPD submodel file names...
| Could you post the entire file which is causing problems? I can't reproduce this issue as described, and the MPD lookup code has been case-insensitive since Bricksmith 1.0 in 2005. |
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Allen Smith |
LDraw Editors and Viewers
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2013-04-29, 16:38 |
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Thread: Write on a brick in MLCad...
Post: Re: Write on a brick in MLCad...
| This is exactly what texture mapping (http://www.ldraw.org/documentation/ldraw-org-file-format-standards/language-extension-for-texture-mapping.html) is for.
Unfortunately MLCad, being minimally ma... |
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Allen Smith |
LDraw Editors and Viewers
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2013-04-18, 22:01 |
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Thread: Insert Related Database
Post: Re: Insert Related Database
| I also agree that an LDraw model is the best way to represent this information. The ease of editing is unparalleled. It's one less parser to write too. |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-04-18, 15:43 |
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Thread: Insert Related Database
Post: Re: Insert Related Database
| a) Removing "unnecessary zeroes" is not a meaningful optimization. This is not where the processing time is spent when opening a file. Also, filesize is essentially irrelevant. This is an aesthetic co... |
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Allen Smith |
Parts Authoring
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2013-04-15, 16:26 |
