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Thread: 2026/2027 LDraw.org Steering Committee Voting Now Open
Post: RE: 2026/2027 LDraw.org Steering Committee Voting ...
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Orion Pobursky Wrote: (2026-03-04, 14:45)
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Error fixed. You should be able to vote now.
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Success, apparently. At first it brought up a blank, black pop-up window and wasn't clear if my vote wa... |
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N. W. Perry |
LDraw.org Announcements
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Thread: 2026/2027 LDraw.org Steering Committee Voting Now Open
Post: RE: 2026/2027 LDraw.org Steering Committee Voting ...
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Orion Pobursky Wrote: (2026-03-04, 1:20)
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If you have any issues with voting, please reply to this thread or send me a PM for assistance.
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I get a 500 server error. |
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N. W. Perry |
LDraw.org Announcements
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Thread: v 1.7 beta 2a snapping feature
Post: RE: v 1.7 beta 2a snapping feature
| You may just need to reconfigure the shadow library in search path settings.
Simplest fix might just be to copy main.cfg from your previous installation into the new one. |
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N. W. Perry |
LDraw Editors and Viewers
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Roland Melkert Wrote: (2026-02-28, 21:04)
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As for reusing the pattern there are no real limitations. Although there are some things that will make it harder to implement.
Like using color16 ins... |
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N. W. Perry |
Official File Specifications/Standards
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
| As a first test result I'd say it's already quite promising. I'd be curious to see the difference from a cylindrical projection (I assume the result is no different than the current method).
On the... |
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N. W. Perry |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Magnus Forsberg Wrote: (2026-02-28, 13:28)
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Doesn't work for me. What am I missing?
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Roland's special test build of LDCad. ;)
What you should be able to see are the unpatterned head (which s... |
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N. W. Perry |
Official File Specifications/Standards
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Thread: Friends 2026
Post: RE: 42691 - Garden Restaurant
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Philippe Hurbain Wrote: (2026-02-24, 19:38)
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Note on the renders: Studio2 doesn't yet support warm pink color, and renders it in black!!! I used plain pink instead, but didn't change the color for ... |
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N. W. Perry |
Official Models
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2026-02-25, 4:43 |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Max Murtazin Wrote: (2026-02-19, 16:51)
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In short, when you use anything non-raster as a texture, you gotta rasterize it at some step, and that step would most likely be before supplying it to the ... |
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N. W. Perry |
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2026-02-20, 5:07 |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Travis Cobbs Wrote: (2026-02-18, 17:17)
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It could be me, but I think that you are overly optimistic about what this is going to look like at runtime. To me, it's just going to be a texture in a dif... |
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N. W. Perry |
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2026-02-18, 17:57 |
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Thread: Help unscaling a whole LDRAW technic model
Post: RE: Help unscaling a whole LDRAW technic model
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SNIPE Wrote: (2026-02-18, 14:45)
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Resetting the matrix for every new part I add is a bit tedious, is there a better way?
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You should only have to do it once (you might have to select the part a... |
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N. W. Perry |
Help Wanted
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Thread: Help unscaling a whole LDRAW technic model
Post: RE: Help unscaling a whole LDRAW technic model
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SNIPE Wrote: (2026-02-17, 22:42)
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This worked, but when I then dragged the subfile into a new ldcad project, any part I drag in is also now up-scaled instead of being at the normal scale.
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They... |
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N. W. Perry |
Help Wanted
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Thread: Holographic Materials
Post: RE: Holographic Materials
| It just occurred to me, for holographic effects, could you simulate something similar to lenticular printing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_printing) using tiny prism shapes with patterned ... |
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N. W. Perry |
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2026-02-17, 2:48 |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Roland Melkert Wrote: (2026-02-14, 20:02)
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The projection the texture meta mentions is about how to map the image to the target polygons.
The projection I mentioned is about how the LDRaw geometr... |
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N. W. Perry |
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2026-02-15, 5:23 |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Roland Melkert Wrote: (2026-02-12, 21:07)
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Been thinking about implementing a proof of concept in a special build of LDCad.
Needed:
- Projection (probably best to let the spec define a static o... |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Travis Cobbs Wrote: (2026-02-13, 0:15)
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So, I want to step back. Is this functionality really something that part authors will use, and is it useful enough to justify implementation?
I'm pretty ... |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Magnus Forsberg Wrote: (2026-02-11, 16:40)
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Am I understanding you all correct?
The same ldraw code, the pattern, gets embedded into an png-image that can be projected onto a perfect, unbroken su... |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Roland Melkert Wrote: (2026-02-11, 15:50)
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No it is only for embedding png's inside a mpd on the user side.
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!DATA does that—my idea was that !CODE would do the same for non-binary data. It was... |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Roland Melkert Wrote: (2026-02-11, 7:55)
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I don't see the need to make any kind of special type of subfile, any ldraw file could be rendered into a texture.
The spec needs only to dictate the pr... |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Roland Melkert Wrote: (2026-02-10, 22:25)
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I would suggest to only allow this inside a "LDraw Texture" subfile.
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This reminds me to ask, how would the LDraw texture code be provided?
As a norma... |
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Thread: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specification
Post: RE: Discussion - proposal to extend !TEXMAP specif...
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Max Murtazin Wrote: (2026-02-09, 13:56)
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Reason for banning overlapping geometry is very much practical, as it leads to a lot of trouble when rendering it, such as z-fighting
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Probably this wou... |
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