(2018-11-30, 21:19)Orion Pobursky Wrote: The proposal for flexible part extension is now ready for discussion. I basically copy, pasted, and wiki formatted Roland's LDCad spec.
https://wiki.ldraw.org/wiki/Flexible_Par..._Extension
Here are some thoughts/notes for discussion:
- The wiki has a talk page for discussion. Please do not use that and have all discussions here.
- I removed the LDCAD prefix, should we add something else?
- I think we should officialize any unofficial donor parts Roland uses in LDCad
- I think we should require auto-generated fallback code. Thoughts?
Wow! Great work structuring it nicely like this. As for you point regarding fallback code, I completely agree. Other extensions, such as 'texmap' and 'buffer exchange', work nicely because of the fallbacks.
By the way. Would it be possible to include some visual examples directly in the page? It is always nice to have some test files to check with when you develop the viewers.
Examples would also have been nice to have in the 'texmap' specification, but luckily we have some good threads with examples.