(Yesterday, 7:02)tom alphin Wrote: In all seriousness, couldn't the LDraw project automate that process and add thousands of (provisional) parts to the database overnight? It's really remarkable that The LEGO Group is giving us the meshes for almost every new part!
Automating that process could benefit the LDraw community greatly, allowing the LDraw community to use it's limited resources to focus on fixing bugs and creating 3d models for vintage parts. It might require evolving the 'good enough' criteria for inclusion in the parts database, or introducing a middle tier of 'provisional' parts that are 'unofficial' but installed automatically as part of app installer, or by making it easier to download unofficial/provisional parts within the LDview tool or even as part of the installer.
It's likely this has been discussed in the past, but maybe with a track record of TLG giving us good quality meshes we should rethink the strategy going forward?
---Tom
I am not a part author officially but a big part of authoring parts is making them fit into the system of Ldraw. Like are there similat parts? How are they rotated? How are the scaled? Does this connect well with others? Some of that can be automated but most of it cannot be. Plus there are sub files and areas made for decals and other decor that have to be manually split from the mains files and organized.
Most of the "easy" parts have been done just leaving the heavy parts new and old.