Hi Guys,
Maybe I'm off in outer space on this compared to the rest of you, but....
It seems really fragile to have part substitution done by file naming conventions and not by a meta directive or something else that is "data driven" (meaning information about the availability of parts at differing resolutions is part of the part library download).
In other words, moving the stu2 parts to a folder solves this one problem once for now, but if any more res-specific parts are added, everyone's applications will need to be updated. :-(
What I was originally going to suggest (given that such a thing apparently does not exist) was a proposed meta data command that could point from the canonical mid-res part (e.g. stud.dat) to its high and low-res variants.
Thus programs could determine at load time from the currently library what resolution variants are available. If authors wanted to create additional versions of the parts, no software mods would be needed. LDraw viewers could write the code to detect variants once and then leave it alone.
cheers
Ben
Maybe I'm off in outer space on this compared to the rest of you, but....
It seems really fragile to have part substitution done by file naming conventions and not by a meta directive or something else that is "data driven" (meaning information about the availability of parts at differing resolutions is part of the part library download).
In other words, moving the stu2 parts to a folder solves this one problem once for now, but if any more res-specific parts are added, everyone's applications will need to be updated. :-(
What I was originally going to suggest (given that such a thing apparently does not exist) was a proposed meta data command that could point from the canonical mid-res part (e.g. stud.dat) to its high and low-res variants.
Thus programs could determine at load time from the currently library what resolution variants are available. If authors wanted to create additional versions of the parts, no software mods would be needed. LDraw viewers could write the code to detect variants once and then leave it alone.
cheers
Ben