Tools capable of editing Datsville?

[Michael Horvath]

I need another 3D editor besides MLCAD that is capable of editing Datsville. I usually use MLCAD but I need to switch to an overhead angled view since the terrain I created for the town is getting in the way of the frontal and side views which is making things difficult. Any suggestions? I've never tried anything beyond LEdit and MLCAD.

[Roland Melkert]

My LDCad can.

www.melkert.net/LDCad

It's crazy to edit the whole city at top level though, but LDCad lets you switch between submodels very easily.

I'm planning to release a new version tonight, so you might want to wait on that.

[Michael Horvath]

Mainly I will be editing each section separately (I divided Datsville into blocks), but the need to edit the whole thing might arise.

Mike

[Roland Melkert]

I made a screen capture of my test session (the new version fixes a couple of bugs I discovered while playing with Datsville)

http://youtu.be/_0LwRL-kfnA

Speed is somewhat slow (also the capture software is running) but it's somewhat useable.

[Michael Horvath]

That seems to be about as fast as LDView which is fine.

Does your program benefit any from using Tore Eriksson's "boxed" parts?

http://home.swipnet.se/simlego/ldraw/ldb...dboxer.htm

The boxes greatly speed up performance in MLCAD, but not so much in LDView. (In fact I think they're detrimental to performance in LDView.)


Mike

[Roland Melkert]

It will use the box version files, but they will not show in the part bin unless you add them to the search paths using like a unofficial library.

Speed wise results may vary because with a model of this size cpu stuff is becoming a bottle neck.