5-8cyls

[Philippe Hurbain]

For the arm with hand (109866), I have a need for a 5-8cyls primitive (attached). This one renders fine in LDView with primitive substitution. Opinions, objections? Other way to do that with existing prims? 
This is directly related to this discussion:
https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-23917-po...l#pid36070

[Gerald Lasser]

I do not see an issue, I made 11-48clys for the new panel.

a standalone of this would be interesting. i.e. minus the 2-4cyls, how to cal it and how to define it

[Magnus Forsberg]

For the arm with hand (109866), I have a need for a 5-8cyls primitive (attached). This one renders fine in LDView with primitive substitution. Opinions, objections? Other way to do that with existing prims? 
This is directly related to this discussion:
https://forums.ldraw.org/thread-23917-po...l#pid36070

I don't like 5-8, since it is equal to a 2-4 + a 1-8, but in this case I see the benefits.
But a half slope, like the one discussed in that thread, is better.

We need a way of naming them.

[Philippe Hurbain]

I don't like 5-8, since it is equal to a 2-4 + a 1-8, but in this case I see the benefits.
But a half slope, like the one discussed in that thread, is better.

We need a way of naming them.

Not sure the half slope is a solution here. To be scalable it needs to eliminate the cylinder padding. But then this padding introduces a t-junction with neighbor 2-4cyls.
For now I'll use the 5-8, if we find a better solution I'll change.