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I have develped a program that can generate Minifigure torsos based on a BMP
of the torso. I have posted to of my torsos in the lugnet.cad.dat.parts, I
will appreciate feedbak. I also was wondering what do i have to do to submit
these part to the L-CAD official release of parts. I have made the old police
torso, firemen, space, Octan and i am working on the X-Wing driver torso.
Regards
Noel
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On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 01:27:08 GMT, "Noel E. Serrano" <nserrano@caribe.net>
wrote:
> I have develped a program that can generate Minifigure torsos based on a BMP
> of the torso. I have posted to of my torsos in the lugnet.cad.dat.parts, I
> will appreciate feedbak. I also was wondering what do i have to do to submit
> these part to the L-CAD official release of parts. I have made the old police
> torso, firemen, space, Octan and i am working on the X-Wing driver torso.
Your torsos look pretty good, for rasterized decorations.
There has been a lot of discussion about raster parts vs. primitive-based
parts. Do a search in <http://www.lugnet.com/cad/> for BMP2DAT to see some
of the previous posts.
Steve
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 01:27:08 GMT, "Noel E. Serrano" <nserrano@caribe.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I have develped a program that can generate Minifigure torsos based on a BMP
> > of the torso. I have posted to of my torsos in the lugnet.cad.dat.parts, I
> > will appreciate feedbak. I also was wondering what do i have to do to submit
> > these part to the L-CAD official release of parts. I have made the old police
> > torso, firemen, space, Octan and i am working on the X-Wing driver torso.
>
> Your torsos look pretty good, for rasterized decorations.
>
> There has been a lot of discussion about raster parts vs. primitive-based
> parts. Do a search in <http://www.lugnet.com/cad/> for BMP2DAT to see some
> of the previous posts.
>
> Steve
Actually i am not creating my torsos Pixel by pixel. I created a program that
would draw horizontal lines of increments of .1 ldraw units of the same color.
That way files are smaller.
Noel
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Wow! I had no idea my extremely mocked-up program is still being discussed.
/Tore
Steve Bliss wrote:
> There has been a lot of discussion about raster parts vs. primitive-based
> parts. Do a search in <http://www.lugnet.com/cad/> for BMP2DAT to see some
> of the previous posts.
>
> Steve
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Sometimes, it pays to be first. ;)
Steve
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999 22:11:09 GMT, Tore Eriksson
<tore.eriksson@mbox325.swipnet.se> wrote:
> Wow! I had no idea my extremely mocked-up program is still being discussed.
>
> /Tore
>
>
> Steve Bliss wrote:
>
> > There has been a lot of discussion about raster parts vs. primitive-based
> > parts. Do a search in <http://www.lugnet.com/cad/> for BMP2DAT to see some
> > of the previous posts.
> >
> > Steve
>
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Do you mean the mechanic in the X-wing set? The X-wing pilot torso has been
done.
General feedback on your torsos:
I agree with Steve that these are pretty good for patterns based on scans.
They do come out quite large (the police torso would be the 4th largest part
file). But since we do have a huge backlog of torso patterns to be done, I
guess I'd rather have these scan-based patterns than none.
One suggestion would be to manually combine some of the lines that are the
same color, esp. where a large area is the same color. Besides reducing the
size of your files, this will also reduce little "holes" that sometimes appear
between your rows do to rendering error.
-John Van
Noel E. Serrano <nserrano@caribe.net> wrote in message
news:FJMEp8.51H@lugnet.com...
> I have develped a program that can generate Minifigure torsos based on a BMP
> of the torso. I have posted to of my torsos in the lugnet.cad.dat.parts, I
> will appreciate feedbak. I also was wondering what do i have to do to submit
> these part to the L-CAD official release of parts. I have made the old • police
> torso, firemen, space, Octan and i am working on the X-Wing driver torso.
> Regards
> Noel
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Noel E. Serrano writes:
> I have develped a program that can generate Minifigure torsos based on a BMP
> of the torso. I have posted to of my torsos in the lugnet.cad.dat.parts, I
> will appreciate feedbak. I also was wondering what do i have to do to submit
> these part to the L-CAD official release of parts. I have made the old police
> torso, firemen, space, Octan and i am working on the X-Wing driver torso.
> Regards
> Noel
This looks a pretty good way of doing the more complex torsos quickly (I assume
it is quicker than the manual method), although I have got pretty quick at
doing primitive-based versions, once I have drawn them up on graph paper. I
have definitely avoided the more recent space patterns: UFO, Insectoids, etc as
having too much fine detail to do easily in primitives - so this might be a
good test of your program. However, I do see a lot of horizontal "scan lines"
when viewing your torsos obliquely at x6 in LDLite, and some "noise" around the
smaller parts of the pattern, so I still think primitive-based versions will
give the best quality, overall ..... but they take time to generate.
Just a note that a primitive-based version of the fireman pattern is already in
the current voting
(http://www.ldraw.org/memorial/archive/voting/vote9906.html), so if you are
planning on doing others please make use of the parts tracker
(http://www3.hmc.edu/~zbenz/parttracker/partlist.shtml), or at least let me
know as I have quite a few already drawn out ready to code up.
Also with a little work on your code to remove the trailing decimal zeroes, you
should get a reduction in file size (eg. "0.00" can be reduced to "0" saving 3
bytes).
Voting submission procedure is in the LDraw FAQ
(http://www.ldraw.org/faq/#question-24).
Keep up the good work and long live LDraw,
Chris Dee
(chris_w_dee@hotmail.com)
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Hi ,
at 17.10.99 Chris Dee wrote in a mail:
CD> tracker (http://www3.hmc.edu/~zbenz/parttracker/partlist.shtml), or
CD> at least let me know as I have quite a few already drawn out ready
CD> to code up.
I did a few torsos, too. The old doctor, doctor with stetoscope and
castle pattern with crossed pikes. They all have run through
lugnet.cad.dat.parts.
I tried two times to get a password to enter the parts to the
partstracker, but no answer at all ... :-(
CD> Keep up the good work and long live LDraw,
CD> Chris Dee (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com)
Bye,
Joachim.
http://shadow-corner.ows.es/ldraw/
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Joachim Probst wrote:
>
> I did a few torsos, too. The old doctor, doctor with stetoscope and
> castle pattern with crossed pikes. They all have run through
> lugnet.cad.dat.parts.
>
> I tried two times to get a password to enter the parts to the
> partstracker, but no answer at all ... :-(
If I'm not wrong, the password is modeling.
Leonardo
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Joachim Probst wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> at 17.10.99 Chris Dee wrote in a mail:
>
> CD> tracker (http://www3.hmc.edu/~zbenz/parttracker/partlist.shtml), or
> CD> at least let me know as I have quite a few already drawn out ready
> CD> to code up.
>
> I did a few torsos, too. The old doctor, doctor with stetoscope and
> castle pattern with crossed pikes. They all have run through
> lugnet.cad.dat.parts.
>
> I tried two times to get a password to enter the parts to the
> partstracker, but no answer at all ... :-(
>
> CD> Keep up the good work and long live LDraw,
> CD> Chris Dee (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com)
>
> Bye,
> Joachim.
>
> http://shadow-corner.ows.es/ldraw/
The password is modelling (mabie that should be in the faq?
--
Jonathan Wilson
wilsonj@xoommail.com
http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
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Hi ,
at 19.10.99 Jonathan Wilson wrote in a mail:
JW> The password is modelling (mabie that should be in the faq?
Maybe. There I had realy not been looking for a password, my fault.
JW> -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com
JW> http://members.xoom.com/wilsonj/
Bye,
Joachim.
http://shadow-corner.ows.es/ldraw/
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Chris:
Thanks for the info. During this week if i have time i should be working
with the Xwing mechanic torso and a few others from older sets. I would soon
post all the models on a web page so ppl can d/l them. What do i have to do to
submit parts to be included in lCAD ??? I have done the 6384 police chief, old
space sets torso , octan.
Noel
> This looks a pretty good way of doing the more complex torsos quickly (I • assume
> it is quicker than the manual method), although I have got pretty quick at
> doing primitive-based versions, once I have drawn them up on graph paper. I
> have definitely avoided the more recent space patterns: UFO, Insectoids, etc • as
> having too much fine detail to do easily in primitives - so this might be a
> good test of your program. However, I do see a lot of horizontal "scan lines"
> when viewing your torsos obliquely at x6 in LDLite, and some "noise" around • the
> smaller parts of the pattern, so I still think primitive-based versions will
> give the best quality, overall ..... but they take time to generate.
>
> Just a note that a primitive-based version of the fireman pattern is already • in
> the current voting
> (http://www.ldraw.org/memorial/archive/voting/vote9906.html), so if you are
> planning on doing others please make use of the parts tracker
> (http://www3.hmc.edu/~zbenz/parttracker/partlist.shtml), or at least let me
> know as I have quite a few already drawn out ready to code up.
>
> Also with a little work on your code to remove the trailing decimal zeroes, • you
> should get a reduction in file size (eg. "0.00" can be reduced to "0" saving 3
> bytes).
>
> Voting submission procedure is in the LDraw FAQ
> (http://www.ldraw.org/faq/#question-24).
>
> Keep up the good work and long live LDraw,
>
> Chris Dee
> (chris_w_dee@hotmail.com)
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