> Not piece names, color names. > Sorry, bad understanding. I have much less concern for changing color names... especially if both are available.
Philo > With ldconfig.ldr support, you could have any names you liked -- it will > all > still use LDRAW numberings (there's no way I'm going to convince anyone to > get away from that), you could swap out the ldconfig.ldr I'd like to > supply with > the "official" one on LDRAW.org, and have all their names for your LeoCAD > implementation, even. > > What I was suggesting was that LeoCAD support both official naming for > colors, as well as LDRAW naming for those who wanted to turn that on, and > was asking for feedback on making official naming the default mode. > ldconfig.ldr > support puts total control of the naming and color values ultimately in > the hands > of end-users; I was talking about having LeoCAD go the "step further" > and allow > a switch between naming systems within the software with no extra work. > > What I'm advocating is a Good Thing. It's standards-compliant, and > end-user-friendly to the extreme. > > As someone who has been generating his own element images for quite a long > time now, I have to say; switching to official color values has a huge > impact on > the realism factor when viewing one's LEGO work (CAD-wise, the realism jump > from using POVray is another topic). My original intent was simply > to work with Leo to get the right RGB values into LeoCAD, but then people > have been asking for "more" colors (I wouldn't mind seeing this myself), > and my > mind started to go wild: one could set LeoCAD to not show discontinued > colors, > or only "permanent status" colors, or even only the colors that go with > a certain > product-line area (such as: don't show me DUPLO-only colorings). That last > part I don't readily have the data for (yet), but I do have all the > other info readily > available to work from. > > -- joshua > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Leocad mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.gerf.org/listinfo/leocad _______________________________________________ Leocad mailing list [email protected] https://list.gerf.org/listinfo/leocad
