http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn Random thoughts, tips & tricks about Slackware-Linux, Lego and Star Wars Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:02:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2011/07/slackware-packages-for-lego-parts-updated/ http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/2011/07/slackware-packages-for-lego-parts-updated/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:57:56 +0000 Niels Horn http://underpop.online.fr/n/nielshorn/?p=1074 The official collection of Lego parts from was updated this week.

This collection of “virtual” pieces is used by programs as LDView, ldglite and l3p.
The program uses its own “pieces” library, but is usually updated right after the LDraw parts library.

I updated the scripts for both packages and submitted the results to SlackBuilds.org, where they are waiting for approval.
In the mean time, you can get the script or the pre-built packages from .

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released its second update for 2010 of the pieces library this month. As always, a short time afterwards the updated pieces library for was also released.

New LeoCAD version

A new version of LeoCAD (0.75.1) was also released, fixing the Minifig wizard that was broken in the previous Linux versions. With it, you can easily create minifigs using all possible combinations of arms, tools, etc. and insert the result in your model.

Here are some examples of what you can do with it:

Darth Vader

Creating the Darth Vader minifig in the wizard

And after using to create a nice image:

An impressive figure...

Han Solo

With a screwdriver, always fixing the Millenium Falcon...

And with some basic ray-tracing:

Judging from his smile, he fixed it again ;)

Downloading

The SlackBuilds have been submitted and are in the pending queue at .
Pre-built packages can be found on my …

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As always, shortly after this release, the pieces library was also updated, to version 3506.

Both packages can be downloaded from my .

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