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 Author: legomalego View Messages Posted By legomalego
 Posted: Nov 19, 2018 19:36
 Subject: Re: Parts Look-up tool
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In Suggestions, smlgraphics writes:
  So we all have want lists, right?

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to take a want list and instead of looking
for stores that have all the individual parts, do a search against "sets" or
multiples of sets that have all the parts on a want list.

Everything needed to make this tool already exists on Bricklink.
Parts want list - check
Sets, parts inventory - check (the part out tool)

This function could be added to the Buy section like the distillers to get from
the fewest stores, or best price etc - add sets to buy that have all the parts.

Then a shopper could shop for complete sets to buy from sellers or determine
that they already have the sets in their own collection to build the MOC they
are shopping for pieces for.

Example: I bought the instructions for the UCS U-wing project by Mirko (Awesome
MOC by the way and beautiful instruction book)
uploaded the parts list 430 different parts 3300 pieces total.
I would love to know if I could buy 4-5 sets to get all the parts I need to build
the UCS U-wing project and the extra pieces could go in my collection. Certainly
there would be a handful of random special pieces to buy separately but it would
be cool to have the option of buying a few complete sets to get the majority
of the parts.

Just a thought and the development cost would be minimal since the hard parts
(set part inventories & want lists) already exist.
 Author: smlgraphics View Messages Posted By smlgraphics
 Posted: Nov 19, 2018 16:00
 Subject: Parts Look-up tool
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smlgraphics (53)

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So we all have want lists, right?

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to take a want list and instead of looking
for stores that have all the individual parts, do a search against "sets" or
multiples of sets that have all the parts on a want list.

Everything needed to make this tool already exists on Bricklink.
Parts want list - check
Sets, parts inventory - check (the part out tool)

This function could be added to the Buy section like the distillers to get from
the fewest stores, or best price etc - add sets to buy that have all the parts.

Then a shopper could shop for complete sets to buy from sellers or determine
that they already have the sets in their own collection to build the MOC they
are shopping for pieces for.

Example: I bought the instructions for the UCS U-wing project by Mirko (Awesome
MOC by the way and beautiful instruction book)
uploaded the parts list 430 different parts 3300 pieces total.
I would love to know if I could buy 4-5 sets to get all the parts I need to build
the UCS U-wing project and the extra pieces could go in my collection. Certainly
there would be a handful of random special pieces to buy separately but it would
be cool to have the option of buying a few complete sets to get the majority
of the parts.

Just a thought and the development cost would be minimal since the hard parts
(set part inventories & want lists) already exist.
 Author: Tech_M View Messages Posted By Tech_M
 Posted: Nov 19, 2018 00:28
 Subject: Re: Stud.io 2.0 Rendering: Full Color Background
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I just found a work around but its still a pain....
 Author: Tech_M View Messages Posted By Tech_M
 Posted: Nov 18, 2018 22:50
 Subject: Re: Stud.io 2.0 Rendering: Full Color Background
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Tech_M (30)

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I just noticed that my profile picture is a good example of how Stud.io 2.0 renders
things using the floor option, disregarding how compressed it is. So, view that
for reference... .
 Author: Tech_M View Messages Posted By Tech_M
 Posted: Nov 18, 2018 22:47
 Subject: Stud.io 2.0 Rendering: Full Color Background
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Tech_M (30)

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I find it extremely irritating that the two options for the background while
rendering are: No background (renders as a png of only the MOC) and Floor (sets
the floor to a color, the background is black or white depending on light
type, has the bricks reflect the color of the floor as well) Why can't we
have an option that is like floor, but fills the entire background with the selected
color?

Yes, I understand that one could just lay the PNG from no background over a solid
color, HOWEVER, the thing about floor is that the reflected light color being
tinted towards the floor color is really nice, and makes the model seem to glow
the color of the floor.

Additionally, I find it annoying that while picking a color for the floor, there
is not a way to see what color the floor will actually end up looking like after
being lit unless you start rendering.

My suggestions are:
–Add an option for rendering that functions like floor, but fills the entire
background with selected color/
–Add option to see what color the floor/background will actually end up being
once lit, or add an option to lock the floor/background from changing color due
to lighting.

I think these are very much needed especially the first one, the renderer is
slightly dysfunctional without it in my opinion, and there isn't a way to
manually fix it perfectly. The best you can do is smart crop the color of background
out and then the entire image over a solid color that matches the floor. However
this doesn't work if the floor color or the model is too close to the color
black, and even then it really doesn't look that good.

I would very much appreciate it if these changes were made, and I think others
would as well.

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