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  Re: WIP: Steam Locomotive (still a newbie after all these years)  
From: Mike Williams
Date: 30 Sep 2006 00:49:10
Message: <WYdmJGAUWfHFFwlI@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it gonzo who wrote:
>"Randy" <han### [at] sbcglobalnet> wrote:
>
>> Looking forward, I made the rails out of a prism, but can't figure out how
>> to get them to work for a curved section of track.  Any ideas?
>
>
>Same way as real rails on a real track... shorter straight sections end to
>end at a slight angle.
>
>Somewhere I have a macro I wrote to make curved track from straight rails,
>but that was a hard drive failure ago... I'll have to scrounge around some
>old disks to find a copy.

"bend.inc" from Chris Colefax (written back in 1997) should do the job.

http://www.geocities.com/ccolefax/bend.html

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure


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