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Neat! That’s a LOT of themes… Can the descriptions be visible when viewing others’ profiles? Some of them seem like duplicates or there’s some nuance between a couple (like Displaying vs Public Displays).
It did expose also another dark-mode bug, in the Badges tab of your own profile (viewing yourself, not a particular person) when looking at the list of additional badges you can add.
Welcome, Steve! You’re in luck, our big annual party-meeting is this coming Saturday! Check out the thread for details: https://steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/q3-business-meeting-aug-29-bethel-park/#post-70839
Both snapping features are working fine for me in Firefox, but it used to work fine in Chrome too. (but there’s other issues that could confound snap attempts)
The issue with the extra space on DSR seems to actually be that the label is considered part of the footprint (see screenshot), so any rotation other than the default has some extra padding on an edge and the system won’t let you put stuff in the same layer on top of each other (it seems to send it back to wherever the last valid placement was).
Feedback on the rotation: I wish the “hold shift to rotate in increments with the handle” feature was documented someplace (but I just now noticed the “selected object(s)” controls in the Tools pane).
I wish we could add snap handles to the baseplates so all the LUG track could be snapped together (or that we could move the custom track plates to the Track layer, if that would be easier than snap-points being possible on all MOCs).
There’s “Coffee, Etc” right in Castle Shannon, and Emiliano’s (Mexican food) near the Sheetz on Library Road.
I know of no golfers.
This meeting: https://steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/q3-business-meeting-aug-29-bethel-park/#post-70220 !
We hold a business meeting (and general social gathering) each quarter of the year in various locations around the city. This year, Q1 was at Bricks and Minifigs in Zelienople, Q2 was at the library in Penn Hills, and I thi8nk Q4 will be at BAM in Allison Park, but Q3 is special. Q3 is the quarter of the year when the LUG was founded, so we have an extra big event including food (part potluck, part pooled-funds catering) and a whole bunch of activities. It’s nearly always held at “HQ”, which is Josh Hall’s house, and we’ve recently been using a nearby church hall as well to have more space.
This will somehow be the first year I can manage to attend, so I’m really looking forward to it. Hope to see you there!
The other upcoming local event we have confirmed right now is our annual spot at the Fayette County Fair, this year on August 1. We’ll be in the 4H building from 10 to 6 or so, and you’re welcome to show up whenever. If you want to bring stuff to show off to us and the public, feel free, but no pressure! More details are on the thread: https://steelcitylug.com/forum/topic/fayette-county-fair-2026/#post-68979
Other than those, there’s a variety of conventions happening (or already happened) this summer from as close as Erie to as far as Chicago, Texas, and the other side of DC if that sort of thing sounds interesting to you. Keep an eye on the forums and/or chat on Discord (link at the bottom of the homepage if you aren’t already there) and you’ll see the conversations happening. We promise we’re friendly! 😀
9/10, not enough “neutrons hitting the image sensor” flares in the footage 😁
Welcome!
Welcome!
Welcome! We have a couple public events happening this summer, including the Fayette County Fair in early August, but we also have our annual big-party club meeting near the end of August. And now that you’re here, they’re YOUR events too!
I don’t know anything about those specific apartments, but a general warning to never rent from Lobos and to be wary of Walnut Capital/WalCap, they’re generally known in Pittsburgh as being not-so-great landlords (downright terrible in Lobos’ case).
Yeah, we’ll have 9V and RC track loops and you’re welcome to drop by for a while to hang out! If you want to bring some trains just stick them in a box or bag to carry. We’ll have the details of how to get into the show as a vendor posted on the event thread sometime after setup, to avoid making things confusing for setup itself.
Feature request: “print table layout” button, as it’s easier than deselecting all the non-table layers, printing the layout, and reselecting the layers again.
Minor dark-theme issue: some forum stuff like profile pages and part of the Link functionality in new topics/replies uses a light text on a light background (or dark on dark in a couple places), making it very hard to read.
Welcome!
Josh already mentioned the Q1 meeting that’s TOMORROW, but we also have one of our biggest shows of the year happening next week. We’ll have a big display for the Pittsburgh Home and Garden Show at David L Lawrence Convention Center downtown (excuse me, DAHNTAHN) March 6th thru 15th, come hang out!
That is part #3743: Technic, Gear Rack 1×4
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huh, well the legend will load the actual MOC name, but only as long as you’re looking at that person’s inventory.
Additional quirk of just-in-time loading of content: only a MOC’s shortcode is visible in the legend until you’ve loaded that user’s inventory during that page session.
For trains the size of ours, I’m not sure we’re the expensive one, especially once you add electronic controls and light/sound and learn from experience that it takes some electrical engineering to reliably power a layout bigger than a simple circle.
Something’s funky with the “recent replies” box, all the relative timestamps are 5 hours off from reality, which is suspiciously equal to Pittsburgh’s UTC offset. See attached.
And while trying to repro, I force-refreshed the page and got the old set of new-table options? O_o
It’s specifically when picking what kind of baseplate to place (LUG, member, generic). When “LUG” is selected, everything looks great, but when either of the other options are selected, the issue shows up, and switching back to “LUG” fixes it.
The new pictures on the track pieces are great! But hilariously, they only display when the Baseplates layer has “LUG” selected and the basic color blocks are shown if “Members” or “Standard baseplates” is selected, and switching to another layer like Tables leaves them displaying however they were while on the Baseplates layer.
Looks great, can’t wait to see the next addition!
And duplicating groups of 4 track baseplates just says “blocked” now, maybe the fix for this can be combined with the “new object” rework?
I think I’d prefer the new object being placed at the center of my viewport and displayed on top of everything else (feature request for the future: “move forward/backward” and “send to front/back” buttons, like how elements in a powerpoint slide work).
Duplicating a layout doesn’t work, I get a 404 error 🙁
Zooming still works weirdly, seems like it tries to maintain the viewport’s position relative to “home” at all zoom levels, which gets difficult to use once you’re more than a few tables away. I’d prefer it maintain position relative to the current center of the viewport, or even relative to wherever the mouse pointer is at the moment of the zoom (though that’s probably harder to do).
Minor bug: measurement annotations with an inches amount of zero display ” instead of ‘ (e.g. 60ft0in displays as
60"instead of60', but 60ft1in is60' 1").And I know there’s an order to which layer is on top of which, but would rearranging the controls something like the attachment make it clearer for folks less used to layers?
