What are primitives?
Primitives: Time Worn, Simplistic and Very Collectible: Primitives are items that convey a more simplistic lifestyle and a time gone by. With warm and muted colors and natural distressed wear, each piece has a story to tell. The primitive piece may have represented a well used item or toy in someone’s life that lived many years ago. Some primitives are just hand carved wood objects that serve no purpose other than as a novelty. Your interest in Primitives may have begun from simply stepping into a shop or antique mall and finding a old, time worn piece that caught your eye and started an interest in items from the past. Many people these days decorate their entire homes to recapture that time-worn, comfortable look that reflects a simpler time. The great thing about collecting Primitives is that perfection is not required, unlike many other types of antiques. In fact, the less perfect the piece the better. You may find yourself drawn to pieces with more distress lines and character, th
Short answer: please see the Primitives Reference. What are ‘subparts’? Generally, subparts are LDraw files created for repeating structures in parts. For example, if you create a Tile 2×2 with a new top pattern you can use the corresponding subpart, S\2068S01.DAT (it doesn’t have a top face). So you only have to create the top face by yourself and then reference to the subpart for the rest of the part. This saves a lot of time and space. There is a second reason for creating subparts: If your part uses dithered colors (color codes above 256) (e.g. in patterns), you have to transfer these colored areas to a subpart file. Inside the subpart files, use the normal base color 16. In your main part file, reference the subpart using the desired color.
