Custom LDD bricks and fixes

[Takanuinuva]

11 hours ago, BrokenEye said:

Yeah, there is one. It's easier to check because the update announcements are front and center, whereas on the thread they can sometimes get buried in other comments if you don't check often enough.

Yea I noticed I somehow missed the December update. Downloaded it and not sure what I did wrong but now all minifigure decorations are messed up. (Seems the June Update fixes it but like you said it might be bugged since it didn't fix it for me nor did I get the new parts)

[BrokenEye]

2 hours ago, Takanuinuva said:

Yea I noticed I somehow missed the December update. Downloaded it and not sure what I did wrong but now all minifigure decorations are messed up. (Seems the June Update fixes it but like you said it might be bugged since it didn't fix it for me nor did I get the new parts)

They changed the format so that a single image can be used to decorate all sides of a piece, but they haven't updated all the decorations to match yet. Or at least, they hadn't updated them yet in that particular update. The June update might've finally done it.

[Zerobricks]

What happened to the new parts thread?

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/applications/core/interface/file/index.php?file=/index.php?/forums/topic/177795-ldd-new-parts/

[Takanuinuva]

1 hour ago, Zerobricks said:

What happened to the new parts thread?

https://www.eurobricks.com/forum/applications/core/interface/file/index.php?file=/index.php?/forums/topic/177795-ldd-new-parts/

It's still there. It's just that particular link is broken

 

[BrokenEye]

On 6/14/2025 at 8:41 AM, Takanuinuva said:

It's still there. It's just that particular link is broken

 

Hmm... looks like the latest update isn't on there yet. Wonder what's going on.

[DraikNova]

Perhaps a question that's already been answered a few times already, but is it normal that the various new materials/colors do show up in the color chart .lxf, allowing them to be color-picked, but don't appear in the paint tool's menu?

If this isn't normal, where should I start looking for what's going wrong?

EDIT: Bluerender also doesn't like rendering the new colors if I try and render the color chart, it seems.

EDIT2: Ah, this was already addressed by someone else: the key is to delete the original LDDExtended.lif, which usually overrides the custom one.

EDIT3: Bluerender still doesn't quite like the new colors, though (throws a null pointer exception when it tries to start rendering). Seems to be the opalescent materials that it has trouble with, solid colors render fine. If anyone knows a fix for that, I'd appreciate it.

EDIT4: Okay, so turns out the fix for that is editing your bublible_materials.sc, using your Materials.xml as a reference.

 

Edited Sunday at 06:20 PM by DraikNova

[BrokenEye]

I have a question about the new parts packs. Are these separated from the main update because, like the sticker packs, they're likely to cause conflicts with parts added in future normal updates?

[Takanuinuva]

So I DM'd Stephen regarding the June 11th update and why there aren't any new parts this is what they replied

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Hello! That's correct. This is merely a preview. The actual update will be released on July 27th. The early access is for Tiered Patreon members only. 'Official' release will be July 27th. That's why you're not seeing new parts and adjusted decorations.

Understandable but a bit odd considering the 11th update has download links. If it was early access there shouldn't  be any download links?

[PicnicBasketSam]

17 hours ago, BrokenEye said:

I have a question about the new parts packs. Are these separated from the main update because, like the sticker packs, they're likely to cause conflicts with parts added in future normal updates?

It looks to me like all these parts and decorations are included in the forthcoming main update as well and it's another form of early access.

[BrokenEye]

On 6/27/2025 at 12:02 PM, Takanuinuva said:

So I DM'd Stephen regarding the June 11th update and why there aren't any new parts this is what they replied

Understandable but a bit odd considering the 11th update has download links. If it was early access there shouldn't  be any download links?

Wow, that's like six and a half weeks. That's much longer than I was assuming the early access period was, but I'm glad to hear that everything's on track and it was just a breakdown in communication.

Personally, I would've mentioned the release date (and the fact that it was in the future) in the announcement itself. 'Cause just writing "not available" on an actual working and entirely available download link which is labeled as if it were indeed the update mentioned in the post, but is actually just a duplicate of the previous update is super confusing.

(To clarify: I'm much more happy and relieved than I am frustrated. The thing I'm frustrated about is just made out of more words).

Edited July 1 by BrokenEye