LDD has non-functional decorations...?

[jamesster]

While reworking some texture loading stuff in my converter recently, I noticed some decorations included in LDD that LDD doesn't actually seem to load successfully... They're selectable in the decal application tool, but since they don't visually appear, it looks like you're just selecting a blank/unprinted option.

It seems the difference is they're saved as greyscale + alpha (2 channel) PNGs... Most decoration textures in LDD are RGBA (4 channels), and one is RGB (3 channels), which load fine.

The question is, does this happen for everyone, on every system? I've had a few folks I know check it out, and they've gotten the same results as me, but I think we've all been on Windows... Does anyone have any luck with this? Or is LDD's texture loading just broken for everybody?

Here's what the decals should look like, if they worked out of the box - I re-saved them as full color RGBA PNGs:

The arms don't appear to be mapped correctly, and the teddy bear as a whole is pretty messed up (there's a lot of other decals that apply to the wrong areas on that piece)... But the others seem fine.

Here's the decoration IDs, and what parts/surfaces they're mapped to:

602741, mapped to part 3815 (minifigure hips, front hinge)
606689, mapped to part 3816 (minifigure leg right, front)
606690, mapped to part 3817 (minifigure leg left, front)
609549, mapped to part 3818 (minifigure right arm)
609550, mapped to part 3819 (minifigure left arm)
609608, mapped to part 3816 (minifigure leg right, front)
609609, mapped to part 3817 (minifigure leg left, front)
609711, mapped to part 93219 (baseball cap)
609714, mapped to part 98382 (teddy bear bottom)
610241, mapped to part 3816 (minifigure leg right, sides)
610242, mapped to part 3817 (minifigure leg left, sides)

And here's the model in the above screenshots, if you want to see if any textures load for you:

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/jamesster/Other/what.lxfml

There's also one more greyscale PNG; decoration 610654, mapped to part 13565... a cowboy hat, which doesn't actually have any decal areas... and the decal is entirely transparent. So that's rather useless. Shrug.

Edited November 14, 2019 by jamesster

[MatthewRC]

Looks like LDD is deteriorating due to The LEGO Group neglecting the software and abandoning support for it.

[SylvainLS]

1 hour ago, MatthewRC said:

Looks like LDD is deteriorating due to The LEGO Group neglecting the software and abandoning support for it.

Not deteriorating.  This kind of errors and cruft has been there for a time.

[Blip]

No thanks. :P