Darkhoodness

Excellent work - I'm trying to build the Grand Emporium myself in LDD too, maybe I'll tackle the other buildings later. I will make one suggestion though: With the text at the front of the shop, even though it isn't possible to have flexible rods in LDD yet, it never hurts to compromise. I did this: Image It looks a little ugly, but hey, it's better than it not being there at all. :P Other sets I've assembled in LDD (I only have an image-hosting space so no model downloads, sorry - instructions for these sets can be found at http://www.brickset.com/ ): Image Passenger Plane set 3181 (It's possible to stay true to the instructions with this set, but the special plane body pieces have some clipping issues, especially the rear bits. They're easy to work-around though.) Image Heavy Hauler set 7998 (It's near-impossible to make the "hydraulics" under the lorry hoppers fit into this model correctly due to the lorry hopper pieces having glitchy clipping, plus the sloped panel ontop of the cab doesn't fit as it should - If you do build this model you'll have to make some compromises) Image Sports Car set 8402 (lol, what to do when your wheel falls off, eh?) Image Small Car set 3177 (Beep beep!) http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/130/d/c/2148_LEGO_Truck_set_by_darkhoodness.jpg'>Image Truck set 2148 (An old model - LDD doesn't have the hinged wedge that goes on top of the cab so I had to "emulate" that, and also the other missing parts). Image Hobby Train set 10183, configuration 1 (Who has LDD and hasn't built this? Original model apart from the electrical pickup arms - I replaced them with the ones I made when I built my own trains, 'cause they look better. Hehe.) I've also built all 3 models of the beach houses but someone else beat me to it, meaning there isn't much point in me uploading them. :P

Firsty I wanna say that LDD is awesome for what it is - I mean it's not perfect but considering it's free and already does quite a lot of things that you'd expect from a free Lego simulator (especially with Lego Universe mode enabled), you can't really complain. :P I will make a couple of suggestions though: No Collide Mode People probably won't agree with me on this but it should be a pretty easy feature to implement. LDD really, really should have an optional no-collide mode for advanced users or just for users of the "Lego Universe" mod/theme: You should have the ability to select 2 bricks and tell them not to collide with each other. It'd probably be more suited to people like me who use LDD for the sake of playing with virtual lego rather than people who intend to build real models with it - The buy and check price options should be turned off when no-collide mode is activated. Something I have noticed is that when following real Lego guides and attempting to build the models in LDD is that some bricks (especially the hidden bricks made available through the Lego Universe mod) can't fit next to or around each other, even though the Lego guides imply that they should be able to if I was building the model using real, physical Lego bricks. It's a bit annoying - Users ought to be given the option to turn collision detection off between certain bricks to avoid problems like this. Alternatively they could just improve the collision detection between all the bricks, but that may be too much to ask. :P Especially since some of the bricks available through Lego Universe aren't officially supposed to be used. More and different backgrounds in "View" mode Including an option to turn off the backgrounds to view models without them. ---- I can't suggest anything else that hasn't been suggested already in some way, but I agree with: Adding more bricks from Lego System and older sets Search ability (enter brick code/name, find a brick) Making translucent bricks more colourful and less pale Model Navigation mode (explore models using a floating first-person mode camera, move around with mouse to steer and arrow keys to move) Bring back Animation mode for trains and moving models Ability to use more bricks without LDD slowing down More logical placement order of bricks when using the "Building Guide Mode", or the ability to choose what order the building guide assembles bricks, perhaps by using the group function and selecting which group to assemble first. Decal browser Flexible parts Think these features would improve LDD a hell of a lot - But perhaps most of them would be a lot to ask for. :P Some should be easy to implement though.

Thanks. :) Yeah I used to play The Sims once too, it was fun - Building the house reminded me of that game. Anyway I'm attaching to this post an LXF model (for LDD) of most of the custom-created furniture I made for my house. Bear in mind I made these before the Lego Universe mod (and access to more bricks and colours) was made available. As a bonus I also included my train seat and pickup arm that I built and used for my trains. Here's a screenshot: http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/113...arkhoodness.jpg They're supposed to be (left to right): Wardrobe, TV, writing desk + chair, shower unit, small bookcase, fridge, computer with monitor + keyboard, bathtub, toilet, sink, beside table with alarm clock, single bed, chair, armchair, table, train pickup arm (thing ontop of electric trains to conduct electricity from overhead cables) and train bench. Anyone is free to use these in thier models and/or make improvements, or even re-create them in real lego (good luck!) (you'll need to have WinZip or WinRar or something to access the .zip that the .lfx is contained in - The forum wouldn't let me upload the .lfx file by itself). :) Enjoy. House_Furniture_by_Darkhoodness.zip

I stumbled across this forum while looking for ways to expand the available bricks in LDD, and lo and behold, this forum released some info about the Universal mod just as I was looking for it. =P So yeah, first post. I have some of my own LDD models that I've put together, and might as well show them to people who'd be interested in seeing them. So here we are, click the links under each image for more info (re-directs to DeviantArt): http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/082...arkhoodness.jpg Click here for Lego House 01 info http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/084...arkhoodness.jpg Click here for Lego Train 01 info http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2010/109...arkhoodness.jpg Click here for Lego Train 02 info BTW, that's an awesome car model by Shimon. Brillant work. The rest of the models aren't so bad either. :)