Hey there, everyone
I'm Paprika2215 and I am working on a cool LEGO project -- if you read this topic's title, you know what this project is. Though let me first make crystal clear that this has nothing at all to do with LDD. I'm building LEGO Island... in LDD! I'm referring to the original LEGO Island video game. Yup, I'll be rebuilding that whole island in LDD, but not completely like it was in the game. For example, I will be making the island itself a bit bigger and a bit more... well, modern. The original LEGO Island video game was released in 1998, so it's a bit dated, obviously. So what I'm gonna do is this: I will start with the buildings, and work my way up from there. I will use some of the original buildings from the game, namely the following:
-- the info center
-- the hospital
-- the bank
-- the gas station
-- the racetrack building/tribunes
-- the 3 houses
As for the other buildings on the island, I will be using modern LEGO sets to replace them. Also, I will add more houses to the residential area -- in the game, there were only 3 houses and more than 11 places to work. So I'm fixing that. And after I've built all of the buildings, I will build the "baseplate", the island itself, which will probably be the most difficult and time-consuming part of this project. But I haven't gotten that far yet. I have already started with some of the buildings that weren't in the original game. And now we're getting to the reason I'm writing this topic. Yes, I'm sorry, I admit I always have a hard time keeping my story short, I know...
Anyway, I am going to need some help. I need help getting building instructions for all buildings mentioned above. There was this guy I used to email back and forth with -- let's call him "LegoMan", I don't remember his name -- who did this exact same project all by himself. He'd done all this research in order to find out about how to build each of the LEGO Island buildings, but I don't know how to do that -- I'm not technical like that. I don't know how to reprogram the LEGO Island game so I can view each building's layout in depth and layers. That's what this guy did in order to find out how to build the LEGO Island buildings, and at the time he wasn't willing to share his home-made instructions with me because his project wasn't just for fun and he told me his project would get some kind of "big reveal" or something to that effect. My project is exclusively for personal use, only in LDD. And like I said, I can't do what he did. That's why I'm asking the LEGO community here on Eurobricks for help!
This is just a personal project -- I'll only be doing it in LDD and I won't share it with anyone, except for maybe a few pictures. I really hope someone can help me out.
Thanks so much in advance!