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  1. SylvainLS
    The mode is written in the LXF but, after opening, you can just change the mode (menu View | New Themes). The mode you’re in when you save is the one which will be written in the file. (Colour information in the normal mode is totally out of sync with reality now. It was great to easily pick a colour though.)
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    Rebrickable, BrickShelf and others don’t have and don’t need agreements with IP holders like TLG does. TLG has to have these agreements to make IP sets, and can’t distribute or condone the distribution of IP sets they don’t have agreements for. Fans and AFOL sites don’t have the same obligations (or have more leeway / tolerance). That BrickLink tightens their policies in the view of their being bought by TLG seems logical. And free/gratis or not, that doesn’t change the IP issues much. Especially as BL is a place where you can easily buy bricks: the MOC author might not get paid but BrickLink profits from their MOCs. So they would be profiting from IP without paying the IP holders and without agreements.
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    Your paint tool must be in the colour mode (small bucket icon) before the selection. If it’s in decorate/pattern or colour pick modes (brick and pipette small icons), the selection is lost when you go to the paint tool because none of these subtools work with multiple bricks. Also, the last method given by Slegengr, “select the paint bucket with the color you want, then select the group of bricks you want to recolor,” means click the group in the group pane with the bucket pointer.
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    Precision: “then Paint” means: be sure you are in “LDD extended,” select bricks or a defined group, click on the Paint icon to select the Paint tool, then choose a colour (even reselecting the current colour works).
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    Which software are you using?
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    I believe that was the point Nevertheless, I’m sure there are other examples.
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    Looks great!
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    Very similiar parts with very similar (but still different) IDs don’t help either
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    Update 2019-12-01 Added: 12622 / 12622.dat Car Base 4 x 10 with Mudguards and Integral Plates with Wheel Pins 19220 / 19220.dat Minifig Radio with Large Grille 93222 / 93222.dat Minifig Tool Fishing Rod 8L Straight End 96858 / 96858.dat Minifig Tool Fishing Rod 10L Straight End 98604 / 98604.dat Constraction Shell 4 x 13 x 5 Breast Plate Importable: 57910.dat / 62712 Brick 2 x 2 with Ball Socket Type 1 and Axlehole Rematched: 47899 / 47899c01.dat Door 1 x 4 x 5 Left with Trans Clear Glass 73194 / 73194c01.dat Door 1 x 4 x 5 Right with Trans Clear Glass md5sum: 0c47e8ce2d00861008de1d628aa4053b
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    https://www.bricklink.com/r3/announcement/lego_bl_faq.page
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    Nope, it means they are totally ditching 32bit support so these applications won’t run at all in the future. Well, you can still use it untill it doesn’t work anymore…. About as easy as for System builds: some people love it, some manage with it, others hate it. One advantage is that you can turn collision detection off, thus first placing your gears without taking care of their teeth then finding the correct rotations. Yes, you can directly import and open LXF files in Stud.io. You can also convert them to LDR before (either from LDD itself (using an up-to-date ldraw.xml) or using another application (wink wink, nudge nudge: lxf2ldr.html)). The advantage of going through LDraw is that it’s an open format, so it’s more perennial for archiving.
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    Are you trying version 4.3.12? If so, go back to 4.3.11, 4.3.12 is not an upgrade, it’s a shame. (See the other topics about 4.3.12 and 4.3.11 on Win10 for explanations and links.)
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    Not deteriorating. This kind of errors and cruft has been there for a time.
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    There are buttons at the top of the parts palette, near the search box, one is to select the colour in which the parts are shown, there also is a checkbox in the colour list: “Hide unavailable colors.” It doesn’t hide colours, it hides parts that are not available in that colour. Don’t forget to uncheck the box in other projects (common mistake and source of “I can’t find this part!” messages).
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    Okay, first, welcome Then, about your problems with LDD: You seem to be installing LDD 4.2.5. The latest (and last) is 4.3.11. Well, there’s a 4.3.12 on lego.com but this one is rotten (see another thread on this forum), get the real 4.3.11, for instance here (provided by M2m on another thread). One error message says it all: “ntlm_auth was not found.” It goes on saying ntlm_auth is in the winbind package, so try installing this package. I don’t remember ever having to install anything before installing LDD in Wine, certainly not flash, and LDD works fine, so don’t fret too much about it. Next, about parts for LeoCAD: Check you have the latest LDraw Official Library: https://www.ldraw.org/parts/latest-parts.html (you’d want complete.zip). You can also look at the Unofficial Library (that is, WIP parts not yet veted): https://www.ldraw.org/article/14.html If you’re still missing parts and you know those are in LDD, you can check on http://digital-bricks.de/ (they are raw transcripts from LDD, not really integrated in LDraw but still manually workable). And finally, as I know it will pop up , I wouldn’t recommend Studio: the last updates don’t work with Wine (almost no inputs, keyboard or mouse, working ), otherwise, it has all the parts I listed above, with BrickLink’s names, a link to BrickLink’s catalogue, and a nice renderer. But they don’t care about Linux.
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    Use a TV set
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    Sorry, I’ve no answers to that. Maybe there’s a problem with your file system?
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    It shan’t. It will only affect \Program Files, not \users. Now, it’s always good practice to have regular backups (for user errors or big system failures)
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    Did you try uninstalling/reinstalling? When it happens, the correct answer is “Specify the License File” and select RL278-1000.lic in “C:\Program Files (x86)\LEGO Company\LEGO Designer”. It happened to me under Wine, made the same mistake you did The question is rarely asked. I think, sometimes, it has trouble finding the file. And it was way before the problems with Flash (which we don’t have with Wine), so it’s unrelated.
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    Update 2019-10-27 Added: 18895 / 18895.dat Bike 2 Wheel Motorcycle Fairing Racing 41889 / 41889.dat Minifig Body SW Super Battle Droid 41890 / 41890.dat Minifig Arm SW Super Battle Droid 42687 / 42687.dat Minifig Legs SW Super Battle Droid 47299 / 47299.dat Constraction Shell 2 x 3 x 1.5 with Peghole 59278 / 59278c01.dat Boat Hull Floating 72 x 18 with Dark Bluish Grey Deck 64796 / 64796.dat Minifig Arm SW Super Battle Droid with Blaster Rematched (renamed): 28925 / 28925c01.dat Boat Hull Floating 16 x 8 with Dark Bluish Grey Deck md5sum: f5075ef624e2a008dd48ce2711d6b111
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    Gee! You know you’re practicaly asking me to write a book? @pennyforge Nice microcity! Just randomizing the buildings’ heights would do wonders. Parametrise the models (say, same building but 3, 4, or 5 storeys; or 2-, 3-, or 4-stud-wide). It’d add diversity but keep the style. Or add random details (chimney, tank, giant ad/screen… on the roof). After all, that’s how architects do it!
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    Using models instead of bricks doesn’t change the performance. Instead of using “3001.dat,” you use “house.dat,” and you arrange the building process to allow for your submodels. Either you need a bit more complex rules to know if you can put a house (is the terrain big and flat enough?) or you arrange the terrain before putting it (like we do in real life). Those changes aren’t time expensive. But you need to build the models first and the more complex the models, the less generic the generated landscape. I had another script which generated a lunar base from a few models (module skeletons, side panels, roofs, connecting corridors, and a few accessories). The rules are pretty simple: a few types of connections and collision avoidance and just randomly connect models to each available connection. And it gave something like that (latest version had a few spaceships, astronauts and robots sprinkled around): (Old LDView render.) The difficult part is making the modules and their connection. And it’s fun but not very realistic.
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    Update 2019-10-12 Added: 20033 / 18913c01.dat Boat Hull Floating 40 x 20 with Dark Bluish Grey Deck 26056 / 26056.dat Minifig Head Gremlin 47298 / 47298.dat Constraction Foot 3 x 7 x 2 with 3 Pegholes and Axle 61200 / 61200.dat Minifig Head Kel'Dor with Breathing Apparatus 98593 / 98593.dat Constraction Shell Decoration Sonic Speaker with 2 Bars md5sum: 78296a494ff636323725092d24078c1f
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    It’s just random luck, or should I say luck with random()
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    Well, considering the last one was 1 year and 9 months ago, that’s almost certain
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