SylvainLS

Hi, the button is next to the search box on the building palette. See the help page.

Forgot to say: the culprit is the bounding box, not the position. (You can see the BBs by hitting 1, 2 or 3 in Developper mode.)

It was already working that way in official LDD.

Update 2022-08-05 Added: 6078 / 6078.dat Door 1 x 4 x 3 11601 / 11601.dat Minifig Blade with Bar Handle and Spike 17018 / 17018.dat Minifig Helmet Wolverine 18923 / 18923.dat Car Base 8 x 16 x 2 with 4 x 14 Recessed Center with Mudguards 26045 / 26045.dat Minifig Hat Bear Costume with Ears 51642 / 51642.dat Minifig Weapon Staff Onewa 51644 / 51644.dat Minifig Weapon Staff Matau 51645 / 51645.dat Minifig Weapon Staff Vakama 60674 / 60674.dat CLUB, ASSEMBLED (Needs Work) 88291 / 88291.dat Animal Camel? 92754 / 92754.dat Minifig Body Dug Arm 92755 / 92755.dat Minifig Body Dug without Arm Rematched: 24314 / 24314p01.dat Wheel Minifig Wheelchair with Integral Black Tyre 25126 / 25128p01.dat Minifig Baby Body with Yellow Hands Pattern 30157 / 30157b.dat Plate 2 x 4 with Flattened Pins Corrected: 51663 / 51663.dat Minifig Weapon Staff Whenua 64390 / 64390.dat Door 1 x 4 x 6 with Window and Reinforced Edge 65128 / 65128.dat Container Lid 8 x 8 x 4.667 with Latches Importable: 3023a.dat / 3023 Plate 1 x 2 with Frat Pin 24314.dat / 24314 ~Moved to 24314p01 25126.dat / 25126 ~Moved to 25128 25128.dat / 25126 Minifig Baby Body 30157.dat / 30157 ~Moved to 30157 30157a.dat / 30157 Plate 2 x 4 with Rounded Pins Added Custom parts: 1126 / 1126.dat Tile 1 x 2 with Rounded Ends 1566 / 1566.dat Plant with Bar and Off-Shoot with Hollow Stud 1762 / 1762.dat Slope Brick 33 2 x 2 Double, Curved 1881 / 1881.dat Figure Arm Bent with Large Hand with Clip and Friction Pin 2310 / 2310.dat Slope Brick 45 2 x 1 Inverted with 0.667 cutout 3947 / 3947.dat Baseplate 32 x 32 with Craters 6221 / 6221.dat Technic Handle 18922 / 18922.dat Plate 8 x 16 x 0.667 33464 / 33464.dat Minifig Baby Head with Neck 35386 / 35386.dat =Tile 1 x 2 with Groove 40687 / 40687.dat Plate 2 x 4 with Reinforced Flatened Pins 40933 / 40933.dat Animal Dragon Head Jaw Upper 40934 / 40934.dat Animal Dragon Head Jaw Lower 41202 / 41202.dat Minifig Armour Shoulder Pads with Snake Heads and Stud on Back 47976 / 47976.dat Brick 12 x 12 with 3 Pin Holes on Sides and Support Pins in Corners 49588 / 49588.dat Minifig Head Snake Closed Mouth 49649 / 49649.dat Minifig Shopping Cart Frame 50015 / 50015.dat Tricycle Frame (Needs Work) 51149 / 51149.dat Technic Transmission Changeover Catch Type 2 53540 / 53540.dat Brick 1 x 2 with 2 Pins with Squared Centre Hole 54657 / 54657.dat Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger on End Vertical, 7 Teeth 54671 / 54671.dat Hinge Brick 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger on End Vertical, 7 Teeth 54672 / 54672.dat Hinge Brick 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger on End Horizontal, 7 Teeth 58101 / 58101.dat Figure Legs Mario 64954 / 64954.dat Trailer Base 6 x 16 x 2.333 65129 / 65129.dat Container 8 x 8 x 2 with Rounded Corners and Slots for 16 Tiles 65146 / 65146.dat Turntable 2 x 2 with Four Snapping Clips 66788 / 66788.dat Figure Arm Bent Long with Clip and Friction Pin 67017 / 67017.dat Figure Cap on Brick 2 x 2 with Flat Bill 67491 / 67491.dat Technic Beam 19 x 3 with Three Open Areas 5 x 1 67695 / 67695.dat Constraction Connector 3 x 2 with Single Round Ball Socket with Straight Closed Sides 67696 / 67696.dat Brick 2 x 2 with Axlehole and Ball Socket with Straight Closed Sides 69984 / 69984.dat Plate 6 x 6 Hexagonal with Six Spokes and Clips (Solid Studs) 70646 / 70646.dat Ladder 2.5 x 16 with Three 2 x 2 Studs 73304 / 73304.dat Power Burst Stand 5 x 5 x 0.667 with 2 Studs 73562 / 73562.dat Bracket 3 x 2 x 1.333 with Bottom Stud Holder 73642 / 73642.dat Windscreen 14 x 14 x 4 Semicircle 73832 / 73832.dat Plate 8 x 4 x 0.667 with Rounded Corners with 2 Vacant Stud Areas with Cutout 77598 / 77598.dat Plate 2 x 2 x 0.667 with Wheel Fork 79194 / 79194.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round with Bar Handle on Long Stem 79757 / 79757.dat Brick 2 x 2 x 0.667 Corner with Curved Top 80015 / 80015.dat Plate 5 x 5 with 4 x 4 Corner Round and 4 x 4 with 3 x 3 Corner Round Cutout 80177 / 80177.dat Slope Brick Curved 3 x 2 with Cutout Left 80178 / 80178.dat Slope Brick Curved 3 x 2 with Cutout Right 80271 / 80271.dat Technic Panel Bent 4 x 5 x 5 Tapered Left #70 80272 / 80272.dat Technic Panel Bent 4 x 5 x 5 Tapered Right #71 80284 / 80284.dat Technic Panel 13 x 2 x 5 Mudguard Arched with Rounded Top and Pointed Bottom 80285 / 80285.dat Technic Panel 3 x 2 x 5 80324 / 80324.dat Flag 2 x 2 Trapezoid with Flared Edge 80336 / 80336.dat Figure Friends Skirt Long Full Octagonal 80431 / 80431.dat Technic Brick 1 x 2 x 1.333 with Hole and Rotation Joint Socket 80519 / 80519.dat Wave / Flame 3.5L with Clip 80542 / 80542.dat Tyre 20 / 33 x 62 Motorcycle 80545 / 80545.dat Slope Brick 45 2 x 4 x 1.333 Double, Wedge 80679 / 80679.dat Animal Squirrel Standing 84772 / 84772.dat Wheel 20 x 62 Motorcycle Solid 84868 / 84868.dat Bar 2L T-shaped with Two Bar Holes and Bottom Tube 85834 / 85834.dat Brick 4 x 5 x 1.667 with Domed Top and Tapered Sides 89679 / 89679.dat Technic Panel Curved 1 x 2 x 1 722102 / 72210b.dat Wheel Rim 11 x 24 Front with 9 Spokes Added Custom Assemblies: 12799 / 12799.dat Technic Motor Pull Back 6 x 5 x 3 (Complete) 24689 / 88618c01.dat Animal Ostrich 84133 / 84133.dat Minifig Hips and Legs with Spring Prosthetic Leg Left 49242 / 49242p01.dat Electric Hub Mario with Reddish Brown Hair, Light Nougat Face and Black Moustache Pattern 42609|43058 / 42609c01.dat Wing 16 x 16 with Four Fixed Pins + Angry Birds assemblies, but they need parts from Digital Bricks md5sum: 7527ea1f9638dc3f83d0d88930c08c23

Hi, a couple errors found in the GitHub parts: 65401 / 65402: wrong connections (or wrong 3D model) (again!), you can put a pin in the axle hole / you can’t put a pin in the pin hole. 65633: still missing a file on GitHub and LDD goes kaboom.

Did you keep Palettes\LDDExtended.lif after extracting it? LDD reads ALL the files and folders in Palettes, and depending on the order it reads them (seems pretty random), it reads the lif after the extracted directory (the one with the modified MaterialSelector.xml), thus reverting the changes. TL;DR: move the .lif you extracted elsewhere.

Unfortunately, no, for the moment there’s no way to have categories in the Custom parts palette.

In Studio, you need to use the two copies of the submodel in the same step to get the x2, otherwise the instructions are repeated (like in official LEGO instructions, actually). If the copies are too far away from each other in the model and you can’t find a good / satisfying angle to show how they should connect, one solution is to add pages and images. You may create those images with another version of your model (= 2 .io files, one principal with the two copies used in the same step and one where they are used in different steps and from which you can extract just the pages/pictures where they are inserted in the model).

Hi, 1. The bricks are only available in LDD Extended. To be available in ‘normal’ LDD requires more work, starting with knowing which parts are available in which colours. 2. If you have red ? in the palette, then you’re missing files. Either you didn’t install the custom parts correctly or you used LDD 4.3.12. LDD 4.3.12 is crap, it comes with an outdated parts library. Some of the official parts are customized here (more decors, bugs fixes…) and only the modified files are distributed here. So your LDD may see the parts because of these few files but it’s missing the 3D models for these parts. Desinstall (and scrub) LDD and install the 4.3.11. There’s a few posts on the forum with more info.

It’s Studio, no dot, now. Zooming in/out is done with the mousewheel. The only newer version of LDD is 4.3.11 and it didn’t change much to 4.3.10 in terms of feature. Forget the rezipping, it just adds more possibilities of screwing up. I shouldn’t have mentioned it. Now, the modified .lxfml should load… unless you have deleted things that shouldn’t have been deleted, or left things that should have been deleted. The only solution is to be sure of what you do when you edit the XML. Some smart editor (Notepad++) could help you there. Well, one simple solution is to remove all the groups: leave only <GroupSystems> <GroupSystem> </GroupSystem> </GroupSystems> and delete everything else about groups.

When you delete a group in LDD, its place in the list of groups is taken by the last group in the list. When a group contains groups, you need to delete the super group, then the children… grand childeren… and it appears endless. But if you don’t move your mouse from the X, you can validate the dialog with the keyboard: click-return-click-return…. Anyway, an LXF file is just a ZIP file that you can decompress. Inside is an LXFML file which is XML (so text) that you can edit with a text editor, like Notepad++ (not Wordpad or Word!). Once edited, you can recreate an LXF file (reZIP IMAGE100.LXFML & IMAGE100.PNG together into a .zip and rename as .lxf), or simply load the LXFML in LDD. Make backups before playing around…. Now, if you insist on continuing using LDD, you may at least consider going to version 4.3.11 / 2670… (many new parts, well, ‘new’ 4+ years ago) and even maybe install the custom parts from this thread (need 4.3.11):

35189 is a custom part, added mid June 2020.

Update 2022-05-05 Added: 15504 / 15504.dat Minifig Tail Cat 15627 / 15627.dat Panel 1 x 6 x 6 with 4 x 2 Window Cutout 15864 / 15864c01.dat Minifig Helmet Large Square with Side Extensions 18395 / 18395.dat Flame 5L Curved with Bar 0.5L and Triangular Base 20592 / 20592.dat Minifig Hair Mid-Length Flipped Ends with Cat Ears 28145 / 28145.dat Minifig Hair Wavy Parted with Large Thick Glasses 88618 / 88618c01.dat Animal Ostrich 99250 / 99250.dat Minifig Neckwear Ribbon with Medal Rematched: 25893 / 25893a.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round with Bar Handle on Short Stem Importable: 25893.dat / 25893 ~Plate 1 x 1 Round with Horizontal Handle Below (Obsolete) Added Custom part: 49492 / 49492.dat Minifig Shepperd Crook Rematched Custom part: 22969 / 22969a.dat Wheel 56 x 46 Technic Racing Importable as Custom part: 22969.dat / 22969 ~Wheel 56 x 46 Technic Racing (Obsolete) md5sum: 4c874725e68af4438beab65c409a0fc1

They will be looking at making 494 a “real” colour for Studio, so all the parts should work after that’s done. Not sure when that will be released though… because Studio is a bit late regarding colours (missing the last ones, like Neon/Vibrant Yellow and a few Satin/Opal ones) and the last LDraw updates and there’s a long list of bugs and suggestions….

Post your images as links (“Insert other media” at the bottom right of the editor box). You’ll need somewhere else to put them though…. I found stud.io clever… and easier to search (everybody and their dog has an application called Studio!). But they changed it, so we need to adapt

If you put 2909c03 next to 108, you’ll see 108 is too short… but then, 2909c03 is fully extended.

I forgot the most important: it’s Studio, without the dot, since 2.0

The part on the left is with 383. The part on the right is the stock one, with 494, and it indeed renders White. My previous tests were too quick and there must have been a play of light that made me think is was metallic. That’s why I added coloured parts around in this render 494 is not “known” as a colour by Studio (yet), so it doesn’t work.

Weird, I made some quick tests and it seemed chrome to me in 494. You can try the procedure I gave above, replacing 494 with 383, or import in PartDesigner. (383 on the left.)

Hi, First, the way you say it, it seems you think replacing 16/24 with 383 would make the colour “adjustable.” It’s the other way around. 16/24 are the special “I’m not a colour, please replace me” colours. Lines (subparts or primitives) in those special colours get their colours from the file that use them. So, for BL 2909c03, Studio uses 2909c03.dat as a 3D model. 2909c03.dat uses 74741-f1.dat in colour 16 (so it’s paintable in Studio) which uses the two plastic subpart in colour 16 (so they are paintable in Studio) and u9409-f1.dat in colour 494 (Electric_Contact_Alloy, a fixed colour). If you replace 16/24 in u9409-f1.dat, you fix the colour of the spring and it’s not paintable / “adjustable.” Now, for your prolem, I think it’s simply that 494 shows very much like White in Studio. But if you render the part, it correctly shows as metallic. If you replace 494 with 383, it’s the same. But if you use a “simpler” colour, like Red (4), it will show correctly in Studio. The problem is in Studio, it doesn’t show these metallic colours very distinctly (or not at all), not with the part or the colour. I’ll talk to the devs about it. Now, a few other remarks on what you were trying to do: First, I wouldn’t replace the 16 & 24 colours in the spring but the 494 in 74741-f1.dat: instead of many changes, you just make one. Besides, changing 24 (special edge colour) is a bad idea (better to remove the lines entirely as they become useless if they are the same colour as the rest of the part). Also, I’d start with 74741-f1.dat, to have the whole part. If you edit the spring, you only have the spring and must use the other subparts in your build. (One thing is sure: the stock part won’t use your modified spring.) The simplest procedure is to copy 74741-f1.dat under another name, edit it to replace 494 by 383, import it in PartDesigner, export it to Studio. But, again, that won’t solve your problem! In Studio, the spring will still show white but it will render as chromed.

The main image on BO is a photo but the others are renders. If you check on Brickset for design 38401, you find one (the best one). Brickset gets its images directly from TLG, so that’s a render from TLG. TLG certainly does have 3D models of all their parts nowadays. Now, for the others renders on BO, maybe they are older versions that are not on Brickset anymore but if they are from elsewhere and not from TLG, well, we’ve already established they are not from LDRaw, so she only other possibility for them is Mecabricks (which I doubt because of the quality, or lack thereof). (And it’s Studio now, no dot. The dot was dropped with version 2 )

Undoubtedly a render from LEGO. So, ask LEGO for a 3D model?

No problem… it just means you’re too young to have had to write your own code when you wanted to write images (ah, Ye olden times of BMP and TGA)

There’s “8bits” and then there’s “8bits.” One value is the total size of a pixel (bit depth), the other is the size of a channel. You can have PNG files in 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16 bits per channel and 1, 2, 3 or 4 channels (indexed, greyscale, grey+alpha, RGB, RGBA). “Bit depth” = bits per channel multiplied by number of channels. “Bit depth 32” = 4 channels (RGBA) with 8 bits each. “Bit depth 8” = either indexed (there’s a palette of 256 colours, and each pixel has a colour) or greyscale (256 levels of grey). Generally, “8/16bits” means 8/16 bits channels and RGB(A) channels (so a bit depth of 32 or 64).

Update 2022-03-11 Corrected typos. Corrected: 30377 / 30377.dat Minifig Mechanical Arm with Clips Parallel 65578 / 65578.dat Plate 1 x 1 Round with Angled Bar 93609 / 93609.dat Arm Skeleton with Horizontal Clip Bent 56.31 Rematched: 3049 / 3049d.dat Slope Brick 45 1 x 2 Double / Inverted with Bottom Stud Holder 10498 / 90641.dat Technic Constraction Shell 3L Flat Importable: 4092a.dat / 4025 Train Bogie Plate with Long Pin 6069.dat / 48933 Wedge 4 x 4 Triple 10498.dat / 10498 =Technic Constraction Shell 3L Flat 10830.dat / 10830 Minifig Tool Magnifying Glass with Thick Frame and Lens 16175.dat / 16175 Minifig Construction Helmet with Hair Short 18835.dat / 18835 ~Minifig Hair Mid-Length Straight with Crown 23999.dat / 23999 Boat Hull Floating 40 x 12 25126.dat / 25126 Minifig Baby Body 30483.dat / 30483 Minifig Head Wookiee with Bandolier 47545.dat / 47545 Minifig Head Rodian without Pattern 53914.dat / 30388 Hinge Brick 1 x 6 Locking Double, Two Finger End with 7 Teeth 54671.dat / 30365 Hinge Brick 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger On End, 7 Teeth 54672.dat / 30540 Hinge Brick 1 x 2 Locking with Dual Finger on End Horizontal, 7 Teeth 73092.dat / 73092 ~_Magnet Cylindrical in Casing Black (Obsolete) 87561.dat / 87561 Block 6 x 4 x 1 with Handles and Minifig Pattern 90391p01.dat / 90391 Minifig Pike / Spear Elaborate With Flat Metallic Head md5sum: c23e5c8ac2930b04d87567172c0ec74a