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UPDATE: Apparently I had completely forgotten to include the 1x6 Flat Tile in the PDF guide, and the corresponding PowerPoint/Publisher file was missing too, oops! As a result, I just updated the guide this afternoon to include the 1x6 Flat Tile. The new ZIP file now contains the updated PDF guide, 23 Microsoft PowerPoint/Publisher files (instead of 22) together with the rest of the old content. As the size of the 1x6 Flat Tile (1024 Pixels times 6144 Pixels) is too large for Microsoft PowerPoint to handle, an extra Microsoft Publisher file has been created for this to work (the 1x6 Flat Tile size is the opposite of the Brick 1x2x5 Front Vertical Surface size, which was already produced in Microsoft Publisher, so the new Publisher file was simply created by saving a new copy of the old one and changing the page orientation of the new file from vertical to horizontal). The updated ZIP file can be downloaded here and the original link in the previous post has also been updated. Sorry for all inconvenience caused!

Thanks to everyone for keeping LDD alive by providing such amazing content here! Since the last post of the PDF file regarding Decoration sizes in LDD, I have made further progress in terms of Decorations in LDD. Before I continue, the standard of PNG images to be successfully inserted into LDD should be “Bit Depth” equals 32. But in the PDF file I posted before, I accidentally typed “Image Depth” equals 32 instead due to a translation error (as my Windows 10 is in Chinese), so apologies for that! Now, back to the new progress. I mainly work with the latest “Microsoft Office 365”, “Microsoft Paint” and “Microsoft Paint 3D” (plus SVG editor “Inkscape” and Font editor “FontForge” if necessary) to create LEGO Decorations. A recent glitch in Microsoft PowerPoint promoted me to look at the process of adding Decorations into LDD from scratch, and I soon developed a new method to do this with two main advancements: 1. in Microsoft PowerPoint, set the size of a PowerPoint Slide as the dimensions of a LEGO Decoration (e.g., 1024 Pixels times 1024 Pixels for all Square Decorations), create the Decoration Shape and enlarge it until it has the same size as the Slide itself, then convert each entire Slide into a useable PNG image in LDD instead of saving the Shape itself (Microsoft Publisher is used for extremely large Decoration sizes); 2. in terms of custom LEGO Decorations, various “Shape/Text Effects” can be added to make them look more realistic. After a few days of solid work, I have created an extremely detailed guide with over 80 pages of instructions and over 120 screenshots/images explaining how to create the best LEGO Decorations for use in real life and LDD, using the maximum display quality in LDD and the best details to make each Decoration look more realistic. The PDF guide is provided in a ZIP file which also includes a series of associated files such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Publisher files, example PNG image files and a few Font files of custom Fonts used in the guide. Feel free to download the ZIP file here and I hope that this guide can help every dedicated LEGO creator to produce the most amazing custom Decorations. For a sneak peek of the custom LEGO Decorations used in LDD within the guide, please refer to the three screenshots below. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Welcome! I just checked and both Bricks are present in the latest unofficial LDD update posted here. Make sure that you’re in LDD Extended Mode and you can find both Bricks under the special roof tile category (number six starting from top left). Alternatively, go to LDD Extended Mode and type 77810/77812 and they should appear in your search results.

Anyone with 4.3.11 version 777 on Windows has probably installed a broken version of LDD from their website. Search for how to install the correct LDD 4.3.11 in this forum and follow the instructions (do the same on Mac), then install the latest unofficial updates posted here regularly for more Bricks, Decorations and bug fixes not previously done by The LEGO Group (TLG).

I recently stumbled upon two random glitches in LDD regarding newly added Parts 30082 and 41740 but I only remembered about them this morning, so here goes a slightly delayed bug report. As shown in this screenshot, collision data for the ball part of 30082 seems to be missing, so it can currently be inserted into any Brick. For 41740, collision data seems to also be missing so it can currently sink into nearby Bricks such as the vertical 1x2 Flat Tile at the back.

Thanks, so five possible new Decorations (1x6 door arch, 1x4 car front, three arch designs) to be added in the next update, and if Part 3297 Roof Tile 3X4/25° can be decorated with the car front then another new decoration combo!

Thanks for a great update as usual! I hope that you can eventually figure out the 1x6 Door Arch and 1x4 Car Front though from the old printed Bricks Decorations I posted a while back as these old parts do lack official Decoration IDs. I also mentioned that Decoration 303701 can be applied onto Part 3297 Roof Tile 3X4/25° for the old Bright Yellow Car Front. Finally, I already posted the three vintage arch designs which can be downloaded here , and I hope to see them added in the next update (at least for the Boy and Girl with Decoration IDs being 81780 and 81781 respectively).

Since the latest updates of LDD, most Flat Tiles are now made decoratable, with exceptions including Part 14719 Flat Tile Corner 1x2x2, Part 6881/Part 10202 Flat Tile 6x6 and Part 22385 Flat Tile 2x3 W/Angle (scannable shields of the NEXO Knights series) (all other irregular, triangular and circular Flat Tiles are skipped). Official printed versions of Flat Tile 6x6 do exist (at least for Part 10202) and the scannable shields are all printed, so decoration support can be added for these Flat Tiles once decoration image files are available. For Part 14719 Flat Tile Corner 1x2x2 no printed versions exist at the moment, but given that it will be the last regular Flat Tile without decoration support, I still hope that we can soon decorate it in LDD. For example, I recently added a custom pattern (decorations) onto the floor of a shop I built in LDD which is formed by mostly 2x2 Flat Tiles; and in irregular locations, I used 1x1, 1x2 and Corner 1x2x2 Flat Tiles to fill up the gaps and to maintain the square arrangement. Enabling decoration support for Part 14719 Flat Tile Corner 1x2x2 means that I can finally complete my floor pattern by adding decorations to the brick.

The remaining three vintage Decorations are finally ready and can be downloaded here. All Decoration PNG files are 1024px times 1024px as usual for the maximum display quality and the RGB values of official LEGO Colours have been used. Decoration ID is 81780 for Boy and 81781 for Girl, while Decoration ID of the Green Creature’s Face is unknown, similar to many of the other Arch designs listed in the Bricklink Database. The base Arch shapes (Bright Red, Black and Dark Green) have been included in the original images within Microsoft PowerPoint as a location reference for the other components of each Decoration, but I made them transparent when outputting the PNG files, so everything should still fit perfectly when added to LDD. To accurately convert everything into SVG images before editing in PowerPoint, I had to copy and insert the cropped original scan results (BMP images) into Vector Graphics Editor Inkscapes then use the “Trace Bitmap” function to slowly extract each component. The eyes, dots, curves and smiles could all be extracted directly, but the two Bright Yellow shapes for Boy and Girl plus the Black borders of the Green Creature’s Face took at least five hours total to extract, as I often had to zoom in to edit individual nods when required to help smoothen various curved edges and fill in gaps where colours have faded away in reality. Therefore, the end results here may not be the most accurate, but I did try my best to edit all of the curved edges as much as I could to make them smooth and completely filled. If I find any more printed LEGO Bricks within my collections, I will convert them into LDD Decorations once I find time to do so. Keep up the great work as usual and thanks in advance!

Thanks a lot, I did a simple search on Brickset and noticed that in official LEGO Minifigures the old 76382 just has single-coloured Arms while all dual-coloured Arms only appear in 16360, problem solved!

Thanks for the information. By the way, when it comes to Minifigure Arms I’m no expert at all, but I’m recently working on a project in LDD which requires the two Minifigures to both have short sleeve tops which need the shirt sleeve colour at the top half of each arm and Light Nought as the arm’s skin colour at the lower half of each arm. However, Minifigure Arms are still not currently multi-colourable and I even tried applying Decorations but was unsuccessful. I know that official LEGO Minifigures have done this before, but with the current abilities to edit LDD parts finally achieved, I was wondering whether making Minifigure Arms multi-colourable (not by left side and right side but by top half and lower half) can finally be possible. Hopefully, this can be achieved easily by simply adding the multi-colourable ability to the arms rather than having to massively modify the properties of each Arm.

Great work as usual, but I don’t see the 1x6 Door Arch and 1x4 Car Front though from the old printed Bricks Decorations I posted a while back. Also, can Decoration 303701 be applied onto Part 3297 Roof Tile 3X4/25° for the old Bright Yellow Car Front? Hoping to see these added as well, and I’ll post more Decorations once I find time to finish them. Thanks a lot!

All 50 Printed Decorations for Set 853195 Brick Calendar are finally ready and can be downloaded here, where the weekday abbreviations use the “Chalet Comprimé Hong Kong 1960” font while the rest continue to use the “Chalet London 1960” font and the font colour is Black (RGB value: 27/42/52), which should require no changes at all so everything can be added to LDD directly. I failed to locate all the Decoration IDs for the 12 Month Name Decorations (perhaps custom ID numbers need to be assigned), so the corresponding entries of the “DecorationMapping.xml” file are not included this time, and Decoration support must be added to the two vertical surfaces of the 2x10 Brick to display the Month Names. Once these are added to LDD we can finally fully construct Set 853195 Brick Calendar in LDD, and this may mean another entry for the “Official Sets Made In LDD” topic (given that all Decorations of the two Minifigures are already present in LDD). Alongside Set 850425 Desk Business Card Holder, I recently noticed Set 850686 Notebook with Studs and found that it uses the same 26 letter tiles and 10 number tiles from the previous Set with different tile colours, excluding the four symbols and .com but including five additional letters: Å, Æ, Ö, Ø and Ü. After a bit of additional work, I was able to convert the five new letters into PNG files which can be downloaded here, although the letters do need to be recoloured into Silver as I continued to use White (RGB value: 244/244/244) as the text colour. The original PNG files had several letters misaligned so I had to adjust their positions when performing image cropping to place them back in the middle. Like the 12 Month Name Decorations of the Brick Calendar, I also failed to locate the Decoration IDs of these five new letters, so the corresponding entries of the “DecorationMapping.xml” file are not included as well (perhaps custom ID numbers need to be assigned too). All Decoration PNG files are 1024px times 1024px as usual for the maximum display quality with the font size enlarged according to scale. Keep up the great work as usual and thanks in advance!

You can have a look at images of the relevant set on Brickset for more close-up shots of the face: https://brickset.com/sets/76022-1/X-Men-vs-The-Sentinel, and check out the official image of the part from LEGO below. Overall, I think you nailed the design so adjustments may only be needed once successfully added to LDD.

Thanks a lot! Decorations for Set 853195 Brick Calendar will be ready this weekend (currently working through the day numbers then only the month names left), so stay tuned (the weekday abbreviations use the “Chalet Comprimé Hong Kong 1960” while the rest continue to use the “Chalet London 1960” font, I have both fonts successfully installed on my laptop so everything can be produced accurately)! However, for this bunch to work Decoration support needs to be added to the two main vertical surfaces of the 2x10 Brick to display the month names. All Decoration PNG files will be 1024px times 1024px as usual for the maximum display quality, while all text will be in Black (RGB value: 27/42/52) and the font size scaled up according to scale. P.S., I hope that the vintage Decorations can be added to LDD too even without official Decoration IDs. Currently, we have the 1x6 door arch, 1x4 car front and the 2x6x3 flowers. The 3x4 (roof tile) Bright Yellow car front can be added once Decoration support is added to the main slope as the Decoration was already added to LDD in the last update. Once I finish the Brick Calendar I will return to the remaining three vintage decorations and finish converting these into LDD Decorations.

I finally figured out how to locate the Decoration IDs for Printed LEGO Parts today, and discovered that out of the seven Vintage Printed Bricks, only the Boy and Girl designs have an official Decoration ID assigned to them while the others do not. As a result, I quickly located all the Decoration IDs for the 41 Printed Flat Tiles in Set 850425 Desk Business Card Holder and modified the zip file I uploaded yesterday as follows: all 41 PNG files are now named by their official Decoration IDs taken from the Brick Owl/Brickset Database, and I have included a new Plain Text file containing the corresponding entries to be added to the “DecorationMapping.xml” file. This means that the 41 PNG files can now be directly copied into the “db/Decoration” folder, and once you copy everything from the Plain Text file and insert it into the “DecorationMapping.xml” file, the 41 Printed Flat Tile Designs can be used in LDD immediately. The new zip folder can be downloaded here, and thanks in advance!

There are just three Printed Parts left for me to convert into LDD Decorations out of the seven Vintage Bricks, but I have decided to finish them later. Instead, I chose to temporarily shift my focus onto something else which I recall was quite a frequent request by others to be added into LDD back when it was still regularly updated by TLG. The particular LEGO Set is 850425 Desk Business Card Holder, which includes 40 Printed Black 1x1 Flat Tiles: 0-9, A-Z, ., -, @ and _, together with a Printed Black 1x2 Flat Tile: .com, making a total of 41 Printed Black Flat Tiles (with all text in White). Thanks to this source, I was able to locate the exact font used for the text on these Flat Tiles: the classic “Chalet London 1960” by “House Industries”. After successfully downloading a free copy of the font file and installing it onto my laptop, I decided to start producing all 41 Decorations for use in LDD. I first drew a plain Black (RGB value: 27/42/52) Square with size 0.7 cm times 0.7 cm (the real dimensions of a 1x1 Flat Tile) in Microsoft PowerPoint and set the font size to 22 (this was the closest compared to images of the Set) with font colour White (RGB value: 244/244/244), then I typed “A” as my first example. This output was then enlarged to 17.34 cm times 17.34 cm with the font size scaled up to around 545, which can directly output a PNG file with 1024px times 1024px, the maximum Decoration size accepted by LDD. Next, I removed the Black background of the base Square and a square PNG file was saved for 0-9, A-Z, ., - and @ respectively. As Microsoft PowerPoint has an annoying habit of including unwanted blank spaces around your image outputs when your text is too large, I had to output a version of each Decoration with the Black background included then use the dimensions from these files to help trim the Transparent background versions back into Squares one by one. For the _, the text size of the original Square was set to 17 and the larger font scaled up to around 421.1 (all colours are still the same). When all 40 Square Decorations were ready, I quickly moved onto the 1x2 .com Decoration. The small rectangle is 0.7 cm times 1.5 cm (the real dimensions of a 1x2 Flat Tile) with font size 22 while the larger rectangle is 8.68 cm times 18.6 cm with font size scaled up to around 235.6 (all colours are still the same), which can directly output a PNG file with 512px times 1098px. Once I produced the PNG file from the larger rectangle and cropped all extra blank spaces away, the width of the image was compressed to 1024px while the height remained unchanged at 512px before I saved the modified results. It took me two days to finish this group of 41 Decorations as I had to find the exact font used by TLG and cropping 41 PNG files individually did take quite a while to complete, and I chose to produce everything using the maximum Decoration sizes accepted by LDD for the best display clarity. The zip folder containing all 41 Decorations can be downloaded here, and to make things simple I have not included the original PowerPoint Slide, so just use the 41 PNG files directly. To successfully add the 41 Decorations and three vintage Decorations into LDD, Decoration support must first be added to all relevant surfaces on the relevant Bricks, then the official Decoration Numbers must be assigned to each file before they are added to the “db” folder and support added to the “DecorationMapping.xml” file. I hope that these Decoration files will be useful and good enough to be added into LDD in the near future. If everything goes smoothly, my next plan is to work on producing digital versions of all Printed Bricks in Set 853195 Brick Calendar, also mentioned in the font source of the Desk Business Card Holder and one of the few LEGO sets which I actually own and have kept intact over the years. Keep up the great work as usual and thanks in advance!

After a few more hours of solid efforts, the printed Flowers on the Brick 2x6x3 was also converted into a digital decoration ready for use in LDD. The entire Decoration was produced using only the shapes and lines available within Microsoft PowerPoint, as I failed to produce any satisfactory results in Inkscape. The zip folder I posted earlier has been updated accordingly and can be downloaded here. Please follow the steps in my post above to successfully output the Flower image in PowerPoint into a PNG file for use in LDD, or the “3.PNG” file can be used directly. Thanks in advance!

As I posted earlier, I had located seven vintage Printed LEGO Bricks from my collection. After a bit of research, I have successfully developed a process to convert these Bricks into digital decorations for use in LDD. This involves my old “Epson Printer” and the “Epson Scan” programme (use Professional Mode, set 1,200 dpi and output as BMP image for maximum quality) for scanning the Bricks into my laptop (each scan takes about 10 minutes), Microsoft Powerpoint/Microsoft Paint/Inkscape vector graphics editor and Microsoft Paint 3D (for handling Transparent Backgrounds, something Microsoft Paint is not capable of doing) to convert each design into an SVG Image. As I mentioned before, I always use the RGB Values of Official LEGO Colours to make everything as accurate as possible. After several experiments, I was able to successfully complete converting the fancy 1x6 upper door arch and the Medium Blue car front into digital PNG Decoration files for use in LDD. Please download this zip folder to access the files, which includes the following: the “Official Decorations” PowerPoint File contains the cropped images of the two Bricks from the original scans, together with the original vector images of the Decorations, while the two PNG files have both been produced with the maximum size 1024px times 1024px and colour depth 32. To successfully output the vector graphics into the PNG files, please follow these steps: enlarge each vector Decoration according to scale so its height is now 17.34 cm, which equals to 1024px when saved as a PNG image, then remove the background of the base rectangle before you output the PNG image. Once the PNG image is ready, open it in Microsoft Paint 3D and compress the image width into 1024px before saving the image. Before using the image, remember to unblock the image in its File Properties (that annoying Windows habit of treating files as harmful ones from other computers once modified). I have already scanned all of the vintage Bricks and the rest of the decorations should be ready soon. Hope that these files will be useful and keep up the great work as usual!

When you reach the GitHub page, press the “Go to file” option on top, then type to search for “78329” which should bring up two results: the 78329.xml and the 78329.g files. Right-click to save both files onto your computer (on Windows unblock both files in the File Properties first if necessary) then move them into your corresponding local LDD Folders.

Thanks a bunch, everything is working perfectly now!

I simply downloaded the latest Primitives.rar release file from Dropbox and copied everything over directly. I only had to manually update the DecorationMapping.xml file to preserve my own custom Decorations, but I made sure that everything new was copied over. Unless something went wrong here I think I did everything right, but the two other Part 60601 Decorations are definitely missing. EDIT: Apparently the version on Dropbox is missing the latest .g, .g1 and .g2 files for the three NASA Decorations, but the GitHub version finally worked. However, the two other Part 60601 Decorations are also missing on the GitHub version as well. EDIT 2: I found the issue regarding the two missing Part 60601 Decorations. All four Decorations are correctly applied in the DecorationMapping.xml file, but the Decoration PNG files for "24657" and "24414" are missing from the latest "Decorations" folder on both release platforms. In summary, the Dropbox release needs to be updated with the latest .g, .g1 and .g2 files for the three NASA Decorations, then both the Dropbox version and the GitHub version need to be updated with the missing "24657" and "24414" Decoration PNG files. Thanks in advance!

I reinstalled the latest files and all parts are now working fine. However, there still seems to be a problem with a few Decorations. As shown here, the three NASA Decorations are still not displayed correctly despite support already added to the DecorationMapping.xml file and are all present in the corresponding .lxfml file. I then tried using the Decoration Tool on Part 76798 and nothing showed up. Also, I compared the latest 21051 file with the Decorated Parts 21051 Image from Bricksafe and noticed that the four Part 60601 should all be decorated, but only the lower two are currently decorated and when using the Decoration Tool the top two Decorations seem to be missing. Keep up the good work!

One of the first LEGO Sets I still own is Set 4244 My Home Bucket, released way back in 1998! Although the bricks are now scattered across many places, I managed to dig through my collection and locate seven vintage Printed LEGO Bricks, including a Part 3010 Brick 1x4, a Part 3009 Brick 1x6, a Part 3297 Roof Tile 3x4/25° three Part 4744 Arch 2x4x2 and a Part 6213 Brick 2x6x3. From this image, we can see that there is the set of three classic designs of the 90s: Part 81780 BRICK CURV.2X4/2X2 D.BOY, Part 81781 BRICK CUR.2X4/2X2 D.GIRL and Brick 2x6x3 with Red, White, Blue Flowers Pattern, then we have another Green Arch 2x4x2 which I randomly retrieved from a relative’s Duplo Collection a while ago, next is the two car fronts (1x4 Brick and Roof Tile) and finally we have a fancy 1x6 upper door arch. The car front on the Bright Yellow Roof Tile is easy to create as this decoration was just added to the latest pack, so just make the slope decoratable and apply the relevant decoration. If there are no better files of the other decorations available online, I could probably scan these Bricks into BMP Files then convert these to SVG images for accurate digital re-colouring (as colouring on these old Bricks have faded over time) then output as PNGs for use in LDD. I’ll use the RGB Values of Official LEGO Colours to make everything as accurate as possible, and hopefully I can contribute something soon. Thanks for the massive efforts by everyone up till now!

I have posted about this before, just search for the relevant posts in this topic regarding Decoration Sizes and have a look at the PDF file I created. Basically, LDD can only properly handle Decorations Sizes which are either square or the power of two, so other than squares only 1x2, 1x4, 2x4, 1x8 and 8x16 will work properly. Decorations such as 1x3, 2x3, 1x6, 2x6 and future 6x6 will not be displayed perfectly as LDD is not programmed to handle them well. For the best results, regarding all Decorations which can’t be displayed properly just compress your design into a square then LDD will automatically resize it correctly on the relevant surface. The maximum Decoration Size in LDD is 1024px times 1024px, so for the best output clarity I usually output all of my irregular Decorations Sizes in this maximum dimension.