BrokenEye

You can add your own, if you like. Adding custom decals is a heck of a lot easier than adding parts.

No, I know, I meant LDD didn't render it. 'Cause it's got all those 3D block models, which I presume have to be rendered by the... it's not really a game, so "game engine" is probably the wrong term, but I don't know. Just the engine, I guess. The thing that makes it go.

@jester The decal on the Shaak-Ti headpiece doesn't seem to have rendered.

Probably, but I've got no idea how long it'll take. I'll report back when it's done.

Oh, okay. I didn't know that was something you wanted, but will do. Done

Done

I also got a bunch of colors from Bricklink. They've got more of them than LDD does.

That makes no sense. The monitor is purely an output device. It only effects how colors appear to the viewer, not how they're valued and saved by the computer itself. If I take a screenshot when the monitor is turned off, don't get a blank image. You might as well say that having a bad printhead that smudges typed documents changes how the computer parses unicode.

Here's the updated ninja wall. Watching the contents of the text box fall perfectly inside the contours of the characters in the source image was oh so satisfying.

Righteous. Thanks, man. I'll get started on that right away.

No, not really. It's not as if I pulled the colors from a photograph or a scanned image. I just converted existing color swatches into a usable swatch plugin. What other display's color settings would I need to correct for when there's no other display involved?

Here are some baby faces for 33464 (Minifigure Baby / Toddler Head with Neck) and all of the orange (and reddish-orange) Power Shields. Don't call me Baby Face.

Not sure why you'd say that. I sampled the colors straight from the source.

I'm sorry, that's not what I meant. I didn't correct for the on-screen display. I corrected for exactly two inaccuracies in how BrickLink's color guide displays the colors. I didn't notice immediately, but Bricklink displays black and white as true black and true white (#000000 and #ffffff), which don't match the off-black and off-white shades I sampled from LDD's various decoration files (namely, #1b2a34 and #f4f4f4). #1b2a34 and #f4f4f4 also blend in seamlessly with the colors of bricks themselves in both LDD and LDD to POVRay Converter, which suggest that those also use these shades. Considering the realism of LDD to POVRay Converter's renders, it seems very likely to me that the actual physical bricks also use #1b2a34- and #f4f4f4-colored plastic, though I can't think of any way to confirm this objectively. At least, not with the equipment I have.

A little something I threw together to make my life easier when creating custom LEGO decorations for LEGO Digital Designer. These are color swatch sets for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, featuring all current brick colors (according to BrickLink), with black and white color corrected to match LDD's black and white. The Illustrator set is organized by catagory, and since the Photoshop swatch system doesn't allow for this, each catagory is its own set. Even though these are brick colors and not decoration colors, it seems to me that most decorations tend not to stray very far from this palette. Download Illustrator Swatches To install the Illustrator swatches, download the file and place it in "C:\Users\[YOUR NAME]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator [VERSION NUMBER] Settings\en_US\x64\Swatches". Once in Illustrator, open the Swatches window, and from the dropdown in the corner of the window choose "Open Swatch Library>User Defined>Lego Colors". Download Photoshop Swatches To install the Photoshop swatches, unzip the file and drop the *.ago files into "C:\Users\[YOUR NAME]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop [VERSION NUMBER]\Presets\Color Swatches". Then go to the dropdown menu in the corner of the Swatches pane and select "Replace Swatches", and pick the one you want.

Alright, here you go. The Photoshop swatch system doesn't allow for color groups, so each catagory is its own swatch file. Download Unzip the file and drop the *.ago files into "C:\Users\[YOUR NAME]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop [VERSION NUMBER]\Presets\Color Swatches". Then go to the dropdown menu in the corner of the Swatches pane and select "Replace Swatches", and pick the one you want.

I've actually gotten started on one, but Photoshop's swatch system is a bit clunkier (I don't know why it needed to be different), so I'm still hammering out the details. It won't let me color-correct the black and the white, so I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to go back and re-do the entire Solid Colors section from scratch.

It's not a decoration, but I threw together a little something to make my life easier in the future when making decorations, and I thought I'd share it so that others might benefit. It's a set of color swatches for Adobe Illustrator, featuring all current LEGO brick colors (according to Bricklink), organized by type, with black and white color corrected to match LDD's black and white. Even though these are brick colors and not decoration colors, it seems to me that most decorations tend not to stray very far from this palate. To install, just download the file from the link below and place it in "C:\Users\[YOUR NAME]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator [VERSION NUMBER] Settings\en_US\x64\Swatches". Once in Illustrator, open the Swatches window, and from the dropdown in the corner of the window choose "Open Swatch Library>User Defined>Lego Colors". Download PS: Where'd be the best place to post this on the forums?

Here's all the red Power Shields. Also a decal for 85961 (Armor Breastplate with Back Stud) and some for 6177 (Tile, Round 8 x 8 with 4 Studs in Center).

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Here's a couple more Power Shield, and one non-power shield that I forgot to include in the last batch.

I've got a huge set of Nexo Knights Power Shields, and a few other decals for 22385 (Tile, Modified 2 x 3 Pentagonal), as well as a couple for 57895 (Glass for Window 1 x 4 x 6), and a stop sign decal for 890 (Road Sign 2 x 2 Octagon with Clip). I haven't done every Power Shield (there are quite a lot of them), but I tried to do at least one from each Nexo Knights set and I'm planning on doing more later. Probably in installments. Have I mentioned that there are a lot of them? Anyhow, a few of them seem to reuse art I've already recreated, so those at least I should have ready very soon. One of the window pane decals includes some Japanese characters in a calligraphic-looking font that I don't feel I was able to do a very good job of replicating by hand (see above), and WhatTheFont doesn't seem to play well with non-Latin character blocks, so if anyone knows anything about Japanese-language fonts, I would be greatly appreciative for their help in identifying this one so that I might make a better, more accurate version. Worth a shot, right?

Awesome.

Okay, assuming I've interpreted everything right this time, here's the medallion for 93057. The corners of the square part should crop out due to the decorable area being roughly a circle. Lemme know how it works.

Thanks. Looks good. If I'm reading that uv map correctlly, I take it the topography I'll need to account for on that shoulder piece is basically just a slight curve in on otherwise flat texture. Is that right? Here is the drive folder. If you need any more of the illustrator files I did, just ask. I've still got all of them, but so far I've only included the ones where I anticipate them possibly being needed. I've also included the skeleton torso files, since the waist sections don't seem to have lined up quite how I expected. EDIT: Oh, wait a minute... that UV map is just for the medallion part of 93057, isn't it? The white spikes are probably colorable, not decorable.