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Check pages 9, 1o of this PDF. LDD Pro is still alive. https://recordings.designmatters.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/27.Bret-Schafbuch.pdf Also here is an archive of the very early history of LDD https://www.spu-darwin.org/galapagos/

Nice ! My first pull request received. Added in. I'm quite busy myself with work and moving country. So not much time on anything :(

Thanks @legoanimegirl for adding to this thread. I think LDD Hollywood information is sparse - but LDD LEGOLAND information is nearly non-existant. I wish it could be dumped somewhere just like some old (unreleased) console games are once in a while. LDD is still by far the best building tool. Also some interesting information here: https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/bltf643219fa5bd3d27/bits_n_bricks_s05e47_feature_and_transcript.pdf "As the fan base for LEGO Digital Designer continued to grow among customers, it also found a fan base internally, among designers. Soon, the developers behind LDD had created specialized versions for LEGOLAND®, set creators, video game developers, and even Hollywood – eventually those were all combined into LDD Pro. But as support for LDD grew for internal use, support of LDD Fan diminished." "Today, LDD Pro is the only version of LEGO Digital Designer supported by the LEGO Group. Back when the company started creating spinoffs of LDD, the core version was renamed LDD Fan, but LDD Fan stopped getting official support in 2016. Despite that, one more update hit in 2019, but no more are expected." Last but not least: setuplddlegoland-pc-1_1_2.exe Publisher: LEGO System A/S (signed and verified) MD5: 53c82ab61c78bbaee2de6fac7c2ff48a SHA-1: 41a6ad97249cec140f57153fb268787ab1953a15 SHA-256: 93bb659886150660aa39a99336b51edaa0ca8a7d9e9d8c0b0560da5d4e8ce428 File Details File size: 363.5 MB (381,164,896 bytes) LDD LEGOLAND.exe Publisher: LEGO Company (signed by LEGO System A/S) Product: LDD LEGOLAND Version: 1.1.2.0 MD5: abe0be2e790a97841e21848796c00916 SHA-1: 0c96f72b9462fa3453859fd186a9177aa8bc8d3c SHA-256: c869a183dc11662f464f1c7387c1becf8f4355acc89a06cadbf946050d354372 File Details File size: 8.8 MB (9,272,160 bytes) Product version: 1.1.2.0 Copyright: LEGO A/S Copyright � 2014 Original file name: LDD LEGOLAND.exe File type: Executable application (Win64 EXE) Language: Language Neutral Common path: C:\Program Files\lego company\ldd legoland\ldd legoland.exe Important: I don't have this files - I gather this information from the internet

Yeah I'm pretty much on the same page with you. LDD is still the best tool for building in my opinion. I switched my render workflow to import my LDD builds into Mecabricks and then use it's Blender Plugin for rendering. Mecabricks has amazing materials :)

Thats a nice change. You might also create a pull request in github. I'm not working on the blender plugin or LDD as much currently as i did in the past. But I'm happy to see that its of use to some people :)

I got Lego Digital Designer working on macOS with Apple Silicon (M1 Chip) You need to get UTM https://mac.getutm.app/ and follow this guide to get Windows 11 installed: https://docs.getutm.app/guides/windows/ Afterwards its essential you get the OpenCL™ and OpenGL® Compatibility Pack from the Microsoft Store (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/announcing-the-opencl-and-opengl-compatibility-pack-for-windows-10-on-arm/ ). Otherwise LDD will look garbled and is unusable. Performance is really quite nice.

No as far as I know. :(

I got this part working. The issue was that this parts .xml file has a comment and the plugin didn't parse xml comments correctly. Updated version here (and tested with Blender 3.4): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sttng/ImportLDD/main/importldd.py You have to un-install the plugin 1st, afterwards restart blender, then install again. Hope this fixed the issue. Maybe you can send the LDD file so I can check ?

Thanks guys !

Can we get this part: https://rebrickable.com/parts/1748/tile-round-1-x-2-half-circle/ I think it's quite a useful one.

Are you on Windows or macOS or Linux ? In fact i don't maintain the plugin anymore. But I might check on your error.

Assuming you use Windows: Assuming you use macOS

Well until I get a real 3D version the pictures aren't helping. I was just guessing that there might be a 3D file out there, based on the rendered pictures. But as the pictures are directly from TLG, only they have a 3D file currently. I'm not good enough / too lazy to create 3D model of this part myself. So basically not much I can do :(

Thanks for the explanation and guiding me into the right direction. It makes sense, and I can even confirm it after some further investigation. You can still pull the graphics if you get the Element ID and use the link below. https://www.lego.com/cdn/product-assets/element.img.lod5photo.192x192/<ElementID>.jpg According to Rebrickable and BrickOwl this part has an Item No or Element ID of 6224507 (https://rebrickable.com/parts/38401/minifig-costume-mask-cat-bright-pink-nose-print/ / https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-black-minifigure-hat-36112-38401). So to pull the graphics from TLG you can use these 2 links: https://www.lego.com/cdn/product-assets/element.img.lod5photo.192x192/6224507.jpg or https://www.lego.com/cdn/product-assets/element.img.lod4photo.192x192/6224507.jpg Mystery solved, but still now 3D version of the part ....

Its not in Mecabricks - thats where I want to get it in ultimately. Interesting know that TLG seems to share the picture with Brickset. And yes for obvious reasons TLG has 3D data of all their parts. So its remains a mystery where the renders come from....

Well I would wonder how Brickowl got the render of this part (from LEGO). I can't find this part on the LEGO Website (neither buy nor broken nor lost) and also I couldnt find a PDF Building Instruction for that minifig. So I indeed would wonder where they got it from - I doubt they get it from LEGO ? Would they ?

To be more specific this one: https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-minifigure-hat-36112-38401 The picture Brickowl themselves put there, seem to be digital. Anyone know, if and where to get it ? Any format (LDraw, LDD, etc) is fine.

I think round 1x1 pieces will likely also connect then, because of how collisions work.

First of all thanks for the great tutorial ! Regarding Polygon welding in Blender: I think Blender only assumes 2 Polygons to be connected when these use the exact same vertices of an edge. Example in 2D. Lets say you have these 4 vertices: v1 (0,0) v2 (1,1) v3 (0,1) v4 (1,0) And these 2 polygons: p1 (v1,v2,v3) p2 (v1,v2, v4) Blender will only regard p2 and p2 connected at edge (v1, v2) because the exact same vertices are used. Now if we have the following setup: v1' (0,0) v2' (1,1) v3' (0,1) v4' (0,0) v5' (1,1) v6' (1,0) And these to polygons: p1' (v1',v2',v3') p2' (v4',v5', v6') Blender will not regard p1' and p2' being connected, because even so the edges defined by v1', v2' and v4', v5' are the same coordinates they are different vertices. You might try the "Merge by Distance" tool as part of the "Vertex" menu to merge vertices of a certain distance.

Thanks Stephan for all the hard work !

https://github.com/JrMasterModelBuilder/LIF-Extractor/releases

You can continue to use LDD - thats what I do. It works on Windows 10 (and I guess 11) without issues. On macOS you are more in a pain (I am), because you can't upgrade your OS without loosing it. It does work with Wine however.

I made some adjustments to the collisions of 49311 https://github.com/sttng/LDD-New-Parts/blob/main/Primitives/49311.xml I think this fixes the problem.

I had a quick check at 49311, it works good for me. I surround it with 3001 2x4 Lego bricks and left a hole to fit 49311 in. Thats why I assume the door frame might be the culprit in your example above ?

Done