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  1. Gnac
    I know at least three people who will love this! One is me, One is known as "The Chud"*, and the other is Mike Mignola. Of course, this is nowwhere near the limit, because it is such a great thing. *Hellboy Superfan
  2. Gnac
    Automatic bids? I don't usually bother with anything on there that isn't "buy it now", but this sound like a similar happening. Allegedly you can make a private maximum bid, and each public bid that doesn't beat it will be automatically met with a small increment. I assume that this is to make it difficult to guess the value of the maximum bid.
  3. Gnac
    If such a thing were to happen, I would hope that the sets would be presented like those in the Architecture range: a black box with the model superimposed on a territory map, and a nice book where the building instructions are prefaced by some unnerving stories and statistics. That'll keep everyone but the most determined of builders away, and allow TLG to pull it quickly, citing reasons of low demand and financial unviability. But of course, making such sets in the first place could be considered bad taste. Several European countries still bear physical and mental scars from WW2, and the negative response from Veterans and Charities would certainly be a PR disaster.
  4. Gnac
    Latest purchase / filling gaps in the index ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4101 - Wild Collection [Model G] - theme: Designer LXF (LDD 4.3.8) 4101 - Wild Collection [Model S] - theme: Designer LXF (LDD 4.3.8) 4101 - Wild Collection [Model T] - theme: Designer LXF (LDD 4.3.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Models A-F and H-R were done here by Mister BEAVeR.
  5. Gnac
    *pop* [see the second part of this post by sjuip for what was originally here]
  6. Gnac
    You can search for design IDs in extended mode. Menu: View > New Themes > LDD Extended Then tap the ID into the little lozenge at the top of the brick palette.
  7. Gnac
    It's still there - with 11 bids, and ten hours to go. CopMike's link seems to have been mangled by the post-o-matic.
  8. Gnac
    SWEET MOTAAAHS. Something that was missing, and something that I simply wanted to DO. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5767 - Cool Cruiser [Model A] - theme: Creator Errors: (page 27, step 31) (RECURRING RACK-AND-PINION STEERING HORRORS) LDD doesn't allow "Loose Connections", so the 6562s (peg with crossaxle) needed to be raised to make a connection between 6630 and 32068 (page 61, step 58) LDD also doesn't seem to allow the doors to be angled properly - I assume that this is because the assembly would be in compression somewhere. The closest I can hinge them is 11°, which sticks out far too much. I've made them straight, and the 1x1 round plates which stop them from doing this in the real model have been hidden underneath. (MAD THING: In reality, the headlight bricks shouldn't let me do this, but LDD doesn't consider the microfine protrusion here which has made many of my real models all sort of bent, so this is actually fortunate) LXF (LDD 4.3.8) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8156 - Ferrari FXX 1:17 - theme: Racers (Ferrari) (DUPLICATE) Errors: Part 61738 (Rim Cap Ø36.7 W. Deko) not available in LDD; replaced with part 85969, but this part cannot be dual-coloured with a red edge No prints or stickers or anything like that LXF (LDD 4.3.8)
  9. Gnac
    It's not in LDD, but the 2-wide equivalent is (search in extended mode for "73594"), so perhaps it's just a matter of time before this 4-wide one gets added.
  10. Gnac
    If you're referring to advanced techinques, I don't believe there is one, but you're definitely in the right place to find out about such things. The amount of information can be overwhelming at first, but it's worth a look through the stickies for interesting information. This is a forum for designers of all aptitudes, so don't hesitate to ask about something if there isn't a thread which covers your queries.
  11. Gnac
    If they make a new kind of grey which makes everyone go "oOoOo", I'm going to prepare for the worst.
  12. Gnac
    Well THIS is a massive kick in the Chi-balls. Looks like my only hope of ever acquiring these is BrickLink. Was it an issue of distribution, marketing, language localisation, or a mix of all three?
  13. Gnac
    OH NICE, I've been anticipating a contest or relay-build-type-thing for a while. I actually have a little mansion wot I shelved months ago (the BOM was going to require SILLY MONEY). I doubt it'll be spectacular enough to win, but it'll give me an incentive to finish it and show it off. Looking forward to how a render would turn out too, maybe I'll be forced to reveal my unorthodox way of working with the results from POV-Ray!
  14. Gnac
    As a person whose brain goes through a gestalt collapse upon dealing with abstract concepts like discerning left from light, reading analogue clocks, and mathematics, I will need to read your post several times to understand what you mean, but thanks!
  15. Gnac
    For a while now, I have been itching to know just how LXFML files work. Although there is official documentation to explain the purpose of the <nodes>, information which details the attributes of these nodes is scarce. The most useful thing to understand would be the "transformation" attribute of the <Bone> nodes, which appears to contain data about the position and orientation of each <brick>. However, before we can even begin to try to understand the comma-seperated values here, we need to understand the LDD grid, how the application displays it to you, the user, and how it relates to the 3D Cartesian Co-ordinate System. Take a look at this image here! This is what I have learned about the LDD grid from doing a series of tests on an instance of part 3039, placed in the very centre of the LDD grid. I planned 32 test cases which resulted in all the basic positions for a brick that I could think of, and made a PHP script to read the LXFs, extract their values, and display them in a comparison table. The X, Y and Z movement values are pretty obvious, but the rotation values less so. 10 tests are pending (because I think I really should have made sense of these values by now), and I see no sense in doing them until I have an "epiphany". Seriously, Just LOOK at the changed values (in red) on that table. Could there be some sort of bitwise combinations going on with fields 1-9? My brain is getting smashed in by plastic rocks here.
  16. Gnac
    This sounds like a job for... GROUPS! Click on any preview in the group palette to highlight all the parts at once. Dragging any one of those highlighted parts will allow them all to be moved or rotated as one. It's also spiffy for quick recolouring, or hiding parts to get at the creamy filling of your model. Of course, you will have to create the grouped items first, but the time saved doing it once will make the future workflow much more enjoyable. EDIT: Heh, I didn't see Calabar's post while I was adding all new stuff to this.
  17. Gnac
    Hee, great that there's still interest for this. It had been buried under other projects and forgotten, and I had no idea that Dev-Host links could expire. The first post has been updated with a (hopefully more persistent) Mediafire link. Also, thanks Calabar for hanging on to past releases, because I have terrible version control.
  18. Gnac
    The "racecar" pics begin at "Toy Fair 2014 LEGO Creator 014" in that gallery. Having seen the alternate models for 31024, I now understand why the main build has those 'orrible yellow headlights.
  19. Gnac
    AS interested as I am in both LEGO and architecture in general, I haven't heard much about 21050 in relation to its performance. I am a bit disgusted that it appears to be yet another inspiring thing that was not released in a region where I could easily buy it (MBA as an example). Without knowing more about the decisions which led to this situation, I can only despair at any future attempts to appeal to proponents of the obvious corossover between LEGO prototyping and the aesthetics of architectural design. BAH!
  20. Gnac
    You might like this thing! http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=80316 EDIT: read on until the edit. Unfortunately, a new LDD update will overwrite this setting, so you will need to re-apply it each time.
  21. Gnac
    REVELATION: The BBC isn't as good as people make it out to be, putting in the bare minimum of effort, and regularly abusing "Betteridge's law of headlines", especially when it comes to covering cultural matters which occur outside a particular manifesto, or field of knowledge. It's almost as though they commissioned it in a hurry.
  22. Gnac
    Bear in mind that LDD is unable to show how clutch power and various stresses act on a construction, so it's always good to refine the design in LDD alongside building some components seperately, to test their physical strength. It could be something big like a cantilever floor, or as in one of my own examples: a car that flexed too much in the middle, because the chassis depended on a single 2x14 plate for its base (sorted by "laminating" it with another one on top).
  23. Gnac
    4404 - Land Busters (all model variations) has been updated to LDD 4.3.8 to take advantage of new part additions, and to fix misplaced part errors as a result of revised part geometries.
  24. Gnac
    I'm not sure I'm supposed to be able to do this with 64230 spiral tube: It also happens with 4070 (erling brick), and selected other SNOT bricks with hollow knobs such as 4733 (at any angle), 52017; round bricks such as 3062, 3942, 4859, 6188, 59900, 71075; and pretty much anything else that I imagine would require disassembly of the spiral tube to achieve. This doesn't happen with 6211 (a part which cannot be manipulated by the flex tool), so I imagine all this weirdness is a side-effect of the behaviour which allows flexible items to "snap" into place. LXF Example (LDD 4.3.8 / Brickset 1264) ALSO: heeee, I think I made the tube angry with all my messing about - it went all skinny in the middle:
  25. Gnac
    Sometimes when things don't quite line up properly, it is possible to make things fit by entering "floating point" values in the textboxes under the hinge tool; e.g. "18.25" or "-156.35" This requires much patience and experimentation, but works great in most cases. If it does not, another perspective can find alternative solutions: if you could post a .LXF of the file you are working on, with an annotated image / detailed description of the function you would like to achieve, I (or someone more savvy) may be able to offer some ideas.
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