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Aren't some of the lights a bit too bright and powerful? I mean, they are torches and lanterns and no high-performance xenon flood lights... A bit more dimmed down would be more realistic, wouldn't it? Apart from that: :thumbup: .

Nice indeed. Are your buildings based on real structures? The first one reminds me of one of those.

Careful! Bricklink uses its own numbering scheme: Quite a bunch of bricklink IDs are identical to those used in LDD, but especially the ones containing any letters are always different. Moreover, even the descriptions differ quite often. Generally spoken, the part lists on http://brickset.com/search?query= are more compatible to LDD than those on Bricklink. Example: What Bricklink calls 6029b is known as 87696 in LDD. Bricklink calls this part "Plume Feathered Headdress"; if you type that into LDD's search box, you won't find that part, since LDD calls this part "Feather Splendour" -- a term unknown to Bricklink's part search on the other hand. Issues like that are discussed in this thread for a while now. So you are not alone. Another example: Some bricks sharing the very same shape might have different design IDs, depending on the fact whether their colours are transparent or solid: The transparent "Cup without Wreath" has the official design ID 30002, but you won't find that ID in LDD. However, LDD contains the ID 6269: Although this is the solid "Cup without Wreath", in LDD the transparent ones are filed under this ID as well. The bricklink ID, however, is 2343. It lists the 6269 as an alternative ID, but not the 30002, and calls the part "Utensil Goblet". The ID 2343 is unknown to both LDD and Brickset. Simple, isn't it? Admittedly LDD is a bit confusing with regards to IDs. Those issues have been filed as bugs and might be tackled in the future, but currently they are rather mind-boggling...

Thanks for the renderings and the 3D image! They are marvelous. I really appreciate it. Guess I'll print them poster-size... By the way: Has anyone of you figured out how to export from LDD to Blender to make a fly-by animation?

Please switch to the LDD Extended mode (View > New Themes), then enter 98282 into the search box on the left: Voilà!

I'm done. As for me, we may as well prepone the deadline to March 9th, 2400 UTC. No seriously: Will there be any early-bird-bonus?

Oh, sorry. I wasn't aware of it. No bad faith intended. If not for the competition, I wouldn't have bothered doing microscale stuff: It's way harder to achieve appropriate results than on normal minifig scale!

Here's my bourgeois red-brick city villa. It is roughly based on the Model Town House 4954, or rather Yeon Man Choi's mini version of it. I'm usually not that much into building micro scale, but I hope it's competitve enough anyway. Click on a thumbnail to get a bigger picture. The car is an adaption of the Street Speeder 6743. Dustbin and downpipe are located next to the front stairs. The front door is flanked by two ancient lanterns. Note that the palm trees are made of plumed / feathered headdresses (6029b), which unfortunately do not exist in green in real life. An Indian Feather (30126) represents another sort of shrub and does not exist as that colour as well. One wall is overgrown with ivy. Hopefully not the poison one. The roof and the chimneys indicate that the house is presumably from the late Victorian era. The roof overhang of the main building is not repeated at the garage. So maybe the garage wasn't included in the beginning, but added later, when cars became more popular. The whole house including garage fits onto a 8×16 baseplate. On this closeup you can recognize the shelf located inside the garage. You may download the LDD LXF file here. Post comments and critics in this thread please.

Here's my bourgeois red-brick city villa. It is roughly based on the Model Town House 4954, or rather Yeon Man Choi's mini version of it. I'm usually not that much into building micro scale, but I hope it's competitve enough anyway. Click on a thumbnail to get a bigger picture. The car is an adaption of the Street Speeder 6743. Dustbin and downpipe are located next to the front stairs. The front door is flanked by two ancient lanterns. Note that the palm trees are made of plumed / feathered headdresses (6029b), which unfortunately do not exist in green in real life. An Indian Feather (30126) represents another sort of shrub and does not exist as that colour as well. One wall is overgrown with ivy. Hopefully not the poison one. The roof and the chimneys indicate that the house is presumably from the late Victorian era. The roof overhang of the main building is not repeated at the garage. So maybe the garage wasn't included in the beginning, but added later, when cars became more popular. The whole house including garage fits onto a 8×16 baseplate. On this closeup you can recognize the shelf located inside the garage. You may download the LDD LXF file here.

My dream home is located on a cosy tropical islet somewhere way off the coast. So way off that mermaids are rumoured to live in that area... It's built very plain and straightforward, so I focused on all the small details that make this house so lovely. This includes a bunch of CMFs courtesy of Aanchir in this thread. From the jetty a wooden perron leeds to a big green door flanked by torches. The landing is a superb place to enjoy fishing. On the top floor is a big patio with a beautiful view. Ideal to craft some nice paintings or to gourmandise some carb bombs. The latter attract of course some seagulls, too. On the next picture we have a closer look at the top floor (with the roof removed). It mainly consists of a large bathroom with a convenient tub. A boombox (not visible from that angle), an antique lamp as well as a feature fireplace invite to loll in the hot soapy water. You also see some grapes entwining around the outer walls and a little monkey harvesting bananas from the palm trees. And if you look very closely, you'll recognize a lepidopterist. Here we have a look at the main floor. A butler is fetching a new bottle of wine from the cellar, while a plumber is fixing the clogged mess in the lavatory. Vis-à-vis a nerd is slurping her cocoa in front of the chimney, while her kitten is demanding attention. In the corridor, a diva is admiring her trophy, while two girls play with their pets sitting on the floor between a large TV and a bed. On the lower left corner of this floor, a small but well-equipped kitchen is located: Cooker, coffee percolator, herbages hanging from the ceiling -- only some of the details visible here. The cellar is well-stocked with all sorts of vegetables: Different pumpkins in the corners top left and top right (next to the chicken), jalapeño peppers and a cucumber on the window sill, boxes with cherries and carrots in the middle and barrels with wine and beer in the lower right corner of the room. On the stairs you see the butler again, while outside the lepidopterist as well as a climber are visible, and also a life-guard (next to the flume). This islet used to be a pirate hideout some 200 years ago and thus has an ample cellar, where bats and spiders live. Some remains of the pirates are still present, such as a golden sarcophagus or the skeletons. The lattice bars are rather rusty, so that the guys fetched the welding machine to repair them. The barrels with bananas are, however, fresh. So fresh that some bananas aren't even ripe. Since only six screenshots are allowed, here is a last picture to present some of the details from another perspective. To get a better impression of all the small details not visible in the pictures above, you may download the LDD LXF file and examine the model en detail. Please note that I didn't bother if all the parts exist in the respective colours in real life, but rather focused on the overall visual appearance. Especially crafting all the green stuff made it necessary to exploit the freedom LDD's Extended Mode offers with regards to colours. I hope I stayed within the acceptable limits. It's pure coincidence that the part count is exactly 2014. It wasn't done on purpose.

My dream home is located on a cosy tropical islet somewhere way off the coast. So way off that mermaids are rumoured to live in that area... It's built very plain and straightforward, so I focused on all the small details that make this house so lovely. This includes a bunch of CMFs courtesy of Aanchir in this thread. From the jetty a wooden perron leeds to a big green door flanked by torches. The landing is a superb place to enjoy fishing. On the top floor is a big patio with a beautiful view. Ideal to craft some nice paintings or to gourmandise some carb bombs. The latter attract of course some seagulls, too. On the next picture we have a closer look at the top floor (with the roof removed). It mainly consists of a large bathroom with a convenient tub. A boombox (not visible from that angle), an antique lamp as well as a feature fireplace invite to loll in the hot soapy water. You also see some grapes entwining around the outer walls and a little monkey harvesting bananas from the palm trees. And if you look very closely, you'll recognize a lepidopterist. Here we have a look at the main floor. A butler is fetching a new bottle of wine from the cellar, while a plumber is fixing the clogged mess in the lavatory. Vis-à-vis a nerd is slurping her cocoa in front of the chimney, while her kitten is demanding attention. In the corridor, a diva is admiring her trophy, while two girls play with their pets sitting on the floor between a large TV and a bed. On the lower left corner of this floor, a small but well-equipped kitchen is located: Cooker, coffee percolator, herbages hanging from the ceiling -- only some of the details visible here. The cellar is well-stocked with all sorts of vegetables: Different pumpkins in the corners top left and top right (next to the chicken), jalapeño peppers and a cucumber on the window sill, boxes with cherries and carrots in the middle and barrels with wine and beer in the lower right corner of the room. On the stairs you see the butler again, while outside the lepidopterist as well as a climber are visible, and also a life-guard (next to the flume). This islet used to be a pirate hideout some 200 years ago and thus has an ample cellar, where bats and spiders live. Some remains of the pirates are still present, such as a golden sarcophagus or the skeletons. The lattice bars are rather rusty, so that the guys fetched the welding machine to repair them. The barrels with bananas are, however, fresh. So fresh that some bananas aren't even ripe. Since only six screenshots are allowed, here is a last picture to present some of the details from another perspective. To get a better impression of all the small details not visible in the pictures above, you may download the LDD LXF file and examine the model en detail. Please note that I didn't bother if all the parts exist in the respective colours in real life, but rather focused on the overall visual appearance. Especially crafting all the green stuff made it necessary to exploit the freedom LDD's Extended Mode offers with regards to colours. I hope I stayed within the acceptable limits. [EDIT] It's pure coincidence that the part count is exactly 2014. It wasn't done on purpose. For comments and critics have a look at this thread. [/EDIT]

If those licensing issues occur again, please have a look at this thread (especially the posts #23, #34, #63, #68, #70 and #103) and try if the suggestions posted there help solving that issue permanently. If not, please file a bug report over in the LDD forum.

The arch 6060 is supposed to fit under the bow of 2339 (and maybe the similar 14395 and 76768 as well). It definitely works in real life and apparently used to work in earlier versions of LDD as well: For images have a look at this thread. Obviously the bounding boxes of 2339 got messed up with one of the recent updates.

Is there any chance that the general public will benefit from that special version? (I mean, apart from getting The LEGO Movie, the Ninjago Movie and The LEGO Movie II, III, IV, V and VI, of course.) Will it eventually lead to something like LDD 5? Why should he lie about that issue? I mean it's OK to confess that some special LDD version is used, isn't it? One would actually expect that movie makers use special equipment not available to the general public. So there's no point in pretending the usage of off-the-shelf software which anybody can download, when actually some special LDD editions were used. Or do I miss something?

And yellow. There were usually three different type of plumes in one ring of the same colour.

Even if there is enough money, there are plenty of other reasons to stick to the virtual building experience, such as: Flatmates (especially spouses and of course animals like cats or dogs) that don't appreciate that hobby way of life and harm or even destroy your collection (e.g. by pawning them for drugs ); The lack of adequate space to display the collection in an appropriate manner; Virtual creations do not have to be dedusted; Building virtually is fun enough, especially since there are no "rare" parts or colours; it's way more fun to be an architect than a brick mason. I mean, designing and constructing are the aspects that make LEGO really interesting, aren't they? The actual process of building, however, is but disdainful brick stacking, isn't it? But you are right: Mostly it's the lack of money!

Aiden Sarsfield from Animal Logic, who happens to be the CG Supervisor, comments on the usefulness of LDD in this video: At around 15:20 he says: "[...] but we actually used an off-the-shelf LEGO piece of software, which anybody can download. It's called LDD, which is Lego Digital Designer. [...]" Off-the-shelf which anybody can download does not sound to me like there's a special Movie Edition of LDD. Maybe it's just another line in the preferences.ini or a hidden command line switch that shows those additional buttons. However, if there actually is something like a LDD LEGO-Movie edition, please do post the download link right here.

The combinatation of the sets 8100, 8102 & 8103 (a.k.a. Sky Titan) is obviously official, since there is an official instruction available at http://cache.lego.co...0-8102-8103.pdf. Maybe you could enhance your post with the link to the official instruction; but apart from that, everything seems to be fine with Sky Titan, and removing it should not be necessary.

Wasn't that issue already discussed here recently?

It reminds me of the hat of the Legoland Ambassador Key Chain minifig: Since this key chain seems to be exclusive to the legoland parks, it is possible that this part is rather rare and not used elsewhere. But im not certain if this is really part 4156.

Since 2578a was used in as little as 4 sets and 2578b in only one single set a long time ago, this part is simply not important enough to make expensive changes to the design ID system: Unlike bricklink IDs, design IDs do not contain any letters, but are integers and thus can't be easily changed in databases and so on. Giving part 2578b a free integer design ID of let's say 25780 or 25788 thus might be a solution. I guess reusing the already existing ID 2578 for a new part with a different shape was an embarrassing mistake TLG would like to forget. Anyway, the design ID is used for much more than naming LDD bricks: Not only the shape, but also the material used distinguishes different IDs. That's the reason why identical shapes get different IDs when they only differ with regards to opaque versus transparent. Since the crude plastics are to be handled differently with regards to temperature, pressure and so on, transparent and opaque parts can't be produced onto the same machine without modifications, even if they share the same shape. That's the reason for the whole mess we encounter in LDD. Changing the ID system and introducing something like a shape ID would be too expensive and too confusing I guess.

So, the Seahawks really won? I felt asleep somewhere in the fourth inning and missed the rest of the game. Could someone please explain to me what's that fascinating of American Football? I guess it's rather boring. But try to evangelise me...

I am not a lawyer, but as long as the EU is concerned, please do have a look at the Directive on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society (Directive 2001/29/EC). It is the european equivalent of the DCMA and says: [...] CHAPTER II RIGHTS AND EXCEPTIONS Article 2 Reproduction right Member States shall provide for the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit direct or indirect, temporary or permanent reproduction by any means and in any form, in whole or in part [...] Article 3 Right of communication to the public of works and right of making available to the public other subject-matter 1. Member States shall provide authors with the exclusive right to authorise or prohibit any communication to the public of their works, by wire or wireless means, including the making available to the public of their works in such a way that members of the public may access them from a place and at a time individually chosen by them. [...] Article 5 Exceptions and limitations [...] 3. Member States may provide for exceptions or limitations to the rights provided for in Articles 2 and 3 in the following cases: [...] (h) use of works, such as works of architecture or sculpture, made to be located permanently in public places; (i) incidental inclusion of a work or other subject-matter in other material; (j) use for the purpose of advertising the public exhibition or sale of artistic works, to the extent necessary to promote the event, excluding any other commercial use; (k) use for the purpose of caricature, parody or pastiche; [...] (m) use of an artistic work in the form of a building or a drawing or plan of a building for the purposes of reconstructing the building; [...] This is called Freedom of panorama. While this directive allows the member states to include such a clause in their national copyright laws, it does not require them to do so. Depending on the respective jurisdiction it thus may be legal to depict a building, or doing so may infringe the national copyright laws. I guess the laws of France, Belgium, Italy and Greece do not have a freedom of panorama-clause, while most other european countries allow the depiction of the exterior view of works of architecture. So if you are really uncertain, ask your local copyright lawyer for legal advice . But even in countries where the freedom of panorama is granted, anti-terror laws may limit the depiction of public places. For example, section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 of the UK was used multiple times to stop and search people taking photos of public places, without any suspicion that something illegal was committed. So if you are planning to post a model of an airport or something similar, you should be sure that no terrorist may use your model as a blueprint for an attack: Don't use a scale of 1:1 ... .

Thanks. However, the link you used contains a session ID and thus results in a "Page not found" message when attempting to download it. Better link to http://rocksandshoal....com/tutorials/ : Downloads from there seems to work.

A flat tile inverted 1x1, the smaller brother of 11203. And a 1x1 brick with 2 knobs: Not vis-à-vis like 47905 has, but rather right-angled instead.