Hi team, here's my first real submission to LDraw: a patterned plate exclusive to set 70618-1 (Benny's Spaceship from The Lego Movie). I don't have the actual part in my hand, so if someone with that set can double-check it will be greatly appreciated.
Some notes:
Most of the tile just inherits from the existing 'faceless 1 x 4 tile', only the actual tile face is new.
All of the symmetrical and repeated portions of the text are implemented through some new primitives, which I've noted as private.
I know that LDraw doesn't offer every minifigure face, so is there any way of getting textures for the faces somewhere? I've tried drawing them, but they just don't look that good:
I fixed a bug which was related to template and helper lines.
There was a risk of an "array index out of bounds" which resulted in a crash (thanks Willy, for reporting the bug!).
Download and install the latest LDPatternCreator release directly from sourceforge.net.
Change log:
Fixed bugs:
Fixed a crash which was related to template- and helper-lines. The template line index was out of bounds.
As always, I included a short readme.htm in the installation directory.
Hello everyone, I am new to the site, so forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong category or something.
Anyways, I'm going straight to the subject. I use the LDraw files to import bricks into Blender and it's a great asset! I use it almost everyday. However, there are pieces missing that I need desperately for a project. I know modeling takes time, so please know I do NOT have a deadline. I have just been looking through the internet inside out for these two parts with no avail, and its really frustrating. I even contacted the Lego Group, but they were unwilling to help, which is understandable. Anyways, before I blabber on, the two parts I need, are part of the Mars Mission sub-space theme. The theme was released in 2007 and in 2008 they came out with a really cool addition; the alien commander. I have attachments of the pieces on this thread. The IDs of the parts are: 62723, and 62724. I have not found them ANYWHERE, including LDD. (Lego Digital Designer). I know you need pics of the bricks in all different directions, so to make it easier, I have done pictures of my own. Just reply to the thread if you are willing to add these bricks. They are complex, but I'm sure one of you can do it!
Not sure where to post this, but I guess here isn't the worst option at least.
Trying to identify a minifig head or torso can be very difficult. I have been thinking of a system of standardized, unique keywords to narrow down the search in a very easy way.
So far, I've just made a pilot test with the 51 first minifig torsos that comes up in my Parts library, and added three new keywords. The point is to be able to filter for example, not only whether there are buttons or not on a torso pattern, but exactly how many. The three "variables" I've been experimenting with so far is:
btn for button count (btn7 for 7 buttons and so on)
pkt for pocket count
and
zpr for zipper count
What would be the most efficient search criteria, could of course be subject of discussions; these three were just the first that came to my mind. But yet, the combination of these three filters looks very promising. Very often, only one torso remains in the search. (But then again, I have only implemented the system on 51 torsos so far...) We could probably add other search criteria, such as base colour[s], belt [clip count], and... you name it, but on the other hand, we can still use the rest of the part descriptions and already existing keywords in our search. So the key is to find the best keywords that has the highest potential for effective filtering. So far, I've found that 'btn' is by far the most efficient variable, but combined with other criteria, the filtering effectiveness increases exponentially.
So, for example, now when I enter "btn7" in LDList (for 7 buttons), I get only one hit: 973p1f. I'm sure there will be more hits if I ever get through all torsos, but then I may enter police or badge in the search, and it will probably be very few hits.
What do you think? A massive amount of work, yes, but IMO extremely beneficial.
