Are we ever going to get the old download pages back in their original glory?
It's just to weird to use third party sites to find things like lpub or some of the older tools.
I certainly don't hope the aioi is suppose to replace the individual links because personally I prefer to install everything separate on a when needed base.
Also having those links might increase activity on the forum (which is very quiet lately imho).
I'm afraid I don't have the artistic skill or patience for these, but none of them should require new models. Needed are:
* The newer stormtrooper minifig helmet pattern. It can be seen at http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5073/58743...0626_b.jpg on the rightmost minifig in decent resolution. The pattern on the front air vents, the placement and sizing of the exhaust filters on the side, and the sizing and placement of the various grey patches on the sides seem to be the big changes. Part ID 84468.
* The shadow trooper minifig helmet pattern. It can be seen at http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2654/41438...32b2_o.jpg from various angles. It looks to be a recolor of the stormtrooper pattern. Part ID 60489.
* The shadow trooper torso pattern. See the minifig helmet pattern. Part ID 76382.
* The Imperial symbol sticker. Can be seen at http://d13z1xw8270sfc.cloudfront.net/ori...7stk01.jpg with SKU visible. See http://lego.brickinstructions.com/07000/7667/007.jpg for sizing and model placement. I wasn't sure how to color these correctly or size them.
Thanks for any assistance rendered.
EDIT: It appears from other threads that people often ask for/provide high DPI scans. I can provide these on request, though if a scan of the helmet is wanted I might ask for some suggestions on how to do it.
This is my first attempted official model and I had some questions about the best way to improve it for inclusion in the OMR. It was created using MLCad. A few notes on questions I had, choices I made, the like:
* I haven't used any grouping, as I'm not sure how best to apply it or if there's any convention for naming groups.
* There is a detachable bit in the back. I wasn't sure whether to include this as a submodel or simply as is.
* I wasn't sure whether minifigs should be included as submodels.
* I've used steps, but no buffer exchanges/clears for displaying only the parts being worked with in the instructions. Should I do so?
* Stickers are not included, as I don't know of a good place to acquire the correct image or how to correctly create the sticker part, ensuring dimensions are accurate, etc. Is there any chance someone could help me with this or create the necessary part?
* The shadow trooper is using the stormtrooper patterns, which aren't quite accurate. I definitely do not have the skills to fix these, but not sure where I should ask to find someone willing to do the work.
* Obviously the headers aren't correct. If the above-mentioned things shouldn't be submodels, should it still be saved as an MPD. (If so, how can this be done in MLCad?)
Any other feedback that people have is welcome. I've done my best to ensure accurate part placement, but it's my first foray and I'm willing to learn. Official instructions for this model are at http://cache.lego.com/bigdownloads/build...535026.pdf.
I recently downloaded a file, one of the Iron Man 3 sets (http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.ph...try1537715), in .lxf format. In the past I've been able to open .lxf files through a couple of different ways, either importing into Blender, or LDView, and saving as an .obj to open in Maya. And I can do that with this particular file just fine, most of the parts come through, except for the helmet, which is what I was really looking for. The helmet is two parts, and in LDD it looks fine, but no matter what program I open it up with, the helmet just doesn't appear. I've tried Blender, Bricksmith, LDView, even LeoCAD. I've updated my LDraw library...Is there any fix for this? Or any way to export that file with all the helemt intact? Or am I just out of luck?
I know I could just model the helmet myself in Maya, but if there's a way I could get the actual lego file, I'd be much happier.
Posted by: Sven - 2013-05-17, 10:09 - Forum: Help
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Hi!
New to the board here.
Just got myself Bricksmith for Mac 2 days ago and i'm having a blast!!!
However, when i'm trying to build something on a larger scale, bricks don't seem to fit correctly.
I'm building a cabine on a 32 x 32 plate and i'm really taking aaaagggeeesss to fit a brick nicely ,next or on top of another.
I already built a litle model before and everything went perfect.
So, are there any tips/tricks to fit piece together nicely???
Snap to grid seems to help 4 out of 10 times but there must be some other way right?
Back in 1973 when I was 12, together with my younger cousin I made a 6 minutes Lego film in Super 8, half of it using stop motion animation. Inspired by the popular Apollo program, we built a rocket with several stages and room for the LM, a launch vehicle, an aircraft carrier and many busses, cars and houses. Minifigs were not invented yet, so we used small 1x1 brick men.
The film was a gift to our grandparents' golden wedding anniversary.
After the party our grandparents took the film and us to Billund, where we showed it to Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. He liked it and had a copy made. We, in turn, got a Lego factory tour and got some big sets to take home ;-)
In the last few days i've been toying with an idea for an Lpub like program to generate and paginate instructions.
The problem with these kind of programs is that all code to layout stuff is tedious and bug prone (all calculations on margin and alignement and relative positioning and stuff).
The idea is to use something that already does this job and i thought, why not HTML+CSS?
We can put all rendering images into div boxes, giving each box his css class like "assembly", "part list", "step num" etc, and building the appropriate CSS to handle positioning. CSS has plenty of options for this. CSS could be used also for font size, face and placement. One could customize his own CSSs and reuse them (instead of reentering his setup for each file as in LPub).
The generated html+css+images could be used by itself, or better with an integrated renderer we could generate png images just like LPub. It could also be postprocessed with any WYSIWYG html editor.
CSS has some advanced rules to control pagination.
Rendering of images could of course be handed off to LDView or another renderer just like LPub does.
but there must be some other way right?
