Architecture Theme

[Orion Pobursky]

Since I didn't actually test the upload capability, here it goes. Note that this may or may not adhere to the OMR spec. I didn't check.

Edit 1 - Now OMR Spec compliant

[Michael Heidemann]

Thank for sharing this.
Sadly all trees are placed 8 LDU too high.

[Orion Pobursky]

Really? I rendered this at least 10 times testing out different settings and never noticed.

On a side note, I read through the OMR spec and I think it needs significant improvement...

[Travis Cobbs]

They all look fine to me. I don't see any gaps. Did Orion update the file after your post?

[Orion Pobursky]

Nope. I was at the airport so I took Mike's word for it.

[Scott Classen]

Looks fine to me viewing with Bricksmith.B)

[Santeri Piippo]

Looks fine to me as well.

[Orion Pobursky]

Updated for OMR Spec compliance.

[Willy Tschager]

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Username missing in: 0 Author: <Author Name> [Username]

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[Orion Pobursky]

A Topic to unify all the Architecture model

[Orion Pobursky]

2011 Architecture Series

[Orion Pobursky]

Edited to make OMR Spec compliant

[Philippe Hurbain]

Nitpicking: tower should use light bluish gray (71), not old gray (7)...

[Orion Pobursky]

Fixed. Color 7 -> 71. Blame SPAM CONTENT memory. Gotta remember Light Grey is obsolete.

[Jude Parrill]

Yeah, one of the first things I do when starting a new model is I check to see which greys were used via bricklink and/or Peeron. Then I check to make sure the greys in color-bar (in MLCad) are set correctly, so that I can use them (these are edit-able, if you didn't know).

Another color that's easy to confuse is old-brown vs the new reddish-brown. I think this change happened around the same time as the grey -> bley conversion.

[Jetro de Château]

Yeah, one of the first things I do when starting a new model is I check to see which greys were used via bricklink and/or Peeron. Then I check to make sure the greys in color-bar (in MLCad) are set correctly, so that I can use them (these are edit-able, if you didn't know).

No, I did not and did not find a way to do so. Could you explain?

[Philippe Hurbain]

If you right-click on one of the color squares in the color toolbar, the color selector opens, and you can choose the color assigned to this square.

[Tim Gould]

It's one of the most useful 'secret' features of MLCAD I think. Was so excited when I had it pointed out to me

[Philippe Hurbain]

Same thing here!

[Steffen]

here as well!

[Stephen]

Arrggghhh!!!

Wish I had known this when I built my LEGO Hotel.

All those "tan" and "dark tan" bits were selected the "long way"!

Thanks Philippe for pointing this out, and Steffen for digging up an old post - I'd probably never have discovered this otherwise.

[Max Martin Richter]

And I was quite sure, that everybody knows about this option.
I use it from the very beginning due to the different grey versions...

/Max

[Michael Heidemann]

I also did not know about that or have completely forgotten about that.
Thanks for mentioning

[Willy Tschager]

You're NOT reading my tutorials by heart?

http://www.holly-wood.it/mlcad/basic2-en.html

Step 23:

Use the color dialog also to permanently change the default colors in the Color bar. You might substitute color 7 - Light_Gray with the nowadays used color 71 - Light_Bluish_Gray or replace rare colors like Salmon or Bright_green with transparent or chrome colors.
Right-clicking the color button you want to change will bring up the color dialog. Select a color as you would do for a part, okay-ing, MLCad will store the information in its settings.

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[Jetro de Château]

Guilty as charged! that's what you get from biased reading. It rings a bell now, but I had completely forgotten.
Any other nuggets most people gloss over or don't even think might be possible?

[Willy Tschager]

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[Orion Pobursky]

OMR Compliant

[Christoph Mierowski]

Some nice lighting for the "Brandenburger Tor": The first version is the way it often looks at night...

[Orion Pobursky]

OMR compliant

[Orion Pobursky]

OMR compliant

[Ignacio Fernandez Galvan]

Isn't it "Solomon" instead of "Soloman"? It doesn't matter much here, but maybe it should be fixed in the official models zip.

[Michael Horvath]

You should try this one next:

[Philippe Hurbain]

For the record, moving models to this topic made a mess with "Recent Messages"...

[Jean-Philippe Ouellet]

20 NEW MODELS!!!

For the record, moving models to this topic made a mess with "Recent Messages"...

Oh. Nevermind. Not new.

[Orion Pobursky]

Well 3 of them are...

[Oh-Seong KWON]

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This is 21010 Robie House.

I put some STEP to mark a sequence of building, but it was not complete.

Anyway you can enjoy this building with LDview.

Special thanks to Mr. Philippe Hurbain for 99301.dat part.

Enjoy

Assembled by SR3D Builder 0.6.3.7
Rendered by Mega-Pov 1.2.1

[Orion Pobursky]

Darn. I've been about halfway done with this for a while now... Good job

[Philippe Hurbain]

Looks excellent but... I have the fealing it's missing something important. What about this?

[Orion Pobursky]

That's cool. Any chance of getting the rest of the Theme?

[Philippe Hurbain]

Now that I found a reasonably matching font, should not be too hard! Or if someone else want to try... Here is the font.

[Orion Pobursky]

Ahh, a project to work on. I think I need to work on the website to do list more

[Philippe Hurbain]

OK, I couldn't resist... Here are two more:

[Steffen]

To identify a font just by its visual appearance ("does the 'g' look so-and-so... and so on"),
several databases on the web exist. They can help, even if you only have a small sample of letters.
I found playing with those quite funny. Maybe you already know of those.
For example: http://www.identifont.com

[Philippe Hurbain]

Yes, I did try identifont in the past - but was not SO convinced by the result. And often the best match font costs an arm... So I prefer to use font preview of some tools (here I used Corel Draw) to identify the best font already present on my system.

[Christoph Mierowski]

I just built this model, too. And I toyed a little bit with the light.dat .

The result is attached. Just use LDView to view it and mark use light.dat and replace standard light in preferences. Also a darker background is useful, so it looks nice.

[Oh-Seong KWON]

This is a new architecture, Sydney Opera House.

Enjoy

KWON

[Orion Pobursky]

Should be OMR compliant.

[Willy Tschager]

• .ldr file format instead of .mpd
  
• makes use of alias parts.
  

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[Orion Pobursky]

Ok. The alias parts thing is frustrating for a number of reasons:
- Not illegal per the spec
- Does not affect the model in any way
- No way for me to not include them in my library since I work on the Mac OSX platform so the complete.exe install file for the library is not something I can use (not that I would anyway).

The .ldr extension was used since I had no submodels. Easily changed.

[Chris Dee]

Ok. The alias parts thing is frustrating for a number of reasons:
- No way for me to not include them in my library since I work on the Mac OSX platform so the complete.exe install file for the library is not something I can use (not that I would anyway).

Please comment here if the suggestion to use a "=" prefix for aliases would help.

[Reuben Pearse]

I've just booked onto an event being run by RIBA (The Royal Institute of British Architects). Here's a snippet about the event:

"Senior Design Manager at LEGO Simon Kent offers a unique insight to the world of LEGO and how his own training as a product designer led to having one of the best jobs in the world on the LEGO Creator design team. Simon takes you through the design processes at LEGO and uses case studies including the LEGO Creator house design, direct modular building, and world building design models. Simon will talk about how design details are added to houses and introduce the growing LEGO Architecture series."

More details here

I'll be at the Birmingham event in the UK on the 21st June. Let me know if you're coming!

Bye for now

Reuben

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Download 3D Lego models and other resources from:
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[Greg Teft]

[Oh-Seong KWON]

Pieces: 660
Released: 2012

Nice and cool building!

Enjoy

[Philippe Hurbain]

Nice and cool building!
Enjoy

...even better when you visited the real thing

[Oh-Seong KWON]

I used this file for name tile.

You can see this file by SR3D, MLCAD, LDview or other LDraw compatible software.

Enjoy

[Christoph Mierowski]

Here a alternate colour version of the Imperial Hotel. The official colour choice is quite off (it seems tan has a abo in architecture).
So I used the rare colour salmon, which represents the real colour best in my opinion.
Mabye salmon is so out of use and was used so rarely they not even considered using it.

[Christoph Mierowski]

21018 United Nations Headquarters

parts: 596
released: 2013

I really like the use of 61485.DAT (Turntable Flat Base 4 x 4) as the round thing in front of the secretary building. Im not sure what exact this should be in real live. A round plaza,pool or what - there are thousand of images of this building on the internet, but I didnt't found one of this. Only google earth showed it and I am still wondering what it is...

[Michael Heidemann]

I added the unofficial files and put all together in a mpd content file.

[Christoph Mierowski]

I just forget that some people don't have the unoffical files installed. Because my version should be complete- if you have the unoffical files...

[Christoph Mierowski]

The US president home and work place.

[Christoph Mierowski]

Parts: 325
Released: 2012

Too sad that the roof of the original building burned down and had to be rebuild.

[Christoph Mierowski]

21003 Seattle Space Needle

parts: 57
released: 2009

Unofficial part and LSynth should be installed to view this model.
Also should the LSynth files be copied to the unofficial parts folder, if somebody wants to see it completly in LDView. (Maby there ia a other/better way, but this one works)

[Michael Heidemann]

Just make a mpd content file of your file
MPDCenter helps you in this case to pack all necessary files together.

The attached file can be seen by any LDraw user.

By the way - it looks really great!!

[Christoph Mierowski]

21021 Marina Bay Sands

parts: 601 (602 if you count the brick seperator)
released: 2013

the tile with the Marina Bay Sands pattern is missing

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21000 - Sears Tower



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21000 - Willis Tower



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21001 - John Hancock Center



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21002 - Empire State Building



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21003 - Seattle Space Needle



OMR Compliant (with unofficial parts)
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21004 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21005 - Fallingwater



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21006 - The White House



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21007 - Rockefeller Center



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21008 - Burj Khalifa



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21009 - Farnsworth House



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21010 - Robie House



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21011 - Brandenburg Gate



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21012 - Sydney Opera House



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21013 - Big Ben



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21014 - Villa Savoye



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21015 - The Leaning Tower Of Pisa



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21016 - Sungnyemun



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21017 - Imperial Hotel



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21018 - United Nations Headquarters



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21019 - The Eiffel Tower



OMR Compliant (with unofficial parts)
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

There is a typo error: !HISOTORY instead of !HISTORY in the file of the OMR.

[Merlijn Wissink]

No, there isn't!
Just joking, I've fixed it. Thanks for point it out.

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21020 - Trevi Fountain



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21021 - Marina Bay Sands



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21022 - Lincoln Memorial



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21023 - Flatiron Building



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21024 - Louvre



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21026 - Venice



OMR Compliant (with unofficial parts)
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21031 - Burj Khalifa



OMR Compliant
Errors: None

[Merlijn Wissink]

Wow, that's... a lot at once!

The new official rules state this:

The user (Model author) uploads the model to the LDraw forum and if there was a public discussion the admin mirrors it to the OMR 7 days (or later) after the last post in this discussion. For the event there hasn't been any discussion the upload should be done 7 days (or later) after the initial post. After the upload is done, the model file shall be deleted, so that the forum doesn't clutter that much.

But maybe an exception can be made (and send them in bulk to me). I mean, it's also a lot of extra work for you to make all those posts. Anyone?

[Damien Roux]

As there is now a OMR site, I have a lot of sets to release.

I will send you a rar file with everything in it.
It's a bit of work yes, but that way, I can display renders and people can comment each model if there is a mistake.

Much more will follow...

[Orion Pobursky]

These are more guidelines than hard and fast rules so it ok to bend them.

[Damien Roux]

Here is a link to download all my Architecture sets.

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21027 - Berlin



OMR Compliant (with unofficial Parts)
Errors: None

[Merlijn Wissink]

Just a little heads up: this file (and a few others which I already added to the OMR website) isn't OMR conform. You need to include all unofficial parts in the .mpd file for it to be 'omr compliant' (which you can do easily with MPDCenter). I've fixed the ones already added to the OMR because I thought you just forgot some, but it seems you're just not doing it at all. Just a tip for future models

[Damien Roux]

I wasn't aware of it. Maybe it's because I've added those parts to my official lirary, so MPDcenter doesn'g show it up.

Anyway, I personally don't like that at all. For several reasons :
I don't like to have anything which is not a part in my models.
I would not be able to use a LGEO equivalent for rendering a part if it is defined like that.
Ldview will simply download the part if it is missing
If the part is changing on the tracker, it will not show up in the model.
Imagine the origin is changing, it quite easy to see and to update. Same if name is changing.
I am 100% sure models will not be updated to remove the inlined part when it will be official.

I can't see any reason to inline the parts in the MPD. Maybe I'm missing something.

I would like my Models to stay like they are. I prefer to remove the OMR compliance, than inlining parts in it. I am almost sure that the onofficial parts are mainly patterns and the model will become automatically compliant when the part will be release. Otherwise it will need to be reworked.
Usually there is not a lot of parts that got renamed or that change origin during their life in the tracker.

If not possible, I would prefer to keep on adding my models at Eurobricks, than in the OMR. That would be a shame because I like ldraw, love the OMR idea and I've started to rework all my sets to make them OMR compliant (at least from my point of view).

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21028 - New York City



OMR Compliant (with unofficial parts)
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21029 - Buckingham Palace



OMR Compliant (with unofficial Parts)
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21030 - United States Capitol Building



OMR Compliant (with unofficial Parts)
Errors: None

[Philippe Hurbain]

Download MPD (OMR compliant)
Known errors: None.
Done with LDCad 1.6 beta 2

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21035 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum



OMR Compliant (with unofficial Parts)
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21032 - Sydney



OMR Compliant (with unofficial Parts)
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21033 - Chicago



OMR Compliant (with unofficial Parts)
Errors: None

[Damien Roux]

Architecture / 21034 - London



OMR Compliant (with unofficial Parts)
Errors: None

[Orion Pobursky]

   

21043 - San Francisco
OMR Compliant (MPD Center says it is not even though all the checks come back true)

[Orion Pobursky]

21043 - San Francisco
OMR Compliant (MPD Center says it is not even though all the checks come back true)

So I'll say that this model would have been incredibly frustrating without LDCad. The set bin and flexible part functionally make this build enjoyable. Also, don't import this model directly into Studio. I had to separate the flex object files into their own custom parts for it to load correctly.

[Orion Pobursky]

21043 - San Francisco
OMR Compliant (MPD Center says it is not even though all the checks come back true)

So I'll say that this model would have been incredibly frustrating without LDCad. The set bin and flexible part functionally make this build enjoyable. Also, don't import this model directly into Studio. I had to separate the flex object files into their own custom parts for it to load correctly.

I also authored my first new part in years. Another bit of awesomeness sparked by this set.

The real life build of this set was very enjoyable as well.

All in all one of the better Architecture set out there.

[Steffen]

great job. I love it.

[Orion Pobursky]

   

OMR Compliant.
Missing: 1x8 Tile with Arc de Triomphe

[Philippe Hurbain]

Missing: 1x8 Tile with Arc de Triomphe

http://www.ldraw.org/cgi-bin/ptdetail.cg...162p1b.dat
The least I could do for a French landmark

[Orion Pobursky]

21042 - Statue of Liberty
   
OMR Complaint
Missing: 1x8 tile with Statue of Liberty
Notes: The angles on the model cause small part overlap. I did my best to minimize this but we may want to look at the hinge part to see if it needs to be adjusted.

[Orion Pobursky]

21047 - Las Vegas
   
OMR Complaint
Missing: 1x8 tile with Las Vegas, 1x2 tile with Welcome to Las Vegas sign
Notes: The pharaoh headdress is set to gold, it should be changed to tan when the part is fixed.

[Orion Pobursky]

21039 - Shanghai
   
OMR Compliant (yet)
Missing: 1x8 tile with Shanghai
Notes: There are 4 flex axles inside the core of the rightmost building. I left these out with a place holder note since they are non-visible in the finished model and would add a significant amount to the file size.

[Orion Pobursky]

21039 - Shanghai

OMR Compliant (yet)
Missing: 1x8 tile with Shanghai
Notes: There are 4 flex axles inside the core of the rightmost building. I left these out with a place holder note since they are non-visible in the finished model and would add a significant amount to the file size.

The above 3 Models are now OMR compliant and have renders.

[Orion Pobursky]

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