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I just wanted to share my progress on creating custom bricks for LDD. As you can see by the following images, I've succeeded at what many thought impossible: importing custom models into LDD. I have cracked the structure of the .g file format but I still have problems with a section that has to do with the outlines/borders of the bricks. I am now working on an editor to create the xml that goes with the model which specifies the collision and connection information.

[4:23:28 PM] Will Kirkby: yknow [4:23:47 PM] Will Kirkby: I'm glad there's a mature lego fanbase that I can consider as friends [4:24:00 PM] Will Kirkby: seriously [4:24:02 PM] Will Kirkby: with friends like these [4:24:04 PM] Will Kirkby: who needs elembies

[02:30:13] Terrev: I did a google images search of "raymanly" hoping to find a funny image of a really MANLY rayman or something [02:30:20] Terrev: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJf2b6TWcAAnB8l.jpg [02:30:22] Terrev: got this instead [02:30:35] Pereki: rayman did 911 [02:31:21] Pereki: jet fuel can't melt limbs that ARENT THERE

News update: I got got a new fan and it works, so everything is in perfect working order now. Thank you all for your help!

60's batcave? 60's Batcave!

I was poking around in the Alpha Team files tonight, and found several things I wasn't expecting. CATEGORYIMAGES.TXT: 0 lego 41 group1 42 group2 43 group3 44 group4 45 group5 46 group6 35 ogel 1 global 19 trop 36 sub 37 sea 38 polar 39 mtn 40 moon Notice the last six entries there? They're the zones in the game, in the order they're played through... Except the final game only has the first four listed there. This file lists two zones that didn't make the final cut: Mountain and Moon. Seeing as the other four zones are listed in the order they're played through, I think it's safe to say that the Mountain zone would have come after the Polar (Arctic) zone, and the Moon zone would have been the final set of levels in the game. But wait, there's more. CATEGORYUNITS.TXT "Cyberia"? What the heck is that? Perhaps a leftover from LEGO Logic? There does seem to be some sort of portal in the TILT HQ, so perhaps that's what Cyberia is? And there's a listing for a "Neandert" enemy, which is just a few letters away from "Neanderthal"... Who wants to bet it's the big blue primitive looking creature from LEGO Logic? There's also sections for the scrapped Mountain and Moon zones... Which are completely empty. Also, notice that the section listing all the Alpha Team members is titled "T.I.L.T.". There's an asteroid of all things listed in the "LEGO UNITS" section, and a texture named "ASTEROID 2.TGA": At first I thought that perhaps the asteroids appear in the training... space place... But I just checked, and there are none. Perhaps they were for the Moon zone or something? Another odd thing, Dash and Radia's texture names are pretty weird. Dash's textures are LASERBODY.TGA, LASERHEAD.TGA, etc, while Radia's textures are PIPBODY.TGA, PIPHEAD.TGA, etc. All the other team members are identified by specialty rather than name, so why are Dash's textures identifying him as the lasers expert, and what the heck does PIP mean? Finally, there's a bunch of textures that appear to be for a debug GUI or something - buttons for each listing in CATEGORYIMAGES.txt, more finalized looking buttons for each zone (including the Moon zone, but not the Mountain zone, oddly), etc. There's quite a few so I won't be uploading them, if you want to see them for yourself they're in Etc.pac. I'll keep digging around and will post anything else I find.

Just got an email back from Tom Mott, the lead designer for Alpha Team, and he sent a ton of info on LEGO Logic and T.I.L.T. and all that - and he's gonna contact some other developers and see if they can dig up concept art and the like, too. It's nearly 2:00 AM right now so I'm a bit too tired to really post much, but I do want to say one thing: The neanderthals are actually "neanderthaws", and they were found in a world called Mt. Fridgy. Other worlds in LEGO Logic included Aromazona and Poodle Dreamland. This game was nuts, people.

For those who haven't seen Alpha Team's menu. Dash's face as been changed to the Awesome Face (with eyebrows). That is all.