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Since the game still refuses to load unpacked resources as of the latest update, I thought it would be a good idea to spread awareness of the one aspect of the game we can still mod: textures, thanks to TexMod! TexMod is a small program that intercepts textures loaded into memory while your game is running, and allows you to save them to disk. Additionally, you can create packages to sideload into the game that override certain textures. It's very easy to use, and very useful for games whose modding abilities aren't all there. You can download the program here; it was abandoned by the developers a few years ago and is under the GNU GPL, so there are no problems uploading it here. There is a trick to getting it to work with Steam games; copy Texmod.exe to (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\LEGO Worlds). Rename the LEGO_Worlds.exe to, e.g., LEGO_Worlds_M.exe, and rename Texmod.exe to LEGO_Worlds.exe. Now, when you launch the game, Texmod will open instead; in package mode, select LEGO_Worlds_M.exe as the game, load whatever TPF packages you want, and away you go! I've created a TPF of my Infomaniac texture mod; the face replaces the explorer's face, and the torso replaces the farmer's torso; it also has a blank white texture that overrides the female scientist's legs, since there are currently no plain white legs in-game. Get that here. He has six different facial expressions and uses the explorer's animation set. To use, just open up the TPF package in Texmod and launch the game! Everything should work right out of the box. Post your own texture mods rendered as TPF files!

Ooh, those Life on Mars models - I remember seeing some brickshelf galleries of those models back around 2007-ish, loved 'em: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5752 http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=5870 Also: There's a LEGO Racers segment that begins around 8:20 that's pretty neat.

I was hunting through the latest version of the game files today, and I found an "additional content" folder - with three subfolders within - "Classic Space DLC", "Dino DLC" and "Classic Space Teaser". There are parts for red, black, blue and yellow classic space astronauts (red in the teaser, the rest in the DLC proper), as well as Benny from The LEGO Movie - airtanks and all. The Dino DLC has textures for non-licensed characters (from the last dinosaur theme before the Jurassic World license, IIRC). I've extracted the face textures and uploaded the whole folder here for you guys to pick through.

[20:51:18] Will: the models are a tiny bit garbage [20:51:39] The Ace Railgun: don’t you mean, they’re s***? [20:51:56] Will: no [20:52:00] Will: because I'm not foul-mouthed [20:52:10] Will: would you talk like that in front of your mother? [20:52:17] The Ace Railgun: Yes [20:52:20] Will: oh

I miss that type of originality.

I almost forgot about this series of videos (sorry it's not YT)

I like this very muchly. Also the forum now embeds generic flickr links? Is that new?

one of the best soundtracks ever of course

Sorry for not getting back to this for over four months. Here. Have a Cornerian Fighter. This version is yet another hybrid, this time between the "Bottlenose" fighter from Star Fox 64 and the Cornerian Heavy Fighter from Star Fox Assault.

Looks more promising. The classic Star Wars sets/minifigs had that type of design in mind. Apart from flesh-colored skin, I'm glad to see that they're doing something similar with the movie characters.