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Hey there Rock Raiders! I'm back at it again, Anything new or exciting happen? Life's been kind of hectic after moving and finishing the school semester and finals, but I think things have finally settled. Most exciting thing that's happened recently is that I now work at a Lego store! Yahoo! It's not an official Lego store (baww), but it's a franchise which sells both new and used Lego pieces and sets and minifigures! Super exciting, I start in a week! I'm slowly getting back to work on my projects and art which have both been put on the back-burner I plan on actually making things soon aha (I swear) Here's some doodles that I could find in the meantime?? Theyre really old Hope everything's been going okay! Sorry for being so absent, it's so hard for me to be active online but I will try my best

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.

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gerard-butler-geostorm-lego-movie-2-live-by-light-be-affleck-1201798398/ Delayed, from May 8 2018 to February 8 2019. It was already delayed from May 2017. Guess they're serious about doing the thing justice. And now it comes out on my birthday!

Update time! My other side project is stuck, so here's Beta 2 of GeoTool instead: I replaced the GUI library with a more advanced one. It sure looks better too. Works the same as the old one though. Also various bugs were fixed, like non-functional scrolling and certain valid corner walls not being displayed right. There aren't any new features this time, but they'll be easier to implement for Beta 3 now that the code has been cleaned up and reorganized. You can download the release .zip from the GitHub page's downloads section.

the axle piece went through the axle connector part and wouldn't come loose. So it was actually the cheap bootleg status that made it possible!

Just a quick update, aside from creating custom bricks, I'm also looking on modding LDD in general. Here is my latest achievement : I am able to mod the LDD brick palette. I can add (or 'unhide') missing parts, like the 9-11 linear actuator (only visible on Mindstorm or Extended). For the loose parts like the ones in the screenshot, it is a little more complicated. LDD cannot load a part that is referenced by an assembly. (pre-assembled bricks, like minifigs and shock absorber) Just adding a line for the part in the palette list does nothing and if you set verbose=1 in the preferences.ini you will see in the output that LDD fails to load the part. The workaround? simple, create an assembly for each part with only the part inside. My software for modding LDD is doing well and will soon have an alpha release. You can follow my progress on https://github.com/Polymaker/ldd-modder

what a lovely voodoo head

Found some sweet LEGO worlds screenshots from this One dude. seriously, go check out his screenshots. stuff's amazing.

POLYMAKER YOU ARE MY NEW BEST FRIEND NOW. Sorry Larry. Edit: Wait, nevermind. You don't use per-pixel shaders or AA in LDD so we can't be friends. Alright Larry, you're still my best friend now again!