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Modded a script attached to the Avant Gardens version of Friendly Felix so the draw/fog distances got boosted crazy high upon spawning him. Did some other stuff to make him, the player, and most of the UI invisible, increased the FoV, and this was the result. Didn't really do any editing, just raw footage. I skipped worlds/areas of worlds that already had high draw distances, and only showed a few properties since those are all done the same way. Oh, and this has the side effect of the near clipping plane moving farther away from the camera's actual position, but when flying around that doesn't matter. 0:00 Pet Cove - Really striking visual difference, some rocks you'd otherwise be unlikely to notice, and it turns out the water plane is only juuust as big as it needs to be. 3:43 Nimbus Station - The big mountain around Red Blocks is probably the most noticeable thing, it's covered in fog and almost blends into the sky normally. 7:31 Chantey Shanty - All properties are like this. 7:58 Nimbus Isle - Just looks really bizarre. Terrain has odd markings like someone was just randomly clicking with the texture brush occasionally. 8:54 Return to the Venture Explorer - The terrain here is below the invisible floor at -5000 that all worlds have (as far as I know), but hey, we can see its textures now. The camera stops tracking you when you go beyond the 5000/-5000 limits on any axis, so sadly we can't really get up close. 10:12 Avant Gardens - The Maelstrom Mine area already has lighting/fog settings similar to what I was doing with scripting, so there's nothing really new here. Still neat though. 12:17 Gnarled Forest - Like AG, there's already an area without fog and a super high draw distance (the Pirate Camp), so I didn't bother showing it all. Being in the Ravine without fog is kinda neat though. 15:15 Forbidden Valley - There's a flat plane here at the height of the lowest part of the terrain, which extends past where the terrain goes. Maybe sometime in the future I'll show what FV looks like from underneath, using the same glitch as that Crux Prime video I uploaded a little while back (there's some neat views down there - and the bottom of the FV terrain is almost exactly at -5000, so you can just walk off of the terrain and onto nothingness). 19:49 Deep Freeze - The fog adds to the snow effect but it's still neat without it. 21:08 Moonbase - Nothing unusual to note. 23:52 Portabello - Usually has really dense fog. I can see why, it's a whole lot of green without it. 26:11 LEGO Club - Just funny to see the infamous green plains from on board the station. 26:59 Crux Prime - Nothing unusual, just neat views. 29:46 Nexus Tower - Nexus Tower is MASSIVE. Seriously. https://luprechaun.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/the-size-of-nexus-tower/ Normally you can only see a tiny portion of the tower, but this lets you see all the way down - and the tower even goes lower than the terrain in the world. The top is too high to reach with the camera still tracking you, (above 5000 units), and the bottom is similarly impossible to actually reach. 33:58 Ninjago Monastery - The terrain here goes crazy low. I guess they might have had to, given the first area lets you see really far to get the front of the monastery in view.

I can't tell if I should like that post or not

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...well too bad, I just made it worse;

So I got a Lego Shop newsletter and there was a link to this in the newsletter. It's... interesting.

this tweet by an actual member of the ninjago show staff makes me yearn for death

1. That video is an insult on my eyes 2. Why do the human characters move... I don't know the right term... err... stiffly? 3. Who did the lighting/rendering, because I don't think they did their job 4. This poor sod clearly didn't want to be involved;

That certainly was a... something. You know what else is a something? This. Sorry, not sorry.

It's Hatsune Veronica! If only theres some way to add details to the arms

So a trailer that new console the NX Switch came out today, peoples in the Discord figured it'd be good to have a discussion place for it. Here's the trailer: Personally, I'm excited for this console, It's something different and could be really good, especially for gamers on the go. But what do you guys think?

Super Mario Odyssey is looking fantastic:

I have Vocaloid 2 of the software, you have tempted me to do this.

...preserve your sanity, don't like it, don't fall into the trap... Well tough luck, because it's my duty to take other people's work and completely screw it up make it better. Here, take mine;

Hah, I was just thinking about that when I saw you posted it. It was put up by Amazon as a trailer for Battles Ninjago, and it isn't even the first time they've messed up and publicly shared an early pitch trailer. They did it for the Bionicle sets in 2008 (thereby accidentally revealing Mata Nui's true nature months in advance) and with the Legend Reborn in 2009 (which was mostly just the 08 Ghost animation of Mata Nui rising, lol). It's cool that we have this vid, and they actually voluntarily screened the original Nexo Knights pitch at Comic Con last year. I appreciate that they're being more open about sharing this stuff with the dawn of social media. We still haven't gotten to see the original Bionicle video, but there's an inkling of hope it might be on show at the LEGO House when that's finished. that tweet is unfortunate but at least someone cut the idea down instead of letting another Roodaka happen

minifigures were the last thing i wanted to see anthropomorphized. also I misread the title as JHUYSER

Well, my work here is done.

I see that you're looking for an in-story explanation, but from a production standpoint this is just because they didn't have the resources to model random background raiders. They're out of the way enough that I imagine the animators just hoped nobody would notice.

Yeah, minifigures didn't start getting arm printing until some time later. I might be wrong, but I think the first one with arm printing was Greedo in 2004. Oh, just as a side note - the bit about Chief seeing a rock monster in his youth comes from the game manual:

A book gave some info on it (scans courtesy of @Ringtail): http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/raidwhale/Scans/Books/HADU/p42.jpg http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/raidwhale/Scans/Books/HADU/p43.jpg IIRC, the bit about him seeing a rock monster in his youth was unrelated.

Quisoves Potoo 20 Aug 11:44 PM It is Terrevying.

The yellow hands always bothered me, but now I'm disturbed to see that she's not even wearing pants