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Correct. LDraw is made by fans, so while it's less accurate than LDD it's fine to use. Funnily enough, the LEGO Universe team once provided some official LDD geometry to the fans working on LDraw: http://wiki.ldraw.org/index.php?title=L(EGO)Draw_Parts So by using LDraw, you'd end up occasionally using altered versions of LDD brick geometry. LEGO explicitly gave out those particular bricks though, so it's fine. It's weird how they gave some parts to LDraw but are so concerned about people using any more than that... Who knows what the reasoning was. Probably comes down to different people at LEGO/NetDevil being involved over the years, with different ideas of what to allow.

LEGO doesn't seem to care about people using assets from old video games and such. But they do care about LDD's brick models/geometry. It's of much higher importance to them. For example, see the LDD to POV-Ray Converter: http://ldd2povray.lddtools.com/ http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/71654-software-ldd2povray/&do=findComment&comment=1333651 LEGO isn't likely to care about, say, a Rock Raiders remake using assets from the original game. They are likely to care about LDD brick geometry/models being made publicly available, especially in such mass quantity. I'd recommend contacting them first, or you might just end up with them contacting you and telling you to stop after you've already put a lot of work into it.

i mean i guess it is just an opinion that unseen polygons are a waste of resources but. really? i mean does LDD hide all covered studs and tubes and stuff? i dont really know but there's bound to be some waste even if it does, it's not intelligent. but it's certainly not an opinion that these models aren't completely accurate. if you want something that's actually my opinion, i think that just straight-up converting LDD models is kinda lazy and I distrust the quality of any project that just does that. honestly i don't really know who rogod is and haven't really payed attention to their posts, i dunno what's going on here sorry. i guess considering the nature of these projects in the first place yeah the copyright thing was a bad point that i said without thinking as an attempt to emphasize my thoughts about it being lazy as far as just taking other people's work that was meant for much more primitive systems. i dunno about the texture things, i guess if you're going for a straight-up rock raiders clone i can see the biome textures maybe being re-used - but for most things ehhhh why upload packs of other people's LXF files in the first place tho

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