Isn't there another program people use for that, or is there just something you can run an LDD file through to make it less fake-looking?
Last year my roommate was not an early sleeper, so I was staying up later as a consequence. But no class until 10:45 so it was ok
There's a lot of other stuff too, I'll figure out pictures of that stuff later. As you can see below the frame there's stuff, I have a whole bookshelf, then of course left of all those shelves is more stuff too I'm not sure what inspired me to set up some Return of the Jedi esque battle on the side of helms deep, I think I was going for the Cloud City duel but that's clearly ROJ Luke so whatever It's entertaining if nothing else. The Cordak blasters were going to be the back end of a spaceship, but I could never get the mechanics right on the landing gear and entry ramp I wanted. I think I was going for too small a scale. Maybe I have pictures of that too somewhere before it sat for 5 years and got covered in dust I was trying to use a dark red and black theme, cool colors for me when I was 15 I've managed to pick up bits and pieces of Knights Kingdom from random used buys over the years, they're all missing a few pieces though, annoyingly. I should get some parts on Bricklink to patch them up. (my favorite is the death star on the technic crane)
-benboy
Well, there's other programs like Stud.io that probably do a better job at advanced building and rendering, although I'm still learning how to use it after I've been using LDD for more than 10 years. I'm guessing you're talking about rendering programs and there are 3rd party rendering software that people have made which works pretty well.
At least it worked out alright. Better late than never, I suppose.
Ah, I see. Lots of stuff. I like that Cloud City on the Battle of Helm's Deep idea. Very original and a really cool crossover idea. Maybe sometime in the future you can rebuild it and see what that ship would have looked like. Hopefully those parts will be available on Bricklink for a good price. (Nice. That's pretty clever. )
Lowkey I would be more likely to use LDD if it was like LEGO Universe building... I loved the properties feature but never had the time to go ham with it and build cool stuff. On that line, I need to see how the fan-made servers are doing.
When I was like 8-9 and had a very small LEGO collection (actually why not attach a picture... this is a picture of a picture...) I would mix my Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Indiana Jones stuff to enact some sort of wild plot. Good entertainment for the only child homeschooler Most of my stuff then was Racers or Creator, I was just then moving into the themed stuff. Note the homemade millenium falcon and the weird Hogwarts building
I'd like to build some spaceships eventually, if I actually finish the organizational component this summer I'll start working on my dragon, he is just a head currently:
and bricklink has some good prices, it impresses me
Dude, in my OG organizational system it was all cardboard trays I made from old lego boxes because I was too cheap to buy anything Then I realized that was a pain and scrapped that. Still have the trays, just no longer in use. For whatever odd reason because of those roof designs I have a ton of black 2-long pins in some other bags I haven't sorted yet - I put all the black and dark red pieces in one place to be used on my spaceship... I think I may have more of the black 3-long pins than the blue, honestly. We'll find out eventually. I think I'll try to put all my technic pieces in those drawers pictured, I feel that may work better than bags. I'll have to experiment, perhaps this will be a project for this afternoon.
PDEs of course have different uses, as of course sometimes you need a multivariable function, but I believe most PDE analysis comes down to breaking your differential equation into a system of ODEs. Yes, Matlab is much more user-friendly, perhaps my best option. We'll see what my advisor recommends I do next. If I get the time I also have a nice book on fractal dynamics with some pseudocode, so it'd be fun to run that on Matlab. (I love fractals) I remember for intro Java we had to do a lot with multidimensional matrices, it was sometimes a little weird to visualize but definitely useful. I have another Java course in the fall (need it for my degree), I wonder what we'll have to do for that. R is more statistical, but honestly it's a lot like Matlab but with probability tools heavily built in. You can run simulations very easily - it's a lot of fun.
Might study some tonight. Need a break
-benboy
That's a great use of recycling the LEGO Boxes as trays, even though it didn't seem to work out. Nice, already sorting the parts you're going to use in your MOCs as well. That's efficient. I also have more black 3-long pins than blue ones, although as we get more sets I think blue is the new standard. Awesome. I hope it went well. Technic is quite focused on the parts usage to make a function work, so sorting them by piece seems very useful.
Ah, I see. Sounds pretty tricky, but I guess for you it's not too bad. Ah, very nice. MATLAB is definitely very user-friendly and easy to use. Ooh, that sounds fun making fractals in MATLAB. Java is a good language to learn as well, and it's also pretty user-friendly as well, so I'm sure you'll find it interesting. Very interesting about R. Maybe one day I'll take a look at it and see if it'll be useful.
Good idea.
It was difficult to get the pieces out of there and to also see what was in the trays. Good in theory but not in practice Now I'm just mass sorting everything and will worry about the MOCs when I get there I never get new sets so I'm unsure what LEGO is doing anymore... I may get the Batmobile however, I think of it often. Yesterday I was able to get a bunch of technic pieces into my drawers so I can actually figure out what's going on... I had way too many bags of individual technic pieces
The math major is insane enough to tackle these things I mean if you're not doing anything probabilistic R doesn't have too much applicability to what you're doing. Tomorrow I'll be meeting with my advisor and will have my next task. I have been enjoying my 2 days off The life of a research mathematician is very exciting apparently
I was going to say I don't want any dragons in my house at all, but I guess that's a lie. I'm still pretty sure a cold-drake would destroy my house, though, but I'm not as mad as I thought I would be.
It shouldn't destroy it, it's a baby. I'm looking for a cave for it to go to but I got nothing so far.
Okay. I'll fold this into that later discussion. Do we have that lockpicker yet?
Well, I mean yeah, besides those few times you were banned on the LMBs. Good times.
I sometimes think about how hilarious that was
"you are banned for 2 days for encouraging nashtron - nah never mind you are banned forever" "can i come back now" "yes" >makes all the dupes and also figures out how bogus the ranks are and encourages people to game the minutes system to rank up "you are banned forever for being bad with ranks" "can i come back now" "yes" >games the ranks even harder than before never gets banned again and makes all the dupes public
My hypothesis is that Keighlian cared about establishing order but WA was like "eh whatever let's see what he'll do"
-benboy
Ha! Hopefully you don't find any holes in the ranking system here.
Also, Mind Games is a nice song. 
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I'm looking for a cave for it to go to but I got nothing so far. 
Goodbye LMBs...
