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rottnkorpse

03-13-2008, 05:23 AM

If you haven't watch Episode 51, why are you reading this? GO WATCH! Anyway on Episode 51, Jeff mentioned how the LEGO MMO is going to allow you to build models in game and then send off for the real blocks to actually make whatever you built...then Dan and Alex talked about why haven't they already set something up for this.

Well, they actually have. :) on LEGO.com they have a software you can download and create your own models in then send off for the bricks for your model. That's not all though, you can look through a Gallery as well for models that other people have built and send off for those as well. You can also share your own creations in the Gallery for others to send off for. If you want you can even design the box that your custom model comes in. :)

Plus the software to design the models is free...

The Totally Rad software is called LEGO Digital Designer and you get it by going to the Factory portion of LEGO.com

http://factory.lego.com

lavahot

03-13-2008, 08:43 AM

Yeah, I was thinking about this software when he was talking about that. Somebody should make a TRS logo build.

tnvwboy

03-13-2008, 12:22 PM

My hope is that the MMO version is a lot easier to use. I downloaded the LEGO Factory and tried making a few things and quickly became frustrated with it.

Issues:

Controls are much like a 3D modeling app and that's not a good thing.
The number of 'LEGO' are very limited
Order matters. If you want to put a piece under another it's a pain to move everything around to get it there.

All in all I was hoping for a nice (not exact) copy of the LEGO building experience. I was very disappointed. Die-hard fans may enjoy it still. Personally I'd rather just build by hand.

So back to the MMO, I'd be really shocked if they use this same tool in the game, since the game is supposed to be for all ages. Guess we'll just have to wait and see. I know I'm excited.

andyaldrich

03-13-2008, 12:42 PM

I think that Lego have the opportunity to make an excellent MMORPG if they use the following things:

Lego City - ie if they make several massive Lego cities using all of the buildings that we remember from classic lego sets.

Lego Pirates - the opportunity to go to a part of the Lego 'World' and battle it out as a pirate/soldier

Lego Space - EVE meets Lego!

Perhaps it would be hard to get all of these things functioning in the same online 'Universe' so they might want to let people choose which age of time they want to live in when they start...or perhaps let them have several online characters - one for each age?

Online Lego Star Wars/Indiana Jones will never happen though (IMO) as I think the licensing deals would never be worked out.

tnvwboy

03-13-2008, 01:42 PM

Perhaps it would be hard to get all of these things functioning in the same online 'Universe' so they might want to let people choose which age of time they want to live in when they start...or perhaps let them have several online characters - one for each age?

Naw, it'd be self policing. One, the mini-figs would have to be able to change from city, to pirate, to space. Different outfits for different areas. Those users who chose to go to pirate land in their space suit would be harassed or perhaps attacked by NPC guards or something. Some kind of incentive to play the role of the region.

So it'd be unlikely that you could do fly-bys of pirate ships in your space ship, though that would be kick ass!

epicvandal

03-13-2008, 09:15 PM

huh was just about to post this, good thing i clicked on the rare second page of the forums to see that its already been thrown up.

I think they guys should have a competition on design, let the viewers vote, then the winner gets something from the other two.

patch

03-13-2008, 09:54 PM

Naw, it'd be self policing. One, the mini-figs would have to be able to change from city, to pirate, to space. Different outfits for different areas. Those users who chose to go to pirate land in their space suit would be harassed or perhaps attacked by NPC guards or something. Some kind of incentive to play the role of the region.

So it'd be unlikely that you could do fly-bys of pirate ships in your space ship, though that would be kick ass!

From the sounds of it I take it you're forgetting that this will really have to be targeted to kids really well. It would be bad for LEGO's image to make an adult oriented product. So, I really doubt they would have any such thing that would require you to dress such way or you die, and I doubt they will want to make a system that would cause one to be harassed.

Plus, having pirates run around in a space station. Astronauts walking around cities. Thats part of the fun of LEGO bricks!

tnvwboy

03-14-2008, 12:21 AM

So, I really doubt they would have any such thing that would require you to dress such way or you die, and I doubt they will want to make a system that would cause one to be harassed.

Plus, having pirates run around in a space station. Astronauts walking around cities. Thats part of the fun of LEGO bricks!

Oh I agree that it would be cool. I was just offering a possible solution to that particular 'problem'. Personally I don't really see it as a problem. Like I said, I want to dive-bomb pirate ships in my space ships! :D

patch

03-14-2008, 12:25 AM

Oh I agree that it would be cool. I was just offering a possible solution to that particular 'problem'. Personally I don't really see it as a problem. Like I said, I want to dive-bomb pirate ships in my space ships! :D

You could have truly authentic space pirates... Wooden ships flying through the vacuum, magically air is staying on the deck so no one dies... Or maybe LEGO people don't breath air...

rottnkorpse

03-14-2008, 02:04 AM

You could have truly authentic space pirates... Wooden ships flying through the vacuum, magically air is staying on the deck so no one dies... Or maybe LEGO people don't breath air...

They don't breath air...use the holes in their feet to gain substanance from the bricks.

...yup, anyway I think it would be awesome to have an epic MMO Lego battle to finally decide the colossal question of "Ninjas or Pirates?"

patch

03-14-2008, 02:26 AM

They don't breath air...use the holes in their feet to gain substanance from the bricks.

...yup, anyway I think it would be awesome to have an epic MMO Lego battle to finally decide the colossal question of "Ninjas or Pirates?"

Obviously you've never seen this (http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-07-25--pirates-vs-ninjas/pages/2007-07-25--pirates-vs-ninjas-03.html).

rottnkorpse

03-14-2008, 02:33 AM

well thats not a lego battle now is it? :) But yea I'll look at that anyway.

esophagus

03-14-2008, 03:59 AM

My hope is that the MMO version is a lot easier to use. I downloaded the LEGO Factory and tried making a few things and quickly became frustrated with it.

Issues:

Controls are much like a 3D modeling app and that's not a good thing.
The number of 'LEGO' are very limited
Order matters. If you want to put a piece under another it's a pain to move everything around to get it there.

All in all I was hoping for a nice (not exact) copy of the LEGO building experience. I was very disappointed. Die-hard fans may enjoy it still. Personally I'd rather just build by hand.Truth. I was building a fairly intricate apartment building (I'm a bit of a lego fanatic) and it got rather complicated gto constantly change the view to put blocks in certain places, so I decided to build each wall seperately and attach them. Doing that left each one a block or two off, which you can't see by the time you are zoomed out far enough to see the entire building. It's fun, but could have been better. For a free software, I quite enjoyed LDD.

playervsfish

03-14-2008, 04:40 AM

The program is pretty limited, but you can still make some pretty cool stuff.

http://www.playervsfish.com/images/legotardis.jpg

Now, if I were to actually buy it, it would cost me $336.55, which puts it about $300 out of my price range.

Any one else have any pictures of virtual Lego projects that they would like to share?

patch

03-14-2008, 04:47 AM

playervsfish

03-14-2008, 04:54 AM

Okay, I'm going to have to say it. Video or it didn't happen...

Umm, not really sure how to do a video within Lego Digital Designer.

blacksymbiote

03-14-2008, 05:10 AM

I saw this a while ago. Really cool to play around with, but quickly becomes far too expensive to be worth actually buying them. They charge an absurd amount for each piece. :mad:

esophagus

03-14-2008, 05:35 AM

damnedeyez

03-14-2008, 05:52 AM

playervsfish

03-14-2008, 06:39 AM

The beginnings of my apartment building. Before it looked cool, before I got upset, and before I closed without saving. It's all I have left. :(

Is that to scale with the Lego men?

tnvwboy

03-14-2008, 12:50 PM

The beginnings of my apartment building. Before it looked cool, before I got upset, and before I closed without saving. It's all I have left. :(

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n243/esophaguss/Untiitled.jpg

It's fine, just describe it as a movie set piece instead of a 'real' building and viola! ;)

esophagus

03-14-2008, 03:38 PM

Is that to scale with the Lego men?Sure is.

I also made a lego comic book shop at one point. I think I took pictures of me blowing it up, but that's about it.

I was going to put all the buildings together for a lego city, before I got frustrated.