LDD Analysis Thread

[WetWired]

Just noticed this thread, I used Hollywood Edition back when I did some designs for the LEGO Batman Movie, the differences are minor really compared to LDDs base feature set. 

The biggest things are being able to group pieces together, Freeze pieces in position (though this never worked for me) There's a Maya mode (which I never used, despite having a lot of experience using Maya), I assume this just changed the camera\movement controls to Mayas.

Other things, Rudimentary SSAO AND SSDO along with a simple Cell shaded look.

I remember it having an option to disable collision between bricks too, but I can't seem to find it now

[legoanimegirl]

I was researching online to see if anyone had documented LDD Hollywood Edition, as someone who still loves LDD to this day, and wanted to share some info on LDD LEGOLAND because I've used it in the past.

LEGOLAND and Hollywood Edition builds are identical, the only difference being that with Hollywood you can export to Maya (as someone in this thread predicted).

Tool 1 is the classic grab tool, tool 2 is grab everything connected to the brick you're selecting, tool 3 is move (but more precise), 10 is freeze which is used in the "view" mode, 12 is group.

Wireframes show if you click on certain numbers, I think it goes up to 7? I forgot.

View mode is different, instead of having random skyboxes it's instead used to animate, it's very broken though.

Pallet bricks are grey automatically in extended mode.

Send to LEGO.com is still there, correct, but clicking it does nothing.

Brick count is a preference setting.

The logo for LDD LEGOLAND is a gold/yellow brick.

Models automatically save as lxfml instead of lxf.

If the programme crashes they autosave where your model left off so you can continue without restarting.

That's all I can think of from the top of my head! I wish I still had LDD LEGOLAND because it's much faster than the original software.

On 12/31/2020 at 7:01 AM, M2m said:

• The Windows Title bar reveals the LDD Version to be named "LDD Hollywood Edition"
• the Menu Bar has an extra "Developer" entry
• there are 4 additional icons in the tool bar.
  • a second selection Icon
  • one icon seems to be for moving bricks (judging from the icon itself)
  • the next blueish icon seems just random lines painted
  • the icon at the most right is the same icon as the 'selection to group icon' (located in the groups tab in stock LDD). Maybe some kind of shortcut ?
• The standard selection Tool has one sub-option less - it seems the "Connection Selection Tool (V)" is missing (maybe its the second selection Icon in the main toolbar)
• at the far right there seems to be a send button. The send button used to be in earlier versions of public LDD, as part of LEGO Design byME I think. So I guess "LDD Hollywood Edition" was based on some earlier then 4.3.11 code. Does anybody know when the Send button was removed in stock LDD ?
• the version shown doesn't have a stud ground indicator, but instead an origin xyz indicator
• all the bricks in the brick palette bar are colored in grey and not in red in Extended mode
• Bottom Status bar which shows the number of bricks isn't there (but this is a preferences setting in stock LDD and I presume the same in LDD Hollywood)

 

[legoanimegirl]

Actually, I have 2 images saved still from I think 2022? Sorry for the quality, I had to compress them because otherwise Euro wouldn't let me upload it. I was trying to recreate The LEGO Movie logo LOL.

Edit: I don't think the attachment worked so I uploaded the images to google drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-qDpk9PLxAvkLd_5LHM0vJybHr3QNisB/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ANFhf4lNvX__ycXksd6Hvksbz6hUG0EE/view?usp=drive_link

Enjoy :D

Edited June 17, 2024 by legoanimegirl

[Zerobricks]

Thank you for this insight. When you say it runs faster, can it also handle more parts?

[legoanimegirl]

Yup, thousands of more parts, since it's used to build huge sculptures).

[Zerobricks]

Wish there was a way to get my paws on that version... Is it still being used by LEGO?

[legoanimegirl]

Just Merlin MMBs at the moment, but they only use it to design smaller stuff. They use an even better program called BrickBuilder to generate regular 3D models into huge brick sculptures and color them in... that is something I really want to get my hands on! I can dream :(

[M2m]

Thanks @legoanimegirl for adding to this thread. I think LDD Hollywood information is sparse - but LDD LEGOLAND information is nearly non-existant. I wish it could be dumped somewhere just like some old (unreleased) console games are once in a while. LDD is still by far the best building tool.

Also some interesting information here: https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/bltf643219fa5bd3d27/bits_n_bricks_s05e47_feature_and_transcript.pdf

"As the fan base for
LEGO Digital Designer continued to grow among customers, it also found a fan base internally, among designers.
Soon, the developers behind LDD had created specialized versions for LEGOLAND®, set creators, video game developers, and even Hollywood – eventually those were all combined into LDD Pro. But as support for LDD grew for internal use, support of LDD Fan diminished."

"Today, LDD Pro is the only version of LEGO Digital Designer supported by the LEGO Group. Back when the company started creating spinoffs of LDD, the core version was renamed LDD Fan, but LDD Fan stopped getting official support in 2016. Despite that, one more update hit in 2019, but no more are expected."

 

Last but not least:

setuplddlegoland-pc-1_1_2.exe

Publisher: LEGO System A/S (signed and verified)

MD5: 53c82ab61c78bbaee2de6fac7c2ff48a

SHA-1: 41a6ad97249cec140f57153fb268787ab1953a15

SHA-256: 93bb659886150660aa39a99336b51edaa0ca8a7d9e9d8c0b0560da5d4e8ce428

File Details File size: 363.5 MB (381,164,896 bytes)

 

LDD LEGOLAND.exe

Publisher: LEGO Company (signed by LEGO System A/S)

Product: LDD LEGOLAND

Version: 1.1.2.0

MD5: abe0be2e790a97841e21848796c00916

SHA-1: 0c96f72b9462fa3453859fd186a9177aa8bc8d3c

SHA-256: c869a183dc11662f464f1c7387c1becf8f4355acc89a06cadbf946050d354372

File Details File size: 8.8 MB (9,272,160 bytes)

Product version: 1.1.2.0

Copyright: LEGO A/S Copyright � 2014

Original file name: LDD LEGOLAND.exe

File type: Executable application (Win64 EXE)

Language: Language Neutral

Common path: C:\Program Files\lego company\ldd legoland\ldd legoland.exe

 

Important: I don't have this files - I gather this information from the internet

Edited August 7, 2024 by M2m

[legoanimegirl]

On 6/17/2024 at 4:19 AM, legoanimegirl said:

Actually, I have 2 images saved still from I think 2022? Sorry for the quality, I had to compress them because otherwise Euro wouldn't let me upload it. I was trying to recreate The LEGO Movie logo LOL.

Edit: I don't think the attachment worked so I uploaded the images to google drive:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-qDpk9PLxAvkLd_5LHM0vJybHr3QNisB/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ANFhf4lNvX__ycXksd6Hvksbz6hUG0EE/view?usp=drive_link

Enjoy :D

[Bingies24]

Searched up LDD Pro on Google and somehow found this:
https://shinjipons.com/lego-digital-designer-pro.html

How is this still LEGO® Digital Designer?

[Zerobricks]

What an amazing find! Seems like it's a version they use for building the 3D models and instructions?