zeeronemo Posted April 15, 2010 Posted April 15, 2010 Very cool TLC makes the Lego Universe Mode available. And thanks to the people over here who "pushed" them. It's even more simple than the way I, accidentally, discovered just the day before this great news. This makes this post a bit redundant and already old news, grrr , but nevertheless I'd like to share it, there might still be some interesting details for some of you. HOW TO KEEP OLDER LDD PALETTES: Three days ago I updated LDD 3.0 to 3.1, but I wasn't pleased that a lot of bricks weren't in the new palette anymore. So I took a look in: C:\Documents And Settings\UserName\ApplicationData\Lego Company\Lego Digital Designer and saw two setup-files: setupLDD-PC-3_0_11.exe setupLDD-PC-3_1_3.exe Two files of 54 MB. The second is the new file you download to install 3.1. And, hooray, the first, the 3.0 setup file wasn't deleted, so I reinstalled 3.0. This means palettes are extracted from the db.lif file and placed in C:\Documents And Settings\UserName\ApplicationData\Lego Company\Lego Digital Designer\Palettes The *.lif files that were already in this directory are deleted. So I had again 26 palettes or *.lif-files of the 3.0 version. In the 3.1 version there are only 19 palettes. I had made a backup of those 19 new ones, so I could replace 19 of 26 old palettes by the new ones. So now I could run LDD with the new palettes without loosing the 7 older palettes: 10183.lif CustomCars.lif Factory2007.lif Factory2008.lif MarketStreet.lif SpaceSkulls.lif StarJustice.lif LDD LEGO UNIVERSE: In C:\Documents And Settings\UserName\ApplicationData\Lego Company\Lego Digital Designer I also found a new file: UnplaceableBricksDump.lxfml This looked promising, so I opened it. There was one of my LDD-wips completely yellow! Apparentely unplaceable, so LDD created a file to dump it in! (A drawback of LDD 3.1: more bricks are disappearing because they couldn't be placed. Not in the LEGO Universe mode though.) And only red bricks to pick? Oh, wait, a "little" bit more than usual, in any colour! Really astounding. A palette called LEGO Universe! Now, if you want this palette, it becomes illegal: When you rename an *.lxf file in *.zip it can be unzipped in IMAGE100.LXFML and IMAGE100.PNG. With a text editor you can open IMAGE100.LXFML and have a look at the file. (I learned it in a post about custom angles in LDD at Classic-Space, unfortunately without pictures now, otherwise certainly something for the pinned LDD Index thread.) In a normal LDD-file you can see on the fifth line: <Brand name="Factory"/> In UnplaceableBricksDump.lxfml I saw: <Brand name="FreeBuild"/> When I saved UnplaceableBricksDump.lxfml in LDD in a new file I got: <Brand name="LEGOUniverse"/> This means when you replace "Factory" by "LEGOUniverse" in a normal LDD-file, LDD automatically opens in LEGO Universe mode. However, this only works with LDD 3.0, not with 3.1. But you've got off course this topic to let it work with 3.1. When you replace it by "Freebuild" it opens in Factory or LEGOUniverse mode depending on the brickpalettes used. And now I will have a closer look at preferences.ini. Quote
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