Long story short; So, I'm on a boarding school, and I managed to build my boarding school in LDD (thanks for the fantastic program!), make a sponsoring with LEGO™, so our school make a small stop motion that LEGO can use in their commercials or what ever they want (the 4400 bricks have yet to arrive).

My question is, when we make the movie/stop motion, it could be nice to be able to make it further with the model in CINEMA 4D/After Effects, so is there a way to export the LDD model to these, or maybe built into LDD5?

I'm on a Mac with OS X Lion by the way.

Welcome to Eurobricks! Have you seen this Eurobricks topic about "Simple Animations Using LDD"?

Welcome to Eurobricks! Have you seen this Eurobricks topic about "Simple Animations Using LDD"?

Thank you :)

No, I hadn't :D Thank you a lot, I'll take a look.

Took a look, and does still look good, but it is not quite what I'm looking for.

What I'm basically looking for, is a function to render it into a 3D program somehow (or After Effects). Not sure if you can render the .xml to 3D however, haven't tried such thing.

Edited October 27, 201113 yr by Lukas 45

I haven't gone further with this idea due to lack of time. Timelapsing is the easiest with LDD. I know people using Povray and LDraw (bricksmith on mac) that can make real animations.

I haven't gone further with this idea due to lack of time. Timelapsing is the easiest with LDD. I know people using Povray and LDraw (bricksmith on mac) that can make real animations.

Thank you. I will take a look into LDraw/Bricksmith.

Thank you. I will take a look into LDraw/Bricksmith.

And on that note, if you do end up using LDraw (keep in mind that there's no reliable way to convert an LDD model to an LDraw model, so you'll have to manually build the whole thing over in the LDraw program), there is application called LeoCAD that can export the model in 3DS format.

And on that note, if you do end up using LDraw (keep in mind that there's no reliable way to convert an LDD model to an LDraw model, so you'll have to manually build the whole thing over in the LDraw program), there is application called LeoCAD that can export the model in 3DS format.

Hmm well, I did manage to export from LDD to XXX.ldr which Bricksmith support, so I guess I can play around with that :)

It does have some bricks it can't find, prob because it's out dated.

@ Lukas 45: Are you using all of the available bricks in LDD 4.1.3? Check out this Eurobricks topic about how to unlock them in LDD Extended Mode: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=53760 .

@ Lukas 45: Are you using all of the available bricks in LDD 4.1.3? Check out this Eurobricks topic about how to unlock them in LDD Extended Mode: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=53760 .

Or you are having my problem of the part existing in LDD, but not LDRAW...which is what Bricksmith uses.

@ Lukas 45: Are you using all of the available bricks in LDD 4.1.3? Check out this Eurobricks topic about how to unlock them in LDD Extended Mode: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=53760 .

I'm using all available bricks in LDD with extended mode

Or you are having my problem of the part existing in LDD, but not LDRAW...which is what Bricksmith uses.

I don't think LDD is the problem, but more Bricksmiths brick database that's not up to date with LDDs. Not sure about that tho.

I don't think LDD is the problem, but more Bricksmiths brick database that's not up to date with LDDs. Not sure about that tho.

The LDraw parts database is maintained by other AFOLs, not by TLG, and it tends to have more of the older parts. LDD tends to have a lot of the newer parts, so converting from one program to another can be difficult. You can always also try looking for the piece you want in the list of unofficial parts for LDraw, which are parts that have been modeled but haven't been approved by LDraw admins yet.