Holodoc Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 The newest version (2.0) of Lego Digital Designer is ready to be downloaded at its official site. This is what TLC says about it: New version 2.0! Version 2.0 of LEGO Digital Designer offers many improvements and great new features, including: Improved Building Experience Optimized connectivity Vast performance increase New brick palette system for easy use New brick assortment Various templates for getting started New backgrounds in view mode -based Macs. Improved virtual Building Instruction generation Complete redesign of UI I haven Quote
Darthking623 Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 I've downloaded it its great!!!! But there seems to be a problem with the sound. Quote
Mr Hobbles Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 I just tried it. It has some really nice improvements from 1.6, and a cleaner interface which makes it seem much nicer to use. Also saving/opening now uses standard Win32 dialog boxes instead of the the old silly ones which wouldn't let you change the location. It has a slightly larger selection of bricks, but I've noticed they've gotten rid of a few too. Quote
Optimax X Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 I may use it. Does it have bionicle bricks? If i do dowload it it will be for racers, bionicle and space MOCs Quote
Skinny Boy Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 Pretty good, but when I loaded an older model, it became way too slow, and whenever I wanted to buy something of Legoshop, it would say Your Shopping Cart Is Empty. Even though where it says shopping cart there is a number, and its not zero Quote
Zaktan of the Shadows Posted March 21, 2007 Posted March 21, 2007 Nice! I will be sure to download it soon. -ZotS Quote
xenologer Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 Okay. Most of the bricks are the same... I see a few new ones... Mainly the BattleDroid torsos and arm pieces, which I guess might be cool to have; lt me get a few without having to buy the ugly figs... I'm happy to see that the cliplight1*1plate snot brick has been repaired. loading an old model that used the bad ones forces deletion of conflicting bricks. Which is smart i guess. The pageup/pagedown keys to do vertical brick placement are Missing |-/ On the plus tho, brick placement seems smarter, with green hilights indicating what it think's youre trying to click onto. So it may not be that bad a deal, i used pageup/down to 'work around' dumb placement issues... Oh, and technic seems a Lot Smarter, they'll let you slide a technic rod till you get it just right. No more, Random click locations for technic. rightclicking does not rotate bricks anymore, instead it targets the camera kinda messes me up when you change a basic interface thing like that... OH, 2.0 totally wins! Look what it can handle! Quote
Berry Syedow Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 This is good news! I might have to test the LDD out on a rainy day, soon. It's good that TLC is trying to improve the interface, however I'd like to see more availability of pieces in the future. OH, 2.0 totally wins!Look what it can handle! Uh, should I be ashamed for not knowing about that technique? 8- Quote
Hinckley Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 The new brick assortment is up at Pick a Brick in the states, too. I order a bunch of white train windows and sliding freight doors! So far the new version rocks and I like the new bricks they added. I do, however, miss the gray shutters and black doors...Honestly, isn't it way too early to be eliminating pieces? Why oh why does this have to happen? :-( However, another plus is that it takes old models and updates them for current factory pricing and inventory. Quote
Robiwan Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 My copy of the LDD doesn't work. When I start it, it finished loading and than it shows me a probem report and ask me that I will send it or not. :'-( Can somebody say me what I can do? Quote
Hinckley Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 My copy of the LDD doesn't work. When I start it, it finished loading and than it shows me a probem report and ask me that I will send it or not. :'-( Can somebody say me what I can do? Mine told me my graphics card was out of date, but it let me install the program anyway... Wow, I'm not sure how helpful that really was. Sorry. :'-( Quote
Darthking623 Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 I really don't like how the brick pallette is set out ,also i think there could have been a lot more bricks and the icons that show what brick type it is you dont even have that brick *n* *n* Quote
phoinix Posted March 22, 2007 Posted March 22, 2007 My copy of the LDD doesn't work. When I start it, it finished loading and than it shows me a probem report and ask me that I will send it or not. :'-( Can somebody say me what I can do? i just downloaded it but it dosent work for me either it said that my graphic card cant support it so it might have minnor problems... well NOT WORKING isnt a minnor problem >:-( Quote
Hobbes Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 It's not the first time I read about the graphics card problem. What this comes down to, though, is that without an up-to-date computer (or a not-too-old one) you cannot buy the 10183 Train set since you can't download the additional instructions (unless you care only for the crocodile). So, if you're overly pedantic, you'd have to add the price of a decent graphics card to the train set *wacko* The recommendations read a bit... well... how the heck does this tool utilize a 256 MB card?! These card ain't that cheap... can't imagine a smaller card doesn't do what the stronger does. I have a 64 MB shared card on a laptop and it works... Quote
Holodoc Posted March 23, 2007 Author Posted March 23, 2007 The recommendations read a bit... well... how the heck does this tool utilize a 256 MB card?! These card ain't that cheap... can't imagine a smaller card doesn't do what the stronger does. I have a 64 MB shared card on a laptop and it works... Have a look at this thread (esp. what K Quote
xenologer Posted March 23, 2007 Posted March 23, 2007 New Problem. I'n my first post I raved about how awesome this thing was? and How it's CAD capability was accurate enough to do that bizzare (but real) angle connection I showed? Well that accuracy is a Double Edged Sword: Remember that "Illegal" building techniques presentation? About how theres a tiny height increase on studs due to the Lego logo on top, and how this makes snot bricks on top of studs Not Fit? Well, LDD 2.0 apparently read that same presentation. It Wont let you do that. 8- Quote
SalvoBrick Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 For me, LDD 2.0 is not up nor running... I have a Athlon 64 3200+, 1 Gb ram and a graphic card Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 with 128 Mb ram. The program is extremely slow, CPU usage goes to 100% and I can't even move the palettes, menus, etc. It's like frozen. If I try to close the program, it "hangs" (hourglass cursor) and after a few minutes crashes. LDD 1.6 worked fine for me, and I've ordered a few creations in the last months... It's useless to say that I'm VERY disappointed... >:-( >:-( >:-( Quote
Hobbes Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 Nice piece of hardware *y* And to think the FX cards are the highend cards, especially made for CAD programs *wacko* Quote
Mr Hobbles Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Nice piece of hardware *y*And to think the FX cards are the highend cards, especially made for CAD programs *wacko* If I'm not mistaken it's the Quatro's are the ones made for CAD applications...FX cards are about four generations old now, superceded by the 6800's, 7800's, and now 8800's... Regardless though I'm surprised this card cant run it considering it's age, I run LDD2.0 on a laptop with a 1.6Ghz processor, 512MB RAM and Intel integrated graphics and it's very smooth. I would think there's something wrong with your setup that's causing it to run like that...? :-/ Quote
Hobbes Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 If I'm not mistaken it's the Quatro's are the ones made for CAD applications... Yeah, looks like I mixed them up cos the Quadro product line is called Quadro FX, and the Quadro FX5500 is quite a good and expensive card... :-$ Quote
Mr Hobbles Posted March 24, 2007 Posted March 24, 2007 Yeah, looks like I mixed them up cos the Quadro product line is called Quadro FX, and the Quadro FX5500 is quite a good and expensive card... :-$ Oops pardon the typo. :-P Yeah it's quite easy to confuse, especially if you're purely using the FX moniker. :-) Quote
SalvoBrick Posted March 25, 2007 Posted March 25, 2007 I've tried to update the graphic card drivers, I've downloaded LDD 2.0 again but... nothing! It still continues to "hang" the computer (100% CPU usage and such). I don't care if the graphics card is old: I'm not interested in video games and my computer is only 2 years old, I don't want to buy a new one only to run LDD 2.0. Since it appears that I'm not the only one with this problem, I hope that TLG releases soon a patch or a new version (2.1) Quote
3D LEGO Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 Just to clarify something for everyone. LDD does not use Direct X even though it mentions it in the system requirements. It is fully Open GL. The reason they put Direct X on the system requirements list is because most people don't even know what Open GL is. Also it states that you at least have a "Direct X 8 video Card" (again actually refering to Open GL). My guess is that they are using codecs from at least Open GL version 1.5 (IE GeForce 6 series) if not version 2.0 (IE GeForce 7 series). If so that would be the reason why people with GeForce FX (or 5 series) cards are having diffulcuty it running LDD. Upon inspection of LDD I noticed that "Ageia PhysX" is mentioned in the Credits, so my gess would probaly be Open Gl version 2.0 features are being used and thus have killed backwards compatibilty. Sorry Folks. But just to set things straight, there are a few major changes being implimented right now that are changing how graphics are handeled. For example: The introduction of wide-spread use of physics in model collision. So basiclly LDD could take full advantage of a Ageia PhysX card if one is intalled. Side Note: Nvidia Quadro cards are super workstation cards that include the "Workstation" extensions for Open Gl which are not inlcuded on normal cards. ATI's equvilent is the FireGL's. I hope all that makes since to everyone. 3D LEGO Quote
highlandcattle Posted March 26, 2007 Posted March 26, 2007 It works great even on my old mac. Hurray! Mac ON Quote
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