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The Bricksperience

Build brick-building sets from the perspective of a minifigure. · By DasMatze

Easier way to create instructions?

A topic by Mudkipz949 created Jul 28, 2018 Views: 531 Replies: 11
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is there any way to make the instructions for the building easier for large builds, because i have made the old Statue of Liberty set in LDD and made it compatible with this via replacing all the 2x8 bricks with 2 2x4s, and i find it that it would be very annoying for selecting the dependencies of each of the bricks, also, i really love this game, its so simple yet so addicting to play

Developer

This process can unfortunately not be automated. But you can make use of three features to accelerate the process:

  • Enable "Orbit Mode" (top right corner of "Edit Bricks"-window) to center the camera on the selected brick
  • Enable "Smart Cull" to only display the bricks around the selected brick
  • Press E (or click "Next Brick") to select the next brick which has no dependency information set

This way you don't have to move the camera much and don't need to leave the "Toggle Dependency" mode. Simple sets (especially older, non-Technic sets) can be setup within a few minutes this way. I hope this helps. If you have an idea on how to make it even easier and quicker, let me know!

ah, ok, i am still a bit confused on the dependencies for bricks and how it works

Developer

You select a brick, switch to dependency mode (the button in the lower right corner or by pressing 2) and mark all the bricks which need to be built before the selected brick can be built. This side-view graphic showing dependencies might help:


ok, i do have something to say about what i think might be a bug, i dont know,but when i tried to get a cheese slope (1x1 slope) to depend on the placement of a stud to pin connecter, it wouldnt place the slope even though the pin is in the place where it needs to be

Developer

I'm not sure what you mean by "it wouldn't place the slope". The dependency mode simply adds information to the bricks, it doesn't move, place or connect them. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your post. Have you watched the video tutorial?


If that doesn't solve your problem, maybe you can send me the file?

sure i can send the file, i have watched the video, so where should i put the file?

Developer

Dropbox and Google Drive are good ways to share files. Or send it via email at dasmatzeapps at gmail dot com.

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I looked at it and don't see anything wrong or not working. I made a video about how I start setting up dependencies and how to look inside of a model (in case that becomes a problem):

The missing wheel brick will come with the next update.

i started the exact same way as you did in that video and it doesnt work for me, i dont know what i am doing wrong

Developer

I'm sorry, I still don't understand what might wrong. Can you post pictures or a video of it?