[HN Gopher] Datsville - a Lego-inspired city started in 1999 by ...
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Datsville - a Lego-inspired city started in 1999 by LUGNET using
the LDraw CAD
Author : app4soft
Score : 25 points
Date : 2020-02-16 08:56 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| twic wrote:
| What's the dark thing in the cornfield near the futuristic house?
| A cow?
| app4soft wrote:
| 1. Download _Datsville_ repo from GitHub;
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| 2. Unpack folder _`datsville_master`_ somewhere on your drive;
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| 3. Open _`.. /datsville_master/datsville_master.ldr`_ file in
| _LeoCAD_ ;
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| 4. Zoom to interested area.
| MisterTea wrote:
| Kinda reminds me of sim town. I always wanted an amalgamation of
| sim-city/minecraft/gta but gta in the sense of being able to
| explore and interact with the city from the ground so to speak.
|
| If you really want to get crazy it would be fun if you could
| drive through the corn fiend and see the corn break apart into
| the little block pieces. Destroying buildings or objects in the
| world breaks them into bricks. Add some physics and give us a
| true lego building world where we can make our own lego cities
| then smash them apart. Because you know you played godzilla with
| your legos...
| app4soft wrote:
| > _Kinda reminds me of sim town._
|
| _Datsville-RPG_ , LEGO-themed strategy RPG made with RPG
| Maker, now is WIP too![0,1]
|
| [0] https://github.com/mjhorvath/Datsville-RPG
|
| [1]
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTkwaZ4Y7f0&list=PLov7Lq9jgP...
| cerberusss wrote:
| The high-resolution image is extremely satisfying to scroll
| around in: https://mjhorvath.github.io/Datsville/docs/high-
| resolution-r...
|
| I recently got to play with Lego because my daughter, who is
| five, got interested in it. There are attractive boxes for girls,
| it's called Lego Friends and the figures are a bit more life
| like.
| RobAley wrote:
| > There are attractive boxes for girls
|
| My three daughters love the normal lego, they must have not
| realised it wasn't for people without penises.
| goto11 wrote:
| Good for them! But the "Friends" line have been enormously
| successful in getting more girls interested in Lego. For
| whatever reason, what you call "normal" Lego have primarily
| appealed to boys.
| ChrisKnott wrote:
| Gendered sets and conflict sets is something that LEGO
| wrestled with a lot; they both run counter to the
| ideals/politics of the founder (and hence company).
|
| However, after investing heavily in research around it, they
| have basically come to the conclusion that;
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| 1. Girls and boys play differently (as a rule of thumb, not
| universally obviously)
|
| 2. Conflict play is healthy (although they will probably
| never include contemporary weaponry/military).
|
| Related article - https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/a
| rchive/2016/05/le...
|
| (your comment comes across needlessly agressive)
| app4soft wrote:
| > _I recently got to play with Lego because my daughter, who is
| five, got interested in it. There are attractive boxes for
| girls, it 's called Lego Friends and the figures are a bit more
| life like._
|
| Nice! ;)
|
| If you need user-friendly CAD for creating digital Lego models
| (for planning builds before build it) try _LeoCAD_ app with
| _LDraw Parts Library_.[0,1,2]
|
| [0] https://github.com/leozide/leocad/releases/tag/continuous
|
| [1] https://www.leocad.org/
|
| [2] https://github.com/symbian9/awesome-ldraw
| cerberusss wrote:
| Wow, looks good! Is there a way to order all the pieces of
| such a model?
| ChrisKnott wrote:
| You can upload the parts list to Bricklink. They have a
| feature that attempts to find the cheapest combination of
| sellers to minimize cost.
| app4soft wrote:
| For generate _BrickLink Parts List_ [0] for created model
| using _LeoCAD_ , in _LeoCAD_ go to menu _" File > Export >
| BrickLink..."_ and save its _XML-file_.
|
| Then you could use this _XML-file_ for order all needed
| pieces.[1]
|
| [0] https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=207
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| [1] http://guidetobricklink.com/uploading-a-parts-list
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