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LEGOLAND California's Ambassador Pass Master Model Builder classes start today
for the 2010 season. While I'm not a passholder, I have seen examples of past
work, and I have to say that I think Gary has "outdone the brand" this year.
This year's models are truly the best they've produced.
This year, I had the honor and privilege of creating the building instructions
(BI) for the Ambassador models.
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I've been creating "like official" BI for a few years now. It started with a
Hummingbird model for the pick-a-brick shop:
http://www.brickoracle.com/pdf/LLC.JK.001-Hummingbird-Release.pdf
and then a Christmas ornament a few months later:
http://www.brickoracle.com/pdf/LLC.JK.002-Reindeer_Ornament.pdf
And now I've done the BI for the two models for this year's class. I used ALE
tools:
LeoCAD to model the steps
LDView to generate output
Plus Adobe InDesign for layout, and makefiles and shell scripts for many of the
mechanics.
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I'm using two unofficial augmentations to the LDRAW syntax: an OBI (Original
Building Instructions) syntax that enables the "shading" on the sides of studs
and sometimes other surfaces, and the TEXMAP syntax to support texture mapping
(on the mini-figure head and torso). These are present in beta-form in LDView
(in the case of OBI commands, throughout my personal LDRAW library).
Here's a sample page from the Ambassador class BI:
http://www.brickoracle.com/pdf/sandcastle1-sample.pdf
And here's a screenshot of the BOM (Bill of Materials) for the last step of the
model:
http://www.brickoracle.com/images/BI1.png
Nice coincidence that "tan cheese slopes" (or, if you prefer, brick-yellow 1x1
roof tiles) are coming out in a COUPLE sets this year... ;-)
I actually have a 4th set of BI I'm working on, but they're not quite finished
yet. 2 years of work (with an ex-LEGO Group employee), around 200 pages, LSYNTH
was required. It'll be good. Look for an announcement in the next couple
months.
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I think that these samples really show the power and capability that ALE-built
LEGO CAD and BI tools have. I do believe we have "arrived," ladies and
gentlemen.
-- joshua
LUGNET member #3
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