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Re: Lets get a datsville castle going
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lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad
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Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:20:54 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, David Eaton writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Brian Sauls writes:
> > And for that matter, most medieval towns were centered around *a* Castle,
> > were they not? Even in the realm of fantasy, there is one castle per
> > village. So you only *need* one castle--and a truckload of peons to support
> > it. And a few lovely "maidens", I suppose.
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> A good point to bring up... how would it be designed? Because most people will
> probably want to build castles, I'd either suggest contributing castle • sections
> to a single large castle (the stables built into one wall, the servents
> quarters, barracks, etc., the main keep perhaps separated inside the outer
> walls), or build multiple castles set apart from each other, perhaps centered
> around a village (kinda backwards, but it could work :) ) Or maybe have two • big
> modular castles (1 grey w/black trim, 1 black w/ grey trim) built on either
> side of a village?
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> If the large castle gets done, we'd have to come up with ideas for module
> standards, like the space station idea going on in the Space group... Castle
> walls have to be so high, with the jaggy defensive wall pieces (don't remember
> the real term for it) ending in a 1x1 brick, so that the wall looks constant
> when assembled, etc., etc.
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> The problem of course is that with a single large castle, you have to change
> the layout of the rest of the castle to account for a new segment being added.
> Makes it a little more difficult to do...
I like the idea of a modular castle. A couple possibilities spring to mind:
1:For exteriors, use a standard like was found in the early castle sets. I
would be inclined to suggest a bigger standard, since I found those to be a
bit low, but something like that would work well.
2:For large buildings, (keeps & fortresses) two ideas spring to mind. One
possiblity is have a 'floor standard' where (for example) the staircase(s) are
fixed, and the exterior dimensions are fixed. This lets several people build
a castle together. Another possibility, which I think would be more fun, is
make floors with only one rule: you have to mesh with the floor beneath you.
I think this would be the most fun, and it would be really neat to see how the
structure evolved over time.(1)
Of course, a big limitation of this idea is that once you've gotten a couple
floors on, interiors become a moot point, unless they're archived as seperate
.dats - but for the castle to look at all realistic, then insides just won't
get seen.
$0.02
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
1:this might work really well in a scale other than minifig, too. Say,
classic scale, or microfig scale. These would allow for some really huge
castles without having 14-day rendering times. :)
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| James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message news:FIIyyu.8KK@lugnet.com... (...) support (...) will (...) centered (...) Castle (...) remember (...) constant (...) change (...) added. (...) are (...) build (...) the (...) seperate (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Yeah, I'm inclined to agree... but it could vary from castle to castle, too. I think I'd rather see castles without the castle siding too... less realistic to have windows every foot. Here's another question... how thick should they be? should (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) A good point to bring up... how would it be designed? Because most people will probably want to build castles, I'd either suggest contributing castle sections to a single large castle (the stables built into one wall, the servents quarters, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Sep-99, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.cad)
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