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Re: Philosophical town question.
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Thu, 8 Mar 2001 05:41:35 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Benjamin Medinets writes:
> Hmmm...I guess it depends on preference...personally I wouldn't put a stair-
> way in a "little" house because they would take all the space, and the
> the pink spiral staircase in a few paradisa sets aren't necessarily desirable
> or all that common.
> I subscribe to the "zap" theory...that says that you magically teleport or
> zap from one floor to the other...
> Those are just my thoughts on the matter.
I've managed to include stairs in larger buildings, but the house presents a
challenge. I used to use the "zap" "transporter" theory too. But there's
this weird line one must draw in Lego Town. Town is not modelling, it's
cartooning in the widest form of the word: Lego Town models of 1980-1996
era are scaled down subsets of reality, not bit for bit representations.
Cars are one seaters, trains are six dots wide. Floors are always five
bricks tall. All those sixby and eight dot wide folks aiming for "realism"
don't get it-it's not the point! Town is a style.
As a result, not having stairs in certain models is perfectly allowable.
Yet it bugs me to no end, whether a building needs stairs or not! Aaargh.
Here's the little house:
http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/lego-littlehouse-index.html
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| Town is a style. You are right...and it is all about how much of your style you want to show. (...) it had a balcony, you could integrate a "fire escape" for it but stair would detract from the rest of the model. Benjamin Medinets (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| The rule of thumb I use is: If the back of the building is open, it's ok to not have stairs. One simply relies on the Hand Of The Creator to move one around. If I bother to doa 4-walled building, I put in stairs. Unless the buildings are very small, (...) (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) Hmmm...I guess it depends on preference...personally I wouldn't put a stair- way in a "little" house because they would take all the space, and the the pink spiral staircase in a few paradisa sets aren't necessarily desirable or all that (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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