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Re: Philosophical town question.
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Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:00:51 GMT
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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, a 3-wide staircase doesn't gobble too much
space...
Jeff
Calum Tsang wrote:
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> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Benjamin Medinets writes:
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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 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Here's the little house:
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> http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/lego-littlehouse-index.html
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| (...) Ohhh is that what you call it, "The Hand of The Creator Theory" Good name, Jeff. It isn't the zap theory or teleport theory, but "The Hand Theory" Also good reasoning and insight into this dilemma... (24 years ago, 9-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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