Project B.U.I.L.D. – Update

Hello, Luprechauns. This is Hollis, with a progress update for Project B.U.I.L.D. I posted here over a year ago about the project, asking for help with building LEGO models and designing zones. I will admit, though, that perhaps we weren’t quite ready (okay, not ready at all) to start working on that kind of thing. We were still too early in development, and I was still very inexperienced with the tools we were using. Now, however… things are a bit different.

Now, won’t you look at all that LEGO? Okay, okay, there isn’t a whole lot. It’s mostly just greenery. But I now have a nice LEGO model pipeline going from LEGO Digital Designer > LeoCAD > Blender > Unity. It works fairly well, and I can import LEGO stuff into the game much more efficiently than before.

Just thought I’d post an update here in case any (good) LEGO builders/creative people are still interested. Just send us a message (www.brickbuild.org/contact-us). You’ll also need to be able to use Skype (We only ever use text-based chat) if you want to help out.

Hoping to see some familiar usernames soon.

Signed, Hollis of Shuner

Project B.U.I.L.D. – Looking for builders

Hello, everyone! Hollis here. It’s been some time since I’ve spoken to any of you. Zipblock invited me here after LU closed, and I’ve been following this blog ever since, but I haven’t had anything interesting to write about until now.

Since LU closed, I’ve been working on a LEGO game project, Project B.U.I.L.D. I’m the “Director” so to speak, overseeing development and making sure everyone is doing their job. I also do most of the animating, modeling, and world development.

I was wondering if anyone here would like to help out with building LEGO models for the game. If you were to join, you would be building in LEGO Digital Designer, and eventually BrickBUILD, which is our own building system. Also, until BrickBUILD is finished, your models would have to be simple and small, as our current brick library is small, and we’ll have to “build” the models over again within Blender (a 3D modeling package) using the bricks we currently have, which is not easy.

Here are some pictures of what we have so far.

Test world I made a few weeks ago

Screenshot from an older version of BrickBUILD

If anyone is interested, please contact me at projectbuild.contact@gmail.com, or click here, make a Chatroll account, and we can talk further.

If you are looking to help us out in ways other than building, check out the Join page on our website. Keep in mind Project B.U.I.L.D. is entirely non-profit; we do not pay our members.

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