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LEGO Community Team Dude Kevin Hinkle passed on word to the Ambassadors from the LDD design team:<blockquote>LDD will be updated on Jan 17th, to reflect the closure of DbM [Design byMe] and LU [LEGO Universe]. Since we are not constrained by the bricks available in either the picking location for DbM and the game for LU, we can broaden the amount of bricks available. People will still have the same possibility to document and share their LEGO models; we will substitute the DbM and LU themes with 2 LDD specific themes working in the same way, just with more bricks. Since the users can no longer order the model through DbM, we will add a list of bricks in a given model to the generated HTML building guide; that way people can use the list to find the bricks they need to build the model physically.</blockquote>More bricks sounds good to me, although it's still sad that you won't be able to buy your creations anymore.

 

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With this update, I am really not sad about the end of DbM anymore. PaB was far better priced anyway, and we now even get a brick list we have wanted for so long so we can order them seperately. This is pretty good news, actually! Now we also know for sure LDD will be continued. :) I guess there will be one theme for pieces that actually do exist for order in that colour and one other theme where you can give any kind of brick (even those you can´t order) any colour from the palette.~Gata. ;)

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With this update, I am really not sad about the end of DbM anymore. PaB was far better priced anyway, and we now even get a brick list we have wanted for so long so we can order them seperately. This is pretty good news, actually! Now we also know for sure LDD will be continued. :) I guess there will be one theme for pieces that actually do exist for order in that colour and one other theme where you can give any kind of brick (even those you can´t order) any colour from the palette.~Gata. ;)

Maybe the second one you mentioned will have BIONICLE bricks... *Keeps fingers crossed*

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This sounds fun. But will I have to re-install LDD to get the new bricks? Hope not...

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The second new mode will probably just be LDD Extended mode, which is pretty much an enhanced version of LEGO Universe mode. Although not unlocked by default, it exists on the current version of LDD and has the widest parts palette of any mode. It does indeed have several BIONICLE parts, but not enough to build many complete sets.The one to replace Design byME mode will hopefully still have limitations so the parts exist IRL. That will be easiest for younger users who want to build models that can exist in real life, and yet don't have prior experience with the LEGO color names or with online databases showing part availability.

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The second new mode will probably just be LDD Extended mode, which is pretty much an enhanced version of LEGO Universe mode. Although not unlocked by default, it exists on the current version of LDD and has the widest parts palette of any mode. It does indeed have several BIONICLE parts, but not enough to build many complete sets.

How do you access it?

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If I'm reading it right, it still means models are constrained to bricks/colors that exist actually exist. I suppose that's not a bad thing. If the piece selection is nice I might even go back to dabbling in LDD.

I am pretty sure that limitation will only exist for one of the two modes.

The second new mode will probably just be LDD Extended mode, which is pretty much an enhanced version of LEGO Universe mode. Although not unlocked by default, it exists on the current version of LDD and has the widest parts palette of any mode. It does indeed have several BIONICLE parts, but not enough to build many complete sets.

How do you access it?
Searching LDDextended on Google should get you to a couple of good tutorials. ;)~Gata. ;)

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Oh man, I've been wanting LDD to list the parts in the models for ages. I guess they didn't previously include it because they wanted people to just order the parts from them, and not get the parts from other sources. (Which is what I like to do. :P ) It is a shame that the business aspect didn't do so well, but LDD is a great program, and I'm glad to hear that they're going to keep it going. :):music:

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