The Aurora but it's built in LEGO generated from a 3D model of it

nesrak1

It took me yesterday and today, but after feeding a model through multiple programs I created this:


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Here's what it looked like before lego generated with poly2vox:

AnomalyDetected

Now build it irl

nesrak1

@AnomalyDetected Wanna calculate the cost?

gamer1000k

Nice. I want to see a minifig scale Cyclops next. I might actually have enough old LEGOs lying around to scrounge up enough parts for something like that.

nesrak1

@gamer1000k The first one took what felt like forever, but maybe in a couple of days I can make the cyclops. How many blocks long do you want it?

Casual_Player

@nesrak1 I have a funny feeling you already did.

gamer1000k

@nesrak1 I was thinking minifig scale. If we assume the character is 2m tall, and the Cyclops is 55m, then according to this LEGO Calculator, it should be 145 studs long.

nesrak1

@gamer1000k That makes it ~76 "cubes"

NerdyEric

@nesrak1 Now I want to spend a unacceptable amount of time building this in MC.

Jamezorg

I would totally buy Subnautica lego sets, and proudly put the vehicles on display alongside my Death Star.

nesrak1

@NerdyEric Silly, one of the processes to get to lego is MC
(not at comp but will try to get screenie)

nesrak1

After that, because b2b doesn't understand damage values, I replaced all the blocks in mcedit.

kingkuma

gamer1000k wrote: »

Nice. I want to see a minifig scale Cyclops next. I might actually have enough old LEGOs lying around to scrounge up enough parts for something like that.

I already made one.

Casual_Player

kingkuma wrote: »

gamer1000k wrote: »

Nice. I want to see a minifig scale Cyclops next. I might actually have enough old LEGOs lying around to scrounge up enough parts for something like that.

I already made one.

I get the feeling the pilot is desperate and screaming for help: )

nesrak1

nesrak1 wrote: »

@AnomalyDetected Wanna calculate the cost?

Eh, I did it myself.

When polyvox generates a model, it only does the outside. Not including the inside, the outer part is made from exactly 76,964 blocks. Each 2x2 block is $0.14 so that means the total cost of building this is:
Grand total of: $10,774.96
Edit: Edited calculations. Knew it didn't sound right. Thanks MCEdit. You sure know how to math.

372768768-347329372=is obviously 76,964.
Now note that all of the blocks will have to be floating so if you'd want to attach everything together, I would tack on another thousand or so.

Kouji_San

Kickstarter!

kingkuma

nesrak1 wrote: »

nesrak1 wrote: »

@AnomalyDetected Wanna calculate the cost?

Eh, I did it myself.

When polyvox generates a model, it only does the outside. Not including the inside, the outer part is made from exactly 76,964 blocks. Each 2x2 block is $0.14 so that means the total cost of building this is:
Grand total of: $10,774.96
Edit: Edited calculations. Knew it didn't sound right. Thanks MCEdit. You sure know how to math.

372768768-347329372=is obviously 76,964.
Now note that all of the blocks will have to be floating so if you'd want to attach everything together, I would tack on another thousand or so.

A more accurate "Cube" in LEGO is a 2x2 brick with a 2x2 plate on top. It's STILL not exactly a cube, but it's pretty darn close. Also, couldn't you just use slope bricks?

nesrak1

kingkuma wrote: »

A more accurate "Cube" in LEGO is a 2x2 brick with a 2x2 plate on top.

You're right. I had to setup the part where a grass block is a white wool, a dirt is orange, etc etc in block2brick because it didn't natively support wool. I did use the flat one with a regular 2x2 on top.

kingkuma wrote: »

It's STILL not exactly a cube, but it's pretty darn close. Also, couldn't you just use slope bricks?

Like the ones at an angle? Remember I converted a file from assets to obj to kv6 to schematic to world to lxf. Polyvox only supports blocks, and one type of brick. It's all computer generated. It doesn't know better.