getting away from the Minecraft textures helps the ray-traced lighting make so so much more sense. In the RTX pack, they’re set up as PBR-d version of pixel textures, which has similar dissonance as the Quake II RTX set - low-fi meets high-fi to the destruction of original art intent.
I’m impressed from a tech sort of standpoint, but from a Lego standpoint it kinda feels like cheating, or at least kinda lazy.
My feelings are about the same
I could see this being pretty useful for my kid when his ability to focus on building gets overwhelmed by the sheer number of pieces in front of him, but that is a pretty rare occurrence.
This boy is incomprehensible
Hire a narrator next time kid
It’s a real shame this would put money in a TERF’s pocket because that owl model is really nice
“Toad in front of the palace”
It’s me.
i guess bionicles fuck now
now? you’re implying they haven’t always fucked?
there’s a gulf between being horny and fucking
I am raising a dork, but he wanted to show off his Lego RX-78-2:
Also yes, he is wearing his shirt inside out and backwards because he just does that sometimes.
Posting the whole article because it gives a breakdown of creatively utilized pieces
Also for reference, that first image above notes that the model is approximately 105 studs long, that converts to roughly 84cm/33 inches. “Shiptember” has a bit of a double meaning here, in the Lego fan community SHIP stands for Seriously Huge Investment in Parts, and is used to denote models (typically spaceships but other things too) that are 100+ studs long
I used this tool to perform the conversion
