Creating Custom Bricks

[DerpDerp]

I want to learn how to create custom bricks using models, such as plants and things, but I can't seem to find the proper tutorial on how.

I either want to create them using Milkshape or Blender 2.74

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[DerpDerp]

I don't know if this is the right board for this, but can someone at least help me?

[phflack]

try looking in modification discussion?
or look at other custom bricks

[DerpDerp]

try looking in modification discussion?
or look at other custom bricks

I've done that, and looking at custom bricks doesn't really help, I don't know the correct sizes, grid, or anything

[Wesley Williams]

I don't know the correct sizes, grid, or anything

The size and grid is dependent upon whatever modeling program you are using. Experiment and figure it out yourself.
For reference a 1x1x1 brick is a 1x1x1.2 box in Blender.

To make a brick you need to make a model with the following:

• Mesh model - named anything besides COLLISION or BOUNDS
• Collision box(es) - named COLLISION1, COLLISION2 etc (can have 10 boxes, must be exact boxes)
• Bounding box - named BOUNDS, should align to brick grid and people will not be able to build other bricks inside this

Note: You can leave out the bounding box and the converter will use the outer edges of your model to generate the bounds.

Then export the model as a .obj and use Badspot's obj2blb converter to make your brick. View the topic for how to name bricks to get specific colors and whatnot.

[Tendon]

If you want to have collision models that aren't boxes, like for ramps or something, you can use blender 2.49b w/ a dts exporter for that.  Sadly the exporter doesn't work for the newer versions of blender.

Then when you state all of the brick's properties in a .cs file you name the .dts file and it will use it instead of the box collision from the blb file.  Atleast I think that's how it works.  It's been a while since I've made any bricks.