Crate Bricks

[Xanderian]

Not useless at all people. It is a whole brick, and can be activated and made disappear all at once. saving having to name bricks and build or dupload the structure.

Uuh, it's not that many bricks... it takes about half a minute to do that for the normal one.

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[Rykuta]

yeah i know, brick count, whatever, but you can survive having 11 bricks instead of 1, or hell, if you have 2x height bricks you can make these with 7 bricks!

Brick count reduction is always useful and effecient when possible.
And it's not like they're going to create a single box. Lets take for instance a storage room, there are approximatly 29 boxes. Or a warehouse of 500. Without the brick, these would require 319 and 5500 bricks respectivly.

[jes00]

he should add brick textures for the tops and bottoms on it.

What do you mean?

[BlockoCrafter]

What do you mean?

Uh... Bricks have stud textures. Apply them to the top and bottom of the brick.

[Goth77]

Uuh, it's not that many bricks... it takes about half a minute to do that for the normal one.

Not the point. It's a whole brick, thus you don't have to name the stuff.

[jes00]

Uh... Bricks have stud textures. Apply them to the top and bottom of the brick.

The non smooth crate does have all the textures.

[Dillpickle]

What if you wanted to fakekill the crate and move it around? Pretend you're in an office building moving stuff around, or shipping stuff.
 Use a little imagination guys, this is more than just "oh you save 11 bricks". It's easier to dup and plant, easier to build, It's pointless to you who don't think anything more than brickcount.

[Goth77]

What if you wanted to fakekill the crate and move it around? Pretend you're in an office building moving stuff around, or shipping stuff.
 Use a little imagination guys, this is more than just "oh you save 11 bricks". It's easier to dup and plant, easier to build, It's pointless to you who don't think anything more than brickcount.

Yay someone who understands!
  for you sir

[Jay the Cartoonist]

What if you wanted to fakekill the crate and move it around? Pretend you're in an office building moving stuff around, or shipping stuff.
 Use a little imagination guys, this is more than just "oh you save 11 bricks". It's easier to dup and plant, easier to build, It's pointless to you who don't think anything more than brickcount.

That doesn't change the fact that this is literally the ugliest way to build crates and there is no need to make the ugliest crate ever easier to build and work with.

[RagnaTheBroedge]

agreed
if you're going to make a crate brick, at least make it not look like the crap we have to work with to begin with

[Goth77]

That doesn't change the fact that this is literally the ugliest way to build crates and there is no need to make the ugliest crate ever easier to build and work with.

So then could you please show us how you would build a crate that doesn't consist of 12+ bricks?
The crates look fine.

[YourBuddyBill]

Brick count reduction is always useful and effecient when possible.
And it's not like they're going to create a single box. Lets take for instance a storage room, there are approximatly 29 boxes. Or a warehouse of 500. Without the brick, these would require 319 and 5500 bricks respectivly.

No offense, Jes, but I don't think the Brickcount is the real concern (though most people claim it is). I have noticed that if I have more BRICKS, but fewer visible rendering FACES, I will lag less. This has too many faces on it that are rendered no matter what. When I make crate piles, I tend to "fill in" certain inside sections to reduce lag. Even if we could "fill in" the side parts here, it wouldn't help because those are omni quads, they are going to render no matter what.
That being said, I remember a version of Minifig V2 that when placed would essentially "plant a macro" for the entire minifig. Perhaps if you went that route instead and made this as a timesaver rather than a brickcount-saver-that-lags-me...

[BlockoCrafter]

The non smooth crate does have all the textures.

Ah, I thought it was a comparison picture between your brick and the build of a crate.

[Jay the Cartoonist]

So then could you please show us how you would build a crate that doesn't consist of 12+ bricks?
The crates look fine.

If you just move the center bricks out front it looks 10x better and still barely uses any bricks.


And wouldn't that be the point of a BLB that does almost nothing but save bricks?  Save bricks?

Not only does this crate LOOK better, but it's more efficient on lag.  Like YourBuddyBill was saying, it's all about visible faces, not brick count.  When this crate gets covered up it has NO visible faces.  When that crate gets covered up it has several, even when it's not covered up it has some (The tops and bottoms of the lid bricks)

[Reinforcements]

Ah, I thought it was a comparison picture between your brick and the build of a crate.

same