OH GOD YES: You Can Now Build Virtual Lego in Chrome
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What would you say if I told you that I could put you in charge of the biggest LEGO set you have ever seen, giving you access to more than 8 trillion blocks. Oh, and you wouldn’t even have to move from your seat?
Well, that’s exactly what Google has done.
Partnering with LEGO Australia, Google has created Build (no, not the Microsoft event) – a new Chrome experiment that not only allows you to play with LEGO online, but asks you to choose a plot from an Australian map, placing your creation on a real Aussie landmark (or random street).
It also gives you the opportunity to save, share and show off your creations, either via email or on your Google+ account.
Google explains how it created the tool:
Build may look simple, but this collaborative 3D building experience would not have been possible a couple of years ago. It shows how far browser technology has come and how the web is an amazing platform for creativity. We made the bricks with WebGL, which enables powerful 3D graphics right in the browser and demonstrates the upper limit of current WebGL graphics performance. We then mixed in Google Maps (another Aussie invention) so you can put your creation in a LEGO world alongside everyone else’s.
Once you have created and published your LEGO structure, it will be submitted to LEGO for scrutiny — or to make sure rude and indecent projects aren’t displayed to younger users.
Build will launch in Australia first, then New Zealand, before opening up in a number of other countries soon. However, it remains accessible to anyone that visits the site, so you won’t need to wait to be able to play with it, but you won’t be able to build new structures on home turf.[/quote]
[url]http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/06/26/kiss-goodbye-to-your-productivity-google-just-brought-8-trillion-lego-blocks-to-chrome/?awesm=tnw.to_i0vV[/url]
[url]http://www.buildwithchrome.com/static/map#[/url]
Fuck me hard with a brick please
wait
so no more stepping on legos when building
fuck yesss
I wonder how many lego dicks people are going to make
lego has made 3D building software for years now, this is just the next major version or whatever
Welp. Looks like Roblox has finally been destroyed.
I'll get the beer.
Hope it has more blocks/larger area in the future.
this is fun
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Works in firefox :v:
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;36499961]wait
so no more stepping on legos when building
fuck yesss[/QUOTE]
fuck you that was part of the experience
Also there's a lot of bricks missing. I hope they add those in.
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gotta remake this
I sure hope that there's an option to export it as an .obj or something and that it has Technic blocks or else this is quite useless.
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:I
So, Chrome has Minecraft built in now?
...
You know what
no
fuck that joke
in reality, this is fucking amazing
fucking
amazing
[QUOTE=fishyfish777;36500231]:I[/QUOTE]
Thanks to Google censoring technology, it automatically locks you out if one of your tabs is dragon porn.
Legos are nice.
I love me a bit of lego.
[img]http://i1015.photobucket.com/albums/af278/Kapin_krunch/legocock.png[/img]
[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;36500325]I thought Roblox was destroyed by Blockland which in turn was destroyed by Minecraft...
(Funny thing is Roblox came later, trying to compete with Blockland. To my knowledge they failed [B]horribly[/B])
Doesn't really matter. Blockland and Roblox both has shitty communities filled with 12 year olds.
(Roblox actually has people a lot younger playing)[/QUOTE]
and people still say blockland was a rip off of roblox or that roblox is better because it's free blah blah blah
They could've been really more clever with the "house rules". I can see at least 7 spaces where they could've easily put in a clever, witty, sardonic remark. Damn eggos in my legos.
also, until further notice, "eggos" is now the new "nigga". people outside of facepunch are gonna be all "what the hell does eggo mean", but us people inside of facepunch... we're gonna know what's going on.
EDIT:
It's also clean and non-offensive, so we've got that.
EDIT2: erk. I just installed Chrome to load this, but it's slowing down my computer. It's literally using up 87% of my RAM. And there's two tabs open.
For anyone interested, here's [url=http://www.brickfactory.info/name/index.html]the instruction manuals for pretty much every LEGO set ever.[/url]
I'll pass until i can make more than boring houses.
We must dedicate a town to facepunch. Preferably in garrys location.
Behold, Facepunch City!
buildwithchrome.com/build/BR2F
Complete with refugee camp.
[QUOTE=kapin_krunch;36500355]I love me a bit of lego.
[img]http://i1015.photobucket.com/albums/af278/Kapin_krunch/legocock.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Mine's near Australia and is horizontal.
[IMG]http://puu.sh/DPIT[/IMG]
Aw, I was hoping for something that I could mess around with Lego limitlessly, not a time-limited promotional thingy that requires registration and gives limited space :c
Picked an area at random in Brisbane, saw somebody built some dock-thing in the water, so I built a ship:
buildwithchrome.com/build/BQHF
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[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;36500772]For anyone interested, here's [url=http://www.brickfactory.info/name/index.html]the instruction manuals for pretty much every LEGO set ever.[/url][/QUOTE]
I was really excited when I went to that website but there appears to be a saddening amount of less-than-staggering wonders to build.
[img]http://www.brickfactory.info/scans/07000/7966/001.jpg[/img]
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