Yet by 2004 the company was in trouble, posting a $140M loss in March of the year and announcing that it would be cutting 500 Jobs. In in the late 1990s and early 2000s, LEGO had taken massive strides into the digital space, producing several generations of interactive websites, console games, and computer media. LEGO Group, a Danish toy manufacturer, offers an example of both the challenges presented by digital technology in the world of physical products as well as the opportunities if digital trends are harnessed and effectively applied across a company’s business and operating models. It is very clear that the new rendering engine from Stud.io is far superior to all other rendering engines and this alone might motivate you to adopt this software as your default LEGO digital design tool.Shifts in digital technology are causing widespread disruptions across many industries, and the toy industry is in no way immune. Below you find the rendered images of all software packages set to their maximum quality level. So lets compare the results of the render engines. They did not have the L-Motor in their library and hence I could not render my model there.

This online software runs in your browser and you need to pay for having your image rendered on theirs server farm. In its newest Beta version Stud.io is using a new render engine called Eyesight. This software was developed by Bricklink and it uses LDraw for its parts and PovRay for the rendering. There are several different editor and render tools available.

The build in render engine is not the best, but you can use Bluerender that in turn uses PovRay for rendering your model.ĭraw is the oldest software and it is maintained by the LEGO community. This is the most comfortable editor for all platforms, but LEGO’s support for this software is in doubt. There are currently three major software packages to build digital LEGO: While these digital models can be shared it is also desirable to create a photorealistic rendering of the final model. Building LEGO digitally has many advantages, such as having an unlimited number of bricks at your disposal.

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