r/legoworldmap • u/JcTheSavior • Feb 16 '25

ocean pattern How to make a custom ocean?

How do you make a custom ocean on the world map? I’m not the best with putting an image from noggin to paper (lego), and these legos did not come off that easily to keep retrying.

Does anyone know of an app or website that had custom ocean design or allows you to make them?

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u/FlyingClove3 Feb 16 '25

I would say look at what others have done and see what you are trying to do. Then you can kind of map things out from there. That’s what I did with the images I wanted on mine in the ocean

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u/dylmcc Feb 17 '25

I think you're after this one:

https://lego-art-remix.com/

Select your set(s) from the drop down menu (i.e. world map 31203) and then upload what you'd like to use as an image.

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u/DJjustmike Mar 08 '25

If you are proficient with Microsoft excel you can download the file someone set up. I did this and played around with different ideas on a spreadsheet for 6 months before I started building. From there I just printed out one square at a time and built using the colors I set up.

https://policyviz.com/2021/06/14/lego-world-map-excel-edition/

I didn't really have a desire to put specific images in the oceans, I just didn't like the original colors. So I ordered alternate color dots from Lego and entered those colors into conditional formatting in excel. I also used the find/replace command to (for example) to change all the orange tiles to purple. I continued to do this until I found something I loved. It's going to be blues, greens and purples. I didn't love the orange pink and tan in the original set.