Xero's Industrials and Stuffs

[noble briar]

im sorry for being a idiot

[mellow plaza]

nah its fine LOL

[regal relic]

Oh ghastly...

It's okay it looks very good so I assumed it was animated at first too lmao

The changing lighting really gives it that look

[noble briar]

mhm

[noble briar]

@mellow plaza do you have any idea what these are

the blocks

[mellow plaza]

those block in CS: TLPC uhh
i dont know what they are exactly aside them being neutron absorbers or smthing

i have no fucking clue in actuality lol

[noble briar]

lmao

[old wraith]

Awesome!!!

[zinc wasp]

I'm going to be genuinely honest you would be a great SST

[torn ruin]

Xero trying not to destroy the nasa computer in his basement(hes trying to load his game)

[main yoke]

LOCAL NEWS REPORT
HOUSE FIRE AFTER ATTEMPTING TO LOAD A ROBLOX GAME

[torn ruin]

💀

[mellow plaza]

pop noise within the computer
oh hey theres a nice glow in the vents
goodbye house

[torn ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/house-explosion-explode-boom-kaboom-gif-19506150

viewer discretion advised..

[zinc wasp]

xero I think you should add a freezedown 😄

(this is a joke)

[sand wolf]

dumbassness at another level

[mellow plaza]

when the idea of LC being that the reactor isnt the main focus of the game makes this idea more cursed LOL

[sand wolf]

[silver rampart]

Freezedown DLC

[zinc wasp]

I love how they didn’t even say please

They just said

“Add freezedown”

[main yoke]

"i thought light coming from the vents was just for game visuals, turned out they were real after all"

[noble briar]

no no but you should

and make it turn into a black hole

and make the black hole teleport you to the plutonium laser game

[sullen oar]

add freemodeled pbcc escape pods and rocket ships

[silver rampart]

69

[mellow plaza]

vault door model :)

a remake of my older vault from a long time ago

[noble briar]

i like it, but mabye the floor guide could be a mesh instead of parts

[mellow plaza]

that is a mesh?

but i see what ya mean

[noble briar]

oh it just looked like parts lmfao

yeah smoother is what i mean

by floor guide i mean the white line on the floor showing the door movement

[sharp kelp]

One thing @mellow plaza ?

You're telling me that you've managed to import all of it ino Roblox?

[mellow stone]

oh those are beautiful so good

I'm just running out of phrases

the text on top of the vault looks a biiit odd though

I'm guessing that's transparent text on top rather than part of the texture

[mellow plaza]

whoops LOL (thats a new phrase in itself)

and the text, it is a bit off, it is a textlabel so i am able to make edits of text without needing to make a entirely new set of pbrs LOL
sacrifices must be needed

[mellow plaza]

studying for school very often, so posting is slowed down (as well im not that uhh, chatty cuz of it :(

i did uhh suprisingly did a remake of my nixie light models, despite the other one still being relatively new, i did it cuz i sorta want to be a bit more optimized and as well make it easy to edit, so here it is :)

[minor pawn]

Where is 1984

[sand wolf]

never

[noble briar]

so the lit numbers are models?

[mellow stone]

I would recommend you give the text the same treatment you would a regular texture in like photoshop and use it as decals

maybe make multiple to support what you want of variants

[mellow plaza]

will do

[mellow plaza]

the lit numbers are rather just imagelabels

[noble briar]

ahh thats better

so the unlit numbers too?

[mellow plaza]

mhm

[sharp kelp]

One thing, you're telling me that you've managed to import all of it ino Roblox?

[mellow plaza]

my models?

if so, yeah

[sharp kelp]

Yeah.

Shit, I'm fucking speechless.

This looks like some AAA+ shit.

Fucking amazing man.

[mellow plaza]

thank ya 🙏

[mellow plaza]

a wall varient of it was made too :)

forgot to post this

[minor pawn]

Do they work!!??

Or just only show 193

Would be cool if they can change to any numbers they want

[mellow plaza]

not atm but i did set them up to be functional (their numbers being surfaceGUI mean that it would be easy to change them)

its up for my friend ggshor if he want to have a nick at scripting em though

[minor pawn]

Very cool

[mellow plaza]

in fact that was my intentions when i made this, hence the remake of the older one

ty

[brave reef]

that just looks so

I LOVE IT

[torn ruin]

add 5 years then you have year of the Saturn V launch

[mellow stone]

I think there were a few other launches before the big one

[compact chasm]

the glass reflectivity satisfies multiple neurons i have never known about up until now

[mellow plaza]

sneak peaks of the surface of las cherung :)
(it is massive, so im going to take some snippets that i feel are worthy of showcasing, not much as been added yet!!)

• new model :)

or plant

brittlebush, sadly i cant exactly find the right textures with alot of its flowers so its more of a dry, dead one LOL idk,,,,

[dawn olive]

Would you allow me to use this one as wallpaper ??

seriously, this looks amazing, and good as always Xero.

[mellow plaza]

of course ^^ thats entirely up to you.
and thank ya!!

[dawn olive]

alrrr

[sharp kelp]

Shit man, at this point it just doesn't look like Roblox anymore.

Absolute 🔥

[minor pawn]

why it remind me "red weed" from war of the world

some kind of plant

[sand wolf]

isnt that human remain

[minor pawn]

war of the world 2005...

not the last human

[limpid slate]

WAR OF THE WORLDS REFERENCE!!!

[mellow plaza]

experimenting with roblox's screenshot thingy (courtesy to ggshor for taking pic of this :)

[pure vector]

🔥🔥🔥

[mellow plaza]

crispy video moment but
this is not ment to be a horror game but the ambient of the cherungian night is something else lmfao
the lack of infastructure in the outdoor in this development stage probs explains why it is quite spooky but yeah

a lil preview of different environmental aspects ive been testing

[plucky lion]

whats up with the day changing

[mellow plaza]

there is a day/night cycle plan, hence these different atmospheres i made lol

for as of reason why, it is a finite story-based game, though that whole thing is for the time being still being discussed with my friends

[plucky lion]

well yeah i just wondered why it kept changing in a small amount of time

it does look a little bland imo, maybe try adding some number spinner kinda thing?

[mellow plaza]

number spinner?

[plucky lion]

one moment

https://devforum.roblox.com/t/numberspinner-module/1105961

[mellow plaza]

huh, interesting

ohh you were referring to the ui lol
i mean i could bring it up to my friend

the style is something that is pretty nice

[plucky lion]

i feel like itd add more emphasis on the time changing and helps visualize it

[mellow plaza]

though originally the timething text is suppose to be static, not much fancy effects but i can ask my friend to test it out to see if we like it or not
thank you, appreciate it 🙏

[plucky lion]

np

[limpid slate]

erm... stress?? theres stress levels? dont tell me i have to experience it in real life AND in las cherung too 😭

[mellow plaza]

industrial hell

[mellow plaza]

also uh pardon me, i just re-read what u said and u were mentioning the daytext LOL, i FOR A SECOND THOUGHT you were at first referring to the different time periods of las cherung from screenshots above 😭

THAT IS uhh a test from our new ui system, and its only changing rapidly as a test, nothing too fancy
(i apoligize my brain was sleeping and really thought u were referring to the day /night thing of LC)

go me

[plucky lion]

no worries lol

[timber peak]

There is no way my computer can play this 💀

[knotty haven]

my Xbox probably couldn't either

gon have to re-paste it

[minor moth]

HI

WHAT DID I MISS

[brittle idol]

Let's just say they have been cooking

[keen wasp]

God damn bro shit looks ammaculate

[old wraith]

This vault door is similar ardana generation complex vault door

[nova jungle]

he left :(

[compact chasm]

unfortunate

[placid shard]

Oh 😦

[mellow plaza]

I had to take a break from the server for a tinny bit, im back. 👋

[mellow plaza]

based off of the Federal SD-10 siren model thingy, me and my friend sink made this custom made air raid siren for las cherung :)

[sand wolf]

omg

siren

[mellow plaza]

some (what i believe uk styled signs?? well only the speed limit) road signs for las cherung

these style already exist but i like the circular nature of it tbh

[mellow plaza]

the stop sign is actually a remake of this i saw online :>

[hollow jay]

Xero never stops cooking

[brittle idol]

Xero on his way to casually cook the best shit ever seen

[minor moth]

MPH in UK?!??!?!?!!?!?!? I don’t believe this

[compact chasm]

is this an alternate world map? US roadsigns dont look like that

[mellow plaza]

im, suprised you probs noticed that until now

yeah! this is a alternative reality, i probs briefely mentioned it as "the decay" at some point here

example, referring to this map here (so far has not been subjected to change yet lmfao

the only thing i probs may change is the description in the bottom left corner in the legends box (and some discussion above), but other than that, so far everything else has not been subjected to change yet

[noble briar]

wait prison camps

[compact chasm]

i wanna say the second red scare probably became significantly scarier

oh those are nuclear SITES

i thought it said strikes

[mellow plaza]

dyslexia moment,,, (mistakes happen LOL

[noble briar]

why are there so many prisons

[mellow plaza]

good question
chances are i may be reducing some of them or outright remove them (as they follow a older bit of the decay lore)

[noble briar]

what was the older part?

[compact chasm]

when does the point of divergence occur

[mellow plaza]

cannot really tell as i dont have much documented on paper, nor cause confusion due to how much the lore changes n stuff

at most its not that brutal like before though

[noble briar]

how brutal was it

[compact chasm]

the original assumption i wanted to make was that something happened between the USSR and USA in the 50s and fallout 4 opening scene live action happened when dyslexia kicked in

[mellow plaza]

almost closely similar to 1984 lmfao

and tbh after a while i didnt like how that is going and got a new idea to go off with the decay

to really uhh, emphasize the "decay" part

rather than generic "totalitarism" stuff

[mellow plaza]

i had a bit of a stroke reading that but uhh are you referring to the assumption of las cherung's storyline?

[compact chasm]

yeah

the ORIGINAL assumption mind you

[mellow plaza]

yeeah yeah i see

[minor moth]

soop

[compact chasm]

sop

[mellow plaza]

funnily enough the history leading up to 1964 in las cherung is, fairly (understatement) different than IRL-

though honestly i cant really explain all of it as

1. i would flood this chat

2. it is destined to be changed

3. idk,,,,

[minor moth]

you could go to my own server because i want to see it

also you also can asking us in qcod if you not sure

[compact chasm]

i want see it too ☹️

[mellow plaza]

i would consider, though mainly my major conerns is that it will get outdated pretty fast LOL

i am the type to keep changing ideas so until then i am probs not prepare to talk about it all

aside some hints at most

a document is being made though, idk if i ever show a sort of "teaser" screenie of it?

i didnt made it in google doc, this is something i am making as a .pdf from inkscape

lemme get it

soon i think idk

some description is in there before it is blurred but uHH, keep in mind when hearing any info about the decay lore, it is subjected to change, and probs wont be finalized until LC itself is released

[timber peak]

HOW

[old wraith]

Hmm that is like a real life street

[mellow plaza]

to be a industrialist

(another small area i made to test out the wall materials there, though MAY be keeping it for later development :)

[thorn fable]

This image feels like both 1920 and 1980 at the same time.

You know actually reminds me of the interior photos from Los Alamos and various plutonium facilities from the atom bomb era.

Isn't that already what Las Cherung is tho?

[mellow plaza]

mhm! pretty much style wise

a mix of those oldschool basic structure and some form of rusty industrialist? idk how to explain but you were on point with that

[desert steeple]

that looks incredible

[mellow plaza]

thank ya!

[brave reef]

there is no existing emoji to capture how my jaw dropped when i saw this

all your stuff is beautiful but aaaghgghhgg i love it

[mellow plaza]

again!!! thankya!!!!

[lethal remnant]

Hey Xero, I went to an old sluice factory today and it looked quite a lot like a style you'd enjoy, so i took a couple reference photos there
Would you be interested in them?

[mellow plaza]

oh yeah sure thing! (sorry for the late reply, irl stuff)

lemme also post this rq

walls n floors are made with new materials i made :)

[lethal remnant]

Would you like me to dm them to you?

[mellow plaza]

mhm, feel free to

[torn ruin]

how do you make those textures?

[mellow plaza]

substance designer

[minor moth]

[mellow plaza]

not a major update but some new pipe models i made that i wanna show

idk how the 4way pipe would work , i just made that for the sake of it 💀

[slim parrot]

beautiful normals

[limpid slate]

Split in the middle but they combined the two together to save space

[mellow plaza]

two in the middle? like as in two curved pipes merged together?

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[limpid slate]

essentially

Hold on let me make a better diagram

[mellow plaza]

oHhh wait i think i see it

[mellow plaza]

yeeah i totally see it now

ty for the visualization :>

[limpid slate]

alr coolio

ofc :D

[mellow stone]

Just put a tiny little wizard in there to redirect flow

[limpid slate]

What does a waffle maker look like in Las Cherung

[mellow plaza]

idk, probs slap a nixie tube and make almost all of its internal equipment exposed

propaganda idea but rather a paper poster, a stamped ink into the walls

[torn ruin]

niceeeeee

man i really enjoy this channel

The builds and texturing are just phenomenal

It's literally like a half life game made by a few people only

[minor moth]

so cooool 🎉

[old wraith]

What does these pipes work?

[mellow plaza]

still learning to speak with a relatively transatlantic accent (aka radio speakers 1940s-1960s voices)

[minor moth]

THIS IS GOATED

🎉

[mellow plaza]

tHANk yA!!!!

[pine thunder]

Yoo that's awesome affects and voice

[mellow plaza]

thank ya 🙏

[hollow jay]

that's awesome

[lethal remnant]

That sounds authentic

[mellow stone]

dude what the hell that is so good

[quaint saddle]

"At any rate, that is what we're going to try to do."

[quaint saddle]

Nice work btw!

[mellow plaza]

thank you so much!!!

honestly the funny thing is that im not doing this specifcally for our project

.. i just really love doing that accent LOL

[mellow stone]

oh I know that feeling

[mellow plaza]

another accent thing i did, i just honestly love doing this

ima news anchor

[mellow stone]

this voice gives me heavy ingsoc vibes

[mellow plaza]

LMAO seeing it that way, it really does

[mellow stone]

@mellow plaza you might find this interesting if you do typewriter stuff https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lr3FwYHYMF4

[mellow plaza]

yooo didnt knew that

i love old stuff so typewriters are in my alley LOL

and despite me wanting to model them in LC, i am probs NOT up to modeling those LMFAO

[mellow stone]

very fair lmao

[mellow plaza]

unless i make a excuse to make a typewriter model that doesnt exist irl but simple enough to fit in

honestly maybe im gonna do that LOL

its the keyboard thing that i dread the most, a old computer model i made was hetic to texture when i model their keyboard

[mellow stone]

I am sure there is some niche typewriter out there that has a more hidden keyboard

but I can tell you can get quite a bit of optimization on those keyboards

and they're not that bad to make because modern keyboards are laid out exactly like old vintage typewriters

that's why all the keys are offset weirdly, because back then the rods would end up evenly spaced

so if you need a reference you can just look at your own keyboard

[mellow plaza]

ahh yeh

looking through images ref and i saw this anomaly

💀

[mellow stone]

the rods can be just a single plane with no thickness and doublesided, you would very rarely look at it straight ahead so it'll suffice for most shots

hell you can even translate the UV map info for all the similar rods to save on UV resolution as they'll be obscured by the keys anyway

[mellow plaza]

true

[mellow stone]

how do you even use this

[mellow plaza]

LMFAO

i thought it was a bear trap for a second

type your way out of the trap 😭

wait dms rq

if u dont mind, i got a really odd image lmfao

[mellow stone]

sure

[mellow plaza]

water
and coffee

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1219477663169908746/1248486355064062002/CupsShowcase.png?ex=66647fc6&is=66632e46&hm=e2bd60ec2a359dd26e6a2d64388dcf676cdd29878958b978fe4e635a38928ae1&

[minor moth]

water n cofe

[rugged pilot]

Where’s Ma TEA at?!

[limpid slate]

i want my high grade lemonade, fair trade, without the maid

[wanton plaza]

I like this one

[torn ruin]

Wheres the bubbly water

[mellow plaza]

gone

rare art i made for las cherung???
(or in general publicly LMFAO)

[sand wolf]

reminds me of something

but mmm shiny gumball

😋

[minor moth]

mmmm yes a metal ball

[compact chasm]

delicious fissle plutonium ball

[mellow plaza]

yes

[torn ruin]

he kinda reminds me of that one nuke guy

[thorn widget]

how did you make the textures

[pure vector]

Xero probably took the textures from a website

[lethal remnant]

He makes them with substance painter I believe

[mellow plaza]

I did

With substance designer

sometimes with substance painter yeah lol but those stuff are done with designer

[mellow plaza]

remade into a rather nice grainy poster-like thing

[sullen oar]

the 17 sieverts of radiation coming out of whatever the fuck he’s holding :

[torn ruin]

still reminds me of that fallout guy..

[old wraith]

Cool drawing

[mellow plaza]

Going on hiatus, see you guys soon. 👋

[noble briar]

Bye!

[pine thunder]

see ya, i wish you the best

[mellow stone]

@mellow plaza thought you might like this concept https://youtube.com/shorts/g7uk2yRCqLA?si=Hve1VCiV9CQofSed

Hope your break is going well (I forgot I shoulda silent pinged smh)

[mellow plaza]

back for a bit but

i never seen this before wtf, this is actually super cool, i maYBE will think about the concept? but unsure since i do have that gear i made a while back and showcased here.....

and my break is sorta okay? just some personal stuff

gotta take a look into that funy gadget tho,,,, (honestly, for just curiosity since this is NEW to me LOL)

[compact chasm]

those look really cool ngl

[mellow plaza]

though if i were to implement something with it

oh boy idk how i would go about with the beads LOL

[plucky lion]

make each bead 40000 tris for superior radiation detection

[mellow plaza]

okay i am now back. updates of our game may be less frequent as i want to develop stuff more privately and will show when i ready.
my dms are unfortunately will remain closed, indefinetely due to personal circumstances, so i apologize for any inconvenience. (im okay, no worries)

so far i dont have much to show, just to update yalls on this. I'll see ya soon when i have a thing to showcase.

[compact chasm]

welcome back

[lethal remnant]

welcome back man, i hope your break did you well

[mellow plaza]

thank you

recently made a weird odd subtle ridgy concrete texture material

sorta like some thin wall of concrete worn out, to lazy to go into details lmao

[lethal remnant]

I like it!

[noble briar]

?

[sand wolf]

wrong forum

[knotty haven]

ok

[mellow plaza]

ty!

i did some re-editing (since i didnt like the weird ridge it had previously) and uh

made some new materials along side with it

1. Wall Concrete with Caution Stripes (maybe decorative)
2. Wall Concrete (Original)
3. Dotted Tiles
4. Metal Sheet

[daring dock]

he cooked

[brittle idol]

Another common Xero w

Looks great

[quaint saddle]

Aperture Science quality fr

[mellow plaza]

i did actually use some textures references from portal 2, especially the concrete one 🙏

[desert silo]

How did you do those run Rays and effects?

[mellow plaza]

iirc i believe ant made a mesh and some wacky texturing to make it look like a sunray

i dont remember correctly,,, but it was a interesting effect

[mellow plaza]

to think like a industrialist

[calm willow]

Hell to the fuck yes.

[mellow plaza]

new texture showcase, this time now animated to see details (this is hard to do)

used blender to render this

just some ridged metal sheets with a window on it

[daring dock]

Looking good

[lethal remnant]

I dig it!

[mellow plaza]

ty

[fresh timber]

reminds me of that one steel warehouse building texture from half life 2

except its a 4K PBR material

[mellow plaza]

i did use a reference from valve's textures
and i think i know which one you are referring to

[fresh timber]

yeah its that yellow one

[mellow plaza]

ohj, wait okay maybe a bit diff since i used this as ref

BUT similar premise

[fresh timber]

yeah it looks like that but the yellow variant

[mellow plaza]

mhm

[fresh timber]

your PBR material looks a bit more grimy, similar to the HL2 beta art style

[mellow plaza]

eh, can def see it like that, i usually make pbr with a dirty, grungy look

its mainly for the industrialist theme for las cherung, i really love making stuff look worn lol

[fresh timber]

me too lol

[noble briar]

@mellow plaza thought you'd be interested in this https://fixupx.com/cyberpunkcortes/status/1810424171530224113?s=46

[fresh timber]

i thought this was a 3D render at first and i was blown away after finding out its actually real

[mellow plaza]

this is a type of thing that i would imagine coming from columbia LOL

im def going to ask my friend tix to see if we can actually remake that into LC

[noble briar]

🔥

[mellow plaza]

@noble briar
the idea has been solidifed, i went ahead and modeled it, sorta script it, and my friend tix helped me with the motors of this fan :)

thank you very much for giving me a idea for a fan like that 🙏

[noble briar]

🔥

astra showed us this and i knew you'd like it

[mellow plaza]

OH if so you should totally show astra this lmfao, i do kinda wanna see their reaction

[noble briar]

@daring bolt

[noble briar]

also maybe you could add a lore brand name to it in the empty space

like here

[mellow plaza]

i was thinking, but that can be done later

[noble briar]

alr

that looks amazing

[mellow plaza]

ty :>

[noble briar]

honestly i'm quite curious about this, whats your texturing workflow for something like this?

[mellow plaza]

uhh its quite messy LOL

the entire mesh is sorta split apart, not only to add some seperation for the parts to be rotating but also to sorta ensure the textures retain a relatively high quality
trying to texture it individually takes almost more than a hour-

unfortunately i cant really put a collection of meshes in adobe, its only 1 at the time as far i remmeber

[noble briar]

so how'd you do the nice triangle grid thing

[noble briar]

iirc you can if you use .obj object groups and make everything a seprate material

[mellow plaza]

yeeah though if i were to do that, the uv unwrap islands would be alot smaller and result in a lower quality pbr since roblox has a limit for 1k images

but i do know how to make different uv use diff materials on the same mesh

[mellow plaza]

that is actually a pattern in painter, a bit modified but its one of those many alpha maps they have

was gonna do one on my own but granted i am NOT going to spend so long trying to do that 😭

[noble briar]

in this example i do this, each material has its own 1024x1024 texture, which are exported separately

[mellow plaza]

ohhh, wait i ment something else lol
trying to retain the HD textures at more complex meshes, having to seperate them so when i UV unwrap them, their islands takes more space, which makes the texture more HD (since if i kept them all as a single mesh, their islands would be so small it look like a PS1 graphics)

i do know how to use vertex groups from blender to allow different sides of UV to be under different material groups

[noble briar]

ah

[sullen oar]

we got UFR fan before gta 6

[mellow plaza]

LMFAO

[mellow plaza]

old portal 2 aperture science sphere lamps, reimagined to be very vintage looking :)

[fresh timber]

i was literally going to do this

you beat me to it

[mellow plaza]

whar, really?

[fresh timber]

yeah lol

[mellow plaza]

ohh 💀 i mean you should still make yours regardless, i am interested to see

[fresh timber]

yeah i will soon enough

[mellow plaza]

the lamps i made are a "remake" to a older one i posted here long ago that sorta resembles more like portal 2 old aperture science lamps

lemme see if i can refer it rq

this

the newer model is ment to compliment these rods lamps i have

[fresh timber]

yeah it looks much better with the actual light bulb

i was going to do something like that

and the effects aswell makes it so much better

[mellow plaza]

ooh alr, again im excited to see
you can try using one of these bulbs models, i was gonna originally intend to do the rod one but

i did ask my friend for opinions and he refer to the right one next to it

[daring bolt]

i had a feeling yall would like this design lol

well done, i like the way you did the motion blur too

[mellow plaza]

ty

your probably the first i know that pointed out the motion blur effect going on LOL

[daring bolt]

i saw that transparency tween and now i’m permanently borrowing the technique

[mellow plaza]

yayee

[noble briar]

so whats the trick, it tweens transparency down of the mesh and a decal that spins transparency up?

[mellow plaza]

literally it yeah

it was a bit of a suprise for me that i dont usually see anyone do this

though the more tricky part is trying to get the fan blurring decal

there isnt one in the toolbox so i made one myself with the exact fan model i made in blender, just blurred it with some radial blur

and made it transparent with some other plugins

so i suppose that is really the only tricky part

[noble briar]

it would be so cool if eventually you made a doc showing off some useful tricks you use

[mellow plaza]

i mean im probably intending to at some point

tho thats up to me if im not lazy to make one (and the decision to my devs if they wanna go along with it)

[noble briar]

(its not lazy not to spend time on something you don't think is worthwhile)

[mellow plaza]

true

[placid shard]

I thought those were water sprinklers for a sec lol.

[mellow plaza]

new texture, a remake of one of the concrete textures from portal 2 (this time im now uploading texture showcases as mp4, since they are alot smaller in size LOL

image above is the texture i used as reference

[old wraith]

Nice lanterns btw

[mellow plaza]

thats a uhh, reference photo (not mines)
unless your referring to the image above

[lethal remnant]

I love it!

[mellow plaza]

thank ya!!!!

[fresh timber]

there is just something so nice about looking at PBR light reflections

i could just spend all day looking at it

[old wraith]

Oh alr

[mellow plaza]

flood lamps

[coarse light]

looks awesome 😎

really detailed

[hollow jay]

Flood lamps my beloved 🙏🙏🙏

[old wraith]

God this is like a big cavern from other facilities

[mellow plaza]

isolationist

[mellow plaza]

whoa, first non-related LC post in a long while

i made a custom reactor model as a gift for a close friend of mine :> (who is a dev for us too)
mr_tix6v2

a remake to a older varient i made 3 years ago

so i suppose a regift of gift 💀

he loved it tho!!!!!

[mellow stone]

jesus christ man that is so awesome

[limpid slate]

you've improved ALOT in 3 years

[mellow plaza]

ty!!!

[hollow jay]

thorium 🙏

awesome as always tho!!!

[mellow plaza]

farbacks

[hollow jay]

🔥

[brave reef]

@ruby basin

[ruby basin]

ooohh

damn

[mellow plaza]

old memories

[sullen oar]

woah

reminds me of doors for some reason

imagine xero made a doors game ☠️

[runic walrus]

The laaaaag

[noble briar]

i doubt it'll be that laggy, most of these models are extremely optimized

[runic walrus]

That’s fair

[noble briar]

it might still be laggy due to roblox limitations though

such as no occlusion culling

[fresh timber]

probably because of the environment

its very brown-yellowish

[mellow plaza]

yeah

[lone mortar]

i cant even fathom how you made this look so good, it honestly looks like a real place from the 60s, love your work!

[mellow plaza]

thank ya!!

[hollow jay]

Image if Xero is actually making an unreal engine 5 game and just photoshops roblox logo in the corner sometimes

[lone mortar]

lol

[minor moth]

nah

[keen spoke]

@mellow plaza can you add me i want to show you something

[mellow plaza]

ill open my dms for now instead, anything important?

[dapper kraken]

the

[mellow plaza]

this took mad forever to make

rotting yet standing

[noble briar]

it looks amazing but whats going on with the texture here

[mellow plaza]

This is a rare moment where i was too lazy to texture the pipe and slap a material instead lmfao

so its using one of the metal sheet material i made LOL

[real niche]

Looks like unreal engine 5 games

[mellow plaza]

ty 🙏

[noble briar]

might need to unwrap it and use a trim sheet

for future times like that

[mellow plaza]

ye but this is something thats not gonna be, kept like that for sure LOL

[noble briar]

ah lmfao

but that's amazing

[mellow plaza]

i spend like, way too much time modeling the destruction stuff 💀

used up my juice

and ty!!!!!

[hollow jay]

thats amazing

[mellow plaza]

another poster i made

"to think like a industrialist"

[slim parrot]

really nice job

but you could have an actual in universe watermark in the corner like in a lot of these posters https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?st=grid&co=wpapos

[mellow plaza]

actually, your right
ill consider that for sure

[noble briar]

@mellow plaza does the leader of columbia have a signature

if so what font

[mellow plaza]

so far i havent thought up a signature for miles for now

[noble briar]

would it say MWG or miles w goodman

[mellow plaza]

unsure LOL
like i actually dont know what it would look like

i will probably do it some other time?

so far, sneak peek (unsure if the document may be finished anytime soon but ye)

[noble briar]

🔥

what program did you make this in

[mellow plaza]

inkscape

i am right now making the document not in google doc but in inkscape 😭

will be a .PDF

[minor pawn]

let see what here

show us the secret of columbia

[mellow stone]

oh my god I think I have that typewriter font lmfao
but I'd suggest if you want to go through the dedication of making documents with photoshop (aughhhh) not to use that sort of font, cause you can notice a contrast between the font which looks really beat up and the graphic printing which looks clean as a whistle; you could instead make everything clean and afterwards apply a general decaying effect to the printed layer, downside is text may become a bit less readable, but everything will become much more consistent

[minor moth]

what did i miss

[minor moth]

[fresh timber]

minor grammatical mistake, you should use “an” instead of “a” before vowel sounds, such as the “I” in “Industrialist”

[mellow plaza]

o u right

noted

ty

[fresh timber]

yw, I like pointing things out like this so you can notice it and fix them lol

because someone else is definitely going to notice in the future

[lethal remnant]

^^ this only counts for the spoke/heard vowel
words like "hour" still need "an" in front of them since you don't hear the "h"

[strange yarrow]

Just saw this and it all looks absolutely amazing

[fresh timber]

yeah, the "h" produces an "ah" sound, which is a vowel

[mellow plaza]

lore stuff (no ingame dev stuff for now)

a rework of the decay map is coming soon (that should be up to date with the new lore, almost done :)

blurred for uhh idk, suspense

[limpid slate]

when do we get the interactive world map :3

[torn ruin]

Cooolll :]

[tepid tangle]

holy shit its xero

how finished is uhhh

i forgot its name but your main project for cobalt science

the one with the ufr

like what percentage is it done cause it looks fire and i wanna play it

[mellow plaza]

Oof.

Here, I'll bring up the convo relating to that in this thread.

Short Summary of SRNIC's conclusion.

By the time I made that post, SRNIC would've been like, 40% done, not a lot for how long the game was in development.

Though considering SRNIC was the last project I partake in where everything is handled by me (solo development), it's best to say I underestimated it

Here's also a convo thread of me showcasing all the stuff and areas made for SRNIC throughout it's development.

[hollow jay]

I always loved how the UFR chamber looks

Btw have you ever placed the remodeled ufr into the chamber?

[mellow plaza]

unfortunately no, since the remodel is a bit larger than the other one, which would make me have to redo the chamber if i still persued in SRNIC

[hollow jay]

oh

[mellow plaza]

3 new texture materials for las cherung (made today)

one of the material (the far right one) used references from a material i saw in artstation (artist name: adam kenyon, "Reclaimed Terracotta tiles with wood panels")

[slim parrot]

nice but the right one's wood grain should follow the same direction as its longest side

[mellow plaza]

thank you for the suggestion!! i believe this is how you ment it as ? (and probably alot more accurate since its just a long, seperate, and different oriented woods)

[slim parrot]

yeah that's what i meant

[coarse light]

Looks like woodoku ngl

[tepid tangle]

k thanks

ohhh so it was cancelled

damn

are you ever gonna use the ufr for anything else

i like the idea of it

also if st riveria got canceled what are you working on now? just curious

[mellow plaza]

currently, this fourm is posting progress update to our project Las Cherung (in fact, this fourm entirely is showcasing the progress of Las Cherung), and the storyline it is in refered to as "The Decay"
SRNIC's has been scrapped but some ideas of it (though mainly lore focus) may be inplemented within the decay's story, specifically the UFR, which may be under a different name, though that is still debated with my friends

[tepid tangle]

ok thanks

[chrome otter]

Where is las cherung even set

[mellow plaza]

so far in the lore, it is set to take place somewhere either near southern nevada or southwest utah if we were to consider its irl location

[chrome otter]

I was thinking about this yesterday and had a lot of ideas for lore pre decay so I already like a game

even if it isn’t my lore to make a game that gets my thoughts flowing like that is one I know I’ll enjoy

[mellow plaza]

that would be awesome lol

in fact the world map i am currently making that showcases The Decay story in the time period LC takes place would probably be a haven for those who want to write their own small sub stories for obscure nations within that map

tho until then, its still a wip

[chrome otter]

mine was basically about how it all started with a 'chemical war' with the USA and a fictional colombia (real nation but fictional form of it) called Syndicalist Colombia (they fell to syndicalism) and bada bing bada boom we all die

YAY

(they dropped shells containing acids and toxic gasses on each other)

You could think of syndicalist colombia as

the 1920s version of the USSR in the 1960s

except the two were allied in the 1910s till political disagreements came along to screw everything up

[mellow plaza]

that's a really interesting idea but unfortunately it's pretty far from the official lore idea

columbia's rise to power was drastically influenced by the atomic power, though the full details of it is still yet to be figured out

but nice job regardless

when i do eventually finish making the map and probably begin mention snippets from the the decay's story of concept, i think you will have a field day of making some stories for obscure nations within this world lol (there's plenty)

probs not influencial enough to affect the main story but yknow, i suppose imagination go wild

[chrome otter]

also does columbia refer to a different object/nation or colombia in south america

[mellow plaza]

columbia is a nation in itself in the decay

occupying its rule in north america (Full name: Grand Columbia)

not to be confused with Colombia

[chrome otter]

ahh so COLOMBIA IS MINE

HA

YES

SYNDICALISM

[mellow plaza]

though by no means columbia behaves like its united states counterpart

[chrome otter]

OBSCURE STORIES

MY BELOVED

LORE HAVEN

AGH

IM IN A LORE WRITERS HEAVEN

I REALLY AM

[mellow plaza]

i think you are going to have a field day with eurasia though lol

there is a TON of states made atm, i have yet to count how many in total though

alot of them are fictional states (not present in IRL)

[chrome otter]

i see

Also, is the game scheduled for 2025 or do you have an estimate of release?

im not trying to get impatient

im just curious

[mellow plaza]

n o p e

i dont have a clue when it will be released as its still in its infancy development, so until then its unknown

[sand wolf]

turky..

[dapper kraken]

You should make a discord server,,,,,,,,,,

[tepid tangle]

fr

[fresh timber]

there most likely is one already, just behind closed doors

I’m just guessing

[dapper kraken]

No way really

[fresh timber]

I don’t know for sure, like I said I’m just making a guess

[dapper kraken]

He must make it public

[fresh timber]

Cobalt Science Public real

[mellow plaza]

Now people keep asking me this and unfortunate I hate to break it but I am by no means feel ready or prepare to hold a discord server, which I suppose to many is a miss opportunity considering our projects n stuff but I have personals reasons that I don't really like disclosing here that makes me not want to have a public server

THERE used to be a """"Public""""" cobalt server that started up during the creation of our group (May 2021) however it was shortly closed off from the main group due to some issues and some external problems that led to it, and it was sorta kept in this weird pseudo-active state until we officially deleted the server recently on June of this year.

[fresh timber]

I don’t really like deleting old servers since there could be history within them, I just leave my old servers as is but closed off for archival

stuff like screenshots for example, all of that would be gone

[mellow plaza]

the only server that i made for cobalt is being the private, dev server where i talk with my other friends to work on our projects

[mellow plaza]

To be fair i do like acrhiving stuff but I do not want to achrive the server by any means, mainly again, personal reasons i do not want to disclose in details

and honestly, there isn't much to archived

[fresh timber]

makes sense, that’s what I was guessing earlier

[mellow plaza]

Yeah, but until further notice, I have no plans to open a public discord server, I just simply probably am not mentally ready to hold it

[dapper kraken]

Thats fair honestly

[fresh timber]

who says you have to hold the server?

you can have a friend manage it

[mellow plaza]

Plenty of people

And regardless holding a server or not, its still a jarring task for me

[dapper kraken]

Im trying to grow my own group at some point and if I get a community I plan to not give a shite about moderating it and just hire staff to do it because i cant be assed to give myself 200 headaches per week over dumbasses on the internet

[mellow plaza]

yeah and honestly, i still want some sense of privacy to this account
now one can argue i should make a alt but, i recently tried to make a discord alt and it was, very limited especially when i cant verify it to do basic things like joining servers

who knows i may change my mind in the future but for now, im still stuck with the no discord server stance for 3 years 😭

[fresh timber]

I have an alt which is actually one of my first Discord accounts I made

I recently regained access to it

it used to be my main for a bit

until some shit happened with the email I think so I moved to a new account

don’t exactly remember, this was years ago

[mellow plaza]

a preview from the new map iteration of the decay world

i ment to spell peruvian in one of those nation there, ill fix that spelling mistake dw but yeah

[chrome otter]

No Colombia?

I take Venezuela

[mellow plaza]

alr lmao

[chrome otter]

I also take the supreme Soviet

I claim the soviets m

I love shoveling communism all over the new world!

[mellow plaza]

uhh, though its a preview right now, there is no, communism in the decay

the whole set of ideologies presented in the decay is very different, and im still setting up reasoning for that

though it revolves around the idea of "The Decay" (the concept of dying away / fading away, a unavoidable clause)

[chrome otter]

basically the world suddenly started decaying big time and humanity knows by now eventually they’ll all die out so they end up trying to counter each other and live the longest?

[mellow plaza]

sort of, but not to that extent of "countering each others"

again i really cant explain the exact details of the lore right now

[chrome otter]

Estonia better remain

the Estonians always win

[mellow plaza]

h

[chrome otter]

Estonia will outlive everyone

[fresh timber]

exactly, I always win

[chrome otter]

Wait you live in Estonia?

[fresh timber]

no I don’t live there

[mellow plaza]

hey yalls, not a big update but im deciding to update the in-game logo that represent for Las Cherung, especially seen from the game's thumbnail

primarily because it's just using a font that i downloaded from the internet and not much characteristic is added to it, so in regards with new development stuff being put into LC, i went ahead and make the logo with my own impressions and designs on it.

The final result is this logo :)

even turning the year number "1964" into their own set of nixie lamps since its a pretty common model seen in LC

[dapper kraken]

Looks good

[mellow plaza]

ty

[chrome otter]

you’re fueling my temptations to make insane amounts of lore for no reason

[mellow plaza]

lmfao

[hollow jay]

🔥

[limpid slate]

give us more flags :3

[mellow plaza]

soon

[full delta]

Maranhão is spelled with a "ã".

That map is just so good though.

[nova jungle]

with caps accents are usually not kept

[mellow plaza]

ohh i see, i suppose even with caps i can put it in regardless, ty for pointing it out :)

[full delta]

Yeah

The oldest state of Brasil too.

[mellow plaza]

ooh interesting

[full delta]

Maranhão could be translated roughly to Big Sea too.

[full delta]

Sorry, late response.
Firstly, "~" isn't a accent.
Secondly, in the portuguese language, where Maranhão word comes from, we capitalize and add one, for example, the word is, could be translated to "é", so if we start a phrase, "É que João não fazia a menor ideia que ia ser preso por isto.", which translates to, "Is that John had no idea that he'd get arrested by doing that.".

[mellow plaza]

Today Marks the Day of completeing this hopefully final revision world map of a fictional timeline referred to as "The Decay" (Las Cherung)

A month-long endeavour of meticulously mapping every entirely different entities in this world (many wont have their own lore for good reasons LOL), this map represent the world of the Decay in the exact time period of October 08, 1964. By any means I will notify as per usual that this is a heavily alternative based history and does not follow real-world scenarios.

For the greater details lore of this world, it is still undermaking but i am very happy it came out well. I give immense credits to a close somebody Epsy_Ears for collaborating me with this map as well with mr_tix6v2 :)

Random quote to entice the map i guess

"The Decay is a simple process. One that all alike cannot comprehend. Our thirst of prolongevity has never been greater than before. A world tormented by their own unfortunate accords, knowing that at any moment, everything we build and structure will soon follow along. Oh the times of our past memory has been greatly ignored willfully, the atomic revolution has never been more stronger than ever, oh the prosperous endeavors of the very atom that builds us. A wishful solution to this simple crisis. "

Image is rendered in 9900 x 5244 (JPG), a larger full resolution will be hosted to a site but i won't share for now without proper permissions.

and now las cherung dev may recontinue after college stuff demands slows down :)

[chrome otter]

so north america just decided to

unite

basically

[mellow plaza]

under different circumstances according to lore yeah

heres the comparison to the old map (prior revision) if you wish to see.

lmfao wait it is now exactly a year ago on the same date i released that revision????

the stars aligned

[chrome otter]

what'd you use to make the map

[mellow plaza]

Inkscape, it should mention it on the little watermark i made above the map

[chrome otter]

how in tarnation

did you make tat

*that

in inkscape

i wonder if you could make like

historical maps

or something

[mellow plaza]

theres probably other programs for it but i legit only used inkscape and familiar with it the most

[chrome otter]

how did you

get the map shape

and the lines

so exact

[mellow plaza]

unioning and negating it, it was a painful and as mentioned before, meticulous process

i utilized the fractalized path feature to help me get the random sharp border shapes.

[analog moat]

using this as a alpha

?

[mellow plaza]

hm?

[minor pawn]

Oh man i really want to see every country real bad

But it just too pixelated

[noble briar]

open in web

[mellow plaza]

Yeah, was gonna say that lol

[minor pawn]

Especially my country

[noble briar]

^

[mellow plaza]

it is a large image size, just enough to render in discord

[noble briar]

or download

and view

although i wouldn't recommend that

[mellow plaza]

i do have a higher resolution image (18000 pixels) but i dont think i would be allow to share link as its hosted on a image sharing site, so unsure if that against the rule

[minor pawn]

Republic of vietnam

This is cool

Atleast it existed

[chrome otter]

roll out the fallout would fit this universe

[hollow jay]

this is insane

great work

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!

[dapper kraken]

Woah inkscape is getting better

[mellow stone]

this is amazing as always, you keep outdoing yourself, each map giving beautiful intricate details of so many things both by just what it shows and what would've led up to that point, amazing
there are just some remarks I wanna make, which tbf they're really small considering how complicated it is to work with inkscape imo

You got some issues with both the alignment of the continents/lines with the boundaries, not sure if it'd be too much hassle but I could recommend that instead of trying to line them up you export the contents of the globe and the rest of the map separately, then in photoshop mask the contents of the globe so that it becomes seamless easily, though it'd be at the expense of ending up with a png

I feel like land and water are hard to differentiate, even though there's the beautiful helpful shoreline outline the outstanding darker-colored lands give a bit of a disorienting contrast between land and water, but to be honest it's a small nitpick

Lastly I think that the texture paper you used feels a bit odd, I used to do that but learnt some pretty sick ways to give a feel that the texture is not just... superimposed iykwim; I'd recommend not to export from svg with any texture, but in photoshop find some great quality paper texture (usually 4-8K work fine), if it has defining features like seams you could try positioning it in a sensible way, put it on top of your export, blend with Multiply, then make a Smart Object out of everything and apply a displacement filter to it with a grunge map with maybe some blur, it gives a (imo) pretty good feel of those older kinds of prints that would do two colors at most and it looked rather wiggly (example is last image)

[mellow plaza]

Thank you for the critiques!! though unfortunately i do not have photoshop (nor have experience with it before) but ill keep that in mind

[mellow stone]

ahh I see, well you should still be able to as it's not complicated edits so probably other programs have it, maybe not the displacement map filter though

[mellow plaza]

and yeeah the paper textures in the map is one of those default tileable texture fills lol, havent found one online that is either high enough resolution for me, or its for public domain

yea!

speaking of which ... i should also showcase the new revision of "Grand Columbia" Flag, a overhaul to the older varient of the flag and to signify the industrialistic society.

comparison to the old flag:

[compact chasm]

quick question when was columbia first formed

[mellow stone]

oh wow that is beautiful

[mellow plaza]

according to the decay lore, Grand Columbia formed under a unity under a election of 1932 that dissolved the old government and set to unite various provinces under a reformist goal at first . (if it sound confusing, im still working on this time period of lore LOL

heres alsso additional flags of various nations that may have their fair share of storyline in this universe

and their respective flags

[compact chasm]

so like did the United States act as the predecessor to Columbia? was the predecessor of Columbia another country?

don’t really know if The Decay has a specified divergence date or not so apologies if i’m asking a lot of questions

[mellow plaza]

IN the lore uhh, grand columbia was a predessacor to the old Confederation of the Columbian Council (which is... also a predecessor to United States, in this universe i had a idea that US has failed their first civil war, so i suppose the divergence date or deviation began around 1865, BUT the official lore wont start around late 1900s)

[plucky lion]

sick but drawing that must suck

[mellow plaza]

it wasnt bad actually

[plucky lion]

i mean for like

the citizens

[mellow plaza]

oh lmfao

[dense field]

Cool

[placid shard]

I been looking through of your work here. I love it when it comes up to lore stuff for Las Cherung, the artwork is great!

[limpid slate]

FLAG!!!! 🔥

[limpid slate]

EVEN MORE FLAGS!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[mellow plaza]

thank you all!!!!!!!!!

today i wanna showcase something to yall after a while of no model showcase from las cherung, this is a uhhh, small tiny gadget i had in mind of a fission-powered flashlight, it's quite a chonk of a box and it does retract rather than just turning on or off :)

not realistic but its going to be part of the game

[violet nexus]

Good job

[compact chasm]

one drop from a high place and you get to meet your maker

[mellow plaza]

lmfao

here is some more screenshot of this model in a brighter lighting and diff angles

its a weird looking flashlight for sure lol

[compact chasm]

i assume the trend of putting fusion batteries/mini nuclear reactors in a bunch of things is going to be mainstream here

eg nuclear powered cars and whatnot

[mellow plaza]

yeah, im unsure if you were able to notice the map seemingly have a "nuclear / atomic" theme to it

in retrospect, within the decay story, columbia and other nations are under the so-called "atomic revolution" that sparked around the 1930s, more insight to why this movement began but it was in relation to the horrific post-great war decades prior

especially later on when the atomic energy, primarily fission as fusion has not yet been achieved, is viewed as a prosperious, key to prolongevity, a sort of addiction to prolonging one's self

now there is alot of lore gap when i explain this but as mentioned before im still working on it, though just remember the name of the story, "the decay" as that term is very important to consider once i explain what it really is (as its not just a name for this story only lol

[chrome otter]

so it’s a handheld nuclear bomb

[mellow plaza]

as funny as it sounds, not really a bomb

its just a fissile powered battery, and i think i shown a nuclear battery here before long time ago

[solar shoal]

Where do you get your textures from, also do you just do your textures in roblox or use a different program?

[mellow plaza]

i use a different program and utilize substance painter
though its uh, pirated, im not rich

so mainly a lot of the textures i made are custom made-persay

[fresh timber]

even if I was rich I still would pirate adobe products just because of how scummy of a company they are

[mellow plaza]

yeah, but thats for a different discussion

just know those are the programs i use

[chrome otter]

Adobe in a nutshell

‘Hey adobe can I use you?’

‘Sure! Just sign up!’

‘Sweet!’

‘I signed up!’

‘Oh yeah, you have to pay money first too.’

‘Okay, fine.’

‘Can I add some text to this document?’

‘Just install this update.’

‘FINE. NOW can I?’

‘First pay 10 dollars.’

internal screaming

[mellow plaza]

i have updated the design of the columbian colbs, including newer varients of it. :)
front view

back view

so far the back are all the same but that may change later on

btw that 10 colb coin isnt that thick, that just a stack of it lmfao

[mellow stone]

ohhh that looks cool, I'd assume it wasn't a very inflated market if they used 1 colb coins

really nice

[mellow plaza]

thank ya

[wanton plaza]

Who needs batteries when you can just shove some uranium in your flashlight every 20 years

[mellow plaza]

yes

[chrome otter]

Uranium?

dude stop living in the 1890s

Plutonium is the answer

“My flashlight is glowing green”

[hollow jay]

One of them look like 2 belarusian rubles lol

Great work tho, love the design

[chrome otter]

“That’s how it’s always been, Rhodes. A decay.”

I’m making more fanmade lore for this because istg xero created my own personal lore heaven with this one

[mellow plaza]

lmfao, i knew that may be the case

[mellow plaza]

some very basic concrete tiles for walls or floors :)

[torn ruin]

Wow that looks cool!

[mellow plaza]

thank you

[mellow plaza]

Greetings from Cobalt, Astral Central 2024. :)
cherungian rig reveal oh my lord fingers AAA

jokes aside, for those who probably are not sure or somehow think this is a solo developer fourm, I herby mention that this fourm does focus on Las Cherung, but it's ment to showcase our work (a collective passion project between me and my friends) from our group, known as "Cobalt Science"

and to everyone in this forum, I thank you with much gratitude for your generous support and criticisms. I wish some of my friends are here but they are all (except anteraska, and ender) not in this server but they really do deserve the attention for the amount of help they provided to our project.

Thank you all :) i mean it.

[torn ruin]

These Fingers Scare me

[gloomy shard]

i was thinking the same thing

[mellow plaza]

i spend wayy to much time making the fingers but i forgot it can still be uncanny to other

Ill showcase those part later, but i really tried my best to still match the blocky avatar look :(

[lethal remnant]

Honestly, those fingers look way better than any of the other ones I've seen for blocky avatars

[noble briar]

how'd xero make the best roblox fingers

[mellow plaza]

thank you

these are actually skinned meshes too that ive been experimenting for a while

and part of a modified r6 rig for cherungian players (in modified i ment literally the only thing added is the fingers LOL

[sage obsidian]

i spent like 2 hours reading the whole thread and looking at all of the images

seriously bro

you're the best game dev out there

good luck

[sullen oar]

https://tenor.com/view/fingertips-tf2-heavy-gif-17874218

[mellow plaza]

thank you

[chrome otter]

No fingertips for you

[sage obsidian]

:(

[mellow plaza]

hey guys, development is on a slowdown not due to school or anything

more over me and my friends are focusing on mechanics of the game (woah, core game will have mechanics?!?! to be fair this no longer considered a core game lmfao)
and those stuff are ment to stay private till we are ready to showcase em, so at the moment I haven't build much in relation to LC until i guess, now?

this is a area I made (another test area tho,,, may not be finalized) with some new lighting stuff I tinkered with, as well testing out a new sort of watermark design for my future showcases, I sorta don't like how it looks for now so I will finalize that later, for now, I just wanna show yalls this quick build :) a bit warmer than other builds as i did alter the light colors a bit

[gloomy shard]

your game really has a triple A game feel and i love that vibe

[mellow plaza]

thank you

[pine thunder]

That looks so nice the details are just so great, I also like the watermark its quite nice. So what's the room ment to be used for?

[mellow plaza]

as mentioned, it is a test build so it has no other purpose other than i suppose to visualize the styling of rooms in LC?

[pine thunder]

Ah ok I'm, I'm not the best at that I thought it could of ment like testing room for testing something idk

[mellow plaza]

yeah, its more of like a room made to test environmental and style purposes lol

depending on it though, i may like it enough to expand on it

[pine thunder]

Looks like mabye a storage room that looks into a hallway

[mellow plaza]

true

[hollow jay]

I still kinda miss old srnic style, but damn that looks so fucking cool

[mellow plaza]

lmfao, and honestly I may still incorpoate the old SRNIC style in some areas of the game

said areas are just, not planned, not to that stage yet

[mellow plaza]

more materials has been made

got some more stuff to showcase however as per usual, they are made to test out the new materials (the brick in question and the metal plating)

the first image I MAY consider keeping for something i suppose?

this other image, just some bunker like area with the metal plating but i may fine tune the texture usage later on

lazy piping

[hollow jay]

Epic

[hollow jay]

I just loved the "cold" color pallete you've used for areas, and the blue/yellow for logos and texts was a great choice

[mellow plaza]

ohh true lol

and yeah i love the old color scheme SRNIC had

although i may never get to work on it again, it still something i cherish

maybe i can implement it somewhere though, just not as a UI

[hollow jay]

[mellow plaza]

a rush of new materials has been made, and a rush of some small test builds were made to accomdiate and try out these materials i made.

more materials will be made, and as we try to continue working in-game mechanics, I will begin planning with my friend tix for laying out the foundation of the LC map, and luckily im finally starting to get a final idea for it :)

[thorn fable]

Now imagine how much lead is in that paint

[spare bolt]

immediate death is probably how much lead

[mellow plaza]

im so happy of myself

this is my first attempt on making materials for terrain and it came out way better than i expected, maybe some revisions later on? but i am so happy how it came out :D

small scene with it

[fickle mauve]

hot damn, he's the real deal

[chrome otter]

You should add a ruined radio station or something

if this is for the game

I always LOVE ruined/abandoned structures for no reason

[mellow plaza]

all of this is for las cherung, which is our project in development

and considering it may be very open and not limited to certain areas, there will be that for sure

im pretty much phasing out any public domain textures (ambientcg) i used for my own textures

[fickle mauve]

are you working with a team or solo because hot damn if solo then you are WAY to valuable to still be on roblox, even if you are with a team this stuff is WAY to good for roblox lol

[mellow plaza]

i do have a team for this project, which consist of very close friends

by no means we are strict lol, we all like to do this for fun

[fickle mauve]

hot damn

cant wait to see what this all looks like when its 100% finished

[mellow plaza]

same with me, LC has been a very long ambitious project (since 2023, and granted there has been few time where we had to remake everything

don't wanna hype it though if thats sounds odd lmfao, i just wanna show off what it looks so far

[noble briar]

just curious, is there anything we haven't seen

that you plan to keep that way

[mellow plaza]

like old LC stuffs?

[noble briar]

like secrets

[mellow plaza]

well if referring to just stuff i havent shown publicly, then no

i have slow down in terms of showcasing alot of stuff and atm we are focusing on game mechanics, something i wont reveal until they are finalized.

[noble briar]

ik the feeling lmfao

[delicate blade]

How do you make terrain look like this? its amazing

[kind forge]

eeee

this post is sick

[chrome otter]

Since Colombia doesn’t exist here I take Terra Grenada Industriae as my fan lore haven

[chrome otter]

'I will say, Columbia and Terra Granada's efforts to push the Americas into a greener state are appreciated and heartfelt, but I fear that we've gone too far off the edge to climb back up...'

more fan stuff

cause i love this lore so freaking much

[chrome otter]

im gonna assume too that terra grenada basically is colombia just

decay-ified

[wanton plaza]

bump

[mellow plaza]

you don't need to bump my fourm, as i don't have much to showcase rn yknow?

[mellow plaza]

I somehow didn't see this but i suppose yeah?

[chrome otter]

closest thing to it

[wanton plaza]

It disappeared off my channel side bar thingy so I got scared that the thread got closed or something

The stuff in here is too cool to disappear

[noble briar]

custom terrain textures it appears

[acoustic widget]

Is that why my sidebar keeps shrinking

Hm

[mellow plaza]

another test area, most likely keeping this one for future revisions :)

[chrome otter]

I like the concept of the outdoors being barren arid deserts so they have indoor ‘greenhouses’ where they grow grass and plants and stuff

[brave reef]

god i ADORE that aaaaa

stop making cool stuff, you're gonna like. explode and kill everyone with how beautiful it is

[fickle mauve]

^^^

literally

[hollow jay]

Fire 🔥🔥🔥

[maiden trench]

bro stop burning your microwave

[mellow plaza]

thank you ^^ i really appreciate the comments

another area i made, more furnished.

[minor pawn]

This is almost look like come from half life alyx

[nova jungle]

i have absolutely no idea how your pc doesn't spontaneously combust while holding this beautiful render

[gloomy shard]

kinda an odd question but how did you model the nixie tube numbers?

[mellow plaza]

the numbers aren't actually models

they are imagelabels, i drew the numbers myself

considering modeling these numbers aren't usually a best way to go if you want it optimal

and plus, a same effect can be done with a imagelabel like i did here, with little to 2 triangles rather than what would've been 500+

[obtuse epoch]

genuinely so envious for your builds like my builds are good but they're never as good as yours

[flat quartz]

By the saints! What sorcery is this? I am utterly confounded by the peculiarity of this situation, its vary nice.

[mellow plaza]

quick scuff room of a mesh i made that was inspired by portal

i would need to tweak the seams but they work for now

[fickle mauve]

WWWWWWW

[mellow plaza]

more collection of meshes, to make a environment, figuring out some designs

[hollow jay]

YESSS THE PORTAL TILES 🔥

[acoustic widget]

Me when I enter the mental asylum

Looks like it isn't in source, it's insane how good it is

[noble briar]

it's in Roblox

[lethal remnant]

anim_wp/framework/backpanels_color01 our beloved

[fickle mauve]

this is too good, please go touch some grass

mandatory ^

[mellow plaza]

i live in a desert, so i suppose i can touch sand

[lethal remnant]

Eat the sand

[mellow plaza]

👍

[fickle mauve]

good enough

[mellow plaza]

i have made a new sets of pipe for LC, but made the effort to make it not only as low poly as i can (not too low poly where it is visible), delete any faces that may be hidden

and... a trimsheet, all of these pipes share a single texture file.

(sorry for ping if i failed to hide ping ghastly :(( )

a introduction to these pipe for the room i am working on

i know a friend who likes pipes >:)

i would ping said friend but im unsure if i should.....,,
sorry for the ping but!!! @regal relic

la pipes

[regal relic]

HOLY SHIT

PIPES!!!

god you alwayd outdo yourself

I love them!!!

[mellow plaza]

thank ya!!!!!!!!!

[noble briar]

nah you didn't you can ping me for this too

[fickle mauve]

dude i swear you better be getting paid well for this shit 😭

ITS TOO GOOOOOD

it also saddens me to know that a lot of the players wont be able to appreciate this insane level of detail

[noble briar]

paid by who

[fickle mauve]

im assuming hes working for a studio or at the very least with other people

for the game as awhole

[mellow plaza]

This is a personal project

I'm leading the development of Las Cherung lol

[noble briar]

they work on it with some friends but it's not really a group

professionally atleast

[mellow plaza]

yeah, its consisting of me, and my close friends as dev

no means professional, its a hobby project

[fickle mauve]

hot damn, he's the real deal

[mellow plaza]

thank ya

this development fourm is esentially dedicated to las cherung

[noble briar]

i tried to make this style but failed so hard xero is an amazing dev

[mellow plaza]

is it quite, ambitious as a personal peroject?
perhaps, we will see how it goes in the long run

my friends deserve their own credits for their contributions here too, unfortunately almost all of them are not in this server :(

so i hope i try my best to mention them when i can

@earnest sage is here tho

[chrome otter]

Me and my fellow professional lore writers thank you

fanlore heaven

[mellow plaza]

thank you

[tiny jolt]

yay pipes

[brave reef]

DOWNRIGHT GORGEOUS

BEAUTIFUL

that is justt ougggh

it's ART

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!!!!!!!!

[shadow rapids]

Man this looks absolutely amazing

[shadow rapids]

The details

[acoustic widget]

https://tenor.com/view/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs-enough-to-make-a-grown-man-cry-police-officer-make-a-man-cry-gif-15227532

[delicate blade]

I meant the actual physical terrain, like is it a mesh, or was it made with the terrain editor

[noble briar]

probably a mix

[mellow plaza]

Hey guys, thank you.
I really appreciate all the support, I and my friends are honored to be in the spotlight of the resonance awards at Astral Central 2024.
I may have not won any awards aside Booth Showcase on Earth Gallery but you bet I am regardless super thankful for being nominated. I may have cried with joy along with my friends who I cherish the most, and soon with my dev friends once they wake up.

It has been by far the most wonderful moment I had of this year alone. To see the support we still have, I may admit, I did cried.
Thank you, and thank you Quantum Science. I have new motivations now, I think all of my dev friends have new found motivation

I will remember this for the rest of my life, and I hope me and my friends collective passion project for Las Cherung will one day be finished as we envisioned it.

❤️

[mellow plaza]

a first preview of the new year :)

world building related

some lore been reworked behind the scene, and i must illustrate what i can do

a map to focus the prosperous north

[nova jungle]

thats curious why is it in esperanto

[mellow plaza]

hinting to that

im actually happy you did pointed out what language it is in

though i cant say much about it atm due to its recent implementation, esperanto may be used heavily in this world

[nova jungle]

cool detail

[flat quartz]

looks vary art deco

[mellow plaza]

testing some new showcase watermark for 2025 but also

a hallway i wanna showcase :)

[mellow plaza]

Corridors of Autonomy

a false warmth

[azure cloak]

its so peak

so perfect

[mellow plaza]

thank you

[runic walrus]

ITS PEAAAAAK

[acoustic widget]

The fact this is roblox is mind-blowing

It still is

[hollow jay]

Amazing work

[coarse light]

r u ever gonna show us the control room?

[noble briar]

this looks amazing

[chrome otter]

this game is not a core game

[coarse light]

Wait what is it then

[noble briar]

it does have a reactor

iirc there was an image of that here

[chrome otter]

it does?

[chrome otter]

it’s more of a

uh

idk I think it’s a showcase for now

[coarse light]

Oh ok thx

[noble briar]

yes

[mellow plaza]

time for me to uh go into more details in regarding what las cherung is really about

Las Cherung is not really a core game in its central aspects but rather a planned "novel-like" story with major aspects of it being closely resembles to a factory-like gameplay.

Las Cherung is a fictional place taking place in a alternative history where the nations of the world changed to beyond recognition in the turn of the 20th century. The unfortunate series of event of wars and desperation of stability from the onslaught of The Decay (a term referred in this world regarding of chains of unfortunate circumstances) lead to the formation of the "Atomic Revolution" that quickly brang the northern hemisphere into a industrial hellscape. Fission become the major fuel source of the north as other older energy uses become obsolete. Las Cherung became one of many mandated "cities factories" established in North America, quickly becoming a major influence in the atomic sector. The decade of prosperity and relative stability from the Atomic Revolution eventually will face the Decay in the 1960s, whereas a soon to be power vaccum in the North will eventually spell the end of the revolution.

There are reactors in Las Cherung (if you considered nuclear batteries as one) but full fledge reactor are planned in LC though may not be the focal point of the game, as the game esentially explores on the basic idea of you being part of this mandated industrialist society, not knowing what is going on beyond the factories, contribute to it, and unfortunately maybe witnessing a end of a era.

It is a, very ambitious project I will be honest, so consider that as the plan for now

[coarse light]

Wowsers that's a lot

Man I wish I could write that much 😂

Anyways, love the work that ur doing

Keep it up!!

[mellow plaza]

thank you

[thorn fable]

Interesting. I'm thinking, what if fossil fuel reserves (coal, gas, petroleum etc.) became too risky to own and/or operate (due to the obvious resource exchange during war), yet no country focused on taking control of radioactive ore reserves (Uranium, Thorium etc.) during war due to the obvious necessity of fossil fuels of the late industrial revolution, so as a last resort, many functional and independent countries switched to nuclear fission as the "easy to acquire" energy source (which would only lead to even more war).

[mellow plaza]

that is a interesting idea, though i did had different events in min that played out regarding atomic resources

where the discovery of fission occured earlier, but not become known after a devastating war, and sort of became a fixation on the northern hemisphere as some solution of stability and prosperity

a sort of a atomic fever, a obession, quickly shape the view of fission energy and other application a sort of a "solution"

a escape to "the decay"

[gloomy shard]

so if you blow up the reactor (if you can) would it blow up a small area of the map?

[mellow plaza]

unsure, that is for later planning

[noble briar]

there will be a freezedown that forms a black hole though

[coarse light]

Lol

[mellow plaza]

2,000+ Members, 7 Years of Developing.

Thank you all. Thank you for the continuous support for not only me but as well with my developers who I call friends.
Thank you Quantum Science Public for the support too, and the hosting of not only my fourm but many other aspiring forums. ❤️

Las Cherung is our most ambitious project, a project we put much passion into. No strictness or rules, a project we build over time :)
I will release some various ingame screenshots of my most recent builds, a WIP and subject to change, but a insight of Las Cherung's World.

"Pioneering Times"

[noble briar]

amazing

[coarse light]

🎉🎉🎉

[mellow plaza]

"Watchfulness"

"Painful Normality"

[coarse light]

Been following last cherung since 2023

Still looks epic

(not that it never looked epic)

[noble briar]

this is so great, you and the other devs did a great job

[mellow plaza]

thank you so much

[coarse light]

I don't want to rush y'all but when do u think it's getting released

[noble briar]

i honestly don't think xero knows

[mellow plaza]

Still a mystery

its a project that is being build over time, no schedule or anything

Kinda like putting together legos bits per day

[coarse light]

R u ever gonna open it up so we can test it or something

[noble briar]

honestly kinda sad theres no communication server for this so the community could get more involved but i see why you don't want to do that

moderation isn't fun

[mellow plaza]

Yeah, and i really appreciate you guys understand

when we feel its ready, we will plan for testing. Atm its far from what we consider "ready" lol

[noble briar]

do you ever plan to have dev apps or will this just stay how it is

[mellow plaza]

Devving its alot of fun but do remember, I am the only one here putting together the map, the assets, the textures, with aid from my dev friend, tix :)

im unsure bout that, so far the structure we set up is okay for us

[noble briar]

alright, i bet a shitton of people would love to work on this lmao

but then expansion comes with having to trust new people

which leads to leaks

and shit

and having to manage a bigger team

[mellow plaza]

Yeah, and to be fair consider us like a group of close friends

[noble briar]

which trimmking down is no fucking fun

[mellow plaza]

just wanting to put together a idea collectively

In normal sense, that system often doesn't work long term without a form of schedule or leadership forming, but its still doing great for us

[coarse light]

What's ur favorite spot in Las cherung?

[mellow plaza]

Funnily enough, this recent build

atm i am making these for fun, alot of these are subject to change as I still have yet to figure what would las cherung be like (blue prints, all the different areas planned out)
but this area, may be here to stay, along with others

with some future refinements.