Xero's Industrials and Stuffs

[coarse light]

Btw (just remembering back a while) is there a vault-like door seperating east and west facility?

[runic walrus]

LEAKS LEAKS LEAAAAKS

[coarse light]

I'm sure I remember this from like 2023

[mellow plaza]

unsure, but i did made a vault door model

back before i knew blender

[coarse light]

I'ma dig back and try and find the picture

That's gonna take a while lol

[chrome otter]

I feel like hydroelectric and geothermal forms of energy would stick around, albeit nuclear aspects could be introduced to them

[chrome otter]

5,000 MESSAGES

[mellow plaza]

yeah

for anyone checking the thread, ill reply here so people can see the awesome message for QSP ^^

[flat quartz]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-17729711691959966457

[acoustic widget]

Couldn't agree more

[mellow plaza]

a hyperfixation on a fictional goods
farhills instant coffees, wrapped in a cubeoid shape, simply plop into your mug, pour some hot water till dissolved and get ready for another day of proper work

translation on the packaging from esperanto to english (as esperanto is slowly becoming a adopted language in this world as hinted before, so be ready for some language differences google translate though. may be inaccurate

Farhills
Brand

Instant Coffee

"Faster than Fission!"

(btw volume is a bit improper, i will scale it smaller as that is a insane coffee to mug ratio, mainly there for a good screenshot

[hollow jay]

Its crazy how a side project grew into its own universe

The coffee looks great tho

[chrome otter]

I got one for ya

RANDY’S GINGER ALE

Ginger Ale brand

Fizzier than a nuclear reactor!

EST. Randy’s Drinks Co, 1962 Fort Worth, G. Columbia

I myself have fallen into the loop of fictional brands

[chrome otter]

it’s the canon event

[mellow plaza]

i appreciate the compliment guys ^^

[mellow plaza]

that's a interesting brand lol

[minor moth]

👁️

[mellow plaza]

o em gee hi volo

[quiet scaffold]

nice video game

[flat quartz]

Does it have free lead?

[minor moth]

@mellow plaza I miss that one profile avatar you made for me

can I get it back ?

(I miss it so much omg 🙏)

[mellow plaza]

oHH uhh lemme see if i can find it, its probs on my old tablet

[minor moth]

aright thxx because I really deleted everything while I was leaving just to give some spaces

thank uuu

[shadow rapids]

Amazing work as always 🙏

[mellow plaza]

For those who like some more imaginary maps, I recently made a updated version of the West Coast map to include lore-accurate districts (states) as well with other features such as geological alterations and whatnot.

This is a map of the "Industrial West", its known for its various interconnected 'Factoriesville' that powers the industrial sector of Grand Columbia, familiar yet highly different autonomous regions resides where they play a vital role of Columbia's interworkings and the efficency of the long lasting Atomic Revolution.

Las Cherung for those who are curious would be situated in one the districts referred to as "Cherung" (most likely the name for which the factoryville of las cherung was adopted from.) which would be located in modern day north-west arizona. (though final placement of las cherung is not finalized.)

This may be the final map revision showcasing this particular area of the world as I continue to finalize some early and late storylines. Feel free to observe around and point out any different alteration of this familiar yet exotic timeline.

Map was rendered in 9000 x 5814 (JPEG)
Made with QGIS + Inkscape

in the meanwhile, LC development still continues, me and GGshor were working with more in-game mechanics that I have yet to showcase to the public, nearly finishing up our brand new UI system, player-inertias and other physics related mechanics.

Once I do feel like we finalized the mechanics and UI, I may compile a short video to upload it to YT after a year or more of no fully public showcase lol

cheers

[mellow plaza]

test area build

(i don't wanna bump this fourm if anyone didn't see the map i worked above, but I made another thing in LC as more practicing for las cherung's unusual artitecture :)

[acoustic widget]

It still baffles me how you get such nice lighting

Like. How?

It's so good

[noble briar]

i love those lamps and fans

[noble briar]

i love everything else but i like that the most

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!

another angle

[minor moth]

The lights is plentiful

✨

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!

one more showcase of another test build

[acoustic widget]

🤤

looks like a bioshock room (In a good way)

[mellow plaza]

thanks!!

[sage obsidian]

man you are so talented

[mellow plaza]

Greetings everyone.

Today, I will now showcase the public, from our team, the various stuff we been making (mechanics, UI, areas)
Thank you Quantum Science, Astral Industries, for allowing us and others to post our creations here and there.

A grand showcase from us :)

Much appreciations from (sorry for pings my friends)
@earnest sage
@terse hawk
GGshor
mr_tix6v2
the_yard1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJKmgZYcSLo

[noble briar]

holy fuck this is amazing

this has got to be the best thing i've seen

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!

[obtuse epoch]

im gonna crash out why cant my builds be this good 😭

[small pivot]

Absolutely amazing! :O

[gloomy shard]

just wanted to ask, what program did you make your ui in?

[mellow plaza]

blender + substance painter + paint.net + GIMP

modeled it in blender, textured it in substance painter, visual editing in paint.net and GIMP

[gloomy shard]

ah i get it

[mellow plaza]

the UI is the hardest thing i did due to how tedious it is, but its one of my most cherished thing from LC

[acoustic widget]

explanation on how you make your psychotically good lighting when?

like this entire project is crazy impressive

[mellow plaza]

Utilizing blocks or attachments in open areas that would behave like a "ambient lighting" if that make sense?
they actually make wonders in giving more vibrant ambients

[acoustic widget]

sadly my brain is too small to have that make sense :(

[mellow plaza]

envision a area with lamps, they have warm colors

although good, you can add a invisible block in the middle of the room and add a faint point light that is either a more saturated color of the lamps to give it some sort of like uhh, lighting decay? im unsure how to word it

especially along side with a mix of the lighting's ambientcolors to make it more vibrant

[acoustic widget]

Ah. that does make sense

poor mobile players

[winter cargo]

btw uhhh small question: what are those panels, like they seem to be pretty common in las cherung

[gloomy shard]

looks a lot like news paper thing

[mellow plaza]

@winter cargo @gloomy shard those are called news paper vending machine (as silly as it sounds) i do see some of them around in my town where i live, they are no longer in use so they are just there i suppose

heres a photo i taken of one irl near me

they do potentially serve a vital role in Las Cherung being some only sources of news outside of LC, but at the moment they are props.

[winter cargo]

oooh nice

i live in Ukraine and i don't have those

[acoustic widget]

2 quarters for all of the newspapers

I always found that funny

it makes you pay, then its honor system

[mellow plaza]

"Four years of my life, I don't feel resilient, I am not referred to by name but rather what I can offer. I am lucky to reside, for the unforgiving actions of the atomic revolution punish those who are weak. I only remember the day when I assign to this place I now call home. Those bright warm lights, dirty, desolate, I was the last one to arrive, and set my place. Oh I was simply naive for how the world truely operates."
||i just felt like writing a perspective of a new person enrolling into this factoryville, some lore hints i think||

[nova jungle]

oh my god he blessed our eyeballs again with stunning architecture, godly lighting and more lore

I think its gonna take me days to examine each room in your game lol

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!

i was a bit bored earlier today and decided to model a hardhat
but, its not a ordinary one

perhaps referencing someone i personally look up to

not a big thing, i just wanted to make it to pass time and see if i can properly model hats

[acoustic widget]

the hard-hat looks good! I'm not sure if its a stylistic choice but the logo looks a bit odd to me

[mellow plaza]

look at the last statement closely

and thx

[acoustic widget]

I think I'm too dense to understand lmao

[nova jungle]

it has elevatorz’ logo

[mellow plaza]

correct

[copper helm]

@mellow plaza Please look into your dms with me.

[acoustic widget]

[mellow plaza]

right, i forgot my dms were kinda closed (wait no i was tweaking lmfao)

also gulps

[noble briar]

don't come after xero 😭

i will sacrifice myself to the qsoc gods to make sure this post doesn't die

[mellow plaza]

this is not really a full official screenshot but more so a WIP for the outdoor i made, this area is not finalized, considering the super large towering structures behind are placeholders and are not my models

more so this is to show some environmental aspect and visualization of the factoryville of Las Cherung, as well with some environmental ground level fog and whatnot.

but in the future when i get to it, I will make such structures i had in mind perfect for this world.

[forest tide]

eyesgobrr

just now seeing this- hats off to you for making such a kick-ass game! can't wait till it's finished

and I know you get this alot but how in the hell is this still roblox

[acoustic widget]

I'm convinced it's magic and enough lights to blow up an iPhone 11

[forest tide]

nah

you play this on any iphone and that battery instantly loses like 10% of its max capacity

[mellow plaza]

omg thank you!!!

[mellow plaza]

the outdoor will be my biggest thing to tackle, as i never really have a strong grasp in planning buildings and stuff but considering almost majority of LC would be taking place outdoor (a small part being underground)

and although i wanna show more, for now have a preview of what's to come.

[lethal remnant]

It's really a shame that the roblox DOF effect has hard edge clipping

Otherwise it would look a lot better

[mellow plaza]

yeah lol

[mellow plaza]

hl2 littering models i think, i was too lazy to manually model some litters, for now

but i want to show more snippets of our progress for the rest of las cherung we are building.

[sand wolf]

is this a part of las cherung or just a showcase area

[mellow plaza]

las cherung

these outdoor screenshots are permenant places, not temp build

so it will be seen in the final stages of lc development if we get to that point

[mellow plaza]

happy april fools (day early for me)

but i do want to present to you guys, just for this literal skit for my group, i taught myself a old ass obscure 3D software from 1995 to make this inside my win98 virtual machine
ty and have a great day lmfao

[hollow jay]

This is amazing lmao

[mellow plaza]

weather.... clouds.... CLOUDS!!!

because roblox cloud system didnt land well in Las Cherung because the way i set up the lightings, i have to accomidate with my own from something i saw that got me the idea

cloud texturemaps by me :)

i am spending many resources to make the outdoor, a bit too much but regardess its something I want to make sure is splendid.

[noble briar]

how did you make this?

like a material in designer?

[mellow plaza]

mhm! the textures were done in designer with the cloud noise

and obvious mix and merge with other noises to get the result i needed

primarily just to make it seamless, thats why i used it

[noble briar]

this is great

[mellow plaza]

ty!

[copper helm]

What is Las Cherung going to be?

[sand wolf]

el nuclear plant

[mellow plaza]

its alot more than that but im not home to explain it rn sobs

give me a few hours before i tell what is lc is about

[mellow plaza]

okay pardon if i should like im going everywhere because this question does actually make me ponder a lot LOL

Las Cherung, you could consider it a novel-like gameplay of someone living day by day of this fictional place in an unstable world of 1964 (Alternative Reality).
In context, (because im still planning out more lore of this), a isolated "factory-ville" of sorts, the age of the atomic revolution in this timeline has lead great success in innovations and profound stability. However so far from many city centers and reside in the vast desert of the west, it is almost quite autonomous and have its own internal system that keeps things in order. A factory that runs the city, as many resides from mandated industrialism rule of a unforgiving nation. The game will focus on you as the individual that resides in this careful balance, your character's well being and resources of trying to survive day-by-day

It's kinda hard to put it into words because this is very ambitious 😭 and i havent fully gotten a right idea yet, but i guess sort of a normal nearly linear storyline (still explorational i think) experience with choices you makes that will alter your ending in some ways, that is if your character lives long enough to see the conclusion

because las cherung is not just a uhh, nuclear power plants, i guess to summarize it up, its more of a factory that runs the city (producings some goods from the related atomic revolution rather than power production)

so its why ive lately making the outdoors in this post, i'm pretty much building a city,,,

[acoustic widget]

Least ambitious Roblox game be like:

[mellow plaza]

lmfao

theres ought to be someone more ambitious than me.... i will shake their hand and wish them luck

[acoustic widget]

I had a more ambitious project than this, but I brought it out back when I actually sat down to do the math on time and investment

I applaud you for going through with it so far though

It's looking great

[mellow plaza]

thank you

[mellow stone]

would you say this trying to live by in the balance of political events concept is like Papers Please? if so that sounds like a great idea

I like games that do that

[mellow plaza]

i havent played paper please,,

but considering the lore me and someone close to me were working on that involves alternative history politics, and especially planning to have some of that influence in the overall environment of las cherung, then yes

most likely i would even say, heavily influences the game from what i could imagine

[mellow stone]

whaaat? you should play it is an amazing game

[mellow plaza]

i SHOULDDd
theres like alot of games that i havent played yet, and i keep telling myself to get it some day
probs one day.. i will,,,

[acoustic widget]

It's like $5 and Im still replaying it to this day

It prob inspired my pixel art love without me even realizing it lol

[mellow plaza]

on break for a bit due to burnout, a lot of my friends has been busy for the past month due to universities or jobs. Working in the dev place alone for a long while is getting to me

I'll be ok. 👍

[acoustic widget]

o7

[hollow jay]

Take your time, Xero 🙏

[small pivot]

Have a good break mate :)

[copper helm]

@mellow plaza Look DMs

[dense field]

Shuuu

[mellow plaza]

I'm coming back soon after a good rest, I made plenty of models and meshes just earlier this weekend
I'm still kinda alone doing this as everyone is busy but I will try to see where to go from here, spring break is over and college starting soon. For now the most I can make is some new batch of models.

i am currently remaking some old one. and more I will show tomorrow.

Thank you guys

[buoyant vector]

YUM. looking good!

[mellow plaza]

These are the models i made this weekend, a burst of energy has lead me to almost just, mass produced many meshes and texture almost under one sitting.

Plenty of the models are either remakes from their older varients or completely new ones. Some are just experimental designs I am practicing for the artitectural design of Las Cherung. I'll start posting them individually to show you guys in greater details ^^

varients of metal rebars, they are modular and can be extended. I made sure they do not use too many polygons. In fact the holes aren't actually physical holes in the mesh!

Recently ive been trying to fine tune my PBR, aside from now purely making my own smart materials from scratch instead of the default pre-builts offered by painter, im now using transparency mapping in surface appearance to allow me to make details without physically making them.

i remade the window models, and not only that, made many variations of it (the right tiny one is the old version)

heres a 4k screenshot of all of these windows varients layed out so you guys can get a proper visualization on each one ^^

ranging from opaque, to dirtiness, and damages. considering the environment las cherung is in, is often not very cleaned.

i may have spend... hours uhh making these, to alot of models throughout the weekend

I do need to be careful because despite my pace of models i made, I could get myself burn out again especially im rn the only one working 😅
yet i yearn for the project.

i remade my friend's tix fence models he made for our project so they are properly a singular mesh with pbrs.
this angle is uhh not really showing the pbr too well

so heres another one with the sun setted to where it show the pbr more properly

[noble briar]

oh my god

[mellow plaza]

a more refined catwalk fences thingies i remade so now they are properly scaled. (thats literally it, the one i made before was cursed with scales to the hundreths, now its all properly uniformed)

[noble briar]

these pbrs look so good

[mellow plaza]

thank you

[noble briar]

especially how well you pulled off the fencea

those are always hell

[mellow plaza]

theres few more i still wanna show

[noble briar]

how did you make the windows transparent? was the window a separate part and you just lowered the transparency?

[mellow plaza]

yeah, kinda (using AlphaMode set to transparency in surface apperance to allow i suppose translucent pixels to be used for transparency

instead of making the mesh entirely translucent

new lamp models

[noble briar]

i love the grooves on the lamp

[mellow plaza]

ty

i made some test areas with all of these models put into use.

lemme make screenshots

[noble briar]

amazing as always, the barrel shading feels a bit off but I assume that was a creative choice

[mellow plaza]

from different angle it looks okay, but i see where you mean lol

actually funnily enough a older models of mines

but yeah thats pretty much it for now

[regal relic]

HOLY BONGOCATS

[mellow plaza]

for anyone reading the thread today and curious about all the models i made this weekend, go here and scroll from there, thank you for the support guys

omg HI LAVA

[regal relic]

DUDE WHAT

YOUVE BEEN COOKING SO HARD

HI XEROOO

[acoustic widget]

He has

He's been cooking with straight gas

[regal relic]

and here i was proud about some silly plinko game im making man

beautiful work as always, super fucking impressed with your work

[mellow plaza]

AAA THANK YOU
im slowly trying to like, get used to the new balance of working alone since all of my friends are occupied from college n stuff (waiting for the day we can all dev again :)

tysm

[regal relic]

anyways i go post my stuff in gen discussion now WEEEE

[mellow plaza]

!!!

[kindred lion]

is there a difference between smart materials by yourself or materials made by painter other than customizability?

these look sick btw

i need to learn how to use that transparency stuf

f

[mellow plaza]

uhhh kinda?
its more so just extra effort to make something from pure grunge maps or noises

i hope i read it right because i probs misread it few times aaa

and ty

[kindred lion]

did you do the one time payment for sp or subscription

[mellow plaza]

whistles

[acoustic widget]

🏴‍☠️ ?

[mellow plaza]

this may be a bit of a downgrade but i remade the nuclear batteries to be more optimized and esentially reduce to almost just two meshes (glass and the case itself)

i really wanna keep them in the game and will make many gadgets with similar styles to it.

[wet schooner]

despite the slight reduction in detail i personally say they still look great!!

incredible even

[mellow plaza]

ty, i wanted them to be used or seen more in LC (maybe even as a tool to be carried)

so i wanted to reduce their polygons so its not too peformant

the glass and the case itself share the same texture map

this battery model itself is such a old concept that the original model showcase image has a entirely different layout than how i present stuff nowadays

the resolution has to be cut down but if anyone is curious about the labeling itself, ill get the original file

oh yeah, a new redesign of the Mojave Initiatives logo, aside from the translation to esperanto, to make it i guess more, classy?

if anyone whose been in this form long enough to remember this fictional yet notable manufacturer inside the world of Las Cherung

[hollow jay]

This is sick as hell!!

[mellow stone]

Did you modify the geometry after unwrapping? The label is kinda distorted
You could separate its tris into a different island before unwrapping, and then if you want to straighten the island so that there's no angle distortion

But other than that I think it looks awesome, really wouldn't call it a downgrade lmao

I feel like this one is more fitting with the things you've been making lately

[mellow plaza]

yeah it happen once i try to retexture the mesh with the glass lol

i saved the files to fix it later, i didnt change any faces, it was fine when i was praticing texturing on just the case itself

unsure why it changed when i include the glass to the mesh even they are all properly uv unwrap beforehand lol

looks very wonky

but ty!!

[mellow stone]

What unwrapping method do you use?

If it's something like angle based and you include the new geometry maybe it reorganized it in a different way

[mellow plaza]

ouu i cant remember, not on my laptop to double check but its me manually unwrapping with marking seams

oh yeah angle based thing, i probably didnt properly seam it when i view one of those face angle shades inside the uv editor and noticed some green shades instead of a flat blue

distortions 💔

[mellow stone]

Wow yea you pretty much unwrap like I do lol

🤝

Gotta love when there's a minuscule mistake in geometry and you gotta redo the unwrap

[mellow plaza]

yeaj 💀

[mellow plaza]

i fixed the distortion :))

all i really had to do is rescale the label because i apparentally didnt realize it was stretchedd

and triangulate the faces that the label occupied on and that uhh

got rid of the distortion

[mellow plaza]

i made another varient of the fissile batteries, theres alot i do imagine exist in this world, but this is the second one i decided to physically make

a more industrial grade plutonium-related battery

uv unwrapping aint doing me good favors for the labeling on the big one but uhh

its a big lad for sure

again for those who are curious about the labels in a more higher resolution

[mellow plaza]

a sketch concept to a old yet favorite las cherung's gear i made from 2023. The Portable Cloud Chamber

this is a drawing sketch i made mapping out ideas and concept of a uhh redesign of the model

a redesign in mind that i wanted to do, still figuring out if the material should be the old black metal or copper-like in nature. the glass is tubular and most likely would be more tactile, with a dial for different settings? unsure on that part

heres a shortcut to the original cloud chamber model

the model would be part under the mojave initiatives brand akin to the batteries

[mellow plaza]

Today, i went ahead and model the sketch of the portable cloud chamber
I'm really happy how it turned out ^^ adopting a similar theme to the atomic batteries and honestly, alot of gadgets in las cherung would have this sort of, style to it.

I went ahead with the copper / bronze material instead of the original black metal

[buoyant vector]

AWESOME

[mellow plaza]

TY!!!!

[buoyant vector]

WOOOO

[hollow jay]

This is beautiful!!!

[mellow plaza]

ty!!!

[mellow plaza]

in the continuation of new models i made, i remade a old clock model today.
decided to make it a more of a oval shape and made my own decal within it.

[mellow plaza]

drawing incoming!!! (rare xero-non studio stuff)

in this form i've been posting update of las cherung ever since 2023. For those who stuck around for so long, I thank you for following with my journey to this day.

LC has been changed a lot, especially it's atmosphere. Previously when I started this fourm, Las Cherung was suppose to be a more humble, Cold War-esque era and sorta have that optimism of american cold war stuff (as seen with this old drawing i made in that time period, made around December 17, 2022)

however Las Cherung was changed a lot since then, especially its world turning into a alternative reality of a industrial revolution powered by the atom itself, the fear of a seemingly omnipotent phenomena, and other factors. A near totally different world of 1964. The overall environment would take a more depressing, desperate tone, as seen with some of the other thumbnails i made before.

And i kinda wanted to redraw the character seen above, to their equivalent to this modern Las Cherung world, and I did

I just wanted to show you guys just a new drawing interpretation of some of the old stuff i made back then, to how they are now in this new world.

[hollow jay]

I feel like im waiting for a new portal game

Sick art tho

[mellow plaza]

ty!!

another rework on a nixie tube (this most likely a final one)
primarily to optimize the glass tube itself just a little more, as well with some tweaks.

[torn ruin]

Oh my man looks hungry

[mellow stone]

Oh man I once tried to make nixie tubes before I knew substance painter and yeah it went terribly lmfao

those look awesome

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!
this is like my uhh 3rd revision of nixies tube lol

[mellow stone]

that figures lmao

[mellow plaza]

the first one was good but had alot of polygons
second one was okayish but i felt like it can be improved better

this one is esentially the lowest poly i can get LOL and use some clever techique of alpha channels (transparent color map n stuff) to get the additional details

like the small metal grates and the holes at the bottom

they are very small so i can get away with very low poly counts

and i made some different similar type of vaccum glass tubes thingies but i have yet to reveal,,

[mellow stone]

you're amazing at such low poly things

[mellow plaza]

ty!!

[buoyant vector]

:D

[brittle idol]

This thread never fail to amaze me

[mellow plaza]

NIXIES AND VACCUM TUBES RELATED HAVEN!!!
i will call it that

[inner sluice]

Still love those

Some older Otis elevators use nixie tubes

[mellow plaza]

me too, ever since my friend tix brought that up to me long ago, ive been obsessing over it since

[mellow plaza]

oo

that is awesome that its still being used

[mellow plaza]

for those who are curious

nixies tubes (left)
linear nixies? (middle)

and a interesting one i discovered a while ago, dekatrons (right)

smthing smthing digital computers and calculations from the 1950s, im still looking over them but wanted to model one for las cherung

[inner sluice]

https://youtube.com/shorts/W6tzET_UsLM?si=V992goag9aEpMNq7

[inner sluice]

No like old models

[mellow plaza]

oh oop i probs misread mb

i see nixie i go :D

[mellow plaza]

woa

[mellow plaza]

going back to this! I'd imagine las cherung's technology to still be behind despite being 1964
(lore wise, theres alot of proper explainations of it but arrrgh im still writing it with someone and taking my jolly time in closed doors)

so now I must reveal to these gadgets being utilized in a, somewhat of a test build? im considering keeping this area for later use.

In the world where the atom was the hope of prosperity, unity and quality. Yet a blissful hope to humanity's blind path to self destruction. The Northern Hemisphere yearns for anything but Reality.

so far at the moment, im still modeling more stuff as currently all of my friends are still busy and away from development for LC

so not much of gameplay showcase or stuff for now

[lethal remnant]

Something tells me that displays like this would really fit in your universe (this is the back of an old soviet tv)

[acoustic widget]

Vacuum tubes 🔥

[mellow plaza]

wait i didnt know this, this is SO COOL

def for sure

[mellow plaza]

@mellow stone ty for the blender vid :)

(sory for ping)

[mellow stone]

hahaaa! awesome

[mellow plaza]

railings or any of those has always been like

SUCH a pain for me until now, i will uphold my greatest gratitude

[mellow plaza]

Food related consumables for las cherung!!!

NOTE (I did spoiler it because considering it has holes, I don't want to spook someone random here who may have trypophobia :(( )

Based off a Ship's Biscuit, a type of hard, bland dry bread packed in nutrients, ment for day to day rations in Las Cherung :]
good for dipping it in a cup of coffee.

[acoustic widget]

perhaps even some soup :fire:

[mellow plaza]

mhm

[acoustic widget]

they look really good, I would hate to eat them (meant to be taken as a complement)

[mellow plaza]

lmfao dw i know what you ment

[buoyant vector]

i didn't even know that was a phobia... 😭

[mellow plaza]

yeah, theres phobias for plenty but i think that one is often common

unsure, i dont wanna spook someone 💔

(if the game isn't already scary enough lmfao)

[buoyant vector]

i hope there isn't a lascherungphobia

[mellow plaza]

LOL

[mellow plaza]

snapped :>

[buoyant vector]

nom

[acoustic widget]

Thick as concrete

Goddamn

[mellow plaza]

"Lost Souls of the Atomic Revolution"

I drew some more facial expression for our ingame's player models, so far they are just only decals and nothing more
I just wanted to show you some, rather depressing faces that would be seen in Las Cherung

an although the contrast of las cherung being such a graphic intensive game yet still having the roblox models is intentional
i for some reason wanna keep it that way, especially when it comes to their facial expression

don't wanna go too realistic nor too cartoony

[dense field]

can we buy them?

[mellow plaza]

these are faces assets for las cherung, not ugc :( so not purchasable

[dense field]

😦

[lethal remnant]

I assume these are the stages of grief for late night development

[acoustic widget]

Nah, not dead inside enough for thet

[mellow plaza]

lmfao

[mellow plaza]

@unreal glacier HI TIX HII TIX HII TIX

fellas in this fourm, this here is one of my other close friends who devs for las cherung :) the one i sometime bring up time to time for assisting in building layouts, general modeling and ideas

(no update for today tho, just wanna bring him in)

[unreal glacier]

HI XEROOO

[noble briar]

hello!

[unreal glacier]

eyo!

[mellow plaza]

he also got his own group he devs so quite a multitasker

[unreal glacier]

ye

[mellow stone]

awesome!

[mellow plaza]

Lone

Forgottened areas left to those who no longer have an identity, the only place of tranqulity in a harsh world. The system failed them, a punishing truth of the industrial sectors.

experimental area build

[acoustic widget]

Peak as fuck

Looks like a source engine scene

Genuinely great job as always

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!

after some experimentation, i decided to bring back the oldie art style that i used to represent las cherung in its earlier development ^^
still practicing! unsure if they will be seen in las cherung itself but for anyone who i guess want some poster or smthing

[acoustic widget]

Holy hell it looks like an infomercial

Great job

[mellow plaza]

thank you!

potential in game poster for las cherung

ATENTU!
VERO ESTAS PROGRESO! MENSOGOJ ESTAS REGRESO

MENSOGOJ

Translated from Esperanto (im no fluent to esperanto so at the moment relying on google translate for esperanto 😭 )

CAREFUL!
TRUTH IS PROGRESSION! LIES ARE REGRESSION

LIES

[mellow plaza]

KADUKIGO    REFORMO

DECAY     REFORM

[mellow plaza]

HD remake (since the original file was a bit too low quality for my liking

with some color tweaks

[hollow jay]

🔥

[mellow plaza]

New cherungian poster asset dropped (i have now tapped into my art side of me for this project)

MULTTASKU!
MONTRAS EIKECON!

MULTITASK!
SHOWS EFFICENCY!

[acoustic widget]

god damn thats hot

how did you even manage this

adobe?

[mellow plaza]

procreate!

my main drawing app that i use for any of my drawings

so in other words this was kinda drawn by hand (with the assistance of rulers drawing tools n stuff and some text)

[acoustic widget]

I fear you

I have to hold shift while using the line tool... in pixel art.

[mellow plaza]

ah i see

[mellow plaza]

OBSERVU

OBSERVE

[hollow jay]

👁️

[acoustic widget]

👁️

[placid latch]

👁

[mellow plaza]

non las cherung related but i really wanted to show you guys

i had a really odd dream today where i found some old computer hidden in a closet and took it out
its a computer that i never seen before seemingly dating back from the 1980s, and its apparentally called "Ophelia" and it has a rather turquoise accent in markings, and a apparent "portable computer"

I remember like, opening it, seeing its manual and stuff and then i woke up. BUT I STILL VIVIDLY REMEMBER WHAT THE COMPUTER LOOK LIKE IN MY DREAM

so today i actually from memory tried to recreate that very computer i saw in my dream, and uh here it is. ^^

it feels very surreal to see it now, and probably the only time i would make something from my dream o_o
most likely wont have that sort of thing again

but i never felt such a urgency to "I have to make this NOW."

[runic walrus]

Lwk hight key peak

[mellow plaza]

thank you 😭

[kindred lion]

all the best ideas come from dreams

[buoyant vector]

WHAT

THAT'S SO AWESOME

[mellow plaza]

AAA TY

[buoyant vector]

[unreal glacier]

woa

[sand wolf]

peak

[acoustic widget]

holy shit

that looks insane!

[acoustic widget]

If you don't mind is it ok if I take some inspo from this in my own personal project?

[mellow plaza]

sure thing!
i have no plans to use this model to any of my creations aside just a personal souvenir, so feel free to use it as references ^^

[acoustic widget]

you are my GOAT

ong

free work inspo, and now model inspo

never change xero ❤️

[noble briar]

how did you remember

also is this all one mesh, the resolution is really high?

[acoustic widget]

I had something like this once, for me it was I just woke up and it was stuck in my head, just a general concept

started tinkering changing it till I felt it mimmiced what I saw in my head

[mellow plaza]

yeah, the idea just stuck with me, or the fact (i didnt thought to mention this until now)
i did had a nightmare beforehand 😭

and normally any dream before or after one i just

[noble briar]

ah

[mellow plaza]

remember thanks to the scare of the nightmare

[acoustic widget]

dreams are weird but often give the best creative result

lmao

[mellow plaza]

so the actual mesh is split into 2 (the body and the keyboard)
the other stuff is just things like the screen or levers but

i did UV unwrap them myself to intentionally make the front facing to have such resolution

so in effect, the rest of the body is actually lower detailed than the front since i made the UV island big to get as much details needed for text

[noble briar]

ah

how do you make the decals?

[mellow plaza]

inkscape

[noble briar]

is it a free software?

[mellow plaza]

mhm

free open sourced vector editing program

great for making logos, shapes, or any vector designs

in fact almost everything you saw in this fourm with the watermarks on my screenshots, designs, or 2d images

was done through inkscape

[acoustic widget]

hm

crazy

how is it when doing 3d texture work?

do you just work on the unwrapped texture?

[noble briar]

no, you work on the mesh

[mellow plaza]

well i dont use inkscape for that (its possible but maybe very tedious)

i do all the decals on substance painter

by importing the stuff I made from inkscape

[acoustic widget]

I see

[acoustic widget]

been thinking of finding a substance painter alternative

because substance painter

very pricy

😭

[mellow plaza]

I do have one in mind

though im unsure if you still have to compile it yourself but considered getting into Armorpaint?

[acoustic widget]

I looked at it yeah

Still pretty unfamiliar with compiling

[mellow plaza]

ii believe theres some videos out there helping you guide through the compiling process

[acoustic widget]

did it for audacity as a test, but I couldn't figure out how to pack it into an EXE, so I just kinda hopped off

[mellow plaza]

orr you could donate the team directly once to get i think the installer

if i last remember

[acoustic widget]

yeah, it was I think $50 ish for the exe, or compile it yourself for free

[noble briar]

how do you do the wear

[acoustic widget]

substance has a wear thingy iirc

[mellow plaza]

the wear was done with masking in substance

by manually erasing the edges with brushes

[noble briar]

oh you did the wear in substance

iirc theres a decal tex you can use to add wear

[noble briar]

it's 19 i think

[mellow plaza]

mhm

i could do it in inkscape as they ALSO have masking

but im too lazy to find a proper mask image lol

[acoustic widget]

yeah $19

Im brokie broke after buying a DRG mug set for all my kroner, so I'm gonna figure out how to compile it

time to add it to the list 🔥

[mellow plaza]

new batch of cherungian textures :)

[acoustic widget]

Looks like they would taste like grime, salt, and sand size grout

Very nice

[mellow plaza]

second batch, cobblestones

[mellow plaza]

third batch, weathered wooden planks :)

[mellow plaza]

fourth batch, Tarnished Metals

fifth batch, rusty metal sheets

in total i have made 8 seperate materials in a single day alone

making it my absolute record of the most amount of materials made in a single day 😭
... and yet the passion in me for las cherung still burns, but i need to stop and rest for the day before i actually worn myself out, thats all to show :)

[mellow plaza]

last material batch for now, grouted concrete bricks

[acoustic widget]

Good shit

[mellow plaza]

ty!

[gloomy shard]

dawg if i did this i would have been burnt the hell out

holy

[mellow plaza]

i am so happy right now
im unsure what gotten in me that started a almost a bit of a mission of remaking so many textures but i have somehow finally discovered my texture style ive been struggling to get for almost half a year (my new textures are now all consistant :)

and with this i made this texture i am so proud of.
Degraded Metal Plates

this texture was based off of a half life 2 texture asset (or alyx, im unsure where), a texture i use alot in earlier las cherung builds from 2022-2023.

ever since i started making materials, i thought it would be a near unreachable task to recreate all materials, especially stuff like metal plates due to their complexity, that metal plate was uhh one of them

during me making alot of new texture sets around a year or so ago, i tried to make that metal plate texture, with uhh not great results

so i am very happy that the latest texture batchs has not only been consistant in style, but i managed to make many materials i thought i cant make, such as the cobblestones, metal ridges, and now this in a span of few days

Thank you guys for keeping me motivated, and to my friends as well who are still partaking in this passion project.

anteraska, ender, mr_tix6v2(sink), ggshor, venerith

many of us are now ready to work together now that college and stuff are coming to a close, planning to recontinue the dev sessions next weekend ^^, i wont be alone working now.
and me and ggshor has started up something in a meanwhile to finally organize our development, and the construction with a wiki for "The Decay" lore (with great assistance with someone close)

thank you, im sorry if im pushing the chat here myself 😅 , that's all for the news for now i think

[acoustic widget]

Congrats! Feeling like you finally found the art style that you had in your head is an amazing fucking feeling

[mellow plaza]

tysm

[mellow plaza]

next batch of materials for las cherung: Shiny Wood Veneers

[undone glacier]

Laminated wood

[acoustic widget]

Real

[acoustic widget]

Are they eco-friendly?

[mellow plaza]

dunno lol

[mellow plaza]

all the new batches of materials for las cherung so far

[acoustic widget]

🤩

[mellow plaza]

last batch of materials for now

terrazzo materials :)
(cherungian terrazzo)

[buoyant vector]

how do you say las cherung

[mellow plaza]

i usually say it as las sher-runng
though ive heard my friends pronounce it differently

like las chair-roong

but i usually say it like it has a 's' 😭

[buoyant vector]

i'd think it would actually make sense

[mellow plaza]

oh it does?

i kinda see it yeah

[acoustic widget]

I thought it was las cher-ung

[mellow plaza]

note: i usually

i will sometimes say it different here and there lol

often i say it with that 's' tone

[acoustic widget]

Yeah this is the only pronunciation that makes sense to me tbh

[buoyant vector]

laz chewing

[acoustic widget]

Lmao

[undone glacier]

lahs-cheh-rung

[acoustic widget]

I agree with everything but the center

[small pivot]

I've always said lass-cher-ung lol

Seemed the most right to me ig

[mellow plaza]

by the time me and my friend dev session starts for the first time in 2-3 months in upcoming weekend (for setting up a more organized codebase for las cherung), we may have over 20 materials or more 😭

Cherungian Tiles

[tiny jolt]

am i trippin or that looks very similar to the ceramictiles material

[mellow plaza]

the one in studio?

[acoustic widget]

it does look similar

yours is more uneven and has a scuffed look

it looks nicer compared to the default one

[mellow plaza]

i do see it that way

its a custom material, i based mines off from those old surgical rooms wall tiles

[limpid slate]

I've said Las churr-ung (churr as in churro, ung as in bungalow)

[past raptor]

I just pronounce it as "las che-rugs"

[mellow plaza]

we got a long ways ahead compiling the lore

still a secret (more like too UNFINISHED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

but a sneak preview of how potentially stupidly silly long the decay story is (officially beginning in 1900s but uhhh yeah some stuff to explain so gotta dial it back)

though after several months of planning with someone close to me, we are now confident enough to finally piece it together, though i can't make promises when it will be finished or stuff

[kindred lion]

what do you use to make materials

[chrome otter]

oh my goodness this is so amazing chat

[mellow plaza]

substance designer

[mellow plaza]

so the dev session for the first time with my friends in over 3 months went well :))

me, ender, anteraska, tix, and ggshor had fun today :))

experimenting with pathfinding, setting up some sort of github for ant (because his internet provider went goodbye)

re-experimenting old systems and plans to redo them

you can btw thanks tix for putting pipes and catwalks all over because yes @unreal glacier

[unreal glacier]

:3

[mellow plaza]

and experimenting with audio api thingy (done by anteraska)

[terse hawk]

💥

[gloomy shard]

might be a really stupid question but how would you go about making diagonal railings

cuz i have no knowledge on how to make them

[mellow plaza]

gapfill plugin is really useful if you want to connect two rails in a angle to get a diagonal one, i think
i used it to connect the two straight railings together

[gloomy shard]

ah i see i thought they were meshes

[hollow jay]

"all our food keeps blowing u-"

[mellow plaza]

A preview of some of the drawings illustrated and used in the decay lore document.
(this one is just a reillustration of a painting from Baldassare Verazzi of the Italian War of Inddependence)

(test portrait to experiment with some realism proportions, may not adopt this style persay but will def use the media-like apperance for future ones.)

[mellow plaza]

Factoryville

A collective group of factories that runs a city, dictates the rules of commonity and living, is perhaps a established way to ensure demands and productivity.

(another test build)

[mellow plaza]

Smoldering air of Protomica

In the vast corridors deep within the factories of Las Cherung, the presence of air reminds everyone their place, their contributions, it is to be remembered that you are fueling this revolution, and the promise of a bright, bright future.

[limpid slate]

Xero will call it a "test build" and it's the coolest architecture I've seen in roblox ever

[mellow plaza]

true 😭

Warmth

The hums of the lamps echos in the absent halls of Las Cherung. It's numbingly loud, blurs out any thoughts you have. Yet a perfect place rest your fragile body on a bench.

[hollow jay]

Holy shit thats beautiful

[mellow plaza]

ty!

[copper helm]

Awesome stuff as usual

[mellow plaza]

visuals testing

[silver rampart]

[dense field]

Yoooo

[dim scarab]

cool

[mellow plaza]

adding more prop models for las cherung

wireframe, could use some less faces

[mellow plaza]

more meshes

[kindred lion]

howd you make these?

[mellow plaza]

it was done using a shrink wrap modifer, using cloth in sculpting and baking normals (for the low poly varient with decimate)

lemme send you the video in questions in order i used :) (do note they are in a bit of a face pace but uhh yeah)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IuD3s2IiAJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3lwBDtC0ic

if you were referring to the trash bag, right?

[kindred lion]

yeah, thanks very cool especially with how low poly it is

ive been meaning to learn to bake normals for a while now

[mellow plaza]

mhm, baking normals is a really great technique to preserve the detail look in a low poly mesh

when you do bake normals, ensure you unwrap the low-poly varient of your model only i think

so blender can bake the normals properly from high poly (i had issue where i accidentally unwrap the high poly and gave me a cursed normal map bake LOL

[silver rampart]

Beast

[kindred lion]

i have unbaked cloth simulations in my game that are subdivided like 20 times

i need to fix thay

[acoustic widget]

😨

[mellow plaza]

oh yeah tackle that 😭

[mellow plaza]

Depths

A place to mimic safety and shelter from the exposed vulnerability above. A mosaic sets of halls, taken care by us maintaining it from decay.

[acoustic widget]

👁️

[glad flax]

Dawg, how do you get your atmosphere and lighting to look that good 😭

[kindred lion]

when you bake normals, you the detail onto a normal map and have it as a surface appearance in roblox? sorry if i misunderstood, would it work in substance painter? still super new so sorry if thats a dumb question

[mellow plaza]

i hope i word this right
when baking normal from blender (ensuring you are baking to a image from a node where blender will output it to) will be your normal map, so yeah you will have it as a surface appearance on roblox after you bake it on blender, substance painter has their own baking normals when you bake textures with their uhh, high poly to low poly section in the general tab (but i keep forgetting how to use it properly aside you need to the high poly mesh in your system to use it from

[mellow plaza]

not really professional fancy posting, just want to show some tiny details i want to add for builds

joint thingies for wood platforms, got the idea from helping with my dad of building something with him in our backyard with drilling

was using those like L shape metal to secure the woods and wanted to add such thing into the assets for las cherung, again nothing to special, just something i want to make

just only two faces, no actual depth or anything (4 triangles)

[noble briar]

that's a bit many tris, you might want to optimize more

[mellow plaza]

2d spritesheet here i come

[mellow stone]

that's so wesome

[sand wolf]

genius

🙏

[fathom hill]

This is pretty cool, the earlier posts give Portal 2 Old Aperture vibes

[mellow plaza]

mhm, my old project stemmed from that style, now i think i got my own figured out ^^

[acoustic widget]

tiny details like this can actually make an already great build look many times better in ways you couldn't otherwise

[mellow plaza]

yeah

[mellow plaza]

fauna models, dry grass bushes things

the plant texture was drawn by me in procreate

[keen knoll]

cool but 1 fps gaming will go hard

[noble briar]

more like 60

[keen knoll]

on nasa pcs maybe

[noble briar]

it's not that many tris

it's most likely just mostly texture

[mellow plaza]

do not worry that is not a fully modeled bush lmao

again i drew the grass textures for the bush, and its rendered on a few planes

it is decently low poly

it does have normal maps to give it some illusion of it being 3d

[mellow plaza]

fauna models 2 - Desert Willows (or a rather dried up looking one)

[mellow plaza]

more faunas

and a peculiar (fictional yet kinda obscure) plant

• a old plant model anteraska made for las cherung three years ago :) that i redid a bit

[bold jungle]

oooh cool

[mellow plaza]

taken from here

[bold jungle]

DAMN that looks cool

wait is this game open yet?

[mellow plaza]

unfortunately no, i wish but we arent in that stage there yet

[bold jungle]

ah i see

very sick none the less

[mellow plaza]

ty

[mellow plaza]

experimenting things to spice my builds, a pack of transparent surfaceapperance textures i made and fine tune for me to print these (to add more details for las cherung without altering the materials itself.)

no clue what they are called but i call these 'phantom details', since its again just a surface appearance that gives more depth for the environments i make. ^^

they were made aside just Substance painter, but with materialize, some drawing program since i do draw, GIMP, and paint.net to fine tune colors (so if anything you dont really need to rely on substance painter to do this :) it can be done with just materalize if you feel fancy with it) just wanted to show you guys these because im really happy how it turned out.

i made various water puddles, wall amages or stains

some example areas from showcases i sent before that used these

[lethal remnant]

I mean, source calls them overlays so you could call them that

Or decals

They look very nice though

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[proven schooner]

W

[forest tide]

Cherung mention in s-fs3 ???!!!!

[mellow plaza]

oh my goodness gracious lmfao

@unreal glacier my friend, you must take a look at this

[unreal glacier]

whoa

[mellow plaza]

Today we did a bit of a dev session :)

Not alot of major things but Venerith is currently working on a more refined draggable object system, Anteraska was tinkering with the new Audio API system, and i was implementing some potential Overhauls of celestial bodies seen in Las Cherung. As well with many environmental-real world like recreations as Las Cherung is planned to span over several ingame days for the storyline of the game.

Going out of my way to ensure it ties with real life a bit, and planning to give lunar phases, all of these aside flares are made and rendered by me (including the moon).

They aren't scripted yet but a preview to a total overhaul of how the atmosphere and skies behave. Take a look!

The moon was entirely rendered by me from blender.

I tried my best to recreate the visuals of it from atmospheric events

such as a dim illumination of moon during its waxing cresent in twilight hours.

Again, these celestials bodies are not scripted yet, at the moment they are there for visuals but we have plans to make them all work some other times. ^^

[acoustic widget]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-my-goodness-gracious-dog-oh-my-goodness-gif-24115765

[bold jungle]

by great heavens

[past raptor]

It looks so beautiful (the moon).

Now burn it /j (Loona reference)

[mellow plaza]

tysm guys ^^

[mellow plaza]

The sun flare effect has now been implemented, thank you @earnest sage :)
one step to plenty of visual effects in las cherung, more to come

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1157516514161864765/1394779875415687318/2025-07-15_21-35-50.mp4?ex=68780d7c&is=6876bbfc&hm=0e146c4bbf0e0d637e2b9ad30947ca9b0aec054cfeba514a1561c3f726e8d8eb&

[gloomy shard]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-17729711691959966457

[mellow plaza]

and in conjunction with that, a more indef showcase of our own cloud visuals. Made by me ^^

[slim parrot]

very nice but if possible make it fade in and out to simulate how a partially occluded flare decreases in intensity rather than disappearing instantly

[mellow plaza]

i can bring that up to ant when we have time again but i will keep that in mind

[earnest sage]

considered this originally but couldnt think of any way to do it at the time besides just doing more raycasts per frame which i had performance concerns about

could just be totally overlooking another way of doing it very much open to suggestions 😭

[true halo]

hey xero is this like

half life

in roblox

reminds me of half life

so is it sort of like that idea

or another core game

[mellow plaza]

i suppose its kinda like half life 1, planned to be open world

[true halo]

will a demo ever release, and also, will there be crowbar

[mellow plaza]

if development gets to a idea point, then yeah
and most likely a crowbar, it was showcased in this forum two years ago

[true halo]

alright

[noble briar]

^

[true halo]

wow

you should add a hev suit

just for me

that would be nice

[noble briar]

don't think it would fit the setting

im sure there's an equivalent hazard suit

actually

@mellow plaza do you think lc would even have hazmat suits?

seems like an institution of the least safety

[mellow plaza]

There actually was

though a outdated model from 2023 Build of Las Cherung

its not really a hazmat suit though in traditional means

considering Las Cherung, there isn't really much investment on the more secure and safety side and would go on repurposing original suits for their modified means

a re-purposed scuba diving (screenshot taken from 2023)

[noble briar]

wow you've come so far lmao

[mellow plaza]

ty

the scuba gear idea is still going to be used

its just the model that is outdated

[true halo]

can you add a sticky note

like

on a book

with my username

would be very nice

and kind

pretty please

[noble briar]

unfortunately, i don't think xero's going to be doing that for anyone who didn't work on the game

[mellow plaza]

yeah and i am quite strict (on myself) to avoid things i think that could be immersion breaking :((

[noble briar]

mhm, i'd assume the only way to pull this off would be creating a lore insert, and then adding a subtle reference

but then you have to balance it

so it dosen't end up where the whole game is made up of/ has obvious self inserts

which reallly breaks immersion

[uncut steppe]

repurposed to be a hazmat suit? thats actually such a cool idea, tho i feel like that something that should be a pressure but isnt

[proven schooner]

Yo, is this suit for sale?

The model basically

[analog moat]

fire uvs

[mellow plaza]

wha?

No, that model isn't for sale. I don't sell my models of any kind

[unreal glacier]

may or may not be thinking about remaking the old suit at some point™

[mellow plaza]

yeah

[dense field]

Cool but where the gameplay ?

[mellow plaza]

these areas are test builds, so far not much to fully show aside that
(and the dev place with actual mechanics are seperate from the build place at the moment)
:(

[mellow plaza]

no update to show as we didnt do much devving this week, but do have this drawing i made
a smile of this wicked world.

[wet schooner]

that is oddly terrifying

[mellow plaza]

A world blinded by the prospects of prolongevity
Where the atom determines the fate
Away from the simple process of Decay

[bold jungle]

spooky!

[past raptor]

To me, that look either like a weird augmented human or like an animatronic. Still cool nonetheless.

[mellow plaza]

thank you! the first part is true
in las cherung (or in this world) you may see prosthesis of some kind or addons on bodies

either for legitmate use or cosmetic (albiet, dangerous)

symbolism of the atomic revolution

[wet schooner]

seems the people REALLY got hooked on uranium...

[mellow plaza]

last art for today

||damn i messed up the fingers, too lazy to fix it at 1 am||

[noble briar]

mr burns ah

[acoustic widget]

[wet schooner]

[proven schooner]

[warped steppe]

why is there a mini enrichment shpere on the wall

[mellow plaza]

oh! its more of a decor than a enrichment sphere from portal 2

its a caged isosphere, but yeah i guess it looks like a minature enrichment sphere lol

[warped steppe]

lo

your work is incredible btw

[noble briar]

i was always confused about that, what is it supposed to be

[mellow plaza]

just a decor, maybe one of those spherical wall mirror

[noble briar]

ah

[wet schooner]

wow i can see myself from 26 various angles now!!

[mellow plaza]

more art as i havent done much development this week

making and writing lore in the background.

Can you see the future? The future you are paving?

[uncut steppe]

i feel like cobalt science changed when oppenheimer came out

[unreal glacier]

only a bit
only from somewaht dystopic to hl2 beta levels of dystopic

[sand wolf]

from portal 2 to half life 2 beta

[mellow plaza]

oh no yeah oppenheimer influenced me plenty lmao

las cheeung was like in that stage where i didnt know whwre to take the story, but it was leaning dark by the time oppenheimer came out

it pretty much seal the deal of las cherung not going to have a normal non-dark story

[acoustic widget]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-homelander-the-boys-homelander-sad-homelander-its-peak-homelander-peak-gif-14542009839452529163

I like the logo being in the persons eye

[pulsar pond]

How have I not looked at this until now, this is amazing

[mellow plaza]

not much but new pipe sets i made today ^^

slow development from me as i just got back into modeling again after a while of not doing so
i dont have that needed motivation that lets me produce alot of stuff at once, but for now, this should do for the time being :)

[mellow plaza]

Ionic Depths

another seperate builds :)

[unreal glacier]

toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooobs :3

[true halo]

what is the black mesa aesthetic called

in like

anomalous materials

what aeshtetic is that

[bold jungle]

I wouldn’t say it’s called anything but it’s definitely a style

[mellow plaza]

a grand reveal, these are a bit old but something I want to show everyone behind the scenes. An actual map is in the making.
This will be the biggest reveal yet, and we still have alot to go, but for now. I want to show you guys what is las cherung.
Appreciation to all of my dev friends, Anteraska, Ender, Sink, GGshor, Venerith.

Screenshot Taken in April

Las Cherung

"The story begins here, an autonomous city deep in the industrial sector of Grand Columbia. One of thousands that makes up the "Industrial Sector", a unanimous western territory empowering the Atomic Revolution. Established its roots when the Atomic Revolution takes hold decades ago, forever changing modern society in a technological revolution unseen before. Las Cherung is a pinnacle of what a ideal Factoryville should be, having its own governance, laws, and productions. These cities are specialized, shaped by Columbia's ideals to ensure the Northern Hemisphere is kept upfloat in demands, quality, and quantity.

Citizens from the east are enrolled here during the Mandatory Industrialism Act of 1958, a 4-6 year conscription in efforts to stablized the northern economy. Millions of people would soon have a taste of a true industrial life.

Yet the story is not of prosperity and hopes, but a story of tragedies, the horrors of these unregulate factoryvilles. Poverty runs rampid in these Factoryvilles, corruption, and hazards of the workforce. So isolated from the rest of civilized society, its demanding on the soul and mind. Generations behind in technology seen from the prosperity centers of Columbia.

Many will not survive this conscription. Many will never return home. Its a truely competitive environment, a system that favors the production of fissile goods, nuclear technology, and the prolongevity of one's self.

Despite this revolution, the house of cards in which Columbia and the rest of the Northern World begins to fall apart. Political and economical turmoil ravages and threatened this carefully balanced stability. The Decay is something that many feared, a process that many will avoid at all cost. The day is October 7, 1964, the reign of Columbia has began to fragment akin to fission. A chain reaction of a counter-revolution has began, and yet such news has not arrived to those in the Factoryville. The people are not aware, until the decay rears its ugly face."

[noble briar]

the world building and how it weaves into the game is beautiful

[bold jungle]

Fucking incredible stuff

[acoustic widget]

Goddamn this stuff is so impressive

[brisk bridge]

tbh if i show anyone these images they wouldn't think its roblox

[gloomy shard]

holy shit

ts looks like a valve game

[pulsar pond]

This is absolutely amazing

[silver rampart]

Basicly xero is making source 3 before valve

[delicate blade]

Is that dust on the pictures, or the result of radiation?

[mellow plaza]

supposed to be a film effect but you know, that isn't far off too...

[mellow plaza]

A first snippet of "The Decay" lore, although unfinished, this event is major enough to be a big influence of Las Cherung Story, not much for me to say other than a perspective of this wicked world.

Coming from the works of me and epsy_ears, we're proud to show you a snippet of The Decay.
Images made by me, voices made by me.

Cherifield's Society

Mandatory Industrialism Act of 1958

Archived Reports

La Viziuloj - Number 202,938, Wednesday March 12, 1958
Translated (From Esperanto)

CHERIFIELD'S SOCIETY PASSED (MAJOR!)
In an effort of economic stability, Grand Columbia immediately passed a law to begin mass conscriptions to the industrial sector.
An important day to remember for future generations. Grand Columbia announced a new law to be enforced as of today to stabilize the economy amid dwindling populations in the industrial west. This will be the first time since the Great War that the mass population will be migrating at once.

THE NORTHERN WORLD'S DELIGHTFUL RESPONSE
The Pioneering Councils from the east expressed delightful gratitude for Columbia's new conscription, similar laws may begin to be adopted to ensure fissile stocks and markets continue to be stabilized.

---

Protomica News Network, Indianapolis, Granda Kolumbio

Transcript:
Good evening from the PNN Headquarters from downtown Indianapolis. Today the situation seen in northwestern province of Columbia continues to persist from civil unrest in response of the current bill that was voted in favor by the people regarding the mandatory industrialism act last week. Several cities like Bakersfield, Redland, Sacramento fallen under civil disputes and unlawful protests seen by individual who proclaim this bill is an act of tyranny and control by the head states of Columbia. Tranqulity Ordiances has been dispatched to quell the situation from worsening. Many criticize this bill as a jeopardy to livelihood, however as mentioned before, this bill was voted in favor by the people of Columbia to retain economic stability—

[noble briar]

what language is that

[mellow plaza]

Esperanto

Official Language of the Northern Hemisphere

[noble briar]

ah

[true halo]

why would valve need source 3 though

source 2 is already awesome

[true halo]

will da game be single player

or multiplayer

and if it is multiplayer

i reccomend adding a military mode similar to brm5

if there are soliders that storm the facility

[bold jungle]

Did someone say source?

[unreal glacier]

possibly

[mellow plaza]

continuing my crusades of making things from scratch, i am beginning to make some custom terrain meshes that i will use to build the map for las cherung.

a showcase from our current dev place ^^

[slim parrot]

are you using gaea

[mellow plaza]

huh

no, this is the first time i heard of it

[noble briar]

what is that?

[slim parrot]

free terrain making software

it’s amazing

[mellow plaza]

ohhh

[slim parrot]

you can make meshes or heightmaps

and textures

[mellow plaza]

i will probably look into it

for now, i absolutely just made this raw LOL

[noble briar]

interesting

this is a lot of studios

wait what the fuck nasa?????

[mellow plaza]

ill keep it in mind but for now, im making small meshes terrains n stuff

[mellow plaza]

...aaaand this mesh making has gotten me into another motivation rush again, time pump out meshes again until midnight nonstop

[noble briar]

what is that on your back

[mellow plaza]

its just a accessory of my avatar, its a weird funky steampunky jetpack thing

[noble briar]

ah

[delicate blade]

wait, is all the visible terrain meshes?

[mellow plaza]

ye

[mellow plaza]

landscaping testing

a preview of the (close to-real-world) desert landscape
because not all desert looks like a sahara :)

Using the environment where i live as reference and as well with the environment seen in las cherung actual canonical location

(somewhat)

[wet schooner]

one time i took a vacation to salton city and man that landscape gives me heavy nostalgia

that being said

amazing work!!

[mellow plaza]

ty!!!

[mellow plaza]

another showcase, of stuff i am heavily experimenting with ^^ (visually speaking.)

[quiet scaffold]

will this game include an 18-carat run of bad luck?

[mellow plaza]

oh boy

this may be me finally pushing my physical limits '-'

ill moderate myself to not burn myself out over this 😭 but this here is me sculpting the terrain of las cherung
making sure this landscape is identical to the real world location i have put this place in

using a mesh i made of the satelite imagery of this place with proper heightmap as my tracing

[acoustic widget]

Y'know I still have no idea how the hell you make foliage, but the rocks seem more feasible after I've learned what I have about surface appearance. Regardless, looks great! I like the vignette

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[mellow plaza]

i know this is probably not high quality build stuff as its mostly just terrain works but i still want to show ^^

this is alot for me to take on, but i will reveal more small fun facts about this map soon
no hyping up or anything, i am just making a very big map because i wanna see if i __can do that __(a question i ask for literally any idea i have in las cherung lol)

it was however very demanding and i can feel a burnout so i am taking some breaks here and there to spend time with family and my smaller hobbies ^^

ty for viewing, and have a great day to all of you guys

[gloomy shard]

peak

[warped steppe]

honestly what is even the point on limiting yourself to roblox's engine when you have this much talent

this is just so stunning

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[acoustic widget]

It's good to see you're taking breaks and working on other things, especially if you're feeling even a little bit burnt out. Burnout stars off mild be can very quickly nosedive to stopping anything creative for years because of it

And, once again. Absolutely stunning

[runic walrus]

“Probably not high quality”

Proceeds to produce the most stunning terrain work of all time

[runic walrus]

Yes take breaks!

[copper helm]

Don't worry, you are not in any trouble, this thread is just being monitored for moderation purposes.

-# <@&1391570609523396759>

[bold jungle]

gulp

[lethal remnant]

german do they have a gun against your head

blink twice if you need help

[mellow plaza]

hi qsoc

[azure cloak]

this was a thread most of us were interested in ping or not

[acoustic widget]

lmao true

[mellow plaza]

Unu Brila Nuklea Mondo.
-# One Bright Nuclear World.

[shrewd fox]

One Bright Nuclear Bomb!

[mellow plaza]

lmao

[shrewd fox]

anyways this is

absolutely incredible

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[mellow stone]

that looks amazing oh my god

[mellow plaza]

going back to continue one of the mountains

[past raptor]

Ooh, what language is that?

[acoustic widget]

We need a "what language is that?" Counter lmao

[acoustic widget]

Anyways this is your answer ^^

[mellow plaza]

A perspective of new terrains for Las Cherung.

Going to break my habit of making stuff from scratch, using a real picture of some of the areas from my irl backyard to really settle the desert terrains i am looking for.

a showcase for now, i'll see where this goes, ^^

[bold jungle]

holy shit fallout new vegas

in all seriousness this is really really impressive

keep up the good work

[empty jay]

terrain looks nice

[topaz jetty]

I have question, what kind of game is Las Cherung even gonna be?

[mellow plaza]

story-oriented game on a fictional place / world, witnessing character you play as endure the wicked technological revolution and see the world from their perspective (i think...)

i'll quickly paste our project's page description here since i feel like this explains it the best ^^

A story-driven Roblox dystopian game centered around a complicated alternative history world, focusing on a company-owned "factory-ville" in Las Cherung that follows a similar name.

The year is 1964, and the world is drastically changing due to an ever-growing crisis that has been ignored for so long. The age of an technological revolution referred as the "Atomic Revolution" brought profound stability and innovations from the tragedies that had brought society to its knees decades prior. However such stability is not permenant, the nation that fuels this revolution has fallen under immense political, economical, and ethical turmoil which threatens their several-decade-long regime and the rest of this radicalized society. Yet such news has not reached the people of Las Cherung. The harsh environment and the city's industrial paranoia make such news hard to come across.

Yet you, one of many unfortunate souls of the industrial workforce, will yet to realize the predicament you are in. In the following days, you will witness the carefully balanced house of cards falls apart, in which you will have to pick a side. At the end, the factory-ville will become the final destination and choices that will ensure the future of this wicked world, that will alter the course of history. Fear and paranoia is what led to this, the fear of the decay.

The Decay is a simple process.

[frozen current]

this looks 🔥 - and that's from 2 years ago

this is cinema

[mellow plaza]

i've never put this much effort into terrains and stuff, and i still have a longs way to go

now i've gotten into this stage, I will now introduce you to all what is this landscape Las Cherung takes place as its not just a fictional desert.

Las Cherung is taking place in a Real-World Location, in otherwords i am (with great insanity) recreating this real-world location known has Hurricane Valley, North Western Arizona. (may have a different name in this world)
Inbetween these two peaks will be the factoryville itself. It is a massive area i am working with that I myself may not even know how this turns out, so i will quickly mention that i can't make much promises as im going into this esentially solo just to see if its even possible

it was a idea i had for the longest time and im taking it for my team to do this (as they focus on mechanics, i will be going hard on this)
Feel free to ask me or my friends any questions ^^ (or call me crazy, i do understand 🪦 )

-# Not Finished Illustrated map of this Area (from several months ago - Made with Inkscape + QGIS) + Picture from Google Earth

even with college starting today, i will get this going >:)

[frozen current]

I'm just looking back at this chat and this is 🔥

[tight basalt]

This is all pretty awesome – but I am just wondering, especially with the terrain, how will optimisation be handled? Will there be chunkloading or some sort of low streaming enabled distance?

[mellow plaza]

Usually we have the roblox ambient culling in mind and me trying out practicing LOD (level of details)

we will see until i get maybe halfway through the map to see what optimization we should do

it is on my mind for sure and i even asked my dev ggshor about my concerns lmao

so i guess again, more so those two things in mind and maybe some interventiona ourselfs to make it more optimized, i'll update if we began testing peformance as i progress with the map

[mellow plaza]

Bridge of Symphony

[mellow plaza]

no gui, base preliminary mechanics only

a perspective of the current __map __development of Las Cherung.

Raw video, no edits, just how the map looks from what it is

day 3 of working on the entire terrain

although still early in development (and to be blatant, probably will be for a long while unless i absolutely lock in)
its, surreal to see myself finally began creating something i always wanted, a official map, environment, no test builds or experiments

a real deal, something for me to put across and begin finally building las cherung to see where it will go

[lethal remnant]

This is making me think of a Breaking Bad version of the portal 2 ending shack

[frozen current]

this is peak

[mellow plaza]

lmao, i am most likely keeping that shack once i begin building what would be central las cherung

[mellow plaza]

While im continuing working on the map, i thought to maybe drop some lore snippets from "The Decay" (a summarized version of it i think, no illustrations or anything fancy for now)
These lore snippets as i will remind again don't really tie to las cherung itself but from the actual events from the state of the world las cherung takes place in.

__ THE NORTH AMERICAN WIPEOUT __

The North American Wipeout (commonly referred to as "Wipeout") was a series of environmentally cataclysmic events that led to the extinction of hundreds of common species admist the Atomic Revolution. During the 1940s, with the heavy establishment of factoryvilles across the American West, pollution from unregulated practices led to mass contamination of radioactive rare-earth elements that poisoned the North American ecosystem within the Industrial Territory. This untreated poisoning would eventually devastate the careful balance of the ecosystem and result in thousands to millions of wildlife deaths, and many common species would become critically endangered or functionally extinct.

As a consequence, insects would overpopulate and riddle the factoryvilles with massive infestations. Disruption of the ecosystem led to a cascading effect on other regional wildlife across North America. By the mid-1950s, thousands of species had reportedly gone extinct.

[hollow jay]

Map of depression and sadness

(love it)

[limpid slate]

peakest of the peak

[mellow plaza]

night time lighting testing

[bold jungle]

Block of yellow

[nova jungle]

it looks edible for some reason

[frozen current]

solidified yellow is my favourite

[mellow plaza]

the impossible

this is me pushing it again but if i can i will see how i can make this work well, bringing back a old system i made for las cherung a year ago

[frozen current]

very nice!

[frozen current]

that is awesome

[mellow plaza]

continious work on the desert map
(note - this screenshot uses the experimenting volumetric lighting system im tinkering with, at the moment it quite laggy and im exploring ways to reduce it in some ways. wont make promises it will be making it into the final development unless i found something that is a game changer)

[pulsar pond]

epic

[mellow plaza]

Grand Columbia, September 1964

For those who love to see cartography (especially fictional cartography)

In the world of Las Cherung, referred as "The Decay", a heavily fictionalized timeline means entirely different nations that exist in this timeline, the more notable one being "Grand Columbia".

-# note, this is a very summarized version from the snippet of the decay in which I haven't fully settled with the ideas, this may change in the future.
To provide insights, Grand Columbia in this world is a successor to the previous United States of America century prior, and uphold different government structure until it became the more recognized 'Granda Kolumbio" that subsequently spearheaded the Atomic Revolution.

There are many different nations in this world that follow suite in the Atomic Revolution, referred as the "Northern World" or "Protomica" as its more officially known in this world. But in this case, I made a map of Grand Columbia specifically to showcase all of its states / divisions. Feel free to look around into this ... engimatic federation

-# Paperly Varient

-# Colorized Varient

-# Raw Varient (no filters)

Map was made in QGIS
Edited in Inkscape.

[mellow plaza]

hiatus time. (i need time ✌️)

[noble briar]

@mellow plaza did you see the 4k textured and emissive map stuff

[mellow plaza]

Yes

[acoustic widget]

https://tenor.com/view/memes-bruh-meme-guy-wtf-what-gif-17184367

[mellow plaza]

Hey guys, I feel like I should update on you what's been going on as this is probably the longest break I will be taking, and most likely will be longer. I'll quickly summarize what's going on because I don't want to leave you guys in the dark

Unfortunately, personally speaking, life has been on a downhill :( I won't specify what's going on with me but, I'm not holding up well and immense pressure has been put on me as I accommodate to whatever is going on in real life. Things feel quite bleak, yet I'm too stubborn to let go of this project, simply can't. My friends have been supporting me immensely while I try to go through these tough times, and I can't thank them enough for all they given. I really hope I can bounce back up to continue developing.

So when I say this, thank you Quantum Science and everyone else for so much support with this seemingly personal project of ours, I will put much faith on my friends to keep things going while I recover and adjust. ^^

Thank you GGshor @unreal glacier @earnest sage @terse hawk @thorny agate for being here with me as friends 🥹

It really means a lot, and I hope I can get my energy to come back like I used to.

After all, Passion is what I need to pursue this project, I don't know how much influence Las Cherung has on others, but its a wonder to see others projects.

[lethal remnant]

Hey, it's okay that you're taking a break, you sound like you really need it
Don't feel pressured to work beyond your limit, it's a very quick way to get burnt out and no one wants that

Take care of yourself and remember you've got our full support ^^

And I really wish you the best with whatever is going on in your life, hopefully it passes over soon

[runic walrus]

Take care of yourself! You are the most important part of this project for all of us. We care about you deeply.

[frozen current]

It’s fine to take breaks, don’t feel an obligation to have to constantly work on this

If you feel overpressured etc know that it’s absolutely fine to just stop for a bit, don’t push yourself

[buoyant vector]

take all the time you need!! i hope all gets better for you very soon!!

[limpid slate]

I hope things get better for you soon, Xero <3

[small pivot]

Take care man, hope things improve for you.

[torn ruin]

Take care man, god bless

[minor moth]

I just got back to here after something but yea

stay safeeee

[mellow plaza]

Thank you guys for reigniting my passion as I try to readjust my personal life for the past month.
I have found new perspectives to take this project into, Las Cherung, a project I never thought I will commit 3 years of my life into. I won't stop regardless what life throws at me.

Not until I share me and my friend's passion to the world. <3

Give much appreciations to my developers who I considered my close friends. They deserve the recognition for their commitment into this project.
Not sure what the future holds for me, But I hope one day I can see this being completed.

[minor moth]

ON MY FICKIN GODDD

You're always my goat mann

[still kite]

Actually goated, keep up all the good work man.

[hollow jay]

This thread amazes me with every new post. Thank you Xero and thanks to your friends for that amazing stuff!!!

[minor moth]

You surely have put a lot of time to get the detail like this

[mellow plaza]

yeah, it did took some time, i wanna make sure its just how i perceived from my mind ^^

[minor moth]

I must learn how to actually flowing these details with minds like u did tbh as it just always hit so hard

every single time you posted here

[mellow plaza]

sometimes i have moment where im able to make ideas on the go, other times, not so much..
ive been testing plenty of things before personal struggles struck from this months, where recently I finally grasp the vision i have for this project

scroll up if you are curious ^^

[minor moth]

ohhhh yeah i can see now (i do scroll up first actually so good luck my friend