Xero's Industrials and Stuffs

[frail vortex]

Rough idea of how TV's looked like in Grand Columbia? Nuclear age so I presume they have smth to do with that?

[mellow plaza]

yeah, i did envision them to have a circular frame rather than a rectangular one

[mellow plaza]

my voice is not really trained well to tackle on news anchors stuff but something i wanna test out my pronounciations and knowledge of esperanto in relation to the fictional news station above

Transcription [EO]: Saluton! Saluton! Bonan Tagon ĉiu! Bonvenon al "Okuloj sur ni!", kun via novaĵisto, Maikelo Opej, kaj hodiaŭ estas Aŭgosto 2, 1964.
Transcription [EN]: Hello! Hello! Good day everyone! Welcome to "Eyes on us!", with your news anchor, Michael Opay, and today is August 2, 1964.

[frigid sun]

what is protomika

[mellow plaza]

^^
@frigid sun

[mellow plaza]

2 months of "rest" from las cherung

me and my friends are beginning to work on the frame work for the main menu

GGshor at the moment will be working on the language system for las cherung, while I... handle the visuals

more blue prints, we got a clear idea now (screenshots from studio)

should be a final revision for at least... the beginning portion of the menu, something to build upon

[mellow plaza]

im practically hitting rocks when it comes to scripting but at least i know just enough to get concepts through

will refer to ggshor, ven, and ant for their thoughts and adapting this to our framework thingy :)

the film seen in the tv is just a temporary placeholder, since i have a very different idea in mind of what it will be showing, considering this is what you may see at the beginning of the menu

[desert bay]

god this is so cool

[shrewd fox]

pretty cool

[frigid sun]

so freaking cool

[minor moth]

it so cool that i actually see snow here

[frail vortex]

HUH?

[minor moth]

just a reference how cool he is

lol

[frail vortex]

ohhh

[minor moth]

the peakest of peak

[mellow plaza]

i was bored so i wanted to draw some a portrait of a character, mainly in relation to the fictional news network in Las Cherung, to what i envisioned them

Maikelo Opej

de ... Okuloj sur ni!

-# From ... Eyes on us!

[swift charm]

oh my god its cherungian elvis

on an actual note that art is peak

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[frigid sun]

how do you do this

i mean its simply so cool

the guy looks so silly but has a threatening aura

[main yoke]

the cherungian troll

[mellow plaza]

while we continue to work on things over the weekend, i am continuing my quest for Esperanto
in this case, there will be fictional words in Las cherung that will be mentioned and have their own meaning, you may probably seen some few mentioned in this form with words like "Cherungian" "Protomica" or even just the place itself "Las Cherung"

these words are made up, they dont have real-world counterpart, and meant for the story, so because of that, i made up a uh... little vocabulary for me and maybe some of my friends to remember if we ever decided to voice act for Las cherung and note some specific vocabulary

thought i wanna show :)

-# note i am still learning so not all is like perfect grammar, also its language stuff so may not be of interest!!

[mellow plaza]

Today Development Session!
-# Hodiaŭ Programada Sesio!

GGshor finished setting up a basic translation module thingy that will hold translation for our UI, me and tix were brainstorming about stuff to add to the main menu and the game itself, and I did some more small changes to the main menu visuals.

in others words, i was discussing with a different friend who knows polish very well and we've considered to have him onboard to handle polish translations :)

in other words, las cherung potential supported language is now up to 4 - English, Esperanto, Spanish, and Polish

english/esperanto translation test

atm said friend is sleeping so I don't have any for polish translations, but thats all to say :)

[desert bay]

oh that's COOL
probably one of the first Roblox games to do so natively rather than use autotranslate

[mellow plaza]

i'm pretty sure theres games out there on roblox that rely natural methods of translations

but yeah in our case, i wanna ensure the language is at least accurate with someone familiar with it :)
a friend of mine as i mentioned will take care the polish translation
I personally will handle english and Esperanto
and atm, i think i know another friend who is familiar with spanish, i will see ^^

user discretions and stuff
they will be the first thing that will be translated once we get the things going :)

so far in english and esperanto (will be revising since im pretty sure some have gramatical error or improper vocabulary usage, relying on my understanding of esperanto + dictionary)

we ensured the font being used support any accented characters, especially for esperanto since ĥ, ĝ, ŝ, ĉ, ĵ, ŭ are uncommon unicodes only seen in the esperanto language

(all preview of the languages)

[mellow plaza]

-# I am no music professional, i do not know music theory at all or the ways of music making, let me make this clear
-# but i really wanted to make a melancholic atmosphere for the main menu introduction, so i spend few hours on what is essentially just jumbles of notes and sounds i put together in garage band that sounds okay for me

[minor moth]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-music-monkey-monkey-listening-to-the-music-monkey-chill-vibin-gif-24320967

I never been so hyped to play and experience toward a game sth like this and i know it will be always peak 🥹

[mellow plaza]

language selector animation test :)

[swift charm]

garageband my beloved

what surprises me is how much fucking bangers have come out of GARAGEBAND that have been beloved by so many people

like its an app that comes installed with your apple device

[limpid slate]

why is the english flag not the flag of.. yknow.. england or the uk??

[mellow plaza]

fair point... idk how different american english is from england actually....

i just often see like those symbol switch interchangably in any language options around the web 💀

honestly yeaj i should make

the england flag for english

[limpid slate]

You should make it the Australian flag just to mess with people

[mellow plaza]

real

[swift charm]

yummers, btw

im very jealous of this ui deaign

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^

[mellow plaza]

testing languages switch with our module for English, Esperanto, and Polish for the users discretions panel
(Note: esperanto is something i am still learning, I will actively tweak any errors i have along the way.)

Credit to Epsy_Ears, for assisting with our first polish translation :)

[desert bay]

neat

[mellow plaza]

today's development, ggshor got the language module up and going now, where we can remotely change the game's client language to our selected 4 languages, using some tags to fetch any text labels if they have avaliable translations stored in the modules we are using :)

not much but now we should be able to have languages be client sided and swap to whenever needed

[mellow plaza]

-# repeating the same thing last time, i just really wanted to make melancholic atmosphere music for the main menu, this time was made specifically for the current screen we've been showcasing here, "Echos of The Decay"

assembled in garageband, randomness

[frigid sun]

how are you learning asperanto?

like which app do you use

[mellow plaza]

majority where I learned from is a website, Lernu.net, it provides a TON of knowledge and understanding of Esperanto, though you need to sign up to access it (their courses are completely free, packed with a guide of esperanto's grammar, dictionary with english to esperanto translation, audio library for it, and fourms)

at least, for apps, im just doing like a archaic approach of looking around online, using a dictionary, and bought a book "Complete Esperanto" from teach yourself

[mellow plaza]

so i wanted to make my own font
so... i did

i always wanted to make my own font, especially in a typewriter style, used some online that are in public domain i think, and sometimes used it for various graphic designs materials for las cherung, but yesterday i wanted to endeavor myself into making my own font from scratch for one purpose in mind, a type writer font, that supports esperanto characters

i present Ĉerunga Presaĵo (Cherungian Print)
i drew all the glyphs in procreate (tracing some serif fonts though), turned it into vectors in inkscape, and used fontforge to compile my font into a functional TrueTypeFont (.ttf) that i can use anywhere, especially for my graphic designs, and the game itself, and I want to show you all :)

mainly for personal usage

[mellow plaza]

had to update some things on the font, re drew glyphs

[mellow plaza]

made a test page to try out our typewriter-esque font

[regal obsidian]

Oh damn custom font, did you draw it?

Oh i just need to scroll up

Anyways, epic

[mellow plaza]

made a new 'stylized' font, kinda based on headlines fonts you see in newspaper
made entirely in inkscape, will be using for any newspaper I may be designing in the future for lore purposes and in game :)

Tuja Novaĵo! (Immediate News!)

heres a preview of me using both Ĉerunga Presaĵo and Tuja Novaĵo (do note theres nothing worth of value in the bodies of text, those are just random gibberish of esperanto words like some kind of lorem ipsum)

ignore the other font used to make a dummy logo

[true halo]

demo fr

[mellow plaza]

unfortunately this weekend, i was focusing on my college classes, at the same time, some of us were unavaliable!!
but i want to share some small personal updates in relation to las cherung

as i approach into my 3rd month in learning esperanto, i've become more confident in speaking, typing, and understanding the language, and I have started to began practicing some voicelines in esperanto, since i am certain that the language will be spoken commonly in background characters or character who only speaks natively in esperanto

i made some few lines, with the sentence made up by my current knowledge of the language, didn't put much effort in the characteristic of the voices but its mainly to see how well i can utilize the language for the day i need to voice some characters ^^

Line 1

[EO] "Mi komprenas ke la fabrikurbo ne estas bona labori en, tie estis multaj akcidentoj en Lasĉerungo."

[EN] "I understand that the factoryville is not good to work in, there were many accidents in Las Cherung."

Line 2

[EO] "Ĉu vi kredas ĝin? Ili diris ke ni devos labori pli ol hieraŭ!"

[EN] "Do you believe it? They said that we will must not work more than yesterday!"

Line 3

[EO] "Kafo por ni! ĉu ne?"

[EN] "Coffee for us! Isn't it?"

Line 4

[EO] "Haltu! Vi ne estas en la laboro-horplano!"

[EN] "Stop! You are not in the work-schedule!"

Line 5 (practicing the rare "ĥ" character in esperanto)

[EO] "Ĉu vi scias kio estas timiga? Fisia psiĥozo, mi aŭdis ke ĝi estas tre terura..."

[EN] "Do you know what is scary? Fissile psychosis, I heard that it is very terrible..."

[limpid slate]

every time i return to this thread i am blown away from the quality and effort put into it

[limpid slate]

This is still my computer wallpaper too btw

Havent changed it

[mellow plaza]

holy shit lol

[frigid sun]

so quality

waow

[mellow plaza]

practicing how factoryville's overhead intercoms would sound like

[EO] "Iaj laboristoj ke vidas malrapidiĝo en la fabrikurbo, raportu al via apude kontrolisto. Dankon."

[EN] "Any workers that see slowdown in the factoryville, report to your nearby controller. Thank you."

[desert bay]

kinda reminds me of old timey train stations

I like it

[mellow plaza]

ty ^^ and yeah it does

[shrewd fox]

https://klipy.com/gifs/absolute-cinema-24

[mellow plaza]

[EO] "Saluton el la laborestro de Lasĉerungo. Memoru, ke baldaŭ estos nokto. La fabrikurbo komenciĝos la nokto-laborperiodo, tago-laborperiodo devas foriru la fabrikoj nun. Jen estas oka horo."

[EN] "Hello from the Oveseer of Las Cherung. Remember, that soon it will be night. The factoryville will begin the night-shift, day-shift must leave the factories now. It is now 8 o'clock."

another test intercom voiceline

[frigid sun]

what happens if day-shift dont leave the factories.

[mellow plaza]

dunno, its just a random line that i havent thought much into

[thorny agate]

probably just forcibly ushered out I suppose?

[mellow plaza]

maybe

[mellow plaza]

So i translated mojave initatives nearly a year ago, and back then I realize (aside iniciativo, initiative in esperanto), the logo is kinda wrong? especially preserving the name Mojave (like the Mojave Desert which is pronounced as "Mo-haa-ve"

so with the redesign of things i am doing, i decided to reconstruct the logo of Mojave Initiative to be more stricter with esperanto's grammar rules + translinguating it properly :)
here's the new logo of Mojave Initatives I thought up, "Moĥavaj Iniciativoj"

[mellow plaza]

On label versions

[desert bay]

ooooooo

[frigid sun]

so cool!!!!!!

[mellow plaza]

not alot today, though i did set up a simple loading screen (again)
ready to be properly scripted in the future

[lean kelp]

Thought that was two eyes & some wild af teeth

Looks nice tho 👌

[mellow plaza]

LOL i cant unsee it, the loading thingy is based off of a dekatron :)

[desert bay]

ooo cool

[frigid sun]

this is so awesome sauce wow

[mellow plaza]

A drawing concept I made of some new Cherungian attire i was thinking of

A stander (based on some 1920-esque workers) cherungian attire with the only difference being a unusual earflap-styled hat that acts like a hardhat (with the base/head of the hat intended to be made out of wood or metal)

-# different from the original attire i'd imagine them, but i wanted to try to reflect the bit of early-20th century aspect in las cherung (considering although the atomic revolution is a major progression of technological advancement in "The decay", it effectively froze all aspects of culture predating 1930s, with the introduction of fissile tech esentially becoming "too fast" for cultures or oldschool tech to catch up

[mellow plaza]

ESPERANTO 
[PERSON 1] "Hej! Vidu! Ĉu vi aŭdis la Ĵurnalon? Estas tre grava-"
[PERSON 2] "Kio?.. Vi ne-.. Vi ne devas diri tiu! Kio ĉu oni aŭdas ni?! Mi bedaŭras, sed vi devas iri nun!"
[PERSON 1] "Pardonu? Kio estas la graveco?"
[PERSON 2] "... Tiu ĵurnalo! Estas io vi ne devas diri ĉi-ĉi tie, nia laborestro ne ŝatos ni scianta ĝin. Metu ĝi for! Kaj.. NE DIRU NENIU. BONE?"

ENGLISH
[PERSON 1] "Hey! Look! Did you heard the news? There's very important-"
[PERSON 2] "What?.. You shouldn't- You shouldn't say that! What if they hear us?! I'm sorry, but you have to go now!"
[PERSON 1] "Sorry? What is the concern?"
[PERSON 2] "... That news! It is something you should not say here, our overseer will not like us knowing it. Put it away! And.. DO NOT TELL NOBODY. OK?"

-# using ansi text to make dialog descriptors more visible to see, i hope this doesn't get flag since it is some level of formatting-

another set of voiceline i was practicing (this time more like a conversation) that i wanted to show

i feel like i still have alot to practice when it comes to voicelines, considering im not that flexible with multiple voices

[desert bay]

oh god. fingers.

art is cool though

[desert bay]

AAAAAAAA

[frigid sun]

it has fingers omg thats so cool how do you even rig it

i cant do basic animation in blender its so much more confusing than moon animator for me llol

[mellow plaza]

there was a ton of trial and error when rigging the finger, especially when i wanted to actually deform
i esentially modeled the arms and build a rig that kinda loosely resembles a normal r6 rig, just with finger joints

though atm i only have it sitting in blender, since my attempts of trying to port it over to studio (with the intent to animate it from blender to studio with some plugins) are actively being conflicted.. im presuming the way i set up the rig is not the best

[frigid sun]

wait doesnt the blender animations plugin allow you to export bones?

[mellow plaza]

oh yeah, that part is fine (exporting as a .fbx)

its more so my idea of trying to animate stuff in blender with said rig

and port it to studio with like those blender to studio animator plugins

which works well with normal r6, not too sure about custom rigs, idk i didnt look too much into it

[limpid slate]

https://tenor.com/view/anger-walking-inside-out-fist-red-gif-19294255

[mellow plaza]

-# As i reiterate last time, I don't know music theory, this is my third soundtrack i made in GarageBand,
I assembled this together to make the main menu music itself for Las Cherung, it was a piece that got me a bit emotional
I'm just making music for our project, i am not a professional, and its a medium i am unfamiliar other than following what my heart want for our project

**"Ĉerungulo" **(Esperanto for "A Cherungian Person")

My attempt to reflect the fictional characters, and those that partake the atomic revolution, the lost souls of industrialism
to uh, experience the workers that you will be seeing through, and their story

[runic walrus]

Holy peaaaak

[swift charm]

Goated music, but that first note struck fear into me
Context: https://youtu.be/lZpZdmHq-Y8?si=ozYlMC_CXY_guKk-

[mellow plaza]

i think i deadass used the same piano tone on accident LOL

thats funny

[swift charm]

Top 20 Cherungian Meals

[mellow plaza]

"Fisiapsiĥozo"

-# "Fissile Psychosis"

i just want to make some weird music with absolutely no rhythms (and for a rather uh, spooky phenomenon seen in Las Cherung)

[acoustic widget]

Reminds me of those videos where they give sorting algorithms the ability to make sound

[mellow plaza]

real

wait i see it lmfao you're right

[tight basalt]

@mellow plaza is there any sort of dedicated place (such as a discord) where i can read up on what las cherung is about, its lore, etc?

[mellow plaza]

atm no public places are avaliable aside my yt channel, group or various dev fourm in the sci fi community, although not dedicated to lore aspects at the moment

we dont have a discord server too, that was mentioned before

[outer sundial]

Yo Xero I have a question was I saw on your game that your map is detailed. Are you using only studio or a blender or both ? (or another modelling software I'm 3D modeler I'm just curious) ?

[mellow plaza]

Mhm! I do use both Roblox Studio and Blender for this Project

blender is something i use to create assets like meshes, layouts, or level designs, where as studio I've used it for actually putting together the meshes, decorate, and more level designing

[outer sundial]

Ok I see you your leanred blender ?

[mellow plaza]

Mhm, since 2023

[outer sundial]

I was asking because I think you maybe need a modeller

[mellow plaza]

Oh, I should clarify we aren't looking for anyone, my apologies
the project is solely consisting of close friends I personally know, and I myself and another friend (tix) already have the modeling part handled

[mellow plaza]

Societo de Ĉerifildo

-# "Cherifield's Society"

There's nothing we can do, but watch as friends and family are forced to migrate into the gears of the atomic revolution...```

-# another soundtrack i made, this time with various sounds from freesound.org under the creative commons 0, made with garageband and edited with audacity

[uncut steppe]

is this a fallout inspired game

[mellow plaza]

the styling were inspired from fallout... though i never played it to know how fallout progresses or whatnot
i do intend this to be more of a novel-like experience? not sure the exact wording

^ feel free to refer to the project's description

[mellow plaza]

another thing i made while i plan with my devs in the background (for the main menu and the upcoming roadmap for us to follow)

"Memoranta Vivio"

-# "Remembering Life"
a reflection of the character's past before and during the atomic revolution
made with garageband and creative common 0 sounds from freesound.org :)

[lean kelp]

Im curious

you use substance designer for your materials?

or are they hand drawn or somethin

[mellow plaza]

materials i do completely make them in substance designer yeah!

sometimes substance painter too funnily enough

[lean kelp]

gotta try that soon

[frail vortex]

You can very much create good materials using just Substance Painter, but its gonna be a lot more complex than Designer (but then again, two diff systems) and a lot of layers

This is what one of my recent materials layers looked like, and there's still more that didnt fit in this screenshot

I could share it, but I don't want to insert my stuff into @mellow plaza's forum, unless he'd be fine if I did it once

[mellow plaza]

for this explanation, feel free

i will quickly reply back to my original message relating this post to be back on topic i think :)

[frail vortex]

Sweet, thanks

[frail vortex]

As I was saying, a lot of layers for smth that would probably be relatively simple to make in Designer(I think?)

[mellow plaza]

just gonna now quickly reply to my lastest post from las cherung now to be back on topic ^^ awesome material btw

[frail vortex]

Props to you too :) Can I say it sounds kind of nostalgic, and dare I say minecraft-ish? (Except for the last 53 seconds)

[mellow plaza]

i actually kinda see it lol
and thanks!

[mellow plaza]

i decided to do another practice of voice acting with something tense, i kinda strained my voice for this one 😓
but uhh.. i suppose more practice

i'll provide transcript below in both languages, i hope this doesn't get flagged for a long dialog

 ESPERANTO 
(WORKER) "Saluton, por kiu vi alvokadis al mi?"
(?) "Ah, bonvenon, sidiĝi bonvolu."
(?) "Ni konversu, bone? Ni observis vian foreston en via horplano normala en la fabrikoj, ĝusta?"
(WORKER) "Eh, jes, mi fartis malsana nelge, mi ne povas labori en la fabrikon por antaŭaj malmultaj tagoj."
(?) "Malsano?"
(WORKER) "... Estas vera. jes."
(?) "Atendu ... Mi diru ĉi tion."
(?) "Ĉu vi estas certa?"
(WORKER) "... Kio? Mi ne komprenas.."
(?) "Ĉu vi estas certa?"
(WORKER) "... Kio? Kion vi signfas..?"
(?) "Vi mensogas. Vi konversu la veron!"
(WORKER) "A-A-Atendu! Vi ne komprenas la stiuacion!... Mi estis... mi-"
(?) "SILENTU! Nia laborestroj observis, ke vi iris al placojn tia vin ne devas iri al. Ni sentas tre malfidan pri vin!"
(WORKER) "... Ne! ne ne ne ne ne!"
(?) "Fakte! Ni komandis fabrikoficistojn al la placoj ke vi vizitis. Ni trovis nerajtigitajn grupaĉojn, kio estas danĝera. Ni havas ĉiajn rajtojn malfidi vin!"
(WORKER) "Kio!? Ne! Ne! Vi miskomprenas! Mi ne estis tie!"
(?) "SIL-EN-TU! En la ordo le Lasĉerungo, vi estas nun arestiĝo! Por asociacio kun danĝera organizaĵo!"
(WORKER) "Haltu! Haltu! AŬSKULTU AL MI!"
(WORKER) "NE! NE FARU ĈI TIO! BONVOLU! MI PETAS, BONVOLU!"

 ENGLISH 
(WORKER) "Hello, why did you call me?"
(?) "Ah, welcome, sit down please."
(?) "Let's talk, alright? We've noticed your absence in your normal schedule hours in the factories, correct?"
(WORKER) "Eh, yes, I felt sick recently, I can't work in the factory for the past few days."
(?) "Illness?"
(WORKER) "... That's true, yes."
(?) "Listen ... Let me say this."
(?) "Are you sure?"
(WORKER) "... What? I don't understand"
(?) "Are you sure?"
(WORKER) "... What? What do you mean?"
(?) "You are lying. You should tell the truth!"
(WORKER) "W-W-Wait! Wait! You are not understanding the situation!.. I was... I-"
(?) "SILENCE! Our overseers observed, that you went to places that you shouldn't be at. We feel distrustful about you."
(WORKER) "... No! No no no no!"
(?) "In fact! We commanded factory officers to the places that you visited. We found unauthorized groups, who are dangerous! We have every reason to distrust you!"
(WORKER) "What!? No! No! You're misunderstanding! I wasn't there!"
(?) "SILENCE! In the order of Las Cherung, you are now under arrest! For association with a dangerous organization!"
(WORKER) "Stop! Stop! LISTEN TO ME!"
(WORKER) "NO! NO DON'T DO THIS! PLEASE! PLEASE, PLEASE!"

[frigid sun]

your las cherungian- i mean esperanto language is very good!!!

[limpid slate]

is that the demonym for people at las cherung?

[frigid sun]

they be the las cherungians

or

the las cherungitators

or the lassers chergunes

[mellow plaza]

i usually refer it as "Cherungian", ignoring the "las" part

[limpid slate]

ah alright

[mellow plaza]

even made a version of it in esperanto to denote a similar thing using some esperanto grammatical rules: “Ĉerungulo” (A cherungian person)

using the -ul- suffix to denote characteristic of a person

or using it for adjective “Ĉerunga”

suchas the font i made few weeks back for the game "Ĉerunga Presaĵo" (Cherungian Print)

[mellow plaza]

^

just always remember the word "Cherungian" is fictional, same with Las cherung lol

its only meant for this project and its world

[lean kelp]

This is what id like to do temporarily

as i have a client I need to make materials for

[mellow plaza]

with the new revisions in the background for "The Decay", i did one more iteration of the currency that will be seen in las cherung

The original "Columbian Colbs" (Kolumbia Kolboj) is being replaced with a currency I had in mind that would be used throughout the northern world (a international currency I suppose?)

Preŭo

-# The international currency used in Protomica

(no english counterpart for the name as i initially thought it up in esperanto) nor i have figured its exact value, but here are the texture model of it and it's symbols :)

their ingame assets is intentionally low quality since they are very tiny in the first place

for those curious of the actual text on the coin

[EO] "La Nordmundo Internacia Valuto de Protomiko"
[EN] "The Northern World International Currency of Protomica"

[desert bay]

very cool :D

[mellow plaza]

today, decided to make banknote version of Preŭo (with stupidly inflated numbers, so far started with.. 1000 💀 )
took me forever to design it and make it look... like a authentic banknote but yeah :)

[noble briar]

cycles detected

[mellow plaza]

ingame asset ver. (made low quality since they are tiny :)

[noble briar]

why is the noise there then

[mellow plaza]

thats the viewport 😭

i just took a screenshot from it

[noble briar]

im dumb lmfaooo

[mellow plaza]

if i render it i will actually overheat my pc LOL

not on eevee but for cycle specifically

[noble briar]

what gpu do you have

[mellow plaza]

NIVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop

[noble briar]

ah yeah it would explode lmao

i love the detail on those banknotes

[mellow plaza]

thank you ^^
it was made in inkscape and some modification in procreate

[noble briar]

ngl i would have ended up making it all in substance 😭

[mellow plaza]

if it works it works 😭

[desert bay]

very cool!! would carry in my wallet

[mellow plaza]

made another version for the issue of 5000 preŭoj

[mellow plaza]

money done got me banned for "directing users offplatform" :(

all appeals denied 😓

im wondering if its literally... the spams of 0 i put on the side as a filler that was tripping it, idk why the original upload earlier today went through but the new variant cause both to get flagged, and now kinda afraid to upload a fixed version with that string of number removed without worrying a harsher punishment by the ai moderation tripping up again

unfortunately until then, i didnt manage to appeal the moderation, and feel paranoid to continue working on the other ideas for the banknote... eugh

hopefully whatever appeals i made will be get through, idk how the system works but i hope it goes somewhere and reverse the descision because i really want to make more of these

[wet schooner]

roblox

powering crappy ai moderation

its a shame cuz man those things look REALLY damn nice

[frozen current]

Roblox is doing terribly and it’s indeed a shame because there are so many incredible projects on this platform and it’s being completely ruined by the leadership

[mellow plaza]

update: all of my appeals failed, they were very adamant that the banknote was directing users off platform 😓
this deeply upsetted me as I spend a majority of my day making and designing this, just to recieve this and... while looking around, the only thing i can see that could possibly trip the automod up would the fact that a string of 0's i made as a filler text

would end up looking like a barcode when i went to compress it to 128px 🤦‍♂️

since i originally uploaded the high definition render hours earlier and that went through just fine, but the lower res one i uploaded tripped it
that's literally my only other guess... so i feel like its my fault for not exactly... looking ahead about the 0 looking like that when shrinking the image...

though seeing that ban reason for the asset i made feels very jarring regardless :(

its a day ban, and i probs will still work on the preŭo with that potental factor removed, but yikes

[desert bay]

roblox try not to suck challenge

[gloomy shard]

roblox is genuinely flagging anything other than actual weird stuff

[main yoke]

at the self-checkout trying to buy a dollar in the supermarket

[wet schooner]

on the topic of supermarkets

does las cherung have a walmart

[mellow plaza]

-# no

[regal obsidian]

What markets does it have

[mellow plaza]

for any established stores, not too sure on it
i do imagine the factoryville would have like alot of "street" vendors hidden in alleyways rather than distinct stores

[zinc wasp]

can we get 5 below las cherung style but make it look horrifying

wait nvm 5 below is already scary enough

[frozen current]

-# reminds me of the maxor helldivers video from 11:37 to 11:44
-# absolute perfection

[frozen current]

it's insane how much companies are cheaping out on moderation

[mellow plaza]

making a animatic (painterly) sequence for the main menu (for now... testing it though) of a eyeball similar to the icon i made for the project a while back

playing it in viewport does make it smooth >:( but thats because i havent rendered it out.... yet so the screenshots above is what it suppose to look like frame by frame

reference to the icon for the project here

[uncut steppe]

whats the lore for the game

have u written a google doc or anything

Was it like a big war, or did it just happen.

[mellow plaza]

atm i havent wrote down any substancial documents relating to the lore (aside our private wiki page within our project page, though its atm not avaliable to the public)

considering i haven't fully tie events together in a way i feel is complete, the most i do is post snippet of content from the story here in this dev fourm (such as map, music, or imagery)

though at the present moment as it stands, yeah a great war decades prior is what lead to the world to be the way it is in las cherung

though even then, i dont have much solid detail to share that i feel confident i won't change in the future 😓

[uncut steppe]

is las cherung steam punk or atompunk or smth

[mellow plaza]

it's hard to say as Las Cherung's style is kinda too distinct between steampunk and atompunk (i do imagine them both, but as of far, I don't think there's like a definite style name for...)

best i can explain for how the factoryville of las cherung resembles is akin to 1920 artitecture with the rush of atomic revolution, idk... Rustic Atompunk? genuinelly no clue

[regal obsidian]

Do they have dogs

[wet schooner]

radioactive dogs

[mellow plaza]

idk lol

[mellow plaza]

PREŬO VALUE (as of October 1964)
[USD] USED AS REAL-WORLD REFERENCE

1 USD = 1,356.23 PRŬ
1 PRŬ = 0.000737 USD


-# May be subjected to change, but this is the first instance of what Preŭo value is compared to real-world currency, and also to show how devalued the currency is around 1964

set up a basic calculator to convert between USD and PRŬ for funsies

[desert bay]

oh cool

[mellow plaza]

50,000 PRŬ

-# 50,000 PRŬ is like, 36.87 USD

[nova jungle]

the little circular patterns look very chinese tho

[mellow plaza]

oh wait really?

[nova jungle]

yeah, they’re like stylized rounded versions of chinese characters

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Chinese_symbols%2C_designs%2C_and_art_motifs#Chinese_characters

[mellow plaza]

oh i actually didnt know
i was using some pattern template that was provided in inkscape

although not my intention on it, thats super interesting

[regal obsidian]

Why did it devalue?

[mellow plaza]

you mean why did the currency devalued?

[regal obsidian]

yeah

[mellow plaza]

i did mention this somewhere else but i suppose this taps into the backstory a bit

probably alot nearing the turn of the 1960s, the exact processes are unknown as im not too familiar with economics to nail down sequences of events aside from few things

During the golden age of Atomic Revolution (1945-1956), Preŭo are valued more and was a stable international currency for a long time, mainly empowered by the Industrial Sectors and stability in the economy. However by the late 1950s, nations like Columbia (where las cherung resides in) went into immense economical and political turmoil as a recent economic scare lead (mainly from a recent uprising and a growing distrust in the revolution) to the Preŭo being printed more to compensate the losses, this was temporarily resolved by the Cherifield Society Act of 1958, which did alleviate the value of the Preŭo

Though by the 1960s, the economy would begin to fall into a irrecoverable free fall as the Atomic Revolution was quickly slowing down and being rejected by more and more people across the northern world as a destructive movement, especially with the unregulated industrial sectors and no other stable real world currencies to rely on would effectively cause a hyperinflation before Columbia fell into a civil war by October of 1964

[mellow plaza]

another demo, sorry if the development has been really slow, i did script the sequences here together but its def not stable 😓
i will be referring to my devs for revisioning in the scripting of this intro, but other than that

i just wanna show you how things are, sounds, our music, and language functionalities :)

[wet schooner]

holy moly

[desert bay]

the new cobalt logo is peak

[frozen current]

awesomee

[lean kelp]

Damn thats fire

[mellow stone]

Hard agree, awesome job wow

[mellow plaza]

dankon por ĉiaj de la respondoj :)
thank you for all of the responses :)

it means alot to us

[mellow plaza]

reintroduce the old script that actually animate the hourglass thingy :)
not alot but im happy with it

[sand wolf]

reminds me of 90's games and stuff lol

[mellow plaza]

earlier today, me and ggshor worked together on our pre menu thingies (mainly him guiding me on remaking the code)
should be a lot cleaner than my initial one i've showcase, not much change aside changing some sounds and visuals (such as flickering on some transitions), as well demonstrating the full capabilities of our language system (*note: polish and spanish I haven't done much translation yet, so alot of its translation would yield up as empty strings as we haven't given them dedicated sets of translation text here and there)

hopefully the video i recorded is also now in a higher resolution for better clarity :)

[true halo]

when is the demo

I cant wait 😭

[compact chasm]

reminds me of the fallout 1 trailer and fallout 3 'prepare for the future' trailers imo

[mellow plaza]

our pre-menu ui is now fully supported for 3/4 languages, not much to show as im awaiting for my friends to set up the cutscene system for us to continue onwards,
this is mainly just showing our continue effort with language supports :)

ENGLISH (Handled by me)

ESPERANTO (Handled by me)

POLISH (Handled by my close friend: Epsy)

atm i am gonna ask a friend i know if they're up to contribute on spanish translation, but yeah

[limpid slate]

Will you ever end up doing more languages in the future?

[mellow plaza]

depends if i know someone personally that is willing to contribute to a different language for las cherung

originally LC had 3 supported, English, Spanish, and Esperanto (considering esperanto is the "in-universe" language, and a language im actively learning, i thought it be interesting to have las cherung have actual support for it, not sure if any other roblox game support esperanto... maybe)
Polish was included when i mentioned to my best friend who is polish and he wanted to contribute to the polish translation of LC

[proven schooner]

Yo, if you want some more translators let us know

I know Spanish, french, Italian and Greek for yo

[main yoke]

Let's make it dutch

[mellow plaza]

i see i see, i will keep in mind in regards for those other languages

[mellow plaza]

👁️

[frail vortex]

Oh god, not the dutch

[mellow plaza]

"Esperdonaj Prospetivoj"

-# "Hopeful Prospects"

its been a while since i composed another soundtrack, and this one didn't have much variety put into it when it comes to melodies
but i suppose its a music i made for when you first get introduce to las cherung as the character your experiencing through

this is the first music that i used with the program called LMMS, free opensource audio workstation (with plugins i found and installed for various instruments)
mainly for me to get used to it as i feel there's more features to it i could work with, however the music is just a repeat of melodies and short, nothing too fancy

[main yoke]

at least its not the french

[mellow plaza]

so today, me and my team work on las cherung as our weekly dev sessions

i decided to construct something up to see if my lack of building for the past months is a bit worned down, but.. suprised that im still able to retain it, at least for the idea of the factoryville outdoors

so i feel somewhat confident on working on the factoryville when the time comes :)

[frozen current]

that looks pretty nice actually! it feels like a rustpunk meets wild west kind of theme? to me so far anyway with the gradients and stuff

[regal obsidian]

how dirty is the city in all?

[desert bay]

peak like usual

[dire breach]

very peak

[mellow plaza]

i'd imagine factoryvilles to be quite run down, so yeah dirty due to poor infastructure or lack of regulations

[wet schooner]

does the concrete include rice

[mellow plaza]

maybe

[frigid sun]

i dont know how you make this peak but it is peaker than the peakiest peak ever

[frail vortex]

What are shall we say common causes of death in the universe of Las Cherung? Im inclined to say radiation sickness or asbestos are up there

[mellow plaza]

def those yeah, but i'd also imagined most commonly being work/factory accidents

[regal obsidian]

How radioactive is the area

[unreal glacier]

ehhhh depends™

[lean kelp]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-gif-394218174908076546

[true halo]

seems super dystopic

steampunk dystopia

you should add like newspapers on world events

[unreal glacier]

i think there were plans on newspapers

[mellow plaza]

i mean...

i was tinkering with some designs :)

[frosty coyote]

Haven’t you made the reactor for last cherung? And what kind is it?

[sand wolf]

the turks

@tight tapir

[tight tapir]

TURKIYE?!?!?!?!?

[mellow plaza]

yes

[mellow plaza]

LA KAROLINAJ RAPORTOJ

-# The Caroline Reports
Some insights of the decay story

Released: August 12, 1962 (No. 76,220)
Overview: Turkey joins Protomica after a decade-long Civil war to become the newest Pioneering-Council, Value of Preŭos rapidly increasing, Western European Fissile-lines to be build across the English Channel, Successful (yet) brief attempt of Nuclear Fusion, open discussion of the future of the revolution

Language: ESPERANTO
(no images inside newspaper, gotten lazy :(

[tight tapir]

is this real

turkiye is canon in los hermonos (i keep forgetting the games name sorr)

[mellow plaza]

im forever remembering that name

but joke aside, yeah Las Cherung lol

[frail vortex]

Las Hermanos

[limpid slate]

when i type "Las" the cherung word appears now

i must be a true les cherungian patriot

[unreal glacier]

yes

[mellow plaza]

put together five different columbian-based news organizations you may see printed around in las cherung with their associated logos

Resonujo

"Resonance"

La Verda Arba Presaĵo

"The Green Tree Print"

La Karolinaj Raportoj

"The Caroline Reports"

Okuloj Sur Ni!

"Eyes On Us!"

Nependa Mundo

"Independent World"

[mellow plaza]

some very science fiction exploration of columbian technology with eyes for those who lost it during their mandated industrial works...

[regal obsidian]

how many people have this style of stache

[mellow plaza]

maybe plenty considering i do see at least style culture of las cherung and their corresponding world to sorta reminisant to the early 20th century

[desert bay]

thats really cool and also fucking terrifying

[frigid sun]

that brain looks so good im scared

dont be in my walls thank you

[regal obsidian]

Do they have to wear the leather, is that what the eyes are on

[mellow plaza]

that is there because there isnt a scalp anymore. That is just a permenant thing on their head, stitched to their skin

[mellow plaza]

(heads up - video contains some bit of flashing light, still experimenting of how to progress with this so will be subjected to change)

made a transitioning sound for this, and playing around with camera manipulation

i didn't put too much into this, did it rather lazily but just something to start off with

[regal obsidian]

do they remove the scalp to put the eyes in

[mellow plaza]

Hey Guys, I just wanted to say, although not with celebration or anything, **Las Cherung development will still continue to persist in face of these new requirements for game publishment **( And I say that with, deep sadness, and im aware I'm very stubborn considering how the platform is going 😞 )

The content of the game I envision would work best for 16+, been for a while when thinking about the future of the project, so I seem to fit in that category needed in the time i will publish this in the far future, however I will talk with my developers about this to see where we can go, but i again I want to emphasize I don't say this in good spirit or not since although we're still going, this update drastically haulted or canceled many projects I've seen around, and i know many of those meant a lot to those who make it, its heartbreaking to see. This also affected many of my close friends and developers who they have their own project they wish to work on.

I feel like, for anyone who sees this. In the face of a drastic change like this (I hope, even in small probabilities that roblox will change these restriction) for anyone in this predicament where they are facing getting locked out of their own projects, Pursue your dreams, inside or outside of roblox, whatever makes it possible.

I feel like I need to make this message if anyone needs to hear it, and i hope things will change :(

Via bonfarto gravas. Ni esperas ke aĵojn ŝanĝiĝos. Sekvu viajn revojn.
-# Your well-being matters. We hope that things will change. Follow your dreams.

I don't think i word things right but its something I feel like I must say, take care.

[frozen current]

It doesn’t even need to be dying Roblox is literally only stabbing themselves here
-# when you don’t need competition because you’re already running yourself out of business

[frigid sun]

valve but evil edition

[frozen current]

honestly I see Apple as Valve's evil cousin, they do many peak things like funding and developing things that'll ultimately help everybody, aswel as having pretty good support, but unlike valve the end goal is to eventually always maximise income

Roblox is just do anything and lose which is also another good interpretation hehe

[frigid sun]

no i was like valve is like "do nothing and win over the competition" but roblox is nowadays like "Do everything and fail more than the competition" anyways lets not change the topic anymore i love xero industrials yes yes yes!!!

[frozen current]

Xero supremacy

[compact chasm]

roblox is more "do everything worse and win over the competitors" imo

[true halo]

make chapter 1 the train ride into the facillity

or instead you can post another photo

[mellow plaza]

not much updates as i am taking my time to teach myself scripting with the help of my friend ggshor
made some changes to esperanto translation to sound more natural, considering originally i try to "directly" translate word by word from english to esperanto, will def be revised further as i understand the language deeper

[desert bay]

ooh good luck with scripting, it's painful but fun

[thin hearth]

ggshor mentioned

[frigid sun]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/986699845769261147/1061722742606536815/caption-3-4-1.gif

[frigid sun]

this meme. its mine now.

[mellow plaza]

so i did a revision on the cutscene for the premenu using a camera rig i made to port animation from blender and back

[desert bay]

woaahhh

[gloomy shard]

peeak

[mellow plaza]

another additional thing, German language pack for Las Cherung has now been setted up, with one of my developer @terse hawk assisting in German translation :)

• additional changes to the pre-menu cutscene

[desert bay]

SO COOL

[frigid sun]

german!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[frozen current]

very clean!

that is so good

[mellow plaza]

I've been changing many things for Las Cherung since last week. Mainly the story of The Decay, the camera handler for the player (we will demonstrate when GGshor is ready to demonstrate it), and me learning more Esperanto :)
-# Mi jam ŝanĝigis multajn aĵojn por Lasĉerungo ekde antaŭa semajno. Ĉefe la rakonto de La Kadukiĝo, la fotila traktilo por la ludanto (ni demonstros kiam GGshor pretas demonstri ĝin), kaj mi lernas pli Esperanton :)

Here's a preview of a new map in respond to the changes i am making to the decay lore, atm it is in WIP, and I am experimenting with this so unsure if I will append the change or step back, we will see (still wanna show it anyways!)

can't answer much question in great details regarding about the map since i'm still developing new ideas as we speak (in other words, i dont know LOL)

[zinc wasp]

NEEEEEEEEEW YORK SPOTTED

JOYOUS

hello nyc my beloved

[mellow plaza]

Novjorko :)

[zinc wasp]

yahoo!

[urban spire]

jork!??!?!?!??

[frail vortex]

can we get some more snippets of unshown old lc stuff??

[mellow plaza]

i did show plenty in the past! i have more but i would have to find a old usb for specific assets or concepts

ill quickly reply to you of said old stuff mentioned here in a moment

theres this, the first screenshot being a build of las cherung as a concept in 2023

also... the predecesor project that las cherung was build off and expanded from since (St. Rivera Nuclear Research Institution Center)

huh... i actually didnt showcase a collection of old las cherung stuff dating from october of 2022-2023 (im probably confusing it from showcasing in a diff server)

can do when i can though

[copper helm]

@stiff cloud Can you write up a description of Las Cherung?

I am gonna pin it too, as I keep forgetting what Las Cherung is about

[buoyant vector]

WRONG PERSON 😭

[copper helm]

Oh LOL

@mellow plaza

[frigid sun]

german u liek las cherungus?

[frail vortex]

Who doesn't??

[mellow plaza]

Las Cherung's Description

A story-driven Roblox dystopian game centered around a complicated alternative history world, focusing on a loosely company owned factoryville.

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 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 fall apart. 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.

[frail vortex]

huh, didnt even know you can pin stuff inside of threads

[buoyant vector]

something to note in case you didn't know!
if you wanna pin stuff yourself you can refer to this: #❗┃other message

[mellow plaza]

rn seeing if i can make a collection of signages for las cherung, all printed in esperanto, all for different purposes
using various references of store decals or prints from 1960, making it in inkscape, and adding filters over them somewhere else

some translations for those who want to know what each signage display

TOOLS AND CLOTHS, HARDWARE STORE 350 PREŬOS, Do you need some tools? We have here

Tiny Cherung Canteen, Always serving!
Listen! Esperanto Meeting, At 13:45, Everyone are welcome!
Vacuumed Florescent Tubes, Sold here!

[mellow plaza]

updated for today:

[silver rampart]

fire signs

[lean kelp]

awesome

[mellow plaza]

new signages, some in different language to depict some form of diversity in las cherung (as I'd imagine according the story, anyone from anywhere in the northern world were subjected to mandatory industrialism rules, many would be directed to north america. Those signages would depict other language with esperanto being the bridge language instead of english)

[mellow plaza]

added new one just right now :)

[mellow plaza]

"Tiuj Metaloj super La Brilanta Suno"

"Those Metals over The Glistening Sun"

another soundtrack I just composed right now, probably for when sunrises occur in each day of las cherung

[limpid slate]

If i might make a suggestion for a poster to be las cherungified

[frozen current]

it's the funni poster used by legal aid insurers

[mellow plaza]

hmm honestly gonna give it a try! thank you for the suggestions :)

[limpid slate]

:D

[mellow plaza]

if anyone else have suggestions for poster, feel free to send here as im actively expanding the usages of poster / decals decorations for las cherung

[mellow plaza]

@limpid slate
here's my rendition of it (relating to overcoming panic to handle fissiles)

[limpid slate]

thats awesome!!

[mellow plaza]

NE PANIKU - DON'T PANIC
ORGANIZU - ORGANIZE
ORGANIZU ESTAS ĈIAM PLI BONE OL NEORGANIZAS - ORGANIZING IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN NOT ORGANIZING
LABORAS KUNE - WORK TOGETHER

[frigid sun]

what is hakumi in esperanto?

[frigid sun]

also what happens if i panic. is it execution?

[buoyant vector]

not really how that works.. 😭

[frigid sun]

are there letters in esperanto

if yes then

nvm

[buoyant vector]

HAKUMI doesn’t really have a meaning so it doesn’t translate to anything

[frigid sun]

i mean it translates to hakumi hence hakumi means hakumi

:D

[buoyant vector]

[frigid sun]

is that iro from the [insert thing name]

[mellow plaza]

if i recall, isn't it vel's group name?

and if so, when it comes to esperanto, you can either leave it as is OR make it compatiable with esperanto's 16 grammar rules

my best attempt would be translinguating the phoetics so like...
"Hakumio" (the added -o at the end indicates its a noun)

[mellow plaza]

the poster doesn't imply that, its more so of being organized is better than not organizing (as such when panicking)

[mellow plaza]

another music i set together, i feel like would further revise in the future, and an attempt to turn something i often deal to some messy music o_o
so far this is what it came out as, another music for las cherung

"Trozorgi"

"Overthinking"

[mellow plaza]

Spend the rest of my day redesigning the music a little bit, and rendered a video to showcase the different stages of this music and what they mean, this is most likely going to be some sort of panic music with different loopsets if i ever plan to do so

music name may be revised to change to be more fitting

[frigid sun]

panic!!! run!!!! theres a fire!!!!!

g

get it

cause the songs

fire

ha- (currently on laughter free trial)

[mellow plaza]

Made three quick and short ambience-style musics for Las Cherung, random notes and all ^^

[nova jungle]

honey for the ears they say

[mellow plaza]

Protomikulo

Protomican

another music i set up for specific group of people in las cherung that are subjected to the craftmanship of the atomic revolution, those who are hard believers, with the loss of their humanity
Those, who are the ideal representation of what the revolution envisioned.

[frigid sun]

https://tenor.com/view/piano-piano-on-fire-man-playing-piano-fire-gif-18619744

[mellow plaza]

thank you ^^ i keep forgetting to say that, it does mean alot to hear other's thought on my music, even if im very new to it

[copper helm]

Why do you go through the effort of creating stuff in a language that basically no one understands? Isn't that an enormous waste of time for no benefit, which is making the game harder to play?

[noble briar]

they're passionate, and it's a part of the world building

[copper helm]

How does the price of basically no one understanding it and more work justify having a slightly more immersive gameplay?

[obtuse epoch]

its cool + immersion

[quiet scaffold]

almost every fantasy worldbuilder ever: 👀

also, take a chill pill pls

[copper helm]

Why?

Am I not allowed to voice criticism?

[quiet scaffold]

your response to ghastly gave the impression that you're reading into this too far

[copper helm]

Obviously, I think it's a valid point to bring up

[noble briar]

i mean it's pretty much the same as hylian in botw/totk

[mellow plaza]

hold it lemme hop in my pc, this is a valid one, since i had thoughts about this before

considering im working with a language that is very uncommon, if not spoken at all

-# computer is having issues give me a moment, my apologies

[mellow plaza]

am here now! This is a good point to bring up, and It is something that came up in my head plenty of times
Esperanto is definitely a uncommon language, considering being a constructed language, its in its entirely own avenue. However I do imagine its mainly limited to environmental backdrops, i'd imagine the characters itself percieve the world in english, as well with other UI elements, i did have ideas to make it where you can hover your cursor over the poster to see the english translation for each text (or any translation depends what the user picked in the menu that is supported)... though that's more of me saying a idea than actually having a proof of concept

I would say I did get into the language very much so I probably did rush to implement in many aspects, at the present moment I will have to map out ways to still make it understandable with the things i mentioned prior so its not a complete language barrier, as i don't imagine the game is entirely to be in esperanto unless picked by the user's with our translation options

I would love to hear any ideas from others on how i go about this since, it is a new avenue for me, i will say i did made alot of stuff in esperanto with the poster designs and even the music name's, though at the moment, they are only seen in environmental backdrops of the game

maybe some NPC too? those sort of things is still far for me to really have a definitive answer

does it make it immersive? eeeeh i don't really know, i picked esperanto considering its history of its creation, and how i written the story of the world las cherung is in up to that point, i'd imagine esperanto managed to succeed in actually being adopted unlike what happened to the real world

-# originally i was gonna do latin but i dropped that idea entirely

aside that idea of hovering mouse over poster or physical text that shows the translated version in las cherung and the characters itself speaking in english (since i do imagine many to be bilingual, but for sake of gameplay, its strictly english) yeah i can imagine its can be a massive language barrier i need to be careful of

[lean kelp]

you could think of it like uhh

Avatar 2

I recall the main character saying he was so accustomed to the Navi language he just hears English or something

so theyre speaking Na'vi most of the movie but we hear English because Jake is so used to it

so in your story, you could explain somewhere that theyre actually speaking in Esperanto, but what we/players see and hear is English

[mellow plaza]

honestly, i can totally go with that route yeah

that can work :)

[mellow plaza]

i've been studying about the area i am making for las cherung, I think I am ready to work on the map again, this is definetely overkill, but I will see where this will go

This is a real world location in North Arizona, scaled down by a factor of four, using USGS's data to render this, A place I feel las cherung will be located in, same place from previous showcase, but with newer heightmaps for landscape details

Upper Hurricane Valley, inbetween two peaks, in a middle of nowhere.

real world satellite map

potential district mapped (with curtsey by my friend tix) via google earth

[frail vortex]

jesus fucking christ

If you didn't, I'd strongly recommend to turn this into a mesh (and potentially texture in sp) because roblox terrain at this scale is wonky to say the least, it has no LOD compared to meshes so the engine is gonna render the entire thing at high res all the time which will result in lower FPS

[frail vortex]

Again, if you export then you get all the maps aswell so there's no need to go above and beyond to texture the entire thing in SP

nvm, you do not

[desert bay]

this is very cool

actual map research is peak

[dire breach]

Dear lord that’s cool

Very good job

[mellow plaza]

i did this attempt 5 months ago

it was a absolute nightmare

it was something i want to do since its better than working with terrain... but yeah having to manually chunk the map into like... 20 tiles? or more and manually bake each texture for each mesh in blender and upload them individually, with weird hitboxes due to scale

there's probs a better way but atm im going off of that old attempt, i think was kinda shown here before, lemme find

yeah here ^

^

[mellow plaza]

I believe it actually does?

[regal relic]

Roblox terrain does have LOD yes

You can see it in action in wireframe mode or even by comparing the geometry of close versus far terrain

Its more jagged

If anything iirc a native terrain object is lighter to load compared to a streamed mesh due to the nature of how the engine works with everything being in the cloud now but I could be wrong

The only downside is the resolution sucks for smaller areas

[mellow plaza]

i see i see!

[frail vortex]

Does it?

[regal relic]

Yes

It also has culling im pretty sure

So it doesnt render hidden terrain

[frail vortex]

Everything has culling by now, does it not?

[regal relic]

Thats what im saying

You implied it didnt lol

[frail vortex]

No?

I only implied it didn't have LOD

[regal relic]

"Render entire thing at high res all the time"

im not gonna argue semantics but anyways yes it is performant

I just wish the voxels were higher res for smaller areas tbh

[frail vortex]

Is that not how LOD works in roblox, it renders things further away at a different LOD to save performance

Or I guess how LOD works in general

[mellow plaza]

peformance testing the map and atmospheric visuals (my laptop has not been doing well recently but still sitting at 60 fps)
(taken from south side of Upper hurricane valley)

view from Twin Butte (eastern peak) viewing over the western peak (Diamond Butte)

view from Diamond Butte (Western peak) viewing over the eastern peak

[frail vortex]

this and tons of industrial buildings and black smoke poisoning the atmosphere

[mellow plaza]

updated solar visuals

and setting up our first area of interest, Golden Water (Orakvo)

curtosy to tix for setting up blueprints templates and helping me with mapping out streets

[buoyant vector]

partially..

last i checked, water terrain currently isn’t culled at all, and all terrain doesn’t cull any parts behind it

i had to add giant parts inside the cavern terrain for the maintenance update so that it wouldn’t render everything up to bottomside

[mellow plaza]

Golden Water

Orakvo

So far we mapped around ~8% of this district, situated in western las cherung, like other district, it is mainly full of housing and unregulated business just in the outskirts of Las Cherung's factory central, it is probably a bit povertish compare to other regions, hence the archaic artitecture

history of this area is not yet written, though I will be talking to a friend about various street names we can give

Fun fact: Golden Water is our first area we've attempted back in april of 2025 with our initial map attempt (and interestingly enough, info about this comment is still accurate to this day)

it's just only this new map attempt we've finally given it a proper name as its standalone district

[frozen current]

pretty

[frozen current]

looks pretty neat honestly

[mellow plaza]

one of golden water's makeshift "apartments"

[frail vortex]

no railing in last image. love my safety hazard

but ig thats las cherung for me

[gloomy shard]

the 4th image REALLY reminds me of fallout

[mellow plaza]

-# to be fair i was still working on it

[glad flax]

game is coming together really well dude!

i was wondering how you got the terrain, did you make it by hand or get a heightmap from the irl world and then painted terrain yourself?

[mellow plaza]

I mentioned it here but I can gladly go into details!

The heightmap data I've gotten to choose my location for Las Cherung was downloaded from USGS's 3D elevation program, which is avaliable on their website
https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program/new-product-3d-elevation-program-seamless-1-meter-digital-elevation-model-s1m

with resolution up to 1-meter, so VERY high resolution detail, that is if there's a avaliable scan in that resolution of a area you've picked

I've also got satellite images of this region from a diff service (i can't recall though) and sort of align it with the heightmap

and modified the image to be a color map for roblox's terrain generation

considering the scale of it, i did had to break the original image into 4 seperate tiles, each generating around 6K studs in scale (and this is just me shrinking the actual map from its real world scale by a factor of 4)

I had to stitch the heightmap together since it was consisting of four seperate regions in the USGS's scan, so i downloaded those 5 that overlay the area i wanted and stitch them together in QGIS to avoid any seams

[frail vortex]

was meaning to ask, what is this?

is this like a spotlight

[sand wolf]

looks like one of the pods from ksp lmao

[spare bolt]

i cant unsee it now 😭

[mellow plaza]

some kind of water tank suprisingly

[mellow plaza]

new additions

[frozen current]

I was under the impression the city was going to be underground like 3 months ago
now I really wonder what the end is planned to look like

[mellow plaza]

Originally it would be like both surface and underground? in some capacity it may still be but the scale for the underground initially got ridicious in logic in my opinion

I still want to explore the underground aspect so its not fully off the table, just not the focal aspect of the factoryville

[frozen current]

-# in my defense against your logic it would look really frigin cool hehe

[mellow plaza]

true lmfao

I will see though

[frozen current]

🫡 got iet! good luckkk!

[zinc wasp]

well thats certainly pretty, i always love to see what you're cooking up xero!

[tiny jolt]

everything in the pictures look so right, do you have a standard for some of the constructions or you do whatever feels right?

[mellow plaza]

funnily enough, i don't
its a intentional thing from me where i just don't follow any form of standard at all, and just make what i feel my mind can make at the time

i don't need to worry about proper artitecture or anything so i can make buildings that's esentially borderline dangerous, odd, or plainly confusing for a building

i guess in some way its a standard if put that way? but that's esentially our mentality

video of golden water, just ported some of our codebase into this version :)

[frozen current]

you know it definitely doesn't feel like Roblox

really nice!

the solar flare still kinda does aswel as the climbing but can't do much about that

[past raptor]

Woah, the music and the builds are so cool :0

[mellow plaza]

testing night time lightings + our billboard bloom visuals seen in our previous build :)

[regal relic]

That is breathtaking

[mellow plaza]

thank you!!!

[mellow plaza]

ty!! fun fact, the musics are made by me :)

I did post them here before but I'm unsure if anyone noticed, considering its just mp4 renders

I have yet to still think about actually posting it online on my yt...

[mellow plaza]

More night visuals, with street lamps :)

[frail vortex]

build is nice but what is this

[mellow plaza]

those are our visual markers (mainly for road paths)

temporary placeholders so we know where to go to next

[mellow plaza]

lunar visuals (testing ways to see if we can make it not too obscured by the atmosphere as it is a custom set similar to the solar's visuals

refer to here for more info if your curious about why i'm doing this

[frozen current]

mystical alien object of unknown orgins

[mellow plaza]

although joke, unironically can make a sign like this for las cherung lmfao

i am in need to create more signages

👁️

[wet schooner]

please do create this worthy signage

[wet schooner]

what

how in this world did you make that that quickly

[mellow plaza]

inkscape and some pre-made filters i made on a phone app

[wet schooner]

this quality of work is enough to make a grown man cry

hell even the pope

[frigid sun]

how did you

the dust

its so beautiful

like wow

the dsut effects

its so real

how did you make the dust

please enlighten me

[mellow plaza]

All the filters and overlay I made are done with a amazing mobile app called Snapseed :)

a lot of tools you can work with, and even cool overlays (as well making custom filter packs so you don't need to manually set a specific style each time)

[mellow plaza]

a redesign and interior of a apartment building of some kind

[frail vortex]

I love how the industrial theme is everpresent in this world, even in civilian apartment buildings

[frozen current]

love the pipes and love that elevator

would be cool if it could open on both sides

as like 2 quarter sliding circle doors or something

[mellow plaza]

changed the lighting to be more sharply contrasted to like the prior versions

[mellow plaza]

Blankaŝtona Bloko (Whitestone Unit) final remodel, with quite literally coffin-esque sized rooms

2 floors

with a central elevator

20 rooms

[desert bay]

beautiful

[mellow plaza]

video to showcase the visuals and stuff :)

Music: Las Cherung - Protomikulo

havent scripted the elevator to actually consider 3 different floors, only two so its something i need to do next

[tawdry saddle]

yummers

[regal relic]

Oh my god

0:58 I swear to god I thought it was

https://tenor.com/view/puss-in-boots-the-big-bad-wolf-puss-in-boots2-puss-in-boots-the-last-wish-the-last-wish-gif-27269070

His whistle

[frail vortex]

Was meant to ask, what happened to the posterization?

[mellow plaza]

I attempted to take it to this version, however the way i achieved the posterized lighting was using the old fog system and putting ridicilous sized numbers for their color RGB

giving that visual

it however comes at a cost of not being able to use atmosphere or fog

... something I've yet to really find a work around to preserve that style on the outdoors aside the billboard "fog" idea (which is peformance heavy and often time the engine bugs out with rendering decals or other images on top of the visuals)

[lean kelp]

are those buildings modular

[mellow plaza]

not so much? aside the identical floor which i did make it stackable

[mellow plaza]

ground-level fog visuals, mountain textures, and bushes

[frail vortex]

What are the towers in background?

[mellow plaza]

temporary placeholder of a actual tower i had in mind (which i havent designed yet, only got it from the mesh toolbox

esentially high-scaled oil like rigs but instead meant to extract fissile materials underground

[frail vortex]

got it

[frozen current]

love the pipe
idk what kind of steampunk you're going for - would it be cool to have some fans and flying drones?

anyway love that a lot
I like the pipe

[frigid sun]

i have a slight question, have u tried playing minecraft in esperanto?

[mellow plaza]

yes, in fact its atm my designated language any time i play it

just so i am more familiar with it

[mellow plaza]

i will keep it in mind

sounds interesting to explore on, but we'll see

[frozen current]

👍

[mellow plaza]

the return of atmospheric pollution visuals

[frozen current]

oh hll yes

keep cooking

[wet schooner]

just like california

absolutely amazing

[dim scarab]

How Long have you been building things in Roblox?

This looks amazing!

[mellow plaza]

I've been using studio since 2017, but only pursued it around 2020

so almost 10 years at this point

[frozen current]

-# please stop saying 2016 was 10 years ago

-# it hurts ;-;

[desert bay]

(inhales)
"ahh, another beautiful day in-"
(dies from lung damage)

[buoyant vector]

las cherlung

[mellow plaza]

funnily enough, i do imagine the pollution in this world is terrifying in the sense that most of the pollutants are like, vaporized or particles of fissile materials from these factoryvilles

[mellow plaza]

spherical housings that i randomly place

[gloomy shard]

bro ive been building since 2017 similarly and still cannot achieve anything close to what you can do

i really love the atmosphere

[mellow plaza]

I know you will eventually find your style, las cherung didn't start off looking like this, there were many revisions that eventually got to this point

the rustic style is something i am more familiar with compare to, modern sleek styles? idk how to explain it, but i am not great with those lol, so it takes time until you find a style that you can excel in

and ty

also random short music i... randomly put together for las cherung, I didn't really know what to work with, ended up having this very hopeful and sober music
i'll see how this will be used

Sonĝo, "dream" in esperanto as i called it

[shrewd fox]

this building style might genuinely be one of my favorites..
I first saw an example of it in AC25, and I absolutely loved it. Now seeing this, ✨...

[mellow plaza]

tysm ^^

[mellow plaza]

multipurpose building

golden water as of now: (i presume... 25% done?)

[frozen current]

is that a lake on the right of the 2nd image?

looks pretty

[mellow plaza]

nope, that's just concrete lol

however there may be a lake considered in las cherung last time i discuss with the entire map layout with a friend

A potential runoff toxic lake nearing the south of las cherung called "Emerald Lake" (Smeralda Lago)

which is most likely just dump deposits from leftover fissile productions

Ground-smog from high altitude (viewed from Diamond Butte, the western peak)

[frozen current]

ohhh

[frozen current]

if golden water does that imply there will be water 🤔

[mellow plaza]

Golden water did got its name from abundance of ground water under where it is establish so not too far off