Lakewood Generating Station

[neat oak]

that is peakk!

[willow nebula]

for the actual design i used canva

very high tech

for the uhh

“dirtiness” i used gimp and some various brushes

[brave forge]

ty ty

[willow nebula]

ya

[true holly]

Ts looks nice

[willow nebula]

thank ya

[willow nebula]

got some progress in on this song

[neat oak]

I like how it's not extremely intense or anything
will it play during an event?

[steel jacinth]

event???

[willow nebula]

mhm!!

i plan for it to play during either a startup failure or during the first phase of the stations collapse

[neat oak]

gotchaa!
can't wait for this to all expand it'll be so peak

[willow nebula]

Did you know?

The last building standing fully after the explosion and the Station’s final collapse was the Visitor Center Complex. The building was engineered with a reinforced structure and foundations separate from the rest of the Station to serve as a hub for evacuation during emergencies. The building later stood as a symbol of strength for the Lakewood community, a gleaming hope in the face of disaster.

[ebon hazel]

its defo a startup song

[regal hawk]

kinda reminds me of that one troll king song

[willow nebula]

apologies for the reaction i cant seem to get rid of it from the quick reactions thingy

[regal hawk]

it's fine lol. settings > chat > emoji btw

[willow nebula]

thanks

!!

[willow nebula]

this week is gonna be big for the visitor center complex (:

also got a little somethin else done here

[neat oak]

Yes, yes yes!
I love that there’s a primarily underground game that features the outdoors this way
Makes me think of Infra and stuff

[bright kettle]

Bee or minions

[quiet zodiac]

war

[ebon hazel]

its bees

its a custom mesh u cannot find it anywhere

[bright kettle]

Ok I’m not working in that facility i hate bees

😬

[willow nebula]

the LGS Department of Bee Safety can assure you that there will not bee another beepocalypse anytime soon

that was simply a miscalculation

:D

[bright kettle]

Good

I’m working there then

📑

[willow nebula]

Did you know?

In 2005, there was an incident at the Station involving a Cessna aircraft nearly striking the Visitor Center complex. The pilot, a young Arnold Merlin, unknown what happened to him at the time, occupied the aircraft during the incident. The plane deviated off its path shortly after taking off from Lakewood County Airfield in the early morning, and headed straight towards the Station. As the aircraft approached the station at alarming descent, the Station was placed on full lockdown by the Guardian system, and various attempts to communicate with the pilot were made, all of which being unsuccessful. According to the Guardian system’s logs, at 6:32 AM, the Guardian Missile Defense System was automatically brought online and authorized to use deadly force to defend the Station. At 6:33 AM, a minute before the aircraft was calculated to collide with the Visitor Center building, GMDS fired one SAM missile, destroying the aircraft and instantly killing the pilot. Following the incident, chaos broke out all over the country, questioning why the forces taken were necessary, and why a nuclear power station would need missiles. JEP never responded, and no actions were ever taken against the company.

[final musk]

Was it faulty systems / hydraulics or something to do with the aircraft or a deliberate attack?

[brave forge]

Sounds to me like a deliberate attack

Anyway, that is some neat lore

[fiery sedge]

good old vibes

[willow nebula]

exactly what im going for

[willow nebula]

considering im starting to get more into composing music im gonna start postin some pieces im workin on apart from the lakewood project here

[willow nebula]

final (actually playable) version!!

and im using musescore to produce these now meaning i have a LOT more control over the instruments and can make some much better songs now than with fl studio :D

[willow nebula]

it has returned.

[misty jewel]

goodgod

[neat oak]

0123456789ABCDEF bolts

[willow nebula]

surface sure is gonna be quite massive...

[willow nebula]

progress of the day!

got stuff done with the main building and raised another building, which will most likely be the Archives Building and vault, beside it :D
ALSO, started work on the parking garage!

also im bbringing back the progress of the day thing cuz im starting to get a lot more work done a lot LOT faster

also please do bear in mind that if theres stuff that looks wrong, its because im going to go back later to replace it with custom models or further streamline it with better meshes and shapes and blah blah blah, lol

[viscid veldt]

starting to feel like a campus, i love it

[willow nebula]

exactly the goal, thank youuu

[neat oak]

Oh what the hll that’s just
Gorgeous!

[neat oak]

🫡 best of luck!

[willow nebula]

thanks!!!

[final musk]

this is cool, if you want to be osha certified I'd put tactile tiles / paving where the stairs start and end just for that minor nice detail

[willow nebula]

will doooo

should mention that most of the building doesnt even line up with building code standards-

[brave forge]

Omg, amazing.

I wish I was this good vro 😭

[willow nebula]

tragedy has struck the visitor center 😔😔😔

little did i know it was a school bus

[brave forge]

OH GREAT HEAVENS

😱

[quiet zodiac]

oh no

[willow nebula]

tragedy

[willow nebula]

Fun fact!!

i got the name Lakewood Generating Station from an old minecraft world i made many yearss ago, and a lot of the areas ive built for the current Station are actually heavily based on that world!

[willow nebula]

Progress of the day!

got the parking garage started, made it 2 floors tall
got work in on the elevator hall (the path next to the parking garage")
starting work on expanding the surface in the opposite direction, still debating size
starting work on the service tunnels under the Visitor Center complex
also added those tactile tiles on the stairs as someone requested :>
in summary, parking garage!

also im gonna fix those lights in the parking garage idk why their range is so low lol

[willow nebula]

ALSO, i should mention, one of my friends, @quiet zodiac decided to start work on a horror game based in the Station!! and i personally think it looks pretty good. it takes place deep, deep under the building, in the depths of the Foundations. their game will help provide more information regarding the mystery about the Foundation levels of the Station, and come with some pretty neat storyline and areas.

[quiet zodiac]

yuhhhh

🔥

some of the stuff ive been doing:

[neat oak]

what did I miss- 😭

game is taking shape though loving it

[final musk]

This happened in lore

he just doesnt want yall to know

[willow nebula]

🤫

[willow nebula]

Did you know?

The Visitor Center usually receives up to 500 visitors per day, with regular tours being conducted of the lower levels of the building. The Johnson Park area is also a part of the Station, and is the main hub for the surface, granting access to many of the Station’s different buildings above ground.

[pliant chasm]

the lake is generating wood

[willow nebula]

we are lacking wood

[pliant chasm]

:(

[willow nebula]

all we have are bricks

[neat oak]

Partition to rename to lackbrick generating station

[willow nebula]

signed

[final musk]

Lakebrick Bricklaying Station

[silver zodiac]

lego

[willow nebula]

lgs visitor center lego set real

[quiet zodiac]

lgs reactor lego set includes real miniature power lasers!!

[willow nebula]

(batteries not included)

[violet dragon]

we are all buying ts

[neat oak]

That one car video 😭

[final musk]

@willow nebula I've been wondering, how do you add "depth" to a layer in sp? im trying to make a dirty b&w tile texture and my dirt looks like it's apart of the design not smth that built up over time if yk what I mean

[willow nebula]

oh i personally like to add a fill layer to the material im trying to act as the dirt and set it to multiply, then increase the height JUSTTTTT a little to give it that depth

[final musk]

thx other thing do yk how I could add depth inbetween the tiles

[willow nebula]

i usually use the brick generator to do tile stuff because it lets you adjust the seam between “tiles”, although im not sure if youre using it here

if youd like we can move this to dms

[final musk]

that'd be nice

[willow nebula]

dor

and the new door control unit

bigger door coming soon™

[viscid veldt]

nice

[digital frost]

how do your textures not get hit with the 1k texture size limit 🙏

[viscid veldt]

im presuming clever usage of UV unwrapping

prioritize certain UV islands over others

in terms of scale, often time making different part of the mesh share the same uv island to use the maximum amount of space as possible

[willow nebula]

i also separate the models into separate pieces depending on the size

for example the flood door is made of 4 different pieces

or 5

[viscid veldt]

or that too

[tribal onyx]

doesn't having a ton of textures hurt performance?

[willow nebula]

eh not too much

especially with robloxs streaming stuff

@quiet zodiac wanted to make some cool rainy shots of the visitor center while also playing with the lighting lolol

credits to them for the rain and thunder stuff ofcourse

[quiet zodiac]

and thy lightning system that may or may not of took 30 min to bug fix because im stupid

[tribal onyx]

splashes and puddles on the ground would make this look so good

[willow nebula]

agreed

[willow nebula]

figured out how to turn the JEPe logo into a 3d model

[final musk]

What does JEP stand for again?

I think you talked about it but I forgot

[willow nebula]

its the name of the companys founder, James Elliot Parker

[quiet zodiac]

i got sent to the lgs backrooms 🥀

[willow nebula]

imagine

[faint scarab]

very sigma

[cunning tinsel]

oooo

[fiery sedge]

🙏

[willow nebula]

brought to you by the lack wood generator stator™️

[quiet zodiac]

the

[willow nebula]

goob got bored and decided to import the dam from old lgs into the new one

[faint scarab]

i cant see anything

maybe add lights

[willow nebula]

too lazy to add lights to it

yet™

[final musk]

here you go

thunda 🗣️

[willow nebula]

hap new year people

[sacred scroll]

I know I'm late but maybe make the open and close buttons a little smaller and add more random decals

it makes it seem slightly toy like

[willow nebula]

that was actually kinda the point ;-;

since i wanted stuff you interact with to feel

well

interactable!!!

but ill take it into consideration

[willow nebula]

so roblox released 4k textures beta (and seemingly forced us into the "revolutionary UI") and its amazing (for me atleast)

u can read all the small text now!!

[nocturne island]

they finally enabled the next gen UI?

insane

[willow nebula]

yup

i personally dislike it though

too much wasted space -~-

[willow nebula]

this does mean though that the flood door is severely overdetailed now lol

[neat oak]

as with most new UI layouts, looks over convenience I hate the trend

[neat oak]

still love that door it's so nice

[willow nebula]

fr

first windows

then apple

andddd here we are now

[willow nebula]

thanks 😁

[final musk]

Who spilled the gurt on that door

jk it looks cool

[limpid birch]

jeb indutries

[bright kettle]

it also did force us

[willow nebula]

aw man

[bright kettle]

i don't know why roblox wants to change everything

[willow nebula]

id have to assume its to show off to investors

[bright kettle]

the worse is that they removed the undo and redo button

[willow nebula]

not just that

the entire view tab is a stupid dropdown next to the file button now

in general this was a really bad move on roblox

they did it without warning and never posted anything about it to i assume lower backlash and yet they proceed to do something that topples pretty much every developer out there

it feels like relearning english

[bright kettle]

you know what's the worst? they might hopefully remove it with pressure, however there's a lot of new developers which gets used to it fast unlike us, which makes roblox see the charts and think it was a good move however it wasn't

[willow nebula]

exactly, infact it seems theyre doing it EXACTLY for those new developers

trying to make the UI look “friendly” so that they dont get scared to learn studio

[bright kettle]

they made it very confusing for us

i struggle to click the play button

it's too far in the screen

and much more

[willow nebula]

yeah

it seems they never tested the friggin thing

on developers n stuff

first team chat now this

[bright kettle]

this tab used to have alot of images right? now it doesn't

this is the only tab which is the same as the legacy, except colors

[willow nebula]

yeah im pretty sure it did

[bright kettle]

another bad thing i realised, is that in the legacy version, no matter where you clicked, from text to image, you could toggle that one function, now you're forced to only click the image no matter what

which is another bad thing

[willow nebula]

yeah i HATE that

also the fact that everything is rounded and animated now makes stuff load so incredibly slowly

the toolbox for example

picking audios n stuff is 10 times harder since everything has to tween aswell

[bright kettle]

if it was me i whouldn't use tween

i'd use lerp

it's more controlable

aand even like that it whould still be laggy

[willow nebula]

yeah… 😔

im sure that with all this backlash against roblox theyll end up reverting it or giving us an option to

most likely hidden in 83 sub menus

[bright kettle]

i don't think they will revert ^

[willow nebula]

still got some hope tho 😔

[bright kettle]

we'll see how things go

they must change all they did

[willow nebula]

the developers conference is not gonna go well this year…

[regal hawk]

should've been released years ago

like cmon why was every texture like 720p

[fiery sedge]

you get used to it, not the end of the world

actually quite a lot of neat features

[tribal onyx]

meh

it removed a lot of buttons in favor for you creating your own tabs

spent 30 mins looking for my wireframe

[willow nebula]

yeah youre right but still…

a really big change given without warning

[fiery sedge]

I was initially opposed, so I just kept it enabled

I found the tabs at the top useful
ofc there are some things that were

less of quality

[regal hawk]

i could not, for the life of me, find the button to test with more than one "player" for awhile

pissed me off

[willow nebula]

excuse me for the very large gap between development posts but ive been cooking up some essential models and putting less attention towards building stuff

[neat oak]

holy that looks so unique

I love that door

you're cooking

[proven pine]

Jesus

Beutiful

[willow nebula]

Say hello to your friend in the dark, light, or depths, the SIMON PDA Unit developed by JEP Heavy Industries!

[neat oak]

Looking good! What will it be used for ingame? Overring certain electronics, accessing things, controlling stuff, menu?

[willow nebula]

itll be used for, yes, overriding, accessing, and controlling stuff along with a mini menu on it

[neat oak]

Loveit!

[willow nebula]

its also gonna have a bunch if different modules you can connect to it to unlock different features

[neat oak]

Ohhhhhh wait that’s actually pretty unique like unlocking new abilities and stuff?

[willow nebula]

which you can buy through the Station’s gift shop

yuh!!!!

therell also be other slightly illegal modules that allow you to unlock doors, bypass keycard scanners, etc

[neat oak]

Hehehe of-course

But ye I like it!

[willow nebula]

thanks!!

pretty sure the next thing left for me to do is script the basic framework for the system and go from there

[neat oak]

Got to go but wish you luck!

[willow nebula]

thanks once again!! c:

[cunning tinsel]

is the name coming from the button colors?

also i really like the model

BTW uhhh i remember last time checking out the unfinished game there was shift stats button, so far are there plans for how exactly will shifts work with their gameplay?

[willow nebula]

yea lol

i was experimenting with different colors and landed on one of those classic rainbow palettes

and realized it looked a lot like the simon toy so i just named it that

[cunning tinsel]

Lol

[willow nebula]

i have a few ideas in mind so far

but the one im most likely going to implement is a mix between a task and passive work system

[cunning tinsel]

Passive work system?

[willow nebula]

by that i mean repairing or completing little tasks while youre moving around the building

or other things

[cunning tinsel]

Ah, and on tasks you mean major ones like changing reactor temp?

[willow nebula]

mhm!!

[cunning tinsel]

Neat

[willow nebula]

although i really want to keep the system balanced so that players arent completely drawn to the reactor

since thats a really big flaw i see with almost every core game out there so far

[cunning tinsel]

Fair i do have an idea for a task

[willow nebula]

shoot it

im writing a list down lol

-# also sorry if my explanation for the shift system wasnt very clear im still heavily working on it 😅

[cunning tinsel]

Basically, i recently learned that the SKALA computer in chernobyl needed manual inputs from time to time to work properly, so what about a similar thing for the guard? (Or how is the automated system called)

[willow nebula]

thats actually a pretty good idea

and its called guardian lol

[cunning tinsel]

Thanks

[cunning tinsel]

What about "emergency" tasks for shifts? A random malfunction/events that require fixing asap and can be done only by one player (for example: control panel breaking, requiring opening it and fixing manually)

[willow nebula]

oh yeah i was already thinking of doing somethin like that

[cunning tinsel]

Ooo nice

[willow nebula]

thank you tho!!

if you have any more ideas feel free to dm me instead lol

questions are fine here

[sick moon]

what does JEP even stand for

[willow nebula]

name of the founder of the company, James Elliot Parker

not because he had a large ego but because he never expected his rinky dink science company to grow so absolutely large

[bright kettle]

Here comes the money

[cunning tinsel]

wait is lakewood purely a power plant or also partly a lab?

[willow nebula]

its kind of a mix between the two

originally it started off with the dam, coal power plant and mines

then JEP bought the property from lakewood and demolished the coal power plant and turned it into an off the grid testing facility since they needed A LOT of power to run their tests

eventually james parker came up with the design for the reactor and a bit of storyline later he rebuilt the facility into a power plant

a bit of controversy later and he was forced to move the stuff underground into the coal mines

the whole power plant thing was a huge risk though since engineers didnt even know whether parkers reactor worked yet

so they ordered for the construction of a laboratory building and ofcourse got the reactor done in the nick of time

and from there they just kept piling more and more buildings together

in summary

lab and power plant

[fiery sedge]

[cunning tinsel]

Nice

[sacred scroll]

looks insane

[tribal onyx]

use them sparingly brodihydrogenmonoxide

[willow nebula]

scarily enough ive already uploaded every texture in 4k before the beta released

[tribal onyx]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1458592901444669621/1463142804472463465/attachment.gif

[willow nebula]

fear

[still owl]

why

[willow nebula]

i think cuz it takes up quite a bit of ram to store all em textures

although im not sure whether robloxs distance based textures help soothe the load

we’ll just have to see

[still owl]

True l

I haven't encountered any issues yet tho which is nice

[tribal onyx]

lag

[still owl]

I mean robloxs modulating system seems to be working fairly well thus far

Just because its uploaded at 4k doesnt mean it renders at 4k all the time

or ever

Depending on graphics mode

[tribal onyx]

either way 4k for everything is overkill

[viscid veldt]

my honest bet?
i havent practice using 4k suprisingly but i had plan to esentially like...

utilize 1k textures for any small assets i have since those already do wonders

and reserve 4k for a large thing, like a building, structure

[tribal onyx]

yea that's the way to go

[viscid veldt]

because with those scaling, the textures quality will be consistant :)

[still owl]

depending on what it is perhaps

anything that needs the higher resolution for detail then no it isnt

or larger meshes

I use 4k for all new material variants I import just for the fidelity alone

Either way, all the new tech stuff has been a godsend for graphics

Very happy with it all

[willow nebula]

lest us ignore the elephant in the room

the 4k pencil

[neat oak]

😭

Suspiciously detailed
This pencil alone is 50% of the loading time 🔥

[willow nebula]

sob

[viscid veldt]

is good!!! but do remember about the usage of 4k textures on stuff

because if something is... at least visually small

aside performance
how are we suppose to enjoy the detail :(
get what i mean?

[willow nebula]

fair point lolol

after all i wanted to make this game to satisfy peoples cravings for detail

well

for me at first lol

[viscid veldt]

can def be perfect for large scale objects for sure

[willow nebula]

yea

[tribal onyx]

https://tenor.com/view/address-me-undress-me-elephant-in-the-room-tlu-yay-gif-10717603218778044826

[willow nebula]

fear

[willow nebula]

people id like to make you guys aware that development on the station has slowed down quite a bit since im taking some time to work on some side projects in order to learn a bit more about PROPER modelling

so worry not for the station is NOT dead yet

[brave forge]

Take ur time

[cunning tinsel]

alr

[willow nebula]

gonna republish the old version of lgs and give all yall fly commands because why not

games on my profile

its the one will the unnecessary amount of bees

[final musk]

https://www.roblox.com/games/106544406344543/Lakewood-Generating-Station Putting it here for convience of others

[final musk]

Whats the command?

[final musk]

Yo you sure you gave fly commands because neither ;fly or looking into the actual system's commands doesnt work

[willow nebula]

uh oh

i may have broken something then

ill get it fixed in a bit

apologies

[final musk]

[neat oak]

came to recheck out the game gosh it still looks so good

is power off not working for the lights above the main hall area?

actually seems like all lights except the red ones don't turn off unless I'm missing somethingggg

[cloud jacinth]

When the Lakewood is generating the station

[neat oak]

gosh the floating models looks so goodddd

[willow nebula]

seems a lot of the stuff has broken down unfortunately 😔

havent worked on the game for a bit since im working on a pretty big side project to get some skills in modelling

[willow nebula]

thanks!!

[neat oak]

ah makes sense!

[neat oak]

good luckkk!

do hope you'll finish this one someday because it's really high quality imo

[willow nebula]

i will dont worry!!

im working on a huge remodel of the current visitor center building too

i think yall will like it

[neat oak]

rgb tree hehe

[neat oak]

the one ingame?

because this is massive ye

me go eep now! good luck on your projects!!

[willow nebula]

thank ya again!!

[willow nebula]

oh god its on that version

😭

[neat oak]

is it the really really broken & random stuff version

perfect

I'll take 10

[willow nebula]

poppy playtime chapter 4 initial release quality

[neat oak]

😭💔
I haven't played the game but I sure have heard about it

anyway ye love le project really hope it'll grow! out of curiousity what are you working on right now?

I'm a bit slow right now

[willow nebula]

currently im working on a huge rebuild of pbcc with a friend :D

using it as practice for modelling machinery and map design in general

sometimes i post stuff about it in general discussion if youre curious

[neat oak]

very niceee!

[neat oak]

good to know! I'm only in the server for the creator's corner hehe
I'll make sure to check every once in a while gracias!

anyway eepy tiemmmm

[willow nebula]

have a good night!!!

[calm salmon]

flying still doesnt work 💀

[willow nebula]

ahsgysdhdidf

let me try again

or did it not publish

[willow nebula]

fixed it

put a few braincells together and figured out what i did wrong

[willow nebula]

i also went ahead and enabled a few features i didnt even know i had made

+fixed the broken door scripts

[calm salmon]

Yippee!

[willow nebula]

guys the lakeword gen z station has been canceled 😔😔

real

!!!

[fiery sedge]

[willow nebula]

-# or is it

[cloud jacinth]

https://tenor.com/view/exxtha-gif-15700046976004578728

[final musk]

wait why are we piss yellow now I just noticed

[willow nebula]

oh my god 😭

EVERY ROLE IS PISS NOW

[willow nebula]

wrote this piece to experiment with chimes (what sound like bells) for some future pieces

it do be unfortuantely unfinished

might finish it

[brave forge]

Sounds interesting, quite the unique approach imo

[willow nebula]

working on some background music or trailer music or somethin

experimenting with more variety of instruments like bass trombones n the glockenspeil

[brave forge]

Bass trombone? oh, I gotta give a listen

Hmmm, good stuff

[willow nebula]

a

gracias

[willow nebula]

got some more work into it

[solid shard]

sounds great!!!!

[shrewd willow]

Just found this game, and the visuals and style is amazing! I love the controls for the flood doors too

[willow nebula]

thank you!!

[willow nebula]

finished

i do warn it gets a bit loud at some parts

[willow nebula]

alright yall so robloxs new publishing guidelines released thus meaning a gajillion projects out there just got thrown to the trash

if youre not aware, these guidelines make facial verification a REQUIREMENT for developers to publish to ages 16+, otherwise the game is isolated to only the developers access
to publish to all ages, developers must have the requirements stated before, an active roblox+ SUBSCRIPTION, have your PERSONAL ID verified, and two step verification on your account

this means lgs will only be available to ages 16+

unfortunately this has really brought down my motivation seeing roblox bring down so many small developers such as myself

this doesnt mean that lgs development will stop, though

[ebon hazel]

i love it

same sorta vibe as the older song

i forgot which

[willow nebula]

i decided to purchase some better instruments for notation program and to make the most of it i put myself to write the main theme for the generating station which ive had in mind for a while now

the percussion sounds AMAZING now

unfinished tho, being only 2 minutes long while i want it to be about 4 minutes

[viscid veldt]

this is amazing

[willow nebula]

garcias

[final musk]

garcias bruh 😭

[willow nebula]

im a professional espanol speaker

more progress

just gotta finish up the ending and revise the score to iron out some mistakes

[ebon hazel]

gracious*

[willow nebula]

im going to blow you up

[ebon hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/bornskywalker-dap-me-up-woody-woody-handshake-woody-toy-story-gif-26021440

[ebon hazel]

cant wait for lgs generators

i want the yummy diesel smells underground

[willow nebula]

i dont recommend sending random messages like that here

turns out the admins dont really like it

but dw im workin on em