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i see the shading but it defintely needs to be darker
It should be darker
I have a small issue with shading and coloring too
tried shading on the dome
My works often come out too grey and i have to fix them
hmmmmm
I did my shading like this
You can open blender 3D, create a sphere/dome
and check the lighting
yeah thats probs it
but ill do it if i ever need to draw domes
aka never
domes are a nightmare and no matter what you do they usually dont look good either
It's my first and last time doing them, probably
Is my building looking good?
could be worse ngl (dome)
walls too saturated ,ground too empty ,and the right wall needs to be darker
looks nice but the dome triggers the eye a bit
you remind me of myself when i first started making plugins
the theotown server complains: domes
i was making futuristic stuff too ,miss those days
I'm basing off of this
btw I was doing something other before, but didn't finish
His walls aren't over saturated
this is an old futuristic thing i made a long ago
neat
Looks like an optical illusion
army hanger* looks damn sweet man
Made it darker
Hanger is a man that hangs
This is my first industrial building And I messed up the perspective even more
Oh wait its spelled hanger? I guess google fooled me
It's spelled Hangar
Heh hanger
You don't need to be rude to other people that doesn't got it
i love it idk why
What is it exactly?
Oh cool
cybereverything
and some kind of elevator and support legs idk
cyberelevator*
forklifts on first and second buildings are the same, need to fix
Oh
do you have blank space under your texture?
remove it
also it looks like you've cropped out the edges of base
(right/left)
tall trucks β€οΈ
not safe for bridges
bridges hate this simple trick!
So, it's good for a house?
I guess the windows should maybe be darker
is it possible to add animations to water
yeye
and ground
depends what do you mean by that
generally, yes
I mean
clean it up a bit too cuz its a mess of pixels no ofense
hope i dont forget to finish and remake this
piskel's lighten tool works a bit oddly
I guess you could just try
ew dont use it unless its for trees man , that thing is garbage
ah
not like it's something difficult and time consuming
it gives too much noise ,only use it for trees
that explains a lot why it looks like a mess
exactly
i stopped using it so instead i just pick 2 colors one veeeery slightly brighter and one the same darker and just draw with those 2 randomly across a wall
stole that form rock fort
a
I got 20 water frames
@slender briar better?
defo
i'm just trying to refresh my pluginmaking skills a bit, and i am using piskel for the first time so that's why i'm asking some questions
you gonna leave the ground the template or u gon do smth about it?
i might have some plans to release it in a pack someday
i might just leave it transparent
draw ground true
i should make that little roof darker though, i need to work a bit on that
just make the left wall on the roof cast a shadow
I'll add a pier to the acid lake for volunteers to suicide
π
π³
i still think that the roof looks a bit odd but i think it's better
sadly piskel doesn't seem to support transparent pixels
so i had to upload ze image to my tablet and finish the shadows with pixly
@midnight obsidian are you making night texture? If so, I have a trick
Nice
nice
Nice
Not bad
What ya think?
Im going to release it as a military decor pack
The house looks pretty nice, but what are you gonna add to the yard?
How about if i do it anyways 
Also nice
So?
Do ya think this must be final product?
Pog
delete the black lines and use a more dark texture
Btw I originally wanted for these to be 3-4 times taller
Skyscraper trucks
Luckily I wasn't crazy enough
I think it was something like 1024? But If I remember correct lobby recommended to use 512. Thats the number we used for tcdd
The more it is more lag he said
I like how slowly but surely Simon is transforming Theotown into Cyberbug 2077
Yep same
Idk honestly, Mongolia isn't the favourite place for population density
But i plan on adding some people
JR East E235 Series
Is it a French or Japanese train?
Japanese
Only 2 trains left to do
- π―π΅ JR Shikoku 8000 series
- π―π΅ JR Shikoku 6000 series
Those are the one left to do
I will likely make more japanese & french trains for future updates
but not a lot
since updates will be based on other stuff
Larger trains stations will likely make it soon too
but will certainly not be elevated
Got it , ill wait till approval
It's nice but needs to fix the windows
if i got an euro for every time i've seen an out of scale theotown building, i'd probably be a very rich person
h
the balconies look scuffed
πΆ
The house is done
mhm
@midnight obsidian what do you think of my building?
it's ok
would recommend adding more detail, maybe some more noise on the walls
ye
Olive Tree Icon
in my city olive trees are too common and this olive tree is 1350+ years old
Recording pack #2 : Staged car crash
Tv reporters #3 : A lot of reporters
Oh wait, thats a flipped car
Thats a big car
Maybe a Truck or a Van
I mean a diagonal car is already hard to do imagine a diagonal car upside down
this looks so good!
How is the house?
@rain gate
Thanks π
Wrong angle or thing
looks pretty nice but i think you should resize these windows and the door since a human is 3-pixel tall
yesn't. 
woah that looks like a nice feature
I see no problem here
no problem, but ... 
I managed to make DSA style researches :D
nice
only upgrade for now
Is there a way to quickly add them as requirement for other buildings?
(so it needs building upgrade, not just building)
or I need some variable stuff?
(a bit wrong channel)
You need to deal with virtual variables
@livid agate Are there any tutorials on that?
On this specific thing no
But there are tutorials for how to use Lua and how to use virtual variables
okay
uma
Added car park decorations
I will do more variants when TTT or T cars will be ready
I should focus on residential buildings
so I will be able to make somewhat towns that would make sense
TheoCyberTown
Looks good
cybercar, cyberpark, cyberdecorations, cyberfocus, cyberwhatever
cybertheocybertown
ok i have no idea how they go under bridges
Hologram
Nice π
Should I put it on TT or T?
I got a suggestion for you : "cyberpunkizing " this building ( i think it has some sort if futuristic feel in it )
Idk actually , if i go by the dark color it would be T
I want to keep addon mine and without credits, so i'll probably not cyberpunkize other people's buildings... But it certainly looks cool
Putting it in T makes sense but I don't want to put in poor for some reason...
I'll leave it for now
btw I can't wait to put these neon lights as night texture, wonder how will it look
Its my own plugin , just mention me for the original idea and you will be good :)
Can't wait to see the result , good luck π
By the way, the building was heavily inspired by this picture my friend sent me
But with some changes, and bigger
So, sadly, idea is not 100% by me
Oh , i remember making something slightly similar in Minecraft
Gonna search if i still have some pictures of it
gonna remake this one soon
Ah here we go :)
Its part of the Japan pack
I don't know its real name
But its located in Tokyo
Imma add more residential buildings, starting from small ones
So i can build more cyberpunk areas
(bruh i forgot to remove trees from asphalt lines)
dude its like watching myself when i first started
same color i used to use in my futuristic stuff
let me find some
Yeah it has a similar "Kek style" feel in it
is that good/bad?
oh god
i cant say its up to the crowd
yeah ik they ugly af
Shapes look cool
bad?
@sharp dawn is it bad or good that he has a similar style to old me?
this is a recent semi futuristic plugin of mine btw
it's actually good, but the windows border is too dark
this is one of my last futuristic stuffs
actually good but the window has a border , thats the problem i dont do borders anymore
I remember your stuff
I still have your addon with (almost) similar window in middle
hmm which?
ohhhh the one with the cool night lights
had a swearword fight with someone
someone who left after like 3 days and i was banned for a few months
bruh
half life?
omgg so stunning
ah yes, hexland mall or whatever that was called
yeah i still kinda like it
too messy but overal i did it pretty well
need to finish the texture and fix the json
plus if i want to make it 100% i need to remake some old vehicle textures
cuz i want it to spawn combine tanks and hellies
train crossing barrier is useless. lol
uh oh
I mean, the idea is pretty cool, and realization is nice too
Except moments like this
Idk if are there any ways to fix
But I would install
I like this tho
For the Olive Tree, I wont add more than 12 variants
Can someone teach me variables in lua? I feel like dumbass for that, but I have no idea how to use them in TheoTown plugins
especially virtual ones
So i can change them when upgrading one building, and read with another (if i understood the concept)
I want to make dsa style researched but I am not sure it's possible
Who can make Tokyo skytree and Tokyo Tower please
You'll need to put the variable in city storage
That way the value will be the same for all your scripts
Wait just 1script?
You can just have a static local variable outside your function
It'll be the same one for every building
Then you'll need to use storage
how?
k, thanks
function script:init()
settings = Util.optStorage(TheoTown.getStorage(), '$cinematicam00'..':settings', {})
settings.firstToolStart = settings.firstToolStart or true
end
this gets the storage table and gets the value firstToolStart or initializes it to true
in this case i use the global theotown storage table
if you only want to store it in a city use City.getStorage()
you should replace '$cinematicam00'..':settings' with any name you think is appropriate
i used my drafts id
but for you the plugin name would probably be best
wrong kind of variable, erk
didnt he say he wanted to share a variable between 2 scripts
okay, I'll try.... Where do I put it in script, and what will the syntax be?
should i just put it in separate json?
@chilly mango sorry for being silly but where do I put it?
i feel like it doesn't belong in building code
Roundabout starts playing
this is aesthetically good, I don't really see a problem about disappearing cars but unfortunately people wouldn't use it like how we are doing to traffic lights because not like real life, traffic light cause more traffic in theotown due cars stopping for certain times
it should be in a .lua file
Thanks, how do i change/view the value?
ah
I meant, check if is it True/Fase
false*
So i can (probably) put it in requirements or something else
Alright, i started working on the new olive tree
And it look so good
like
100 times better than the previous variant
nice
Pretty nice
epick
Alright
So since ground decals were added
I got an idea
I'll do some testings
but i want to make some decorative grass / ferns props
that can be used under for forests too
Ah yes , that would be nice for decoration :)
@keen helm forgot to ask, how does it look in game?
Nice !
Maybe make the right side of the tree darker so it dosent blend with the grass
it blends in with the grass a bit too much sadly
I'll see what i can do if you guys want me to change that
try shifting the colors of the leaves maybe
make it yellower or bluer
add outlines, then there's no way the tree would blend in!
i was just joking there
perfect
i love how weird this looks though
it's looks unprofessional and professional at the same time
look a bit cartoonish
yeah
oh lol
I think olive trees dont really grown on grassy soils tho, they can grow on hard rock soils or dry soils too soo
they consume a lot of water
oh
True, that was the idea at first
that explains it then
But for the sake of it, i'll make those a bit more yellow
can you post the tree on some rocky ground
ok yeah
I got plans to add some later tho
definitely looks better
this looks better
it should be hard to implent olive tree to this pixel scale, nice job
no need to over think on it
Well i am the one with the most experience with trees in Theotown, since i textured most of those on the plugin store and a few in vanilla
but i can imagine people in the plugin store commenting "oh it blends a lot with grass!!!!"
and tbh the olive tree is extremely hard to do
cus their leaves are tiny
hi, I have a problem , I make my first plugin and he's flying
it should be hard
draw ground true
and make sure you don't have transparent pixels under the baseplate
By the way
@midnight obsidian K thanks
I might make my first skyscraper ever
I actually want to make the hermitage plaza skyscraper
since the project has begun construction
you had skyscrapers in forum, do you meant first skyscraper in store?
oh yeah the forum ones
they are quite bad, out of scales, but were okay for a beginning
Now i want to try that one, which should be complete in 2024 and would become the tallest tower in Europe
kinda strange architecture, tiny to thick
from ground to above not like the wellknown skyscrapers. Probably has a technique
I have been using pdn for years
made a quick test house
gotta add in the shadows
not bad
yeah, pdn might be my favorite program for creating plugins right now
Not bad at all
tbh
pdn is by far the best tool for plugins
$
2 examples of stuff i made with pdn
a building & an icon
What's pdn?
Oh I'm in mobile nvm
Is the shape of the roof good?
Whereβs the roof?
yep
there's a trend i notice in more amateur and even pro creators that drive me nuts , ill make smth to show you what it is in a bit
it has something to do with the roof
Wdym ?
shading on roof seems a bit weird but everything aside is ok
that plugin's unfinished
its this one small issue i see everywhere
finally
which issue ? @slender briar
ew one looks hollow and idk it has something that makes it look weird
the walls are basically 2d
the second one has depth
gives the wall thickness instead of just being a pixel thin thing
I should remember that when making house's but i rarely make plugins anymore
and since light comes from above it makes more sense for a wall to have a bright top side
thats the issue above
oh yeah that
It pisses me off too
anyway
started working on the JR Shikoku series 6000
then i'll do the series 8000, a few props, and then update is released
no probs man i just noticed it in a lot of people's stuff just wanted to point it out
nice filename lol
i'll add this boy now
it's the 4th japanese train to be added in the pack
basically i aim to have 10 japanese trains & 10 french trains done
jesus you like trains
and rn, there are 10 french trains done already & 8 japanese trains done already
And yes I do like trains
there ya go
atta boy
i noticed something else if u dont mind
lemme make a demonstration for that
ait
despite being on the same line the wall interesects in 2 different colours that kinda doesnt make a lot of sense
if you drew that wall corner on paper it would be rounded and shading would bend around it
ah
just a smol tipp
not a biggie but makes corners look a bit rounded in some cases
kinda hard to notice
What monorail is that?
i think this wall needs some windows
i'm thinking of adding some graffiti there
@slender briar how does one fix the windows when it's like this
idk looks fitting for the angle
looks good to me man
oh ok then
looks nice and smooth
π
Both ways can work actually
oh looks nice
regarding that
so yeah both ways can be used
but the other can only be used for really hard corner and it's rare to see it being used
but it looks verrry odd
at least in my eye
depends, i have seen some buildings where it matches very nicely
i keep my stance angle wise its weird and doesn't make a whole lot of sense
i think i went a bit too far with the noise
It is endstone
IMO not all walls need windows
it doesn't look as bad when looking from further but eh
lower the noise a bit
ye
but do not remove it
yasss now it looks perfect
Ok, whos MDK and how do i get his waterbreaker?
@chrome stream look on the the forums
I did, but i coulnd find it
breakwater
frick, i forgot to add "draw ground": true
works flawlessly
wait crap i forgot to add shadows on the lower roof
i'll fix that later
looking nice, what is that building supposed to be?
just some apartments
started working on this tower
yooo looks so nice
thanks
should i give the roof the same color as asphalt?
Considering that it will work like car park too
nah it would look weird
maybe you're right
I feel like most of my names aren't complicated enough
just smack the keyboard and boom, you got a broken keyboard and a good name

alright, imma make some more of these houses
i kinda like this style
what do you think of my new house?
assume this is a very large skyscraper
everyone loves large skyscrapers!
ok enough shitposting
Taxi is "landing" on roof
but it kinda looks like a drunk driver put it on the edge of a building
a
The26#5688 i will pay 1000 diamonds for your plugin , because i like modern bright red house
Ok good
I would pay a bajillion dollars for the skyscraper lol
The ads is kinda to dark
are you sure the red car is supposed to be like that
I think the red car is floating on the road
I agree
red car is not part of the building
(that one near the window)
About details, I agree
don't know about ads being dark, idk, maybe just desaturated
I am learning so making large buildings is hard for me too
I want to organize my bike path plugin but im having a problem lol
?
Well, you see one json hold 30 frames with the same id
I want to seperate it to 4, 4 but i think i need a new id
Now if i change the id, and release it, i think that i changed the id users will lose the bike path they placed
I wouldnt re release it again
or just hide existing and make new roads as separate things idk
don't know a solution
I wanted to make it look like this so it dosent look messy
thank you
btw
I should make a road without neon lights
So it will look better in poor/narrow streets
btw is it possible to replicate airports (with behair) in plugin?
House
Theres a bug on the roof
What it shoukd look like
Ok
Ok
h, when i asked how the roof was like, they said fine but when i finish it isn't ok
Hypocrisy
i mean, are houses natural haha
Oh wait

The one on the left is correct
Are blimps from blimp plugin just helicopters with custom texture and no rotors?
The one on the right is the incorrect one
probably
btw I'm looking for some airport building designs maybe
I am thinking of adding something like airport in my plugin
but spaceport
which will spawn some airships or idk
search on google images "cool airports", i guess
lol
and for decorations
Is it possible to make rocket animations in plugins?
Like in DSA
half of it is singapore intl
rocket animations?
????
well
aka exhaust flames?
you can build dsa launchpad
and launch rockets
and they can fly into the sky
I don't think they actually drew 1000 frame animation for rocket flying up
you know, move y exists
there's like 5 tutorials on animations
speaking of animations, i'll never ever do night animations i think
night animations aren't that hard
especially if you use ian's tool
at least on 1 framed buildings
not much of a difference
hmm
i just don't see them as a very necessary thing
i don't bother wasting time
Idk, they look cool
as I said, just use ian's tool, it takes like a minute to define it and copy into your def
I have working script so i can just copy paste it
Sometimes i dont just add lights to window i need to light up a sign to
Btw will be night anims added to vanilla soon?
they exist since a few months already?
In vanilla?
yeah?
Bruh I used dev tool
And half an hour to place light once you understand how to use π³
To be honest I can't understand y placement
It seems like sometimes it's a random number
not quite sure what's so difficult, it's basic coordinate stuff that they teach in school
I think that's it
White wall
yes
What white wall?
doesn't look that bad imo
It's common having a white wall like that in the houses I'm making
Also, they're pretty colourful
Saturation is ok
hm
(at least this time)
those houses look funky lol
They're Mongolian village houses
I also made some yurts but idk if they're good
working on something π
kinda low effort building
Try to add an enterance
my attempt at some kind of an add banner :/
Don't crash your plane in me or my son ever again.
Can you give me the .png of it ? I can try to improve it a bit if you want
I kinda like it now, may do some improvements myself soon
showcase btw
Imma add night texture to mall tower
and vanilla redraws
niice
@slender briar can you give me some criticism on these three buildings so far?
I made a category!
can anyone help me a bit with the roof?
look at the image
I am so inspired to make a spaceport
So many ideas
It should be possible
My eyes hurt and I have a headache
But I need more plugin work
nice
omg it would be awesome
it looks good!
yea
isn't this the gas price display board?
if it is, then it should be bigger
Is it me or that road is actually curvedπ
well this pack is turning out much nicer than i thought
Yes
How didthat guys road curve
It curves :>
The magic of plugin
see pins
Do u k wat plugin anyone
There is no road that curve like that (not yet at least) is a plugin
Just search gas station
Is the perspective of this ok?
(No it's not a tire)
uhhh I promised to never use shapes like this
looks like...
this building does look a bit odd because of the 2 pixel gap between windows but i think it's ok
no it looks fine
o ok
What do yall guys think about this shape template?
Finished main tower body
Needs texture, details (windows ofc) and maybe reshading
(Shading came out weird)
I think for the spaceport icon, make the windows of the building gray like how it is for airport but dont change ufo's cyan window
also nice shadows on that tower, did you used a program for that?
it looks soo nice good job
thanks
Nice, do you know when those houses will be out ?
I also have grey spaceport zone
but it looks to transparent
probably because of it's color idk
maybe make it darker or more purple/cyan
I do not know
...I am escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism...... SpAcE!!!
Need to lower amount of stars tho
I think there should be only 1 or 2 stars in each tile and they should all be white or red' white like tones
Gosh, this is so beautiful, I can't wait to use itβ€οΈ
Thanks, I'll do my best while making this plugin
Neat
thanks
i can publish this to the plugin store if i wanted to right now, but i won't, i still want to create some more of these buildings
Hmmm i seen that tower somewhere (plugin)
Well drawing is fully mine
Don't know any plugin
This design may be common though
It's design is very similar to this
(btw its funny how I never knew about this tower before googling)
(but my tower is almost a redraw of this)
I bring a super novelty. I will update the Brazilian Residential Pack, and this time I believe it will take about 2 months (lol), because there will be a lot to update, and one of them is the sunshine on the buildings and the roof. Example of that. The first is before and the second after:
Thanks. π
love it
cool
Thanks. π
I guess it's time to finally continue drawing it
Woah, nice
ty
Planning to add night anim for them?
no
Is the perspective of this ok?
perspective yeah shading idk
oof, i wish π
Should I remove this red bar?
Yes
I really like those apartments, pretty nice for TT or T beach side apartment sites
the one with height variants
yes
More updates! π
I thought I'll share my goals for cyberpunk mod with you:
At least 10 new buildings for each zone type
Fully functional spaceport with several airship launchpads
Several new parks/gyms
At least 4 transport buildings
At least 15 decoration, and at least 5 for spaceport
More roads
New garbage recycling buildings
New green energy buildings
Noise/pollution absorbers
Cyberpunk buildings for each service
Possibly road decorations
Possibly intersections with my custom roads
Night textures for most of buildings in addon
I think I'll be able to make these, with some time
I really want to spice up my late-game
Hope I won't abandon project and my inspiration won't fly away
What do you guys think? Do you have any suggestions?
I'll do my best to achieve these
Well, most of these are possible for me (At least I have an idea of how to create them, that should work)
also, my whole apartment pack looks great for like some very old, wasteland kind of style cities
But yeah, I'd probably need lesser buildings since it will take lots of time
I like it
here they are in this "beach"
They fit there
yep
Oh, and 1 modern church too
the brown stuff around the buildings are supposed to be dead grass but this still works well for beach stuff
I really like them, reminds me the neigborhood city's beaches with train yards
Since even modern buildings will need religion, and in game churches won't fit there
in fact, those apartments are actually inspired by a building in real life
from my city
they're not a 1 to 1 replica but i feel like the inspiration can be noticed if you've seen one of these buildings
i love how this looks
and all of these 9 buildings (i'm planning to make more) will be for a low, low price of 30
who need 1:1 builds anyway. They look pretty simple and nice. And also vanilla+. Thanks for your work
excuse me everyone do you know what the name of this plugin is and where can i get it
I tried the plugin but the vehicle I was looking for was not there
Holly catfish Β°_Β°
Ok
I like so much all of the buildings but the 1st variant heights are exagerated, dont u think?
eh
Seems phisically unstable when u go further than lvl 3
everyone likes skyscrapers, i don't really care about physics
the new game advancements, my new phone's performance are making me to return to TT lol
And new plugin generations
"exaggerated" meanwhile ^
if your plugin is a skyscraper, it doesn't matter how good or bad it will look, people will like it
Especially if it has bright blue glass windows
there are a few main factors to make people like your building (joke):
is it a skyscraper?
if yes, people will immediately like the plugin, doesn't matter if it's ugly or good
is it some poorly made park with an image ripped off from google images?
if yes, people will like your plugin. if it looks hyper realistic, then it's good
is it some real life building?
if yes, people will like your plugin. if it's based off of a real life building, make sure to put it in the title or description of your plugin
does it have night mode?
if no, people won't really like the plugin, but if you write that in the description, people shouldn't really complain
is it a flag or a plane skin plugin?
people LOVE flags, so if you want to make a plugin that everyone would love, make a flag plugin. it doesn't matter if it's lovely or ugly
the same goes with plane skins.
if i missed any other factors, please tell me, i'll make sure to add it
remember, ignore the plugin professionals, they don't know what they're talking about, just make sure so that newer players upvote your plugin as much as they could, they don't care about the plugin's quality
tell me if i missed something, i'll add it to the message
Flags and planes skins plugins
oh right
Plugin professionals can't understand the true meaning of modern art
I mean, if you compare the engagement, the one with less downloads has higher ratio of engagement
Basically
They just click download everything
i'll do some research later
" Which plugin do you want to download ? "
" Yes "