plugin-discussion

[unique pivot]

yeah thats good

[verbal wharf]

very good

[uneven plover]

hmm yes

transparent UI

[rain gate]

I'm thinking of making my 3rd plugin but idk what to make

I dont want to make a house because everyone has already done that

[scenic pivot]

Hi, I am willing to join the plug-in creators community.

I have seen some tutorials, and read the fourms

From where I will draw the buildings and all?

[uneven plover]

You should check TT forum about making textures and codes first

[rain gate]

I'm considering making an RV plugin

But I cant code at all

[midnight obsidian]

ah yes

lmao

working on something

[scenic pivot]

where will I draw these

[midnight obsidian]

look at the pins

[scenic pivot]

My little well for poor inhabitants to solve their water problem

[unique pivot]

I literally drew a building with same shape yesterday

[midnight obsidian]

it's not very isometric, lack of shading, out of scale, no shadows

remove the outlines

[midnight obsidian]

pls no copystrike

[scenic pivot]

New one, fully made

Should I remove the grass

And scale fully

[midnight obsidian]

i'd recommend you to make this way smaller

like WAYYY smaller

[hybrid sedge]

You turned it wider,bigger than before

[scenic pivot]

Yes

Re made

[midnight obsidian]

usually a well in theotown would be like 2-4 pixels high and 2-4 pixels wide

[hybrid sedge]

Bad remake

[midnight obsidian]

as a regular theotown human is 3 pixels tall and 1 pixel wide

keep that in mind, it will really help with scale

[scenic pivot]

Ahh leave

Single color grass is very bad

Right?

[midnight obsidian]

yes

[hybrid sedge]

Just remove the grass

The game can draw the grass for you if you turned on , draw ground

[scenic pivot]

So what is isometric

4d view?

[midnight obsidian]

22.5 angle

[scenic pivot]

2.5

This is 2d

[midnight obsidian]

it's basically 2.5d

[scenic pivot]

I will make this in single tile

[unique pivot]

there is so many things wrong with that well

[scenic pivot]

Make a list

[midnight obsidian]

here's how the angle looks like, most of the buildings in theotown are based on this

[unique pivot]

outline, it's not even everywhere, too less colors, no noise, weird shading, almost no shadows, scale, no transparent ground, and your ground is just 1 color with weird shadow

and this

[midnight obsidian]

transparent ground isn't necessary

[unique pivot]

yeah but it would be great here

[scenic pivot]

What is that

Transparent ground

[unique pivot]

and your ground is just 1 color with weird shadow
and i left this here

[midnight obsidian]

if you will have transparent ground, don't forget to put "draw ground": true or however that piece of code is called

[unique pivot]

@scenic pivot basically your sprite is transparent, you don't need to draw grass

and in game it shows whatever is under building

[scenic pivot]

Oh

So only the well

Next

[unique pivot]

you can draw your grass if you want to

[scenic pivot]

How will I remove the outline

Shape will be weird

[midnight obsidian]

here's the angle for shadows btw

[scenic pivot]

Hmm

No out line

How, this game's developer made this game?

Even blender is very easy

[unique pivot]

wdym blender

[scenic pivot]

?

3d modeller

[unique pivot]

how does it fit the topic

how is it related to theotown

[scenic pivot]

It won't

If theo town was 3d

[frozen aurora]

FORT?!?!?!

[midnight obsidian]

no

[scenic pivot]

You are playing minecraft

[frozen aurora]

Sad

[uneven plover]

Looks like community apartment

[livid agate]

IX fortas when?

[midnight obsidian]

idk

[scenic pivot]

Ahh, I am not making plugins.

[livid agate]

konkrečiau

the monument

[hybrid sedge]

[midnight obsidian]

don't call it quits yet, you just started with a harder shape to make, i'd recommend you start with some basic house

[sharp kettle]

Why some of my png in download went missing...

[hybrid sedge]

Cause "'-'"

[scenic pivot]

May be in the future. Thank you

[rain gate]

There are new houses ahead, but I think it will take a while to finish, as I will do the same with the stores. The new version will have some plug-ins aside. : cry:

A curious fact is that white house below the one with texture is an old plug-in that I never added in the game. And my first one made on December 2019.

[earnest juniper]

what would be the best industrial plugins for a clean European city?

[uneven plover]

Montemarino made 2 industrial plugins

And rockfort has a industrial pack

[orchid island]

Hey is there a plugi for a modable amusement park

That would be amazing to have

[rain gate]

There is a plugin for that, if I remenber correctly.

I forgot its name tho.

[earnest juniper]

how do you search for plugins by a creators name

nvm got it

[uneven plover]

How?

[median crypt]

so I don't know how to code stuff I just saw that there wasn't an animation for police cars going down and Diagonal Road so I just made some that look like they were going down the diagonal road in different directions so here you go

i m making more stuff

[earnest juniper]

anyone know what the plugin for dirt roads is called?

like the one with a grass strip down the middle

[rich birch]

gee, just a little more 😆👊

Is the price of this plugin fair enough for a road plugin (only 2 roads) Is it worth it ??

[sinful meadow]

what is the code for to be allowed both water and land

[rich birch]

YOU have to write 2 codes
"needs land":false,
"needs water":false,

[sinful meadow]

I just want to allow this both water and land

[sinful meadow]

I think this is not possible

This code required both

[rich birch]

Wait a minute ... I'll give you a screenshot of my json

[static sail]

I think you should change the livery of this police car cause it looks kinda different to tt police car

[sinful meadow]

Owww thanks get it

"needs land":true,
"needs road":true,
Wrong code

Haha

[sinful meadow]

This is right

[rich birch]

oops I'm late...
OK great

[midnight obsidian]

this reminds me of derncho rblx (or how was he called)

[low loom]

It is

[hybrid sedge]

Is this an fair enough price or I'll lower it to 30 like all my plugins

[unique pivot]

Wait is price like this even allowed?

[midnight obsidian]

yes

all of my plugins that i upload to the plugin store will only cost 30

i don't really need the diamonds anyways, i mainly play theotown on pc

[rain gate]

I'm only limited to building small towns because I cant have too many plugins or the game is unplayable

[static sail]

Yes but it's ridiculous

[rain gate]

Love it

[hybrid sedge]

Same that's why I lowered it now

[sterile snow]

@rain gate I feel ur pain!

[rain gate]

Context?

[midnight obsidian]

@rain gate here's the context

[rain gate]

Oh yeah

I used to have a lot

[sinful meadow]

Help

This is what happen after update

[stoic palm]

@sinful meadow please refer to the #announcements

If you want to learn more about where to find your files do Pfiles in #bot-commands

[rich birch]

After the 1.9.82a update you need to say goodbye to your plugins folder in the file manager because all those plugins folders have been moved into game files
But in order for you to access all your plugin files you need to export (to move the plugin file out of the game> file manager) and import (to enter the plugin file into the game).

[low loom]

Guys i wanted to ask if i go continue working with path find for allied ships to destroy incoming intruders or it can only be destroyed if enemy already in nearby tiles of your ships

I have problem with path find, actually allied ship might sink/destroy/disappear after the battle due to collisions with other buildings here's my pseudo for allied ship mechanics for better understanding

•Build the static ship(2x2) with fun conditions to check if there's an enemy.
•check for enemy.
•if there is an, remove itself then build the ship with size of 1x1 and has path find
•ship will find their way how can they get closer to that enemy ship.
•there is an probability for destroying enemy ship when it's already nearby with your allied ships.
•check/count enemy's draft id.
•if <= 0 remove that allied ship with has path find and build again  that static one sized 2x2.

[empty night]

https://youtu.be/3peYxuK7BS4

[rich birch]

Excuse me everyone. I want to ask .. what is the name of this red car plugin ?? Please tell me

[rain gate]

It's in a ferrari and Lamborghini plugin

[rich birch]

I've been looking for but nothing

[rain gate]

It was on the plugin store last time I check

[buoyant estuary]

If I remember correctly its called "Car Spawner"

[slender briar]

@untold zealot your new plugin harbin hotel is good but the trees look bad

and the windows look too big

and the trees dont even cast a shadow on the building smh

[unique pivot]

well shadow thing is right but i don't see anything wrong with windows or trees

[slender briar]

of course you dont

[unique pivot]

except that they look too straight

[slender briar]

brudder ever heard of shadows

[unique pivot]

oh nvm i thought you said trees look too big

[slender briar]

if a tree exists and its tall as hell next to a building its going to cast a shadow on the building and sidewalk

[unique pivot]

well yes they look not good

[slender briar]

plus the trees are like a green splat and some noise ,that's it

total contrast to the building

building looks decent trees look awful

and tbh looking at the real life hotel , i think there is too much space between windows

[unique pivot]

I would just paste in game trees because I have no idea of how to draw ones

[slender briar]

this space is let's say 2 pixels at most

3 if you're generous

theirs is 5

irl the gap is about half the window , theirs is like 90% the size of a window

little scaling things

also not centered

[unique pivot]

oh god

how to unsee

[slender briar]

if you want to call yourself a professional team and act like you're awesome try to put the quality of a team into this

cmon some of this stuff is rookie things

trees cast shadows center things etc

oh my god they messed up the shadow on the ground

trees same color in the shadow and in the light

jesus

are you seeing this simon

[unique pivot]

bruh

I am not that good of an artist but I still always try to make my stuff symmetric and centered

[slender briar]

dont get me wrong it has its pros

other than a bit of too much shading on details and some scale issues the main thing is basiccally perfect

and the roof is great too

but the base is just so horrible

[uneven plover]

bruh

[rich birch]

just let it go ... he's a critic of theotown plugins👨🏻‍💻

[untold zealot]

Thanks We will republish it after we modify it maybe next week.👌 I was in a hurry when it was released, so I didn’t check it carefully.

[slender briar]

oki thanks for accepting the criticism

i tried to make it as uhh nice as i could but i have a weird way of writin

[slender briar]

criticism helps improve ,might be harsh sometimes but you won't improve your skill from "nice" and "looks awesome"

[dreamy cargo]

"rci cars":1000

Anyone know what's that for?

[livid agate]

Defined how many RCI cars a building can spawn

[dreamy cargo]

So, to make a train station spawn cars can i add that?

[livid agate]

It only works for RCI buildings

[dreamy cargo]

Ow

But I actually found that in the airport json

[livid agate]

Yes

That will only spawn RCI cars

[cloud grail]

I could not find the button while working in the plugin. Where could it be?

[rain turret]

on the sidebar

[unique pivot]

something very poor

[keen helm]

Just had an idea for the decoration plugin

some sport machinery for beaches & parks

I'll likely make some logo for fictional companies

[fleet moss]

@keen helm Are you going to make one massive decoration pack? Because that sounds awesome with all the ideas you have been putting out.

[keen helm]

Yeah most likely

[midnight obsidian]

thumbnail where

[sharp kettle]

Thumbnail: aight imma head out

[floral pivot]

AAAALIGHTMOOOODE

e p i c e m b e d f a i l

[keen helm]

Alright, so i am looking for all of your help

For the decoration plugin, i am planning to add advert billboards, signs and stuff

Therefore, i would like you guys to create fictional / custom brands logos to give me inspiration

First fictional brand of the plugin, called Vairen & Klaehr will have this logo and will likely be a luxury car manufacturer.

Idk yet how the adverts will be but i already got a few ideas 🙂

In fact, I could very well make the logos open-source for those who need some fictional brands to decorate their cities / plugins

Perhaps also some animated led signs 🙂

I also want to make a modular castle someday

[rain gate]

Ok this is an oddly specific request but could you add a bench 1x1 decoration

[rich birch]

Why is it that ships in Theotown have always been like this since the update, even though I have fixed the template for the ship according to its size (2x2) the decoration of the ship has improved but the ship is not :'(

[slender briar]

heh nice

i used to do that too

[midnight obsidian]

currently working on a building for my residential pack's update

[midnight obsidian]

eh

anyways, this building will use animations

[midnight obsidian]

there was an attempt, that's for sure

trying to get the y coordinates is pain

oop

ok now that's a problem with the sprite itself, not the y coords

nice

wait

huh

the base should've had an odd number of floors aa

awesome

[broken galleon]

i think its better on a 1x1 tile

[midnight obsidian]

eh

i might add some trees or sth in the blank space

anyways, i think i'm starting to go a bit too tall haha

poggies

final variant

[agile forum]

San Antonio

395 [168]

[stable tulip]

sorry

wrong chanel

[echo prairie]

is ok

[unique pivot]

@midnight obsidian I am not suggesting anything, but why aren't you adding night frames? I don't really care of are they added or not, I am just curious

[midnight obsidian]

i just don't know how to make them

[unique pivot]

Btw I should draw some logos too, because I am making cyberpunk mod and it's really related to corporations

I don't know how to make separate random windows (that actually would fit for your plugin) but I can show you how to make them in 1 image

lol I may steal this

[gusty pike]

who wants to see bob?

[unique pivot]

you guys wouldn't even guess what am i drawing now

I am bringing a curse to this game

[unique pivot]

doesn't fit

[rich birch]

excuse me everyone, what's the name of this plugin

[unique pivot]

idk but looks like russian cathedral, try searching by these words

or church idk

I personally didn't find anything, may be a local plugin or I just didn't got search terms

[urban grove]

Stolen asset

[sinful meadow]

Its looks like trojan horse

[unique pivot]

you just haven't seen the final result

[midnight obsidian]

so here's the plugin so far

[rain gate]

👍 👍

Cool

[midnight obsidian]

working on an update for the building pack

a

[unique pivot]

tbh very tall buildings in this style look weird

[rain gate]

🤔

[unique pivot]

and I am drawing this messed up sht

[midnight obsidian]

real life inspiration for my plugin

and some more inspiration for me

[static sail]

mmmm

[unique pivot]

Are there any tutorials of adding power poles?

[midnight obsidian]

i'm afraid that it's not possible

[unique pivot]

Very sad

I would like to make some epic looking power distributing thing

[orchid sorrel]

it is possible

[midnight obsidian]

oh

[orchid sorrel]

there just isn't a tutorial

[midnight obsidian]

oh ok nvm

[orchid sorrel]

I guess it's type "energy"

[midnight obsidian]

i remember someone saying that it wasn't possible or sth among those lines

is he talking about something like this?

[orchid sorrel]

that's what I think he is

[unique pivot]

Yes I am talking about this

Is there a code example so I can at least try?

[chilly mango]

Isn't that for power plants?

[unique pivot]

Maybe there is a content.json for them

[chilly mango]

I'd check that first

[orchid sorrel]

idk, that probably would be the best idea

[midnight obsidian]

can someone help me with cylinders

[uneven plover]

ngl I forgot pixel arting

maybe something like this?

[unique pivot]

Circular shapes in rtobby pack 😳

[midnight obsidian]

i'm just trying to remake this, that's all

[unique pivot]

Ah

Looks slightly weird

[uneven plover]

I think if you give the right shades it will look like a cylinder

[unique pivot]

Is it an elevator shaft?

[uneven plover]

it is an okay shape

[midnight obsidian]

don't ask me, the soviets built this

(probably)

[unique pivot]

I was about to ask where do you live because it looks slightly Soviet

[uneven plover]

he should be living in a place related with that

[midnight obsidian]

i just found that image on google maps, there are a few regions in the capital city with such buildings

but yeah, i also live in a city that has quite a lot of soviet buildings

actually rock fort has made some plugins from my city as well

[unique pivot]

Okay

I think I'll do a Soviet/Russian pack sometime after cyberpunk

[midnight obsidian]

actually come to think of it quite a lot of my plugins were soviet themed

[unique pivot]

May use this as inspiration

Btw is there a way to add 2x2 trees in TheoTown?

[rain gate]

No

As decoration

[uneven plover]

if you know lua once again

it should be possible

I just found out you can do whatever in theotowon with lua, not just theotown but also minecraft mod computercraft or such

[unique pivot]

I wish I could understand TheoTown lua

Even though I have some experience with coding, I still don't get it

[midnight obsidian]

i feel like json isn't really a language, just like how html isn't an actual programming language

[unique pivot]

Well we're talking about lua

Or wdym

[uneven plover]

json is nothing dude

worthless

[midnight obsidian]

in both of these "languages" you're really just specifying some data for some other piece of code to read and process

doesn't json have to do something with javascript anyways

[uneven plover]

if you want to make json plugin and be good, your pixelart should be amazing or you suck
if you want to make a lua plugin and if it works how you planned, who cares about pixelart

[midnight obsidian]

yes

[uneven plover]

and I suck in both ways

[midnight obsidian]

json is the observable universe, lua is the entire universe KEKW

json is pretty limited while lua is pretty expansive

[empty night]

lua is just another programming language in the end, just that the array for some reason starts at 1

[chilly mango]

correct

json is a way to define data

json stands for javascript object notation which is where it came from

but it quickly turned out to be usefull for pretty much every langauge

this concludes my seminar on json

[midnight obsidian]

would my very limited knowledge on batch be useful for lua?

[chilly mango]

eh

i guess

maybe

the reason lua is so widespread is because it is easy to run from another language

so tt uses java to run lua

but you can do it from pretty much any language

[midnight obsidian]

ah

[chilly mango]

ah yes

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaInterpreterInLua

[keen helm]

It's entirely possible to make power lines, both high voltage & low voltage

In fact i had made some before

[unique pivot]

Or you just create a huge amount of buildings like I did

Cybapank

I will take attempts to learn lua soon

[uneven plover]

well I mean, you can still do stuff with with json. Like huge packs or stuff. I was just texting there

they wont really grant many gameplay tastes like DSA or AoS

[unique pivot]

I was trying to make dsa stuff as requiring an update

But I don't really understand it for now so I gave up

I even repainted an icon for it... So sad..

[uneven plover]

oh like

a building requiring a dsa building in order to build up

[chilly mango]

I use lua to make smaller convenience tools

Currently working on smth very ui heavy

Starting to use custom graphics for the uis

The GUI api is very flexible

[uneven plover]

a new layout for UI?

[chilly mango]

I'm not modifying existing ui

Although that is possible

[uneven plover]

I know everything is possible with lua

.o.

[chilly mango]

Well

Most things

[uneven plover]

is it possible to integra microsoft flight sim form 90s to theotoe with lua?

okay

[chilly mango]

Well

[uneven plover]

@chilly mango nevermind that, do we actually need to know libgdx for lua coding in TT

[chilly mango]

You have the drawing functions

Nah

[uneven plover]

https://happycoding.io/tutorials/libgdx/ what is this?

[chilly mango]

Technically with draw anything you want

Libgdx is a graphics library for java

It can draw stuff in a window

The rest is up to the developers

[uneven plover]

just some basic lua?

is enough

[chilly mango]

Yes

Refer to the lua documentation for info on GUI

Or check the GUI compendium

It's a custom api

Same with the drawing part

[uneven plover]

strange stuff

I just read some lua codes, they doesnt mean anything

[chilly mango]

Pretty standard for lua apis

[uneven plover]

what do you think about this?

http://hemantasapkota.github.io/posts/tutorial-embed-lua-in-java-w-libgdx-and-box2d/

[chilly mango]

What

Why would you want to do that though

All we have to do is write lua scripts

[uneven plover]

I am in somewhere middle of the void

lol

hmm 🤔

[chilly mango]

We don't need to know anything about libgdx to make a lua plugin

[livid agate]

or do you?

https://c.tenor.com/6LxUpPNpX64AAAAM/creepy-vsauce.gif

[uneven plover]

no please

[chilly mango]

Libgdx api for lua when

I'm sure that's a bad idea somewhere

[livid agate]

I like our app store ratings as they are now, not looking forward to receiving more emails because someone calls expensive functions every frame

[chilly mango]

Watch me make a side scroller using drawing

[uneven plover]

AoS, waiting that plugin

this is TT lua?

https://doc.theotown.com/topics/00-intro.md.html

[chilly mango]

Yes

That's the documentation page

For tutorials theres a section on the forums

[uneven plover]

DSA integration looks blank

like simon said, cant we make stuff require dsa buildings?

[chilly mango]

You don't need lua for that

[uneven plover]

oh for real

[chilly mango]

Wait actually lemme check

Dunno if that's a possible unlock requirement

Otherwise

Would be possible with lua

[uneven plover]

how hard it should be to do those stuff

like in dsa, making foods,storing and consuming. How hard that is to make?

[chilly mango]

Wouldn't be very easy but not terribly hard

Aos does pretty much that

With trading

[uneven plover]

yeah it is a great plugin but I dont want to complicate that much

[chilly mango]

Would be fairly complicated

[uneven plover]

just 4-5 lua elements

from DSA

[chilly mango]

As for integrating with dsa

I know dsa uses funvars to store stuff citywide

But

I don't know their names

[uneven plover]

wheee well okay then lol

[chilly mango]

I wouldn't worry about that til you get there

[uneven plover]

that's the main part of the gameplay mechanic for the plugin in my mind

[chilly mango]

I'd just make a placeholder

And bother ja when it's done

[uneven plover]

If I ever do it, I will probably try hard on pixelart and just use json requirements and upgrades

which is unlikely

I could do those stuff in minecraft

[rain gate]

Ok I'm testing an update for one of my plugins, when I try to put the zip file for it in the theotown game files theres nothing there

Lighthouse (1) is the file in question

[stoic palm]

for the love of god, you all need to learn how to read #announcements

[agile forum]

Files

TheoTown files are located under such directories:

▪︎ Windows: C:\Users\(insert username)\TheoTown
▪︎ Linux: /home/$USER/TheoTown
▪︎ MacOS: /user/TheoTown
▪︎ Android: /storage/emulated/0/TheoTown
▪︎ Android 10+ *: /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/info.flowersoft.theotown.theotown/files

Alternatively, you can access the files through in-built TheoTown file manager, accessible through the in-game menu.

You can find your plugin, music, region and city files there as well as logs for debugging purposes.

* - Reinstalling the game for Android will delete all files, unless you decide to keep the files when prompted by uninstaller.

#15

[rain gate]

Redone texture

[rich birch]

@uneven plover I added 1 dark version ferry (derived from maritime pack) and made minor improvements Do you like it ??

[midnight obsidian]

@rain gate i saw your tutorial in the forums for cylinders, but the cylinder is too big for what i want to make. how do you make smaller cylinders?

reposting the image for reference, don't mind this

[midnight obsidian]

middle part

the top will be the hardest part

ok

added 2 pixels instead of 1 but it still looks fine

[unique pivot]

Oh so you also sometimes store references in discord instead of saving them?

[midnight obsidian]

yes

aaaa

[unique pivot]

I would be in pain

[midnight obsidian]

making these kinds of balconies is a huge pain in the ass

[unique pivot]

Just like I messed up this complicated shape

[midnight obsidian]

i'm loving how this is turning out

@unique pivot what do you think of this building so far?

[rain gate]

I personally like it

[midnight obsidian]

time to add shadows, add details on the roof and this building should be done

[verbal wharf]

wow

[rain gate]

Poggers

Will download when finished

[unique pivot]

Nice

Like it

Doesn't look very Soviet in this version tho but this is rather good for your pack

I got several ideas for epic cyberpunk skyscrapers, may draw soon

[midnight obsidian]

i just switched up the colors

so it could fit for my pack

as i'm working on an update

also planning to remake this building for my pack

[rain gate]

@midnight obsidian I have trouble adding a noise layer to my textures, how do I do it well

[midnight obsidian]

what program are you usign

using*

[rain gate]

Pixly

[midnight obsidian]

ah, i haven't used that program in quite a while, so i can't remember sadly

[rain gate]

Could you maybe touch up one of my textures when you're done with what you are currently doing

[midnight obsidian]

do you have a pc

[rain gate]

No

[midnight obsidian]

oh

[rain gate]

I do have to image file itself

[midnight obsidian]

i guess you can send it

i'll apply noise later, once i'm done with what i'm currently making

[rain gate]

Make sure not to mess with the windows because I'd need to redo the night animation, and also i need a main building shadows which I dont know how to do

[midnight obsidian]

the first attempt is always disastrous

looks like i have to decrease the y value by a lot

good

ah yes

[midnight obsidian]

finally

and i've figured out the patterns

[hybrid sedge]

[unique pivot]

Looks cool

[midnight obsidian]

still gotta fix up these and this sould be done

should*

[uneven plover]

it looks nice

are you going to make ground for it?

[midnight obsidian]

draw ground™️

[uneven plover]

if it had a concrete or a solid base it would look better imo, because te building is big

but it is up to you

[midnight obsidian]

transparent ground

(i didn't make this, he asked me to add noise)

[uneven plover]

was max ground size 8x8 or smaller?

[midnight obsidian]

these buildings have "draw ground": true so you can make the ground concrete if you want to

[uneven plover]

yep that looks better

[sharp kettle]

Woah, thats awesome

[midnight obsidian]

thanks

[midnight obsidian]

i do think that i should add a variation with more balconies

[midnight obsidian]

this looks good

anyways, i decided to scrap this building, feel free to finish it if you want to

[rain gate]

Aw

[midnight obsidian]

once i finish making this variant, i'm gonna move on to make a different building and that should be all for the update

[midnight obsidian]

these look like offices

[unique pivot]

look kinda cool

I thought you were going to add only small buildings tho

[rain gate]

Big buildings pog

[unique pivot]

@midnight obsidian yoo whats this 😱

[midnight obsidian]

COPYSTRIKE THEM

[midnight obsidian]

i'm working on an update

[unique pivot]

yeah i get it

I wish I had your motivation now

[midnight obsidian]

the update is mainly based on bigger and taller buildings

here's the update so far

the "office" variants look way better to me

[midnight obsidian]

once i finish this building i'll release the update to public

[near scaffold]

wow this is awesomeeeeee

[uneven plover]

trying to make something, pixel man for comparing

might not even finish, it is a track

[uneven plover]

guess what I am trying to make, it is just sketch art atm

gotta be big boi, probably biggest vehicle in theotown

[midnight obsidian]

what do you think, should this be a 2x2 or a 3x3

[static sail]

3x3

[midnight obsidian]

this does seem to fit in nicely on a 2x2, but i'm not done, i'll see once i make the bottom row of windows

[stoic palm]

Is that one of those big diggers?

[midnight obsidian]

ok so it does fit in nicely

[unique pivot]

looks nice, but how will it be implemented and where will it drive?

[unique pivot]

I think most of soviet stuff can fit perfectly on 2x2

(aw sorry for ping)

[midnight obsidian]

no worries

[sinful meadow]

Largest mining machine

Now give me dias

Just kidding

[keen helm]

@uneven plover I am afraid to tell you that but no, it isn't the biggest vehicle in theotown 😉

Or at least it doesnt seems to be rn

[unique pivot]

I can pass 1024x1024 square as a vehicle sprite and it'll be the biggest

[midnight obsidian]

this is pretty confusing

[unique pivot]

that looks like a smoke chimney from an industrial building

[midnight obsidian]

i mean, it is kinda similar?

[uneven plover]

Nah it wont move, @sinful meadow and it is not based on bagger. Fictional

@keen helm what is the largest vehicle? I thought this is bigger than DSA rocket

Btw if it was bagger it could be way way bigger. I am not aiming any having the best or biggest thing. Just trying to have fun

[midnight obsidian]

not the best but it's pretty good!

[unique pivot]

nice

[midnight obsidian]

reusing code isn't exactly the best idea

gotta fix this up and it all should be fine and dandy

[unique pivot]

lol

[uneven plover]

Lol

They look pretty russian next to each other

[unique pivot]

needs more trees

[midnight obsidian]

i'll make sure to add those

[unique pivot]

btw I think he makes too much variations

(I meant in needs more trees to be close to russia... but Trees on sprite would be actually great too)

[midnight obsidian]

the more the merrier

[uneven plover]

Empty space is kinda small to add tress

[uneven plover]

👍

[unique pivot]

yeah, bushes or flowers will be enough

[unique pivot]

btw it has only 2 "stripes"?

[midnight obsidian]

wdym

this is the reference image

made a slight improvement, looks way better!

[unique pivot]

even though your versions are mostly taller I guess they are supposed to be only at bottom/top

[midnight obsidian]

don't expect it to be a 1:1 replica haha

[unique pivot]

ah got it

[uneven plover]

Who cares 1:1 stuff in theotown

[midnight obsidian]

bushes

res building pack by the26: the bush update

all buildings

so i've counted it all, the pack currently has 35 buildings

[keen helm]

Ships are technically vehicles, therefore, my frigate is the 2nd biggest and the evergiven is the largest, although modulable

[uneven plover]

Right, evergiven is the biggest. Completly forgot ship plugins

Biggest vehicle in world is seawise giant with half kilometers long

56 tiles long 😳

[unique pivot]

Go sus or go ejected

[midnight obsidian]

the updated thumbnail, i changed the position of the bottom image a bit

[unique pivot]

I should buy that probably

[midnight obsidian]

pretty sure this is one of the biggest residential plugins

[uneven plover]

You should add an easter egg somewhere

A amogus grafitti

[unique pivot]

By the way

I got a genius idea

Add arts of electricity as a megacorp in my plugin

@midnight obsidian do you know how big plugin should be to get considered as megapack?

[midnight obsidian]

hm

ask themax

or thobby

[uneven plover]

100 buildings

[unique pivot]

🤔

Okay

[uneven plover]

Woah this look awesome

[unique pivot]

Too obvious tho

But nice

[uneven plover]

Add it only for 1 variation

[unique pivot]

What do you think of this genius easter egg?

[uneven plover]

Oh wait nvm, it uses animations

Arts of electricity?

[unique pivot]

Yes

From 1st April joke

[uneven plover]

Oh was that name like that?

[midnight obsidian]

who cares about plugin texture space

[uneven plover]

Yes

[unique pivot]

This will be perfect as a logo on huge cyberpunk megacorp skyscraper

[midnight obsidian]

the tops are usually the biggest parts anyway

[unique pivot]

I was planning to make a building covered entirely in advertisements

That would be a good canvas for Easter eggs

[uneven plover]

Btw simon I was joking about 100 buildings

[midnight obsidian]

\😯

[uneven plover]

It depends on content

:+

[unique pivot]

Ah

[midnight obsidian]

:+

[uneven plover]

👍

[unique pivot]

So does my cyberpunk plugin count as megapack?

[uneven plover]

Well it has everything like roads, airports, buildings. I would say yes

[unique pivot]

Okay good (epic)

[midnight obsidian]

ae

[midnight obsidian]

i think i'll actually make some more buildings before releasing the pack

i want to triple the amount of buildings in the original version

[rain gate]

Updated lighthouse

The original was kinda meh

[midnight obsidian]

this seems like very good inspiration for my plugin

oh my-

[uneven plover]

Make a different color building like in the first pic, it would be pretty nice

[midnight obsidian]

i'm trying to stick with the same color pallete for every building, the best i can do would be a sandy-yellow color with a pale red

the red like in this building

[uneven plover]

Oh okay so thats the style

[uneven plover]

Cafe outdoor tables are kinda expensive from what it is offering (2 tables for 30gems) but ok anyways

[lone cedar]

I think that the concept could be expanded upon but it is always great to be able to mimic current events.

[rain gate]

News about my project...

[static sail]

whats this

[midnight obsidian]

might consider making this

or this

[midnight obsidian]

this one will be pretty hard to make

but being the madlad i am, i'm gonna make it

[rain gate]

Good luck mate

[midnight obsidian]

that sounds like some crappy album name

[midnight obsidian]

this doesn't look very good

i feel like there's just a lack of depth here

nevermind

i think that there's something not right in here

i might just not bother making those rotated balconies

and just keep them at one side

i guess this base will do just fine

good enough for me, i guess

[unique pivot]

imma draw something too

is the shape ok? (it's not a base, It will be lifted)

[uneven plover]

Looking nice rtobby imposter 😳

[unique pivot]

I think it's ok

[midnight obsidian]

eh

[unique pivot]

nice

however this looks weird

It will be basically a skyscraper with smoothed/curved edges

[unique pivot]

meh

[unique pivot]

building looks cool but balconies create impression like they're 5m from building

I am sure i did something wrong but I don't know what exactly

[midnight obsidian]

i have no idea on how to fix those balconies

[unique pivot]

maybe just pull them upwards a bit

[rich birch]

What is that

[unique pivot]

skyscraper with smooth edges

[unique pivot]

I think it will be stacked including these neon squares

but I may make a version with just neon stripes

across the whole building

[rich birch]

How about a futuristic town square? That must be a good idea

[unique pivot]

maybe

[rich birch]

Is there anything missing (I think I'm not good at making graded night textures)

[midnight obsidian]

not missing, but the trees are horribly out of scale

[unique pivot]

I think It will be stacked something like that

not sure tho

[rich birch]

Oh no, I deliberately raised it so that it was like a palm tree in Los Angeles and GTA SA

[rich birch]

What if the building becomes an industrial building (such as software storage, future google, etc.)

[unique pivot]

It's supposed to be business building

maybe Arts Of Electricity hq

and business buildings are industrial

[rich birch]

OwO

[midnight obsidian]

so beautiful

lmao

[rich birch]

This palm tree is inspired by the palm trees in Los Angeles and in GTA SA

[uneven plover]

Isnt that mdk's

[rich birch]

No it's my own but I use mdk pallets and theotown game

[midnight obsidian]

mdk's is much more brighter

[unique pivot]

is this better?

it should be a rounded square

it looks very weird

[midnight obsidian]

aren't animations fun

[unique pivot]

I had an idea of making flying buildings but It's too crazy

oh no

[unique pivot]

is this ok?

[unique pivot]

@midnight obsidianwhat do you think?

[midnight obsidian]

looks pretty neat

don't really have any complaints

although you could make those blue lines glow

[unique pivot]

wdym?

like this?

[midnight obsidian]

yeah

[unique pivot]

idk IMO they should emit really weak light

especially at day

[midnight obsidian]

yeah

[unique pivot]

now I should make some kind of square base that will look ok

[chilly mango]

i feel like itd need some concrete support near there

kinda like a raised baseplate

[unique pivot]

yeah

[chilly mango]

yeah smth like that

[midnight obsidian]

might make this one next

[midnight obsidian]

ok nvm this one's very simple so i'll make this and i might consider making the other 2 i posted

[unique pivot]

unfinished

wait base sprite is wrong

ah, beautiful, isn't it, tobby?

[midnight obsidian]

of course!

who doesn't love messing around with x coordinates

[unique pivot]

huh

[midnight obsidian]

thankfully this one will not be as hard, i still need to add some balconies for the stairwell and then to make the building a bit more special and not as boring, i've got something unique done

it's supposed to say cola cola

[orchid sorrel]

it looks like cola colr

[unique pivot]

now I have to mess with y coord

[midnight obsidian]

at least it's not coca cola

[orchid sorrel]

...why don't you just mesaure them?

lol

[unique pivot]

I forgot how

[midnight obsidian]

e

[unique pivot]

imagine measuring

[orchid sorrel]

[midnight obsidian]

i usually just trial and error most of the y coords until i find a pattern

[orchid sorrel]

well, that is a solution too

it just ain't efficient

[unique pivot]

sometimes I try measuring and it works

mostly not

[midnight obsidian]

thankfully for my building pack most of the "floors" are 5 pixels tall so i just need to decrease the y value by 5

[orchid sorrel]

[unique pivot]

lmfao

[orchid sorrel]

y is negative most of the time, it gets smaller the higher you go

x increases to the right

0,0 is leftmost base pixel

[unique pivot]

no Idea what I need for this

maybe try calculating

[orchid sorrel]

what?

[midnight obsidian]

it looks alright i guess

[unique pivot]

when the plankton is smiling!

[orchid sorrel]

make the windows darker maybe

[midnight obsidian]

are you talking to me or simon?

[unique pivot]

to you probably lol

[orchid sorrel]

yes lol

[midnight obsidian]

h

i hate making balconies

[unique pivot]

cub

kube

[midnight obsidian]

now it's time to "animate" the building

all ads

[unique pivot]

Now I need to finish the base and add top

I will make several variations

Tallest one will be arts of electricity

Middle one will be samsara corp (I haven't though of what company does it refer to but sounds kinda epic)

And lowest one idk

Maybe Mogus Inc.

Sus department

[midnight obsidian]

samsara sounds a lot like samsonas, which is a meat company in lithuania

[livid agate]

no it doesn't

[midnight obsidian]

ok let's just say that samsara reminds me of samsonas

[livid agate]

...reminds you...

now we good

[midnight obsidian]

nice

haven't added the ads in but i'll so it soon

[hybrid sedge]

ah yes flying buildings

[midnight obsidian]

fixed the heights, now to fix the remaining 2 and add in the ads!

and also, i've tripled the amount of buildings from the original pack

[unique pivot]

That feeling when I usually make 3 versions per building

And making more feels weird

[midnight obsidian]

i usually do 6

so far i've got 49 buildings

i've went from 15 to 49 buildings

[unique pivot]

Yeah

But

Most of these buildings are just variations lol

How much are you planning to add tho?

I may buy your pack

[midnight obsidian]

well, without the variations, i'm planning to add 2 more buildings

[midnight obsidian]

planning to add this one

[midnight obsidian]

and this

[unique pivot]

@midnight obsidian I have a building of similar color near my house

1 sec

(lmao I mistyped sec with six but replace I with e, and got a warning)

[midnight obsidian]

1 s\😳\😳

wait no

[unique pivot]

Old photo

Kinda reminded me of your pack

[unique pivot]

Btw I think my pack had 30-40 buildings idk

Counted a long time before

Nvm close to 60

[old portal]

Representation of Palácio Tiradentes- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

I'm working in the night frames now

[zealous aurora]

https://tenor.com/view/whoa-reaction-keanu-gif-4547062

[livid agate]

that's good

[sharp kettle]

Thats really nice

[uneven plover]

It is theotown but with epic shaders

[unique pivot]

‼️ ass pain incoming ‼️

bruh

[slender briar]

Looks good

Make the blue thing look more like a light tho

If it is

Make the qindow around a bit blue or make the line almost white blue and make a ligr aura effect around it

[unique pivot]

hm

maybe I need to make it smaller

I will finish it tomorrow because I don't have much time

[uneven plover]

Reminds me minecraft mod refined storage

[uneven plover]

Sometimes simple is better

[lone cedar]

Is there a way to make a two-level tunnel road? How would I go about coding it?

[rain gate]

Just to know that in my new update on the Brazilian Commercial Pack, the buildings with alternative frames will be in a single one instead of having a separate JSON. 😃

[rain gate]

Wow, very nice! 👏🏻

[rain gate]

😍

[unique pivot]

top looks weird

but I will probably leave that layout

[midnight obsidian]

close

i'll have to fix that tree

(that plan is how many stories i want to make for each building)

[unique pivot]

@midnight obsidianwhat do you think?

[midnight obsidian]

looks neat

although you could make something like these gaps between the floors

this is just a poorly drawn 2d recreation of what i mean

[unique pivot]

maybe

sounds like a good idea but I am too lazy to draw and work with curves

I think I'll leave it as in original idea

I also planned to make another version of building, like on right picture

for some reason animation doesn't appear on second building

why doesn't it tho

nvm I am dumb

now I need to cover bases

epic

hm yes makes sense

all buildings, not sorted

(all buildings of business district zone)

maybe I should rename it to just business

[quiet mantle]

What is the plugin for the golden gate bridge guys

[chilly mango]

marked as duplicate

[unique pivot]

I added templates to rci buildings

so now they have requirements set

and no repeating parameters

[chilly mango]

Nice

[slender briar]

way too simple man

all of your buildings no ofence

i love how you did the lights tho

[hybrid sedge]

simple futuristic buildings by simon

and impressive futuristic buildings by chad Romanian

[unique pivot]

most of these shapes are simple

Maybe I should try complicated designs

or are you talking about realisation?

[uneven plover]

maybe textures and details

[unique pivot]

hm yeah I definitely should work on some

I have a bad habit of not really thinking about details and making building without full idea or even a sketch

[slender briar]

okay you asked for it

im making a plugin

[hybrid sedge]

lol

[unique pivot]

noo don't make another cyberpunk mod

[slender briar]

i was first in line boah

i was doing futuristic plugins back in 2018

they look horrible but the point is

i was making futuristic plugins way back

[unique pivot]

Oh I remember this one

[slender briar]

yah ,concept was good execution was a failure

especially the base

its uneven

roof had a good idea but oversized

only thing i like about it is the support pillars

[unique pivot]

Btw do you have any tips of making this better?

[slender briar]

raise every floor by like 3 pixels , make a gap between them

try that tell me how it looks

[unique pivot]

By floor you mean these modules with neon squares?

[slender briar]

yes

make a gap between em and fill it with something

should help

[unique pivot]

Hmm not exactly what I wanted to do but ok

I guess I would need to round the edges again

[slender briar]

what did u want to do?

[unique pivot]

Idk, but leave the main building (black) somewhat like it is now

But honestly base and top kinda suck

[slender briar]

there's a ton of ways you can fix it but all of em need you to kinda rearrange some stuff

[slender briar]

go futuristic go crazy

[unique pivot]

Is this something you're making now or that's old?

[uneven plover]

prob new

[slender briar]

new

[unique pivot]

I'm scared

[static sail]

why

[hybrid sedge]

why

[unique pivot]

If he is going to make a futuristic plugin it will be a lot better than mine anyway

[slender briar]

pff like i'm gonna release it

[uneven plover]

I mean have fun?

[slender briar]

plus we're on 2 different fronts

u'r plugins are dystopian more brutalist like mine are utopian more abstract

[unique pivot]

My plugin is supposed to be just futuristic but closer to cyberpunk

Of course it got more cyberpunk buildings because their shapes are easier to draw

It's not really supposed to be dystopian

[slender briar]

color scheme does tilt to dystopian

[hybrid sedge]

the araska tower may actaully be hard for you draw

[unique pivot]

Well since most of buildings are almost black, yeah, it looks slightly dystopian

[slender briar]

dark windows gray colours tall towers

[unique pivot]

But IMO black towers are cool

[slender briar]

it has one weird angle and the rest is minecraft lmao

[unique pivot]

I was thinking of making some brighter buildings

[indigo ridge]

How do I make plugin

[slender briar]

look in pins

[hybrid sedge]

fuck

[unique pivot]

What

[hybrid sedge]

discord you dick

[uneven plover]

..

[unique pivot]

What was there

[hybrid sedge]

yes

[slender briar]

hardest part about it is there are no refference pictures

[unique pivot]

Making megabuilding H8 was kinda hard because I got only 1 reference image

And a video of a guy jumping on a roof

[hybrid sedge]

ony a few front shots from the devs themselfs

[unique pivot]

And there is no way to get my own photos, since my PC would explode

[hybrid sedge]

i could make a few pic's but i rather not launch the mess

[unique pivot]

I was thinking of making some vertical gardens (parks) which will be closer to utopian

I would show something close but I can't find any fitting image

[slender briar]

god this is like a puzzle

[unique pivot]

Do you have a roof of H8 megabuilding? If yes, can you send in #games and ping me, please?@hybrid sedge

[slender briar]

should have made windows first and then put the segments over it

[unique pivot]

When you get hugged by a spider

[indigo ridge]

Where ping

[slender briar]

pins man not ping

dis

[static sail]

this

[keen helm]

I'll work on outdoor sport equipment for the decoration pack