lethal pine
Create "Raised Garden Beds" using the existing fire pit models. These would function as a 3x2 rectangular and 2x2 round farming plot that can be placed on any floor type, not just dirt.
I want to build rooftop terraces and balconies without having to dedicate an entire layer of the building to a dirt floor
misty girder
🤔 I'm not sure this could work yet for modding. The crop field looks for voxel type (soil, rocky, clay etc) that it is placed on. I don't know if there's a way to tell it that the object is a growable spot or not.
lethal pine
That makes sense.
This is coming from a place of ignorance, but could the planter be treated as a production station as a way to get around that voxel check?
Simulate growth using excessively long passive production times? To completely skip the problem of figuring out how to show a half-filled planter, the recipe could require 4 or 6 seeds so it is either full or it isn’t. Instead of a fire animation, it would 'just' swap to the plant sprites. Maybe there could even be multiple active stages to show different growth states.
It’s definitely a hack job and wouldn't be as nice as using normal dirt, plus it would likely harvest itself, but beggars can't be choosers.
misty girder
I'm following. It would act kind of like the skep where you setup a production, let it sit, then it spat out some fruit/vegetables. That part is totally possible. As far as animations and different phase appearances I don't know if that one is possible. In terms of production stations that visibly change the easel comes to mind, but that is more of a "in use" and "not in use" state. Similar to like the fire on stoves and such. I don't know if you would be able to have it continually swap states based on a production percentage and I feel like it is a no, simply because there isn't another object that has that functionality already. You would definetly need someone with more moddeling experince to chime in on that part (as I have none).
lethal pine
I'm picturing the janky of it all, looking a little like duke nukem 3D level of sprite. Just a static image that spins with the camera.