Advanced tags for building plugins

[CommanderABab]

I have an inspiration to make a zone that a bit similar with "Primitive Zone" plugin, but I try to make it with modern building. The purpose is to make the game looks more real with various RCI building in a zone rather than to build the same type building in a zone.

So, rather than I create the new buildings, I choose to create a code spawn some buildings from the game itself. Is it legal if I use in-game building ? What code should I use ?

Can be done, but it's complicated and the code is long.

First step: collect the ids and sizes of the in-game buildings you wish built in your zone. Remember it's not a good idea to mix polluting industries with residential buildings.

[Lemme Go]

How to spawn the building ?

[JustAnyone]

Since version 296 you may let buildings (e.g. decorations) automatically spawn in map creation. To do so, we added an object called "spawn" which contains probability p, main spawn height height and max deviation from it radius.

A small sample plugin that spawns grass in the ocean:

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[
  {
    "id":"$myspawntest00",
    "type":"decoration",
    "width":1,
    "height":1,
    "frames":[{"x":0,"y":0,"w":32,"h":16}],
    "needs water":false,
    "needs land":false,
    "draw ground":true,
    "spawn":
    {
      "p":0.01,
      "height":-600,
      "radius":600
    }
  }
]

To give you some intuition about what height means I measured some height values in this map:

[CommanderABab]

*quoting Lobby*

Thanķs, but that isn't what he is talking about!

[Imran M]

*quoting Lobby*

Thanķs, but that isn't what he is talking about!

You used a different k

[CommanderABab]

Ķoalaguy

[Imran M]

Ķoalaguy

Stahp it.

[KINGTUT10101]

What does chargeable do?

[Lobby]

It's an attribute for cars; If you set it to false (e.g. for fire engines) they won't be charged by tollbooths.

[Lakan Haraya]

Lua is 5th grade math compared to C, Assembly and other low level languages

Well, please teach us! PLEASE!

[Kulche]

You have so much books that you don't need a teacher.

[Lobby]

Or you could use YouTube

[MsgmSgmsG]

Can i use "frame alignment" in RIC?? I try this tag in my 1×1 house plugin but I have to place residential zone before i place this house...

[CommanderABab]

Can i use "frame alignment" in RIC?? I try this tag in my 1×1 house plugin but I have to place residential zone before i place this house...

You could also use a frame aligned 1x1 park type that when built removes itself, builds the residential zone, then the frame aligned 1x1 house.

[CommanderABab]

I've seen some people use

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"once":true,

in their plugins maybe not knowing what it does. This allows a plugin to only show any notifications once per the lifetime of a building.

If you only want a plugin to be built once, use

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"max count":1,

[Bevise]

See here and here.

There's a simplified syntax that looks like:

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"requirements":[
  {
    "type":"RANK",                 // Requires a specific city rank
    "lvl":2
  },
  {
    "type":"BUILDING",             // Requires a specific building
    "id":"$theidofarequiredbuilding"
  },
  {
    "type":"HABITANT_COUNT",       // Requires a population of at least 1000
    "count":1000
  }
]

I want to build Building A, it requires Building B to be upgraded. How to write codes? Please help me.

[Bearbear76]

I want to build Building A, it requires Building B to be upgraded. How to write codes? Please help me.

I think this should work

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	//building B
	[{
		"id":"buildingB",
	  	other stuff...
	  	"upgrades":[
	  	{
	    		"id":"buildingB_upgrade", //upgraded building B id 
	    		other stuff...
	  	}]
	},
	//building A
	{
		"id":"buildingA",
	  	other stuff...
	  	"requirements":[
	  	{
	  		"type":"BUILDING",
	  		"id":"buildingB_upgrade" //can only upgrade when B is upgraded
	  	}]
	}]

[Bevise]

I want to build Building A, it requires Building B to be upgraded. How to write codes? Please help me.

I think this should work

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	//building B
	[{
		"id":"buildingB",
	  	other stuff...
	  	"upgrades":[
	  	{
	    		"id":"buildingB_upgrade", //upgraded building B id 
	    		other stuff...
	  	}]
	},
	//building A
	{
		"id":"buildingA",
	  	other stuff...
	  	"requirements":[
	  	{
	  		"type":"BUILDING",
	  		"id":"buildingB_upgrade" //can only upgrade when B is upgraded
	  	}]
	}]

It doesnt work...

[CommanderABab]

I want to build Building A, it requires Building B to be upgraded. How to write codes? Please help me.

I think this should work

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	//building B
	[{
		"id":"buildingB",
	  	other stuff...
	  	"upgrades":[
	  	{
	    		"id":"buildingB_upgrade", //upgraded building B id 
	    		other stuff...
	  	}]
	},//*** add this code to buildingB:
	"fun":[
           {
				"condition": {
					"type": "upgrade",
					"id": "buildingB_upgrade"
				},
				"actions": [{
					"type": "remove"
					},
					//*** builds what you are checking for in place.  :)
					{"type": "build","id": "upgradedbuildingB","x":0,"y":0}
				],"p":100
			}
		]
		
	//building A
	{
		"id":"buildingA",
	  	other stuff...
	  	"requirements":[
	  	{
	  		"type":"BUILDING",
	  		//*** change "buildingB_upgrade" below to "upgradedbuildingB"
	  		"id":"buildingB_upgrade" //can only upgrade when B is upgraded
	  	}]
	}]

It doesnt work...

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{  "id":"upgradedbuildingB",
    "hidden":true,
   //everything else same as buildingB except no upgrade statement
}

[Bevise]

So, building A and B must be in the same file??