Getting started

[Bearbear76]

TheoTown has extensive features which allow the creation of powerful plugins. However, with the vast amount of tutorials and documentations
created it could be hard to find what you are looking for. This topic was created to help you quickly find what you need.

Copyright (Read this before publishing plugins for the first time)
Copyright is a serious thing. Obey copyright rules or you will get punished!

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Copyright

Installation

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Installing plugins in the New Way (1.9.95+)

JSON

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Creation
How to create a small building in 10 steps
How to write a plugin
Advanced tags for building plugins
How to make a json with Json Genie

Animation
Advanced smoke types
Date dependent animations
Custom animations
Night Animations
Saving plugin space using Animations
People animation
Firework

Transportation
Roads
Higher level bridges (Note: Will need prior knowledge of roads and bridges)
Cars
Tunnels
Car chains
Airplanes
The ACTUAL tutorial on flags
Road decoration
Bus stops
Pedestrians
Helicopter
Change in res/ind car identification
Determining vehicle direction on roads
Transportation System Extension

Upgrades & requirements
Upgrades
Building requirements
Enabling and Disabling Your RCI Spawning

Override
Explicit plugin overriding
Custom water
Override background

Security
Plugin encryption (create .ttplugin file)
Hide id
How to Add a Hidden Signature

Translation
Inline translations
External translations

Misc
Custom loading texts/topics
Categories
Templates
Custom zones
Themes
Preview Frames
Compositions
Non-square buildings
Biomes
Fences
Heightmaps
JSON
Writing plugin.manifest files

Behavior via Fun
It's simple but also quite limited; we therefore recommend to use Lua instead for non-trivial tasks.

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Fun basics
Functionality using fun
Variables
Animation control
Notifications
Date dependent fun condition
Weather manipulation
Sound with Fun
Virtual Variables
Action Index
Condition Index

Lua Scripting

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How to use Lua scripts
GUI Compendium
Dark mode compatible UI
Drawing basics
Saving data persistently
[792] Real time script editing
[1.8.95] Plugin settings
Tree Planter Tool Example
GUI example in Plugin Creator Tools
Lua API reference

OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)

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[1.10.50] Custom Shaders (Incomplete)

Graphics

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Creation
How to create a small building in 10 steps
A visual guide for shadows, shading, depth and noise
Shadows & templates (The above tutorial is recommended instead)
How to draw winter graphics
Creating a quality house plugin
How to create a plugin
How to apply textures to surfaces in Pixly

Resources
World texture
JSON
Tree graphics
Building templates

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Textual, increasing difficulty. (beginner, intermediate, expert, extreme).
Snippets or examples.
Lists.
Images.
Video.

Special thank you to everyone who help creates tutorials and documentations.

[Sparkle8538]

...continued to 5. Graphics
Part 3. Advanced
Preview frames (by Sparkle8538)

Legend:
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Beginner.
Intermediate.
Expert.
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Images.
Lists.
Reusing certain content without permission/credit from/to a plugin creator may result in punishment.

[CommanderABab]

Zikomo.

[KINGTUT10101]

Is there no custom zone tutorial?

[Deedzkie23]

How to upload plugin if i am not allowed to upload here on forum? I am just a newbie here.

[Lobby]

It should work now.

[Ilya strigo]

Как сделать електро станцию
(Показать коды для електро станции)

[RayXP]

Is there any videos on how to do animations?

[1Code]

Is there no custom zone tutorial?

Custom zones (by CommanderABab)

[1Code]

[Bearbear76]

how to change the way how the building price increased on each build (by Jeremiah Stephens)@Lobby^[Posts][PM]

I don't know if it's significant enough to be on the list.

[Yakka Works]

Please Add Night Animation Tutorial I Need it

[Bearbear76]

Please Add Night Animation Tutorial I Need it

Ok... added.

[hihihihi]

How to make decals??

[Bearbear76]

How to make decals??

Do you mean road decorations or just decorations?

[CommanderABab]

I think he means ground decorations like Josh made.

[Bearbear76]

I think he means ground decorations like Josh made.

I use this as a template for ground plugins.

Code: Select all

  ...
  "type":"ground",
  "border frames":[{"bmp":"frame.png","w":32,"h":15, "count":16, "handle y":8}],
  "edge border frames":[{"h":16,"handle x":0,"handle y":3,"w":32,"x":0,"y":320}],
  "edge frames":[{"count":12,"h":48,"w":16,"x":0,"y":96}],
  ...

[hihihihi]

I think he means ground decorations like Josh made.

I use this as a template for ground plugins.

Code: Select all

  ...
  "type":"ground",
  "border frames":[{"bmp":"frame.png","w":32,"h":15, "count":16, "handle y":8}],
  "edge border frames":[{"h":16,"handle x":0,"handle y":3,"w":32,"x":0,"y":320}],
  "edge frames":[{"count":12,"h":48,"w":16,"x":0,"y":96}],
  ...

THXS

[Yakka Works]

Please add Influence tutorial

[Bearbear76]

Please Add This Tutorial
How to Make train Plugin(By: Kiki012)
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=10975

That's not a tutorial, there's no teaching aspect in there.

That's like me saying this is how you do derivatives:

\(\frac{\mathrm{d} }{\mathrm{d} x} tan(sin(x^2)) = sec^2(sin(x^2)) \cdot cos(x^2) \cdot 2x\)

Instead it should have some teaching aspects such as:

First understand the power rule.

\(\frac{\mathrm{d} }{\mathrm{d} x} x^n = nx^{n - 1}\)

Then learn how to differentiate trig functions.

\(\frac{\mathrm{d} }{\mathrm{d} x} tan(x) = sec^2(x)\)

\(\frac{\mathrm{d} }{\mathrm{d} x} sin(x) = cos(x)\)

Then, use the chain rule (differentiate from outside to inside):

\(\therefore\frac{\mathrm{d} }{\mathrm{d} x} tan(sin(x^2)) = sec^2(sin(x^2)) \cdot cos(x^2) \cdot 2x\)

why math? idk just felt like it.