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Hello
Do you need help well Here is tips for your plugin
1. Templates
1x1
For small plugins
2x2
For a little bit bigger plugin
3x3
I recommend this size for a plugin
4x4
For a big plugin
5x5
For a huge plugin
6x6
For a giant plugin...
It's huge
A truck
Shadow tutorial
lots of people get the shadow wrong so I will tell you how to get it right
Step one add the shadow!
add the shadow to the building it's simple
Adding the building shadow
This is a little bit more harder
First draw a line to the right from the bottom corner of the building
Like this
Then add the shadow
I just used red so it was more easier to see but at this point it should look like this
Bad Examples
Doors
making doors were hard for me at first but it's actually quite simple
This is wrong it looks werid
First Choose the height of the door
(I will recommend 4 pixels )
poke one pixel out of the top
Next go one down and two to the right
Next go one down and one pixel to the right
Go straight down and boom you have a good looking door
you can make the door any hieght and any lenght
Now I will teach you how to make a cylinder
First choose the length
Next add two pixels to both sides
Next add one pixel to both sides
Choose the hieght of the cylinder
Do the same thing that you did at the bottom and do it on the top but lower it one pixel down
Add a color
Now the shadows it's quite hard to explain
It should look something like that
It should become darker at the right and lighter at the left
Something like this (but don't​ make the colors change drastically I just made it like this because it's easier to see)
if you're going to add a label make sure it matches the shape and Shadow
How to make your buildings not look too cartoony
Replace the black lines with a light version of the color of your building
Make sure you change the brightness at the shadows​
Don't change all of the black lines you might want to keep some the way they where
You should only change the black lines that are facing you
Do you need help well Here is tips for your plugin
1. Templates
1x1
For small plugins
2x2
For a little bit bigger plugin
3x3
I recommend this size for a plugin
4x4
For a big plugin
5x5
For a huge plugin
6x6
For a giant plugin...
It's huge
A truck
Shadow tutorial
lots of people get the shadow wrong so I will tell you how to get it right
Step one add the shadow!
add the shadow to the building it's simple
Adding the building shadow
This is a little bit more harder
First draw a line to the right from the bottom corner of the building
Like this
Then add the shadow
I just used red so it was more easier to see but at this point it should look like this
Bad Examples
Doors
making doors were hard for me at first but it's actually quite simple
This is wrong it looks werid
First Choose the height of the door
(I will recommend 4 pixels )
poke one pixel out of the top
Next go one down and two to the right
Next go one down and one pixel to the right
Go straight down and boom you have a good looking door
you can make the door any hieght and any lenght
Now I will teach you how to make a cylinder
First choose the length
Next add two pixels to both sides
Next add one pixel to both sides
Choose the hieght of the cylinder
Do the same thing that you did at the bottom and do it on the top but lower it one pixel down
Add a color
Now the shadows it's quite hard to explain
It should look something like that
It should become darker at the right and lighter at the left
Something like this (but don't​ make the colors change drastically I just made it like this because it's easier to see)
if you're going to add a label make sure it matches the shape and Shadow
How to make your buildings not look too cartoony
Replace the black lines with a light version of the color of your building
Make sure you change the brightness at the shadows​
Don't change all of the black lines you might want to keep some the way they where
You should only change the black lines that are facing you
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How to make tracksLookatmemeow wrote:Ok,I want a tutorial on how to do train tracks
First get the brown color and make a 2x1 line down
Add the rails like so
Make sure that there is a 4x1 gap between each rail
Add some details
added some light brown on one side of the wood
added dark gray on the rail
(It's hard to see)
added some light gray to represent that it's sinning
Added shadows
How to make the curve
make a reverse C with the wood
go down
Go two down and make a small reverse C
Go down
Add rails
Add a rail in the middle
Add some details and Shadows
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And if you need help with the codes,
Here is the code wiki with a lot of codes explained!
http://theotownwiki.weebly.com/codes-wiki.html
Here is the code wiki with a lot of codes explained!
http://theotownwiki.weebly.com/codes-wiki.html
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