Adding custom furniture

create your custom furniture in 3dsmax using the furniture shader (or furniture transparent, but transparency wont work in xxl)
ull find the specifications like namings and stuff in cxl modding guide Tutorial - Cities XL Complete Technical Guide and export the sgbin like usual

then create a class file in data/design/decoration/furniture/...
it looks like this (u can use this one as template or use one from your unpacked cxl)

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?>

<Entity>
    <Type>EDITORELEMENT</Type>
</Entity>
<Display>
    <Model>Data/Gfx/furnitures/f_allianzarenafield_t3.sgbin</Model>
    <Placeholder>Data/Gfx/Placeholder/Building40.mesh</Placeholder>
</Display>
<Placement>
    <Type>EDITORELEMENT</Type>
</Placement>
<LayoutEntry>
    <ID>Furniture</ID>
    <Type>FURNITURE</Type>
    <Positioning>
            <OrientationType>ADJUST_VERTICAL</OrientationType>
    </Positioning>
    <Furniture>
        <PresenceProbability>1</PresenceProbability>
    <Visibility>Always</Visibility>
<trulyalwaysvisible>1</trulyalwaysvisible>
        <ResourceFile>
      Data/Gfx/Furnitures/f_allianzarenafield_t3.sgbin
    </ResourceFile>
    </Furniture>
</LayoutEntry>

(trulyalwaysvisible makes your furniture visible at all times, only needed for large furniture like the field for allianzarena, dont do this for small things )

then open your main-mods layout file and add it like this:

Code:

    <LayoutEntry>
        <ID>Field</ID>
        <Type>FURNITURE</Type>
        <PrototypeFile>data/design/decoration/furniture/packs/medieval/f_allianzarenafield_t3.class</PrototypeFile>
        <Position>0,0,0.1</Position>
        <Rotation>0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0</Rotation>
        <trulyalwaysvisible>1</trulyalwaysvisible>
    </LayoutEntry>

remember, the furnitures position is taken from 0,0,0 in your max scene with pivot position of your main-model

pack it together with your main mod - done

 

the shaders in community mod are updated for directx (11?) dunno, a newer version^^ ask @Altiris or maybe @Monty about this (i only know the very basics about usage of shaders)
thats why they are not compatible with xl game version. but the xl shaders still work with xxl game version.

yeah furniture_transparent shader has not been updated for xxl, thats why it can cause some troubles in xxl game (and transparency wont work in xxl anyway). should work fine in xl tho (it does for me). but if you want to make it work correctly in both versions i suggest to just use the standard furniture shader
and yes the ones from shader pack for modders are the correct ones and you can use an illumination map

 

nope, #furniture (or #furniture_transparent_v1)
yes of course u can change the layout file