Skullz's Projects And Betas

@brendonwright1989

I made the changes needed to the flat water plazas so the shadows from the ground do not show on them. The class and layout files have different names from the original mod so can be used along side it. I have not made changes to the interface icons though so if using both mods there will be doubles and no way to distinguish them.

You have two options. Use the main patch which has all the water plazas or use one or more of the single water patches from the ZIP file. Do not use the main patch and the single patches together

 

It was mentioned that different colors are needed in some of our plants so i have been experimenting with the Boxwood bush.
They are roughly the same size as the original boxwood but i remember seeing the brown one slightly bigger. This patch is a beta but does work fine.
I will at a later time, make different sizes like I did with my small plants patch. I also have a few trees and a grass plant to release at some point.

Heres the thumbnails,


They are in the standard menu with my other bushes.
See attached patch file XLN_skullz613_Boxwood_Bushes_BETA_1.0.patch

 

Made variants of the Azalea bush. They are in the standard tree menu.


Will be making a smaller version later like my small plant patches.

@Monty
Also will share two new trees I've been working on. They are not based on existing XL trees so have taken longer to make.

This one is Goldenrain.


This one is a Lemonwood (NZ tree)


Both are not too tall and have fine details on the leaves. Not 100% sure what impact on performance would be if hundreds of them were placed. I'm still learning the ropes with Speedtree 4.2 so I'm unsure what the settings should be for XL regarding LOD's. I can only guess from opening up existing XL trees.

Both are in the standard menu.

EDIT: I remade both trees as I think they were slowing the game down. They both now are close to the specs of the standard XL trees. Download version 1.1 and remove the older version.

 

@Project_Oz

Here's an updated version of the GlobexCo boats patch I did for you with the snap added. I've done the thumbnails so you can tell the difference. Each one now has a S in the right hand corner.

Patch filename is the same so just overwrite the older one in your mods folder.

 

I'll check them out today

Update: Have made the changes and have uploaded version 1.2

 

I will. It's something XL and XXL really needs as there's not many members who know how to make them.

 

Here's the grassy plant I made a while ago when learning speedtree. Unfortunately I can no longer edit it. Every time I do and go to export the composite maps, only one blade shows up instead of many of them. Don't know if it's a setting somewhere or a bug. I will however get back to making a similar one as I think the LOD's might be to high.



Its in the standard tree menu. To delete you need to click on the green can at the base of the clump.

 

Not that I could find. Monty was in the same boat. I'm learning more and more by using it. Think I have the LOS settings sorted.
Once I have got confidant with it I'll try doing a tutorial. Only issue is the availability of the program.

 

@sadiemydog discovered some older Hungarian house patch files and I was able to fix the pin LOD's, but noticed the pub had the wrong menu thumbnail.

I made one yesterday and updated the patch file (see attached TF_kocsma.patch).

I also added localization files too as the name and description were messed up.
I have also added localization files to the post office patch. See it also attached.
Just overwrite the ones you have in your paks or mods folder.

@sadiemydog feel free to update your resource post with these patch files or you could just link to this post. What ever is easy for you.

I'm also getting myself sorted to get back to making trees and plants. I lost a ton of tree projects when I last formatted my PC (Forgot to back the folder up ) but will push ahead with new stuff.

 

To get a better resolution I normally do something like this by joining four copies of the image.

I then resize the final image if needed. This method has worked well for me a few times.

 

I have not found a way to change sizes in the code. Unless I missed something when I was looking over it. I remember trying it with a plaza last year but did not see any changes. I actually cant remember what I changed in the code now since it was a while ago.