Broccoli Tree House Building Aids
Broccoli Tree House Building Aids
A collection of useful tools and scripts to help with building complex creations in the editor (which can be blueprinted into explore)
Above: An example of some things that can be created with these tools.
This is an open-source project to help make building certain things easier. I'd like to see you build that miniature rollercoaster without scripts?
My inspiration
During the season 2 creator competition (you can find my submission here) I was faced two times needing a helix, once for a spiral staircase and once for a worm gear, the first one I made manually and the second one with script. Manually was not fun, and my script was terrible due to time pressure, so I decided to improve it after the competition. Later in the competition, I was creating an airship and it would have been really useful to be able to mirror the hull, (I had to settle on a less preferable shape due to this not being possible in ylands).
A month later I have made good scripts for both of these problems(and more), but not everyone knows how to script so I want to share it publicly and also encourage other programmers to contribute. A summary of how it works For in-depth tutorials see below.
Generating structures with scripts is very powerful. If you want to place a generated structure in the editor it requires exporting the scenario, loading it as a game, loading that game in the editor and saving the structure as a comp (a bit lengthy but it can be well worth it). My first helix generator during the composition required the individual entities to be welded (so that I could spawn a group like a section of the rollercoaster and edit the pivot of this group) which causes problems when you want to make a composition/blueprint out of them, it also stops you from welding the whole structure as one.
Therefore the base of these building scripts is a custom group system that allows storing a set of entities and placing them at a given position/rotation. Most of the scripts make use of this, meaning that all entities spawned in are just entities, not welds)This custom group function is now redundant with addition of the group template logic but I am yet to update these scripts to accommodate for it properly. Current Features(summary) Custom group system create groups copy groups to given pos/rot set pos/rot Helixes regular helix helix along path Follow path Various Spheres and circles Mirror across any plane Laser measure tool Upcoming Features Here are some things I'd like to add but there is no guarantee I will. Elipse and ellipsoid generator rope generator n equidistant points on a sphere smoother version of follow path Contribute This is open-source, meaning it's encouraged that people to adapt and add to it. If you do not have the skills but you have an idea contact me and ill see about adding it. If you have a building script or you made some changes that you think would help people, DM me here or on discord and Ill see about adding it to this main version.
Discord: O1iver#5816 Tutorials(WIP) If you are using the Source version each Instruction/Function has a description of how to use it in the function definition. Custom Groups Laser measure tools Using generating structures (video) Creating Compositions of generated entities (Video) Downloads These files are also available on the workshop. Latest Version: BTH BUILDING SCRIPTS V1.1.0.zip Older Versions: BTH BUILDING SCRIPTS V1.0.1.zip
A month later I have made good scripts for both of these problems(and more), but not everyone knows how to script so I want to share it publicly and also encourage other programmers to contribute. A summary of how it works For in-depth tutorials see below.
Generating structures with scripts is very powerful. If you want to place a generated structure in the editor it requires exporting the scenario, loading it as a game, loading that game in the editor and saving the structure as a comp (a bit lengthy but it can be well worth it). My first helix generator during the composition required the individual entities to be welded (so that I could spawn a group like a section of the rollercoaster and edit the pivot of this group) which causes problems when you want to make a composition/blueprint out of them, it also stops you from welding the whole structure as one.
Therefore the base of these building scripts is a custom group system that allows storing a set of entities and placing them at a given position/rotation. Most of the scripts make use of this, meaning that all entities spawned in are just entities, not welds)This custom group function is now redundant with addition of the group template logic but I am yet to update these scripts to accommodate for it properly. Current Features(summary) Custom group system create groups copy groups to given pos/rot set pos/rot Helixes regular helix helix along path Follow path Various Spheres and circles Mirror across any plane Laser measure tool Upcoming Features Here are some things I'd like to add but there is no guarantee I will. Elipse and ellipsoid generator rope generator n equidistant points on a sphere smoother version of follow path Contribute This is open-source, meaning it's encouraged that people to adapt and add to it. If you do not have the skills but you have an idea contact me and ill see about adding it. If you have a building script or you made some changes that you think would help people, DM me here or on discord and Ill see about adding it to this main version.
Discord: O1iver#5816 Tutorials(WIP) If you are using the Source version each Instruction/Function has a description of how to use it in the function definition. Custom Groups Laser measure tools Using generating structures (video) Creating Compositions of generated entities (Video) Downloads These files are also available on the workshop. Latest Version: BTH BUILDING SCRIPTS V1.1.0.zip Older Versions: BTH BUILDING SCRIPTS V1.0.1.zip
