TheoTown

Posted: **09 Dec 2017, 15:11**

These are my zones:

If you have the commanderAbab.plugin, you already have these.

Some additional zoning tags are used:
These are:

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    "base":"$zonecommercial",

You saw above.

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    "persistent":true

zone stays even if you build a road and then remove it. Only roads to build in the embassy zone are military and airport roads.
I believe the airport and military zones use the

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  "superior to all":true

tag.

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    "superior to base":true,

This along with

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"rci":true

allows the base buildings to build here automatically.

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[
  {
    "id": "$zoneembassy",
    "title":"Embassy Zone",
    "text":"hopefully get this working!",
    "type": "zone",
    "rci":true,
    "separator":true,
    "base":"$zonecommercial",
    "requirement":{"requirements":[{"type":"RANK", "data":{"lvl":5}}]},
    
    "frames":[{"bmp":"zones510.png","w":32,"h":16,"x":96,"count":1}],
    "preview frames":[{"bmp":"zones510.png","w":32,"h":16,"x":96,"target w":64,"target h":32,"count":1} ],
    "price":400,
    "map color":{"r":77,"g":206,"b":76},
    "superior to base":true,
    "placeable":true,
    "persistent":true 
  },
  {
    "id": "$zonedeltares",
    "title":"Delta Residential Zone",
    "text":"hopefully get this working!",
    "type": "zone",
    "rci":true,
    "separator":true,
    "base":"$zoneresidential",
    "frames":[{"bmp":"zones511.png","w":32,"h":16,"x":0,"count":1}],
    "preview frames":[{"bmp":"zones511.png","w":32,"h":16,"x":0,"target w":64,"target h":32,"count":1} ],
    "price":200,
    "superior to base":true,
    "placeable":true
    
  },
  {
    "id": "$zonedeltacom",
    "title":"Delta Commercial Zone",
    "text":"hopefully get this working!",
    "type": "zone",
    "rci":true,
    "separator":true,
    "base":"$zonecommercial",
    "frames":[{"bmp":"zones511.png","w":32,"h":16,"x":32,"count":1}],
    "preview frames":[{"bmp":"zones511.png","w":32,"h":16,"x":32,"target w":64,"target h":32,"count":1} ],
    "price":200,
    "superior to base":true,
    "placeable":true
    
  },
  {
    "id": "$zonedeltaind",
    "title":"Delta Industrial Zone",
    "text":"hopefully get this working!",
    "type": "zone",
    "rci":true,
    "separator":true,
    "base":"$zoneindustrial",
    "frames":[{"bmp":"zones511.png","w":32,"h":16,"x":64,"count":1}],
    "preview frames":[{"bmp":"zones511.png","w":32,"h":16,"x":64,"target w":64,"target h":32,"count":1} ],
    "price":200,
    "superior to base":true,
    "placeable":true
    
  },
  

   {
      "id": "ab.version.mexico.embassy",
      "type": "commercial",
      "author": "CommanderABab, Mg3094066",
      "width": 4,
      "height": 4,
      
      "frames": [
         {
            "bmp": "Mexico embassy.png"
         }
      ],
      "zone":"$zoneembassy",
      "power": -20,
      "water": -13,
      "level":3,
      "radius":3,
      "zone radius":3
      
      
   },
   {
      "id": "ab.version.mexico.embassy.delta",
      "type": "commercial",
      "author": "CommanderABab, Mg3094066",
      "width": 4,
      "height": 4,
      
      "frames": [
         {
            "bmp": "Mexico embassy.png"
         }
      ],
      "zone":"$zonedeltacom",
      "power": -20,
      "water": -13,
      "level":3,
      "radius":3,
      "zone radius":3
      
      
   }
]

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: Embassy to right, delta zone to left

: Deleted two of each. Embassy zone prevents most things from building in it. Normal roads, parks, RCI, etc. Airport and military road can be built there. As will decorations. You can also rezone or remove the zone.

Posted: **09 Dec 2017, 18:16**

I love this tutorial! Now I can create a custom zone for my plugins in the future. Thanks to the author for this awaited tutorial

Posted: **09 Dec 2017, 18:33**

Well.. I did learn it by discovering and trials and questions, but not given by direct patent. No wonder why he does not want you to make one.

I made one. For the energy. I'll show you if you guys want. The energy sector became an industrial that produce energy. The problem is, monthly costs does not do the math for zoneables. Of course it won't, it is not yet part of the coding language.

Posted: **09 Dec 2017, 18:40**

"placeable":true, means that you can place the zone with the zoning tool.

Without it, another plugin would have to build the zone.

Posted: **09 Dec 2017, 18:45**

Here. You can move your current New Supply System if you have one. You guys can try it. But I won't stop here. I'll continue to develop this plugin on its purpose. Zoneable.

Posted: **16 Feb 2018, 17:35**

Isn't there a way to make non-rci zones like the military one?

Posted: **16 Feb 2018, 20:36**

I mean like the airport, where the zone has functionality

Posted: **17 Feb 2018, 02:35**

Feel free to study the zone and airport JSON files that can be found in the JSON-resources thread.

These zones aren't really special by any means

Posted: **18 Feb 2019, 13:01**

I made a non-rci zone, but the buildings still can be placed on things other than the zone. How could I make this work? Also, how can I make it place zone around the building, like some airport buildings?

I did it by myself! It was radius:1 and it fixed all my problem! But I don't understand how to use border frames and road border frames.

Posted: **01 Mar 2019, 12:39**

It's complicated. If you provide 16 frames for "border frames" it will place them around the zone like for the airport zone. The alignment of the frames (that means the meaning of the i-th frame) is the same as for the frames of roads.

"road border frames" works similar and will be displayed instead of "border frames" if there's a road crossing the border. You have to provide 32 here with the second 16 will be used for the case that there's currently a car on that border road (e.g. like the opening barriers for the military zone).

To get started here's how the border frames are defined for the military zone

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    "border frames":[
      null,
      {"x":32,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":0,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":64,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":32,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":32,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":96,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":32,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":0,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":160,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":0,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":0,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":128,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":32,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":0,"y":64,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null
    ],
    "road border frames":[
      null,
      {"x":64,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":0,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null,
      {"x":64,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":64,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null,
      null,
      {"x":0,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null,
      {"x":0,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null,
      null,
      null,
      null,
      null,
      null,
      {"x":96,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":32,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null,
      {"x":96,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      {"x":96,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null,
      null,
      {"x":32,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null,
      {"x":32,"y":144,"w":32,"h":32,"handle y":24,"offset y":3072},
      null,
      null,
      null,
      null,
      null
    ]

You can just copy'n'paste it into your zone.

Posted: **13 Oct 2020, 14:55**

22Alpha wrote: ↑
09 Dec 2017, 18:45
Here. You can move your current New Supply System if you have one. You guys can try it. But I won't stop here. I'll continue to develop this plugin on its purpose. Zoneable.

.plugin files can only be opened on a PC?

Posted: **07 Mar 2021, 19:04**

Achmad Romi wrote: ↑
13 Oct 2020, 14:55

22Alpha wrote: ↑
09 Dec 2017, 18:45
Here. You can move your current New Supply System if you have one. You guys can try it. But I won't stop here. I'll continue to develop this plugin on its purpose. Zoneable.
.plugin files can only be opened on a PC?

you just can't open them

Posted: **07 Mar 2021, 19:10**

I made 9 custom zones with copying in-game frames, animation and changing their ids. There is an issue about the zones, at some point they just stop spawning even tho there are demands for it

viewtopic.php?f=36&t=13236

Posted: **08 May 2021, 16:01**

if i want to make a zone that only build building from my plugin, how do i define the json file ?
this is my json that i already try to make

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[
	{
		"id": "$HumanComZone",
		"title":"Human Commercial",
		"text":"Human Zone For Commercial Building",
		"type": "zone",
		"rci":false,
		"separator":true,
		"base":"$zonecommercial",
		"frames":[{"bmp": "Commercial.png"}],
		"preview frames":[{"bmp": "Preview Commercial.png"}],
		"price":150,
		"superior to base":true,
		"placeable":true
	},
	{
        "id": "$ComLow1",
        "type": "commercial",
        "author": "lalulali",
        "width": 1,
        "height": 1,
		"zone": "$HumanComZone",
        "frames": [{"bmp": "Stall 1.png"}],
        "level": 1,
        "people": 4,
        "title": "Human Market Stall",
        "text": "Human Market Stall Type 1 For Poor People",
		"needs road":false,
		"draw ground":true,
        "price": 7,
        "bulldoze price": 10,
        "build time": 2
    }
]

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Posted: **08 May 2021, 18:18**

Lalulali wrote: ↑
08 May 2021, 16:01
if i want to make a zone that only build building from my plugin, how do i define the json file ?
this is my json that i already try to make
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[
	{
		"id": "$HumanComZone",
		"title":"Human Commercial",
		"text":"Human Zone For Commercial Building",
		"type": "zone",
		"rci":false,
		"separator":true,
		"base":"$zonecommercial",
		"frames":[{"bmp": "Commercial.png"}],
		"preview frames":[{"bmp": "Preview Commercial.png"}],
		"price":150,
		"superior to base":true,
		"placeable":true
	},
	{
        "id": "$ComLow1",
        "type": "commercial",
        "author": "lalulali",
        "width": 1,
        "height": 1,
		"zone": "$HumanComZone",
        "frames": [{"bmp": "Stall 1.png"}],
        "level": 1,
        "people": 4,
        "title": "Human Market Stall",
        "text": "Human Market Stall Type 1 For Poor People",
		"needs road":false,
		"draw ground":true,
        "price": 7,
        "bulldoze price": 10,
        "build time": 2
    }
]
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Posted: **28 Sep 2021, 05:38**

Is it possible to make building with multiple zone's?

Posted: **28 Sep 2021, 06:42**

Posted: **10 Feb 2022, 08:00**

when I activate the "RCI" buildings from the game appear but never my custom ones and if I deactivate the "RCI" nothing is generated, can anyone help me?

Posted: **12 Feb 2022, 14:42**

Maybe you could share some code?

Posted: **25 Feb 2022, 07:15**

CommanderABab wrote: ↑
12 Feb 2022, 14:42
Maybe you could share some code?

Sorry for not answering, I haven't been that active lately

[
{
"id": "Ruralzone",
"title":"Rural Zone",
"text":"area to generate rural houses",
"type": "zone",
"rci":false,
"separator":true,
"persistent":false,
"base":"$zoneresidential",
"frames":[{"bmp":"Ruralzone.png"}],
"preview frames":[{"bmp":"RZpreview.png"} ],
"price":1,
"superior to base":true,
"placeable":true
}
]

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