Ships

Here are some yacht graphics by Lobby and theo:

As always, please give them credit when you reuse it for a plugin. Don't use it outside of TheoTown without permission.

The JSON itself is very simple. Use ship as type and provide at least 4 frames. It may look something like:

[
  {
    "id":"$shipyacht00",
    "type":"ship",
    "frames":[
      {"bmp":"yacht_green.png","w":17,"h":15,"count":4,"handle x":8,"handle y":12},
      {"bmp":"yacht_blue.png","w":17,"h":15,"count":4,"handle x":8,"handle y":12}
    ]
  }
]

Here we provide 8 frames, 4 for each variant of the yacht. The game will pick a variant randomly when spawning a ship. Move frames using handle x and handle y until it looks good. Setting them correctly is difficult, so do it by trial and error.

If your ship is longer than one tile use "length":2 to indicate this. However, the longer the ship the more likely are graphic issues. That's why the game never added the long container ships.

Spawning ships from a building is fairly simple. It looks similar to car spawning before car spawners were added:

"ships":["$shipyacht00"],
"ship count":4,
"ship radius":16,

ship radius is currently ignored. Use it for the future.

_{This page has been adapted from a topic on the official TheoTown forum.}