World creation basics

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_Notes:

• _{This page is intended to evolve into a 'how to make a world from start to finish IN GAME' It should promote the use of official tool and methods. While not intended as a step-by-step guides, it will include outlines of the process, links to tools and resources.}
• _{An attempt has been made to prevent the problem of assumed knowledge while also covering points more experienced users might not know. The notes and text of this page are intended to contextualize the processes and what is required. As well as giving ideas.}
• _{A lot of this page references Metaverse Academia's public folder and while was an invaluable resource when creating this page it's far from the only one.}

While links will be provided further in, it can also be found from Resonite Essentials via the following path:

How to get to Metaverse Academia's public folder from Resonite Essentials.

Initial world creation

For details on how to create and manage worlds, see: World#creating a world

The two most popular starting points for a new world is either Platform or Grid. Both provide a basic world setup with some ground, a simple procdetial skybox, lighting and other core requirements. Both worlds put the initial spawn point at [0,0,0]. Their main difference is the ground. Don't use 'Blank' unless you know what you are doing.

Grid

A Grid World is a great starting point for creating a world 'set on the ground', it is a 1km square plane(quad?) with a grid texture and a 0 thickness collider. You can either use the texture tool to change the ground to be something more interesting or treat it as a 'sound stage' to create on.

Platform

Want to create a space station, floating island or similar, this is for you. It's a flat(0.2m) by 30m cylinder with a matching collider floating in nothing.

Terrain/Landscape

_{(Editor notes: Check performance of each type to give a recommendation. For now suggestions here might not be accurate under all conditions and will change as information is discoverd)}

Unless you only want(or need) a large flat plane with a texture, or you plan to only use Fly or NoClip Locomotion Modules (Slot) in your world, you will want something to stand on.

In game the 'ground' is simply something with a Collider(that has the 'CharacterCollider' bool set) between you and 'down', so it can be just about anything. However terrains are typically done in one of three ways:

Using Objects/3D meshes

This is by far the most flexible, easy to get started and fun method that can be done fully in game, can be hard work to cover larger areas with lots of details. It is also what is used on floating islands or spaceships.

It's done by spawning in objects, such as rocks, cubes, etc and setting the colliders using the correct tool. It can also be combined with the other methods to 'landscape' a terrain.

Tools that could come in handy in this context:

• Character Collider Setter Tool This allows an object to become something you can stand or bump into. A floor or wall.
• Grabbable Setter Tool This will allow you to make an object 'Grabbable' so you can move it around or prevent it from being moved when you are done.
• Material Tool This lets you change the texture and material, to make a object into rock or gold or glass.

Some ideas:

• Using the Shape Tool, create basic shapes such as cones, cylinders and cubes and change materials to silver to create a spaceship.
• For an ground bound island, start with a grid world, add a mesh with a water material over it and spawn in some large rocks sticking up through it.
• Randomly stick pieces of building through a mesh covered by the Beans material to create art.

2D Mesh

By far the most popular traditional method of creating terrain, it typically relies on external 3d modeling tools.

They can be as high or low performance depending on optimization techniques as the size of the mesh can be changed to suit the required detail, allowing for the same number of triangles much higher detail in areas that need it, for example sharp slopes and valleys and much lower counts on large flat areas such as plans or open spaces.

There exists at least one in game editor.

Terrain Lab MMC22(rhenium): https://go.resonite.com/world/G-Shared-Project-rheni/R-59aa7484-032f-4068-a468-9e262b0ed814

Notes: Due to the meshes this creates they are not very optimized and use very even geometry, resulting in a 'low poly' look depending on the density. This tool makes great meshes for smaller spaces.

Displacement maps

This method uses a greyscale texture and creates areas of high and low ground from this. Typically black being low and white high.

It uses the Component:GridMesh and (texture?) to create a displacement map, changing the offset the mesh and texture in accordance with the

This can be high performance easy to use and and can cover a very large area. But can't be edited in game(yet, a number of community projects are being developed) and you can't create overhangs, internal voids or other complex 3d geometry. You can find many of these types of images online and import them or simply create something with an external drawing tool.

Terrain Editor: resrec:///U-ProbablePrime/R-0776eec6-e4d1-46b0-9996-62428b1310b0

ProbbablePrime's pre-Resonite demonstration of using an in game graphical editor and a texture with Displacement Map to create a Terrain.

(This doesn't seem to work for colliders?)

Texturing

For texturing of mesh(And displacement?) Terrain see: Color Splat Materials

Related public folders

• Textures
• Rocks
• Trees (Resonite essentials)

World lighting/Skyboxes

The default worlds come with a Component:Skybox as other components set(Under Root->Skybox) up that give view of the 'sky' and the world reflections.

The Skybox component puts the viewer in the middle of a spherical bubble with the chosen texture projected on the inside, this effect is best seen on a Platform world where you can look over the edge and a detailed skybox image.

Basic

By default worlds come with a basic Component:ProceduralSkyMaterial that creates a sky with a sun. This can be edited using an inspector to select colour and other details.

It can however also be changed to a static image by loading any 360 degree texture orb into the Material Tool and clicking Primary on the sky. And while this will update the reflections, it won't change the angle of the light from the sun. This may need to be using the dev tool in Root -> Light.

A selection of CC0 Skybox textures can be found in the Metaverse Academia public folder linked at the end. (Direct link will be provided once others are found.)

Dawn Sky

The Resonite Cloud Home comes with a more advanced skybox system called Dawn Sky that includes elements such as night/day, adjustable sun, backgrounds and creatures. While visually impressive it can have some performance penalties compared to a simple procedural or static texture. A lot of this performance can be gained back by removing the elements you don't need.

An installable version is planned, however for now It can be copied from the cloud home by parenting the correct slot in the cloud home to something like a cube, saving it and in the new world re-parenting it into the hierarchy, being sure to press the "Set Active Skybox" button in the Skybox component. This is an Advanced Subject.

Buildings/Structures

Basics

Using shapes and other stuff.

Module

Dawn Modular that uses the Module Snapping Tool

Dusk Modular that is a community addition to.

Kitbash

An amazing tool to build a house including importation tools and a large collection of prefabbed items.

resrec:///U-Crusher/R-3B3105CA14110C8E955083F2B1DA5CCFAD786424E7C15A9D5DAF5BDC7C2B9790

Kitbasher world link.

Furnishing/accessories

Softpoint has adorable items like plushies and things that could be used to decorate and make a world fun:

resrec:///G-1StJATqZXay/R-2387820050A6554644FFF4A2EE2A9A536E516300E61945D45F3D0CC305259874

Gearbells' Toyshop!

resrec:///G-1StJATqZXay/R-2387820050A6554644FFF4A2EE2A9A536E516300E61945D45F3D0CC305259874

Advanced topics

Indoor/vs outdoor lighting and switching between as you need to turn off the world lighting to have dark indoors with bright outside.

Joshtiger has great particles in his 'creations' folder: resrec:///G-1StJATqZXay/R-2387820050A6554644FFF4A2EE2A9A536E516300E61945D45F3D0CC305259874

Videos

Miss Molly explains how to create, save a world, spawn in objects and use some of the tools, including changing the skybox.

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In game resources

Title	Content	Link	License
Metaverse Academy Public	Many things!	resrec:///G-1StJATqZXay/R-2387820050A6554644FFF4A2EE2A9A536E516300E61945D45F3D0CC305259874
Creator Jam	world-building resources	resrec:///G-1StJATqZXay/R-2387820050A6554644FFF4A2EE2A9A536E516300E61945D45F3D0CC305259874	CC-BY

Team Lagoom has excellent assets in here: resrec:///G-1StJATqZXay/R-2387820050A6554644FFF4A2EE2A9A536E516300E61945D45F3D0CC30525987