I am a skyscraper/sci-fi enthusiast lol. So first of all, I am not really a modeler/builder, I am a scripter who I can say is kind of at the Beginner-Intermediate level of scripting. So making something like this makes me feel pretty proud of myself lol. This city took 2 days to make by the way.
Now heres the question: Should I turn this into something bigger?
I was thinking if I should turn this into something bigger, like a open world Cops vs Crim game. I have the billboard GUI placed on robberies and other places for now. But what I fear is my scripting knowledge. I stuggle with CFrame a lot (it was torturous to make those lightings move), barely know OOP, Raycasting, making guns/cars and always have a feeling that the way I write code is bad practice compared to professional front page games. Also the fact that I would be the only one working on the project.
But just looking at the city it makes me motivated lol.
Also any feedback for the city is appreciated. Also yes I know that the White/fog lines on the Roads aren’t there, I will add them later.
Lovely city. It almost looks like the buildings are letters spelling out a hidden message.
For your scripting, everyone goes through the same phase. Just enough knowledge do get something to work, but not quite enough to do it perfectly. It all a learning process and with every script you write, you get better, by exploring new ways to achieve things and challenging yourself.
I really struggled with CFrames at first and employed some horrible cludges when I couldn’t work it out and eventually abandoned a game because of it.
I like read the DevForum a lot to see how some of the other devs do things better and take on board those learnings. I like to pull apart other peoples code and try to work out how they have managed to do what they did (FastCast, etc) to help improve.
I looked at my first game the other day thinking to improve the Gui and shuddered when I saw how I had mangled it to get it to work.
This looks pretty cool, and your concept sounds interesting.
I feel like you should keep this as it is, to have something to look back to.
Keep working on your texturing and modeling skills and slowly start improving the city.
Over some time you will be able to effortlessly see your progress.
