Island Planner
new update!! (november 2021)
hey everyone, thank you so much for waiting so patiently for this, sorry it took so long to make proper updates. full clarity the pandemic and my own health hit a rough spot, and the amount of work i was able to do was few and far between. i cant express enough how grateful i am to everyone who continued to support me and wait patiently through it all while i recovered, thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart
ive redone the save/load system a bit to account for multiple save files, but you can continue to use the old save/load system, it is under load (old) and save (old)
the newest update includes a way to recreate your island from your in-game map. it's not 100% perfect since there is only so much i can interpret from the in-game map, but hopefully it will be a close enough jumping off point to help
most notably, water and paths cover up height information, so anywhere you have water and paths on your island probably wont get transferred over properly. because of this, after uploading your map, you'll have to manually adjust the height of anything under a water tile before clicking "add water" at the bottom left to have your map properly uploaded. thank you for understanding !!
step by step to use this feature:
- take a screenshot of your in-game map and transfer it to your computer (upload to twitter, use an sd card, etc) please make sure it is 1280 x 720
- select "load"
- select "load from image"
- upload your map
- make any fixes to your islands cliffs that got lost in the transfer
- click "add water"
- done!
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THIS IS A SUPER EARLY BUILD!!! be warned.......... (imagine im saying this in a ghost voice) saving should be working but if you're using webgl i would test it out by making a few changes, saving, refreshing the page, and trying to load the save, cause if for some reason the saving doesnt work with your computer/browser i dont want you to do a ton of work only for it to not save properly!! windows and mac downloads are at the bottom of the page (you dont need to buy them you can just skip right to the download!!)
if youd like to support us and our continued efforts to make this even better, you can through the above link!! thank you so much to everyone for all the patience and the support so far!!!
since this is so fresh it might be broken/run badly for you, but i will do whatever i can to make sure as many people can run it so dont worry if its not working for you right now, i will do my best to fix it!!
we have a form you can fill outhere for any problems/feedback you might have!! or you can just comment down below. would love to know of any performance issues, bugs, being able to do something you shouldn't be able to do, problems with saving/loading, and anything you think might just help make the planner better. you can also can find me on twitterhere!! thanks again!!
controls
- WASD/Arrow Keys - Move
- Left Mouse - Place object
- Right Mouse/Delete - Lower cliff/Remove object
- Middle Mouse/I - Eyedropper tool
- Scroll Wheel/Minus/Plus - Zoom
- R/F - Camera Angle (you can press them more than once!!)
- Q/E - Rotate Incline/Bridge
- G - Toggle Grid
- T - Toggle Greybox Mode
- H - Hide Controls/UI (you can press it more than once!!)
- M - Toggle minimap
- 1/2/3/4/5/6 - Change Mode
current known issues:
- performance issues!! if webgl is running real slow, you might need to download it (this only happens for some people, specifically sometimes with chrome)
- beaches and river mouths and such cant currently be properly set up, please use the big grid to properly line up your island!!
- bridges and inclines can be placed literally anywhere
- paths can be placed over water
- sometimes when selecting a building/structure the cursor goes underground??
- webgl killed my ambient occlusion so its kind of hard to see where cliffs start and end :(
- theres definitely more
- only god knows what will happen if you start messing with cliffs under an already placed building
not a complete list but right now my biggest priorities are:
- any big performance problems or bugs that pop up now that i have let this out into the world
- making some performance changes so i can let you guys zoom out alllll the way
- trees, and rocks!!
- select and move multiple tiles at once
- additional incline/bridge/fence types!!
- fixing up bridge/incline restrictions and any other in-game rules i might have missed (i trust your intuition to not make something impossible)
- letting you edit beach shape to at least some extent
- potentially letting you upload a picture and it generating a rough version of your island already prepared, this depends entirely on if i can get itchio to let me upload pictures and how well the in-game map reflects the island
- definitely more but its 3am and i cant think
frequently asked questions!
- are you planning on adding QR codes?
maybe further down the line!!
- are you planning on adding furniture?
nope!! theres way too many! i do have plans of letting you make a placeholder cube with a set size/color/floating text above it to act as stand ins for furniture (and for future buildings if for whatever reason i can't keep working on this when new buildings get added)
- can you port to mobile
maybe??? i dont know if i can legally put something like this on an official developer account
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Maybe i'm not quite understanding what this tool is.
The issue I have with ACNH is that the animations of terraforming are so slow, it is painful to create cliffs and rivers on an island because of them.
Does this tool allow me to create an island, and upload and APPLY the changes to my animal crossing island on my switch? Or, is this essentially a tool where you can design an island, then have to manually copy it tile-by-tile on to your island on your switch by following along as I play my switch?
Thanks for any clarification
hi! I think it would be nice if the buildings (houses, plaza, etc.) could show up on the mini-map. And, maybe instead of adding every type of furniture, you could add the very, very basics. Like, a cube that's one/two blocks wide to represent many different furniture items or a chair that's one/two blocks wide.
Hi!! i don't know if i'm missing something that I can do but it seems that the mac key controls are a little different, like for trackpad there's no command if I don't have left/right enabled on the trackpad, alt/enter on mac would be like command F but it took a minute to figure out lol, but yeah I think the biggest problem i'm having is just deleting cliffs because I'd have to use two fingers on my trackpad
Would be great if im able to get it.
tbh I tried MANYMANYMANY time (total 11 different times) some say "file moved or missing" or it's uploaded as a compressed folder that is empty. (unsure if it's unintentional programing or not.) if and when it DOES work. I go to click on the folder "Access Denied". when i go to properties, and enter the security tab. "requested information is either unavailable or cant be displayed". so far im getting frustrated as heck about this problem.
any help or explanation is welcomed.
It's not a folder, it's a zip file. Right-click the zip folder, then choose "extract all". Choose the folder you want this zip's contents to be extracted into, and click "extract". After that, it should open up the folder automatically. Now you enter the IslandPlannerWindows folder and double-click the IslandPlanner.exe, choose your settings and there you go
I have a request and don’t know how hard it will be to do. But I have this app that I can take a minecraft world and export it as an STL or OBJ file that are used for 3d printing. If it’s possible to do the same thing with this app I would REALLY APPRECIATE IT!!! But I love this app and what it is able to do
hey creator! I’ve seen alot of growth with your app. I hope everything is well, I don’t want to pry but I think making a way to extract the build we do into an obj or stl would be super cool for 3d modelers and printers. I would love that and I’ve heard other share the same thought. If you can that would be super cool!!
is there a way to change the size of the terrain brush? i have accessibility issues and only being able to place one at a time (even with click + drag) makes this really difficult (near impossible) to use. wish there was a way to raise/lower terrain in larger groups at once. (or maybe incorperate it with the ruler tool?)
this is such a helpful app and TY for the update!
that being said, a lovely add-on would be if the grass on tier 2 and tier 3 were different shades so they would be easier to distinguish between when terraforming from the bird's eye view (perpendicular to the ground). Not sure if this has already been made a comment or anything and again thank you so much for this amazingly helpful tool.
Considering the update that's dropping November 5th, this is gonna help a lot to finalize my island. I've done very little terraforming to it because I straight up didn't know what I wanted to do. With Kappn coming back plus this, I can finally get my island finished almost a year later.
TL;DR: This is awesome!!
