Hi everyone,
I finally finished the structure of the metal barracks last week, so today is a quick overview of the building, and what still is to be done on it.
As you can see from the image above, the metal barracks are a very substantial building, with three floors and multiple houses that are all coming together as one building complex. As the first of the metal tier buildings designed under the new rules, I think this creates a good idea of what the metal tier will look like once all of the buildings have been upgraded - and I think it provides a good end tier for the cities you may build.
At the moment, however, the building is still a bit barebones. It is lacking furniture, plants, ornaments, and similar - all of which I will be adding over the coming week. One of the goals for that step is always to break up the somewhat monotone colour scheme of each tier, which is desirable in the main design to make each tier easily distinguishable and fitting together, but obviously wouldn't be ideal for the final result. Expect many more vines, plant pots, and similar for the building in the game.
(The building from the back)
Once that is done, I will export the building into the game, and there will only be some finishing touches left before 0.8 experimental (some sound changes, some bug fixes, some optimisation). I will be fairly busy over the coming weeks, but even in a worst case scenario, I will be able to bring 0.8 to experimental before Christmas, so the break should provide a good opportunity for some of you to be testing it.
Until next week!