Rainbow Fresh Posted Monday at 08:35 PM Report Posted Monday at 08:35 PM (edited) A question for all of them fancy schmancy builders and chisel wizard of you out there. I was recently noticing (the hard way) a severe lack of quality signs. The kind you can write letters on to say "This is mah smithy." "This is mah storage". If I am not blind there is only one, not even wood-typed, sign block in the game which can do a whopping three things: Stand on the ground rotated, attach to a solid surface wall, or float and assert dominance. (Maybe the last one was due to me testing in creative). That's not alot of options to write things on my buildings, especially since I was hoping for a little more "dangly from a beam" kinda thing. There doesn't even seem to be mods rectifying this problem, certainly not for 1.22 and clearly not for hanging signs. So I thought to myself "with the unlimited power making a multi-texture chisel block abomination like artist of custom paintings do, surely I can chisel a hanging-esque sign". And sure enough, I can. Only problem, if I don't want to make a 3x2 billboard protruding from my smithy, even writing as little as "SMITHY" is not possible. Does anyone have any tips on how to add fancy looking but also compact yet still legible signage to my buildings? Or am I doomed to stick to either tiny icons or vanilla signs on the wall? Edited Monday at 08:39 PM by Rainbow Fresh
LadyWYT Posted Monday at 09:12 PM Report Posted Monday at 09:12 PM https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Plaque 30 minutes ago, Rainbow Fresh said: especially since I was hoping for a little more "dangly from a beam" kinda thing. I think these are possible, since there's a story location that utilizes them...at least, if I recall correctly. But it may be the thing that requires a little help from creative mode to actually make, since not all building blocks can be obtained in survival. 32 minutes ago, Rainbow Fresh said: Does anyone have any tips on how to add fancy looking but also compact yet still legible signage to my buildings? Or am I doomed to stick to either tiny icons or vanilla signs on the wall? If you're chiseling letters, the sign will need to be bigger. If you're relying on writeable signs/plaques, you'll be a bit more limited on the decoration(maybe a chiseled border?). I would note though, that if we're talking medieval style signs, you don't necessarily need any writing on the sign. Literacy was more limited back then, and it wasn't unusual to have some sort of picture sign advertising what goods and services an establishment offered.
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