In this guide I will explain how to create any desired number of individually placed sitting areas for your custom chairs, benches, stools or whatever you can imagine.

The prop works only if you put them into an asset (building, park) afterwards. It does not work if placed ingame with More Beautification MOD. You can, however make a 1x1 park asset with only your prop to work around.

What you need:

• Your custom asset, ready to import into the asset editor.
  
• The ability to read
  
• The ability to copy and paste
  
• ModTools by Bloody Penguin for pasting the ...
  
• ... Custom Sitting Places script[gist.github.com] by Ronyx69

(skip if you know how)

• set your asset in object mode to x0 y0 z0
  
• Press Crtl+A and apply location
  
• deselect all and select the object you want to export.
  
• export your asset as .fbx with selected objects and apply transformation checked.

Write down the position (xyz) of the front edge of your sitting area




Import your prop as usual. In the import data selection make sure that the scaling is set to 1 (blender). Please note that the sitting feature will not be visible in the asset editor. You will be able to check your prop later ingame.

Take a look at the Script[gist.github.com]: You can set the amount of sitting areas (row 8), their individual direction (13) and position (14).

Code by Ronyx69


sets in which direction your citizen will look when they sit down. You can enter whole positive or negative numbers in all three values

The direction is based on the global axis and not on your asset. That means: if your asset is positioned diagonally in blender, that you have to position the sitting area diagonally as well.

Viewed from above:
First value only sets the direction to the right (1, 2, ...) or left (-1, -2, ...)
EXAMPLE: temp[0].m_direction = new Vector3(1, 0, 0);
Second value: 1 and -1 sets the direction diagonally. Values above/below 1/-1 result in multiple positions. Not sure about the function of this value, maybe a randomizer
Third value only sets down (1, 2, ...) or up (-1, -2, ...)
EXAMPLE: temp[0].m_direction = new Vector3(0, 0, 1);

Combinations of first and third value sets the direction diagonally as well.


sets where the seating area is. The numbers in the brackets are values for the x z y (!) axis.

• x 0 is the center. Insert your seat's center (x value) here
  
• z 0 is the standard sitting height for adults (=their feet touch the ground). It's around 50cm above ground. A negative value will let the feet sink into the ground.
  
• y 0 puts their feet somewhere near the center. Best is to add 0.30 to 0.50 to your seat's front edge y value (see example left)

(For left or right heading chairs, switch the steps for x and y.)

After you edited the script (word, text editor, whatever) copy the code.
In the asset editor, hit F7 to open ModTools. Paste the code and hit run or enter.

And thats it! You can save your asset now and test ingame after using the prop in an asset of your choice. Restart the asset editor if it doesnt show up in the prop list.
By the way: You can run the script again as much as you like on your prop. It will overwrite any values you entered before.

>The chair used in this guide is available here<[www.patreon.com]