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BTE Standards and practices

Generally speaking,​

  • Follow outlines
  • Interiors only for street view and public areas.
  • No entities & temporary blocks

Main document

Building Guidebook

Detailing Guidebook

Builder Resources

Outline fixing

Terraforming

Diagonal building​

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BTE introduces a new concept called Diagonal Building.

Diagonal building, in simple terms, is building (mostly) not on right angles. It is a cocept mostly unique to BTE because

  1. It is a lot easier to build on right angles than on diagonals

  2. Most of the buildings in BTE are not parallel to one another

Quick reminder

Remember to use TPLL

Distortion​

distortion Shows height adjustment after projection of a sphere (the earth) into a flat plane.

Distortion in BTE only happens in the verical (y) axis.

Every ring in the picture above adds 0.1m to the distortion.

Luckily, our area has almost no distortion.

Interiors​

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Allowed Areas​

  • Can be built on a public area
  • Cannot be built on a private areas

Data & Estimation​

Interiors generally do not contain data which can be found in Google Maps.

It has to be accurate like the BTE Building.

tip

Its not advisable to build interiors of any building unless you know how to find the correct shape of it.

Vehicles​

Vehicles

Vehicles are not allowed to be built. They are movable and do not stay forever.

Some exceptions include scrapyards.

Temporary blocks​

Not allowed to be built. This includes:

Entities

Mobs are despawnable (if you accidentally do /kill @e it will kill all mobs)

Painting

Paintings may not update after updating the game.

ArmourStand

Entities share the same behaviour as mobs; If someone accidentally kills everything they will all despawn.

ItemFrame

May despawn after update.

Terrain​

Remember to create your own terrain using Google Earth.

For terraforming, if you're not new to BTE, you can check out our terraforming tips in the Advanced Building section.

note

We do not have LidAR yet of any country (Singapore may come soon)