okay I saved my file on the desktop version of this planner because I didn't think I would need to download it, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it went. Is /idbfs/islandplanner/saves/islandmanager.island even a thing?? I'm on windows and i've never seen idbfs in file explorer. I spent a lot of time creating my island using this planner so please any help on where the heck my saved file went would be appreciated
Hey! Try this address C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow \bobacupcake\IslandPlanner
If that doesnt work, do the shortcut Win+R, then type %appdata%, then go up to the address bar and click 'AppData', click LocalLow, then 'bobacupcake' its most likey the first folder there :) hope this helps :D
Thank you for the apps and it is really helpful! There's only one thing that need to be change, in this planner, I'm able to put fence and bridge in same box, but on my island, the fence and bridge is unable to put in the same box. I was forced to change my plan when the bridge was built. The size of bridge is 4x4. Hope that this setting can be changed and it will be more convenient on island planning.
Thank you for creating this app! I just started terraforming my island and this will be super useful. There are too many posts to see if my question has been addressed. Does the zoom feature enable seeing the complete island at once? I can zoom large, which is great for working specific areas but I can't seem to zoom smaller to get the overall picture of my planning. Do you plan on future updates? I would gladly pay if affordable. Your work and commitment of time is appreciated! ~Gran~
I have an ancient (its almost 12 years old) hp laptop with i think vista that runs this no problem but my new surface pro x cant? Ive extracted the files microsoft pops up 'find a different app, this isnt supported'. Im not finding anything online, just wondering if anyone has any suggestions?
-a custom-design-tool inside the path-tool, that opens a file-chooser-window to load 32x32 pixel png graphics from pc for placing as path on the ground
-a file-chooser-window to choose a custom location on the pc to save or load map-files
WOW! Really not happy. I worked on my plan for a couple hours, saved *MANY* times, took a break. It says it can't find my file to load it. At least it was only 2 bucks.
How do you upload an exported save?? either here on the browser version, or the downloaded version. When I click on "load" it says it can't find the foil in the location, but i don't even know how to get to the folder it is looking in :/
could you maybe add where the airport is? wanted to start but bcus im a noob i cant find out where the airport should be and so i can't really design things around it
I have no clue how to start building, there are no clear directions and when I click, for example the plaza, I just get a white box. I watched a YouTube video and it doesn't really explain how to start building. It just runs through what you can potentially do. I did donate to have this program because I wanted to help with that, however, I can't use this program at all. :o(
The plaza is supposed to be a large white box, so no problems there, other buildings are models, (gray) and you can put them almost anywhere, you can make rivers and such with waterscaping, (you can make them as wide as you want) bridges 3-5 is how long they are, (3 blocks, 4 blocks, 5 blocks) you can terraform and use water scaping to make a waterfall (by clicking the edge of a cliff w/ waterscaping), and you can use numbers to switch from tool to tool, (1 - waterscaping, 2 - terraforming, 3 - paths, 4 - buildings, 5 - inclines/bridges, 6 - fencing).
To erase rivers, simply go over them with the waterscaping tool. (I'm not quite sure if you can erase cliffs yet..)
To delete buildings press 5 (buildings), press the pink trash can and select the building you wish to delete.
Same thing for bridges/inclines.
To erase paths, go over them with the grass path.
Not sure if you can delete fences.
Use (A, S, W, D) or (arrow keys) to move.
Since trees and rocks aren't in this program yet, I use certain paths to represent trees, bushes, flowers, bamboo, rocks, and furniture.
By pressing (M) you can hide your map, by pressing (G) you can add/remove a grid, by pressing (F) you can zoom in, by pressing (R) you can zoom out, by pressing (T) you can change the grass's color. (press (B) to get a model of Bob dancing)
Round out cliff edges by clicking them again with terraforming, round out river edges by clicking them again with waterscaping, and round out path edges by clicking them again with the same path.
That's all I could think of, I hope this helped clear things up!
I downloaded the newest update and it says it can’t run on my pc, which is windows 10. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong? I’ve extracted the files and I’m clicking on the actual app
I recently discovered this and read through the comments and notes. I have some suggestions to add to future updates and would love to help. I noticed someone wanted to have furniture, why don't you have little place holders for all the sizes of the items, not just each item in game, and also make the beach customization, it is difficult to correctly map out your lay out. maybe be able to name save files and have more than one, so you can try out different layout islands.
Hi! I recently downloaded this to plan my island. It seems amazing but unfortunately when I open it, the camera drifts uncontrollably to the right (when I'm not even touching w,a,s,d or anything) :( Is this a known bug? Is there a way to fix this?
I love this and would love to see it develop into a masterpiece because I'm not the best at designing and stuff, this helped a little with that, keep working on this it's amazing! <3
Grab a copy of "islandmanager.island" inside there and paste it into a location of your choice.
For multiple saves just have multiple folders there to put one save in each.
To load one of theese into the app, be sure, you made the previous steps with your previuos work, than copy the save of your choice and paste it into the path, written above, overwriting the file there.
This is great for planning out my island but I think being able to view where you put bridges and buildings on the mini map would make placement easier and perhaps adding trees also if its not too much
I have a suggestion! Maybe before we start building on our island options come up on which island layout we have. then it will place the sand the beach the rivers and the residential services where they're supposed to be! I know your really busy. if you read this thank you!
There are way to many islands for them to make it... What I did is pair up "Happy Island designer" with this website so that I can do the 3D design on here and draw it out on Happy Island designer. Happy Island designer allows you to take a pic of your island and then draw it out.
You did an amazing job! Thank you so much for all of your work on this app, it's really helped me plan out some small section of my island like my entrance and museum area. I seem to be having trouble exiting out of it after using it and basically have to force it to quit via task manager on macbook, but that could be because I'm dumb and haven't figured out how to close it the normal way yet. Anywho, thanks again!
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Lovely, its super intuitive for an early build
okay I saved my file on the desktop version of this planner because I didn't think I would need to download it, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it went. Is /idbfs/islandplanner/saves/islandmanager.island even a thing?? I'm on windows and i've never seen idbfs in file explorer. I spent a lot of time creating my island using this planner so please any help on where the heck my saved file went would be appreciated
Hey! Try this address
C:\Users\[YOUR USERNAME]\AppData\LocalLow
\bobacupcake\IslandPlanner
If that doesnt work, do the shortcut Win+R, then type %appdata%, then go up to the address bar and click 'AppData', click LocalLow, then 'bobacupcake' its most likey the first folder there :)
hope this helps :D
Thank you for creating this app! I just started terraforming my island and this will be super useful. There are too many posts to see if my question has been addressed. Does the zoom feature enable seeing the complete island at once? I can zoom large, which is great for working specific areas but I can't seem to zoom smaller to get the overall picture of my planning. Do you plan on future updates? I would gladly pay if affordable. Your work and commitment of time is appreciated! ~Gran~
It's a known issue that is listed above
Will you ever add a feature where you can upload a image of your island to make it a bit easier to map out how you want things to look?
hi! just wondering if there were any planned updates soon? I need some treeees hehe
If you want to submit this app on Google play store, list it as unofficial. Let me know if that works.
Do you have an apk for this app?
I have an ancient (its almost 12 years old) hp laptop with i think vista that runs this no problem but my new surface pro x cant? Ive extracted the files microsoft pops up 'find a different app, this isnt supported'. Im not finding anything online, just wondering if anyone has any suggestions?
I really like it! Helps me imagining my island :) It would be nice if the buildings on the minimap were also visible for better orientation ^^
For those who have problems at the beginning: the squares of the minimap are also present in AC:NH (in the map app). Maybe it helps :)
It´s already a cool tool.
But i wish some things to be added:
-trees, palmtrees, bamboo
-all kinds of flowers
-pumpkin-plants (all four colors)
-the airport
-the sea-bridge
-a custom-design-tool inside the path-tool, that opens a file-chooser-window to load 32x32 pixel png graphics from pc for placing as path on the ground
-a file-chooser-window to choose a custom location on the pc to save or load map-files
Hm... It was all going great until the island planner told me I had reached the ramp limit (8)... When I only have 5 installed.
Very pleased with this! I enjoy spending these days building an island to my appeal, and am glad my files usually save :)
WOW! Really not happy. I worked on my plan for a couple hours, saved *MANY* times, took a break. It says it can't find my file to load it. At least it was only 2 bucks.
That's happened to my before, 3 times to be exact, and though it is frustrating, you can start anew, after all, there's always room for improvement..!
Its free, above the buy option it says. you didnt have to pay anything
do you plan to add a way to import and export NHSE map data? It would be cool to be able to create the island here and import it in the game with NHSE
this right here, i would love a way to do this without having to manually create everything I already have
How do you upload an exported save?? either here on the browser version, or the downloaded version. When I click on "load" it says it can't find the foil in the location, but i don't even know how to get to the folder it is looking in :/
could you maybe add where the airport is? wanted to start but bcus im a noob i cant find out where the airport should be and so i can't really design things around it
thx
I have no clue how to start building, there are no clear directions and when I click, for example the plaza, I just get a white box. I watched a YouTube video and it doesn't really explain how to start building. It just runs through what you can potentially do. I did donate to have this program because I wanted to help with that, however, I can't use this program at all. :o(
the plaza box just represents the size of the plaza; doesn't have much detail since it's only for layout purposes
I can help clear things up!
The plaza is supposed to be a large white box, so no problems there, other buildings are models, (gray) and you can put them almost anywhere, you can make rivers and such with waterscaping, (you can make them as wide as you want) bridges 3-5 is how long they are, (3 blocks, 4 blocks, 5 blocks) you can terraform and use water scaping to make a waterfall (by clicking the edge of a cliff w/ waterscaping), and you can use numbers to switch from tool to tool, (1 - waterscaping, 2 - terraforming, 3 - paths, 4 - buildings, 5 - inclines/bridges, 6 - fencing).
To erase rivers, simply go over them with the waterscaping tool. (I'm not quite sure if you can erase cliffs yet..)
To delete buildings press 5 (buildings), press the pink trash can and select the building you wish to delete.
Same thing for bridges/inclines.
To erase paths, go over them with the grass path.
Not sure if you can delete fences.
Use (A, S, W, D) or (arrow keys) to move.
Since trees and rocks aren't in this program yet, I use certain paths to represent trees, bushes, flowers, bamboo, rocks, and furniture.
By pressing (M) you can hide your map, by pressing (G) you can add/remove a grid, by pressing (F) you can zoom in, by pressing (R) you can zoom out, by pressing (T) you can change the grass's color. (press (B) to get a model of Bob dancing)
Round out cliff edges by clicking them again with terraforming, round out river edges by clicking them again with waterscaping, and round out path edges by clicking them again with the same path.
That's all I could think of, I hope this helped clear things up!
I downloaded the newest update and it says it can’t run on my pc, which is windows 10. Anyone know what I’m doing wrong? I’ve extracted the files and I’m clicking on the actual app
i love ittttttttttttttt
I think a great feature in the future would be to add trees. Also, bridges and inclines in different directions would also be great!
you can rotate inclines / bridges already using q and e :)
I recently discovered this and read through the comments and notes. I have some suggestions to add to future updates and would love to help. I noticed someone wanted to have furniture, why don't you have little place holders for all the sizes of the items, not just each item in game, and also make the beach customization, it is difficult to correctly map out your lay out. maybe be able to name save files and have more than one, so you can try out different layout islands.
Hi! I recently downloaded this to plan my island. It seems amazing but unfortunately when I open it, the camera drifts uncontrollably to the right (when I'm not even touching w,a,s,d or anything) :( Is this a known bug? Is there a way to fix this?
I had the same problem as you but mine went to the upper left. I have already filled out a bug report for this, hopefully he will have time to fix it.
I love this and would love to see it develop into a masterpiece because I'm not the best at designing and stuff, this helped a little with that, keep working on this it's amazing! <3
Any news on a new release update? If the developer can no longer maintain then it would be awesome if the code was published as open source.
You also can save multiple island-designs on your pc or have an extta savety-location for your save:
After saving you will find the path:
C:\Users\Besitzer\AppData\LocalLow\bobacupcake\IslandPlanner\saves
Grab a copy of "islandmanager.island" inside there and paste it into a location of your choice.
For multiple saves just have multiple folders there to put one save in each.
To load one of theese into the app, be sure, you made the previous steps with your previuos work, than copy the save of your choice and paste it into the path, written above, overwriting the file there.
This is great for planning out my island but I think being able to view where you put bridges and buildings on the mini map would make placement easier and perhaps adding trees also if its not too much
I have a suggestion! Maybe before we start building on our island options come up on which island layout we have. then it will place the sand the beach the rivers and the residential services where they're supposed to be! I know your really busy. if you read this thank you!
There are way to many islands for them to make it... What I did is pair up "Happy Island designer" with this website so that I can do the 3D design on here and draw it out on Happy Island designer. Happy Island designer allows you to take a pic of your island and then draw it out.
Is the 0.3 the most recent version?
yep!
pleaseee can we get an ios version soon?
i downloaded on my mac, but i opening it nothing pops up. the app has no response . is it the app cant support new mac update or what? plz help!
Is it possible to raise a cliff to the highest level? I'm thinking of stacking village houses like theater seats in front of the sea.
Yes it is possible! but in the actual animal crossing game you aren't aloud to put stuff on top of the highest level, or even be on there!
Can anyone tell me how to delete fences and cliffs?
Right mouse to remove objects or lower cliffs!
I can't delete cliffs once I place it on the ground, I'm pretty sure it's a bug, otherwise everything else works fine~
I've downlaoded it for windows but am confused how to run the file?
Click the IslandPlanner file, extract all, and then you should be able to run it (it should have an icon now)
You did an amazing job! Thank you so much for all of your work on this app, it's really helped me plan out some small section of my island like my entrance and museum area. I seem to be having trouble exiting out of it after using it and basically have to force it to quit via task manager on macbook, but that could be because I'm dumb and haven't figured out how to close it the normal way yet. Anywho, thanks again!
im really struggling on how to download this on my pc? can anyone help
same here
ask how the hell did I save to see why I made my island save, I opened it to see and only numbers and more came out of it