Building In Aetheria

This page provides guidance for how to build Decentraland scenes for Aetheria.

This guidance is intended for:
* Owners of ALOR tokens
* Prospective owners who wish to understand how to build in Aetheria
* Contractors who are building on behalf of ALOR tokens or for the district entity.

Using ALORs to manage parcels

An owner of ALOR tokens can:
* Deploy a scene to the associated parcel(s) (by being its Operator)
* Delegate the Operator role to another builder the ability to deploy to the associated parcel(s)
* Vote in the future Aetheria DAO
* Rent the land (using the future rental tooling)

ALOR utilities

Here are some tools that ALOR owners can use: Aetheria ALOR, DCL LAND, and Coordinates Utilities

For more information see the Aetheria ALOR Tokens User Guide

Tools for building

Because Aetheria ALOR holders can assign an Operator to the underlying land, (themselves or a contractor or a tenant), then all of the regular methodologies for building on the land are usable:

The Creator Hub which is documented here

The Creator Hub is a visual scene builder, in which you can build a scene using a large pallette of existing content, or import your own models, and then deploy to the land controlled by your ALOR(s)

The SDK, which is documented here

The SDK supports more sophisticated scripted behaviors to be included in a scene
From the SDK command line or Visual Studio Code tools, you can deploy scenes to land controlled by your ALOR(s)

Additional Content for Scene Builders

You may find some portions of the historical Aetheria Design and Implementation documentation to be useful, too

If you wish to use, in your scene, the black reflective tile that was used as default ground cover in Aetheria, you can find a copy in the Creator Hub pallete, or download a copy from:
https://aetheria.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CityTile.zip

You are welcome to submit your scene to the Aetheria Directory.

People who wish to propose projects to be built on Community Land may visit the Community page on this site, and submit a proposal there.

Community Projects

If you wish to propose and build a project on Aetheria Community Land, visit the Community page to submit a proposal, or offer your skills to existing projects or to the Aetheria leadership team via Discord.

Join the community

Help build the dream!

If you are a developer, artist, storyteller, or merchant, consider joining our community and assisting land operators to build this city! Or acquire your own ALOR token(s) and create or operate scenes and experiences yourself.

Developers:

Ethereum Blockchain Devs
Typescript Coders
Web Applications Specialists
Social VR Gurus

Artists:

Graphic and Web Designers
3D Modelers and Animators
VR Scene Builders
Architects
Concept Artists
Writers

Learning Resources for Decentraland Builders

There now exist many fine resources for building scenes in Decentraland.
Here are some of the best ones:

Decentraland Documentation

Contains very comprehensive documentation on all aspects of building for Decentraland, including both a Builder tool and a Software Development Kit (SDK), as well as sample scenes and tutorials

Building Virtual Reality Scenes in Decentraland

This is a free online course, offered by Decentraland University, that takes you from first steps through fairly advanced scene building

Decentraland Instructional Videos

Content Resources

Here are search result lists of low poly cyberpunk resources that are compatible with Blender (hence can be exported from Blender as .glb or .gltf as required in Decentraland)

Some models you find on sites may certainly be too complex. Be aware of the Decentraland Scene Limits.

Some may have materials that need editing to be compatible. Blender can edit materials, and often gets the materials pretty close to Decentraland material requirements when you import from some other format.

If you need help, try the learning materials linked above, or ask for help from others that know how to do this. Discuss these matters in the Building channel of the Aetheria discord server.