Favorite Scenery — OpenRCT2 Plugin

A plugin for OpenRCT2 that lets you build collections of your favorite scenery and place them quickly without hunting through the scenery menus.

Features

• Browse all scenery in a visual 6×5 grid with thumbnails
• Toggle favorites — click any scenery item to add or remove it from your active collection
• Pick from the map — use the eyedropper to click placed scenery on the map and add it to your collection
• Place favorites from your collection with a single click
• Multiple named collections — create, rename, and delete collections to organize your scenery
• Recent Items — a dynamic collection that automatically tracks everything you place, even from the native game UI, so your most-used scenery is always one click away
• Filter by type and group — narrow by category (Small Scenery, Walls, etc.) or by scenery group
• Search by name or object identifier
• Global color palette — set primary, secondary, and tertiary colors applied to every item you place
• Import / Export collections as JSON to share with others or back up your favorites
• Enable Objects from a collection in one click — loads all required scenery objects into the current save (offline only; disabled in multiplayer)
• Keyboard shortcut — press Ctrl+F (customizable) to open or close the window from anywhere
• Favorites persist across saves and scenarios via OpenRCT2's shared storage

Installation

1. Download favorite-scenery.js
2. Place it in your OpenRCT2 plugin folder:
   • Windows: %APPDATA%\OpenRCT2\plugin\
   • macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/OpenRCT2/plugin/
   • Linux: ~/.config/OpenRCT2/plugin/
3. Launch or restart OpenRCT2
4. Load a park, then open the plugin from the in-game Plugin menu

How to Use

First Tab — Favorites

This tab shows the items saved in your active collection. Use it to place your favorites.

Color Palette

Three color pickers at the bottom of the favorites grid set the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors applied to every item placed through the plugin. Your color choices are saved between sessions.

Second Tab — All Scenery

This tab shows every scenery object loaded in the current scenario. Use it to build your favorites collection.

Third Tab — Import / Export

Use this tab to share collections or move them between machines.

To export:

1. Choose a collection from the dropdown (or All Collections)
2. Click Export
3. In the dialog that opens, press Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C to copy the JSON

To import:

1. Click Import JSON...
2. Paste the JSON you copied from another session and click OK
3. Collections are merged — existing collections with matching names get new items added without duplicates; new collection names are created fresh

To enable objects from a collection (offline saves only):

1. Choose a collection from the Enable Objects dropdown (or All Collections)
2. Click Enable
3. All scenery objects referenced by that collection are loaded into the current save
4. The status label reports how many objects were enabled and how many were not found locally

> Note: This feature is disabled in multiplayer. Object changes in multiplayer must go through the host.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcuts are customizable in-game via Options → Keyboard Shortcuts → Favorite Scenery.

Requirements

• OpenRCT2 v0.4.x or later (plugin API support required)

License

MIT