Guide

Painting the floor and naming the shop

How to change how a shop in Supermarket Simulator looks: the floor is painted with a tool you hold and saved as a surface of its own, and the shop's name is a networked overlay that sizes itself.

Applies to

1.6.0 (223), read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

A floor box with the floor pattern you want to paint
Enough money put aside for the floor you choose, and for repainting later
A shop name you are happy for the whole crew to see

Steps

Treat the shop's floor as work you do in the room rather than a setting you switch.
the floor is a surface the game keeps and paints, and the work is done with a box you hold
Choose from the floor patterns the game ships rather than expecting a free colour picker.
floor patterns are stored as their own textures and types
Expect a repaint to replace the floor you had rather than to stack on top of it.
the game keeps the previous floor as a record of its own
Paint again later without fearing the change is lost overnight.
the floor and its box are both saved
Look for the shop's name over the shop rather than in a corner of a menu.
a name is drawn on an overlay of its own
Name the shop knowing everyone in a shared shop reads the same name.
the customisation behind a name is networked
Type a long name without expecting it to run off the sign.
a font sizer fits a name to its space, and text can size itself so a translation of another length still fits
Treat tidiness as part of how the shop reads to the game, not only to the eye.
cleanliness is tracked against the shop's standing

Common mistakes

Expecting a colour wheel when the game gives you the floor patterns it ships.
Repainting without knowing the previous floor is kept as a record of its own.
Assuming a name you set stays private to you in a shared shop.
Treating cleaning as cosmetic when the shop's standing is what the game records.

Related entries

In-game picture from Supermarket Simulator showing the produce aisle of the shop, used to illustrate Floors and floor painting.

Layout and decorationFloors and floor paintingThe shop floor is a surface the game lets you paint, not a fixed part of the building.

Diagram: a name is entered, stored as its own data, fitted by a sizer, drawn on an overlay, and shared with the crew.

InterfaceWriting a name that fitsA name belongs to a customisation system with a manager, its own data and its own items.

In-game picture of Cleaner (Yamo) from Supermarket Simulator, used to illustrate Cleanliness and the shop's standing.

Running the shopCleanliness and the shop's standingCleanliness is tracked against the shop's standing.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.