OpenGFX+ Trains development thread

[Zephyris]

Those models look good but they are very dark, you will need to make them brighter or increase lighting intensity for rendering. There is also something slightly strange going on with the shadows. Otherwise very nice though!

[supermop]

looks good! the Sprinter should look good in that style too - I've always like the deformed toy scale.

This makes me want to start a train grf!

Best,

[Xotic750]

Thanks.

The lighting is the standard that was set down in the EZ project plus I added 1 hemi light to throw a little extra light on just the chassis material. The "something strange" that you see in the shadow is how the vehicle shadow is effected by the actual rail, just like the originals that Ben Robbins did for the EZ project.

I will try and do a sheet of some of the wagons with loads for you to see.

[Xotic750]

looks good! the Sprinter should look good in that style too - I've always like the deformed toy scale.

This makes me want to start a train grf!

Best,

The trains and wagons have actually been scaled different to the original EZ project, so that now they match the dimensions of the OpenTTD 8bpp graphics, rather than the slightly bigger versions in the EZ project.

[Xotic750]

Here is the first sheet of wagons.

[Xotic750]

And here is the second sheet showing full loads (there are loading sprites too)

[Xotic750]

Here is an in-game screenshot showing what has been already coded.

[Yoshi]

Nice screenhots and stuff

One little thing

The front window of Sh125 looks a bit flat int the screenshot...

[Xotic750]

Nice screenhots and stuff

One little thing

The front window of Sh125 looks a bit flat int the screenshot...

Thanks. Flat in what respect? Actual shape or material wise?

[Xotic750]

All the above sprites have now been coded into the nightly build. There are more coming soon

[Yoshi]

I compared with an original photo

(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7146/6432 ... c9bc_o.jpg)

and it's there flat as well.

[Xotic750]

Here is my original render before down-scaling, it is much bigger than the game sprites. Remember that I am just trying to get a feel of the real world equivalents, it is not possible to make a perfectly realistic model for the game.

[Xotic750]

Here is a spritesheet of additional graphics that are coded and will be in tonight's build.

[NekoMaster]

Why are some of the 32bit sprites so short? They look squished (like passenger/mail and longer locomotives)

[Xotic750]

They are the same dimensions as the 8bpp sprites, i.e. ½ tile.

That is what we have to work with.

[Xotic750]

In tomorrow's nightly build (or now if you build it yourself), we have the Asia Star and the TIM along with their passenger, mail and armoured liveries.

[Xotic750]

And here we have a screenshot of them in-game.

[planetmaker]

You do excellent work here And I also really love the wagons which I haven't seen before

May I suggest to vary the brightness on the CC part a bit more, esp. on the MU trains and wagons? I'd try to break the rather uniform shade of blue, without any stains, light reflections etc by adding some greeble or random variation. Maybe the passenger and mail wagons could use some details to break that, e.g. door frames or so.
Maybe the windows can get a slight touch of violet to mimic thermal insulation glass and give them a better feel of being transparent?

[Xotic750]

Yep, the materials still need some adjustment as the texturing is clearly still not enough and it requires something more than the metal noise that is currently being used. The liveried wagons still need some work, as you say, they are pretty plain just now and I need to look at some more photos to get ideas of details. The windows of all the sprites are using the standard official OpenTTD window material, and I agree it's not perfect, I have collected some other glass materials that may be better but I wanted to keep things as standard as possible so that it fits with the work that any others may do. It's easy to change the materials, it just requires a re-render and post-processing of every sprite afterwards (automated)

[Terkhen]

Nice