OTTD Romazoon's screenshots

[lukasz1985]

Personally I think your screenshots are the best here. I think you get the most out of OpenTTD. You didn't felt into eyecandy land nor into the vanilla OTTD and your screenshots present a lot of organisation and logic. Even if the 45 degree curves harm my eyes, the way you bring life to this game is really delightful.

The only thing you could try is to get some street traffic there using some fake AI like "Street traffic" and grf with cars.

I wonder how the result would look like. Still, this is great, what you achieve.

[romazoon]

thank you guys ! i m glad you like it !

Here are some more then

lukasz1985:
i understand why the 45° turns hurt your eyes, it also have been hurting my "playstyle" for long, until i started to play more often with the japanese set and its narrow gauge trains... the limited speed of those trains allow(and push) me to use tighter curves without incidence for the flow on the network. so i use the tight curve as an advantage to gain space, make things more compact...so in the end the 90° curve are only in place where trains can or should go slower (next to some station, on some kind of metro/urban lines, or on some junction with a freight branch line (i don t care to slow my freight trains with a curve...as usually i wil use a priority signal for the main line wich mean freight train often come to an halt in those junction anyway...so who cares if they have to slow down to 88km/h first), etc....
I use to think a good network is a network where trains can go their full speed all the time and so i use to avoid using any "slowing down" curve but this gives headache when it comes to upgrades things, force to ruin the landscape, etc...now since i have fun to mix all kind of trains on the same rail and i try to limit the infrastructure to the minimal (I whish i could say "realistic" ), i stopped the full speed approach, and use a "similar" speed approach (trains sharing track don t have a big range of different top speed ->110 to 130 k/h for most (and on a very few lines i use 160kmh for passenger trains, but this force me to make 4 tracks the day i want to put some freight on those "faster" lines, because freight can t go beyond 120km/h with japanese set + i use timetable for all passenger trains.)

Now about the eyecandy traffic, i ve tried it on this very savegame but i forced bankrupt on the AI (i think some earlier screenie are showing it).... it indeed looked nice once the AI builded around 1500 vehicules (and i think given the size of the map, 5000 would fit perfectly)...but the performance lag (with 1500) was just to big to enjoy it fully (reason why I pushed AI to bankrupcy).... but i don t give up totally on the idea, i m just waiting to fill myself the map a bit more before i eventually relaunch the AI.

P.S : Kudos to Ottd devellopment team, i never thought i would fall back to the "standard" ottd version after trying so many patchpack, and finally that game played with OTTD 1.4 is one of my favorite i ever had !!....that said, i might fall into Cirdan's fork as soon as i will be able to try my actual game with it, as i definitly could use the extratile given by bridgehead...

Ok, enought talking, hope you enjoy the new screenies

[STD]

Your screenshots are very beautiful. Realistic and very well build your own transport network. Liked the network of metro lines and ports in the screenshot with the city of San Francisco

[ZxBiohazardZx]

as per usual your savegame send me on a quest for GRFs haha

[Mizari]

as usually i will use a priority signal for the main line wich mean freight train often come to an halt in those junction anyway

I often thought this desirable, but I never knew one could do that; how?

[romazoon]

ZX, i guess you have the scenario editor switch on, allowing you to load savegame with missing newgrf, it s not perfect but you can now discard any airplane newgrf (cause i don t use any), i guess also that compatible newgrf might do the tricks for some newgrfs.

and to finish your hunting go there if not already -> http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/

select the newgrf that you need, and for most you can probably just take the newest version of the newgrf you need (so don t need to load the exact version)

Edit : mizari look the attachement

Edit 2 : http://wiki.openttdcoop.org/Priority

[ZxBiohazardZx]

your first is not a combo signal, and you can expand it

[romazoon]

the priority works only with two signals max. the third doesn t activate red light for branch line.

here are two screenshot where i really use it on my network (i added now a third combo signal to show it doesn t work)

[ZxBiohazardZx]

you can lengthen prios, it just requires you to use logic tracks.



you can extend the prio A LOT using setups like that

http://wiki.openttdcoop.org/Priority

[romazoon]

yes sure, i know that ZX...the trouble with lenghting the priority like this is that it's really ugly. also it works like a charm the way i do it, so why bothering with lenghting the prio in a ugly mannier...
Also the only situation i could see a use of that longer prio is on a main line so busy that not one train can stop without messing a lot (making stop the trains behind), this situation also mean that additional trains from branch line are just over the top for the capacity of the line, instead of lenghting the prio, i believe the solution is to add tracks to the line at this point.

[V453000 :)]

Saying that it is ugly and hence not using it is a bit limited, but your approach is completely reasonable... Adding more lines is always a good option; priority length might not be entirely related as e.g. longer priorities will need more lines too - they will just disturb the traffic on prioritized lines less.
The main relation is to train acceleration; so if you use well accelerating trains, your priorities can be very short and work just fine.
- Also, if all trains have enough choices, it is entirely possible to play without priorities completely, too.

P.S. I believe you could "hide" the lengthened priority inside e.g. some station tiles - station tiles do not look ugly I assume?

V

[romazoon]

Thanks for your input V453000, yes you are right uglyness is not really an objective argument, but well...i m a perfectionnist in a different mannier than you are

And if one day i push my network to the limit, i ll think about it again (with a station to hide stuff like you suggest )

Now time to bring a couple screenies.

[kamnet]

Those rocks could fit right in with Supercheese's NewObjects Set.

[Supercheese]

Those rocks could fit right in with Supercheese's NewObjects Set.

Indeed they could. I need to push out an update to that Soon™...

[romazoon]

Oh Great !

I ve got some time this week, so i ll try to do more rock tiles then

any tips or hint on how i should do ? i mean i guess i should draw them directly in a bounding box or something like that ? (in other word, i m a noob!)

thanks

[romazoon]

wanna see more screenies ?

here are 3

[Supercheese]

Oh Great !

I ve got some time this week, so i ll try to do more rock tiles then

any tips or hint on how i should do ? i mean i guess i should draw them directly in a bounding box or something like that ? (in other word, i m a noob!)

thanks

Just draw the rocks on a "magic blue" transparent background. Heck, if you've already got things looking good in game, it should turn out nicely.

[STD]

As usual, your screenshots are gorgeous, romazoon

[Jacko]

Yeah, those look great.
I still remember our multiplayer server of that map, that was fun.

[romazoon]

Hey thanks guys, i m glad you appreciated the screenies, this game ain t over, so expect more somedays

And Supercheese, you'll find here the two rock tiles i have made on transparent blue (with some modification and the automatic rotation avalaible).

Tell me if i should modify something

And about the license of my graphics, cause i guess that's a point that need to be precised : I ll use the same license Supercheese uses for his newgrf (if that s to be included inside your newgrf). If not, then i ll use GPL.

Edit 1 : i just checked in game the ogfx rocks wich inspired me (and from wich i picked the colors to apply to my rocks) and by unpausing the game i have just realized those rocks are having animated wawes. So i will try to draw the different water movement needed before attacking new rock tiles then