[OTTD] Kamnet's Screenshot Thread (Updated June 28, 2016)

[STD]

Great video on your game. Thank you .

[kamnet]

A few more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZKXRTsYPUU

http://youtu.be/eG0Ts4LbiEA

[ISA]

Its been awhile when I posted videos! Should make the same! Better than pictures actually in my opinion, but bit more work

Good ones kamnet

[kamnet]

Two more, these are longer ones where you just sit and watch the action roll by.

Wallace Machine Shop
Baldwin Steel Mill

[ISA]

What program did You use for Your video recordings? Pretty good quality!

[kamnet]

Open Broadcaster Software - https://obsproject.com/‎

Specifically designed to record and stream live gaming sessions. Set it to record at a high bitrate (over 10,000 kbps), set buffer to 0, play around with the screen size and other stuff to suit yourself.

[kamnet]

After spending some months working on my new Birth of an Empire scenario for Spring 2013 Patch Pack, I finally started playing my creation. A few screenshots for now, video tomorrow.

[kamnet]

In my "Birth of an Empire" Scenario for OpenTTD Spring 2013 Patch Pack, the Portland Express leaves Buffalo and travels down and along the ridges of three mountains to reach Portland, near the sea. Music includes "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Easy Winners" by Scott Joplin. YouTube

[kamnet]

Another video, train running from Westwood across another mountain range to Buffalo. Youtube link



A few shots of stations I've built near some of the farms and small towns to collect goods and passengers, and a network map.

[kamnet]

A rough (not great) heightmap of Nunavut. Water is colored 000000, land is colored 030303. Posted here in response to a Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/openttd/commen ... eightmaps/

[Pyoro]

"malta stop" is missing a track piece. dunno if it's on purpose

[kamnet]

"malta stop" is missing a track piece. dunno if it's on purpose

I'm pretty sure it was. I think I reworked it all later. I don't remember, it's been several months since I've played.

[kamnet]

So after a few years layoff on screenshots, and really any game play, I've spent the past few days going back over my game I started back in 2010. It still runs on ChillCore's Patch Pack. Even though I'm missing out on a boatload of NewGRFs, scripts, and other game features this is still one of my most favorite games and I am happy to get back to it. It's still corrupted and it's still going to crash eventually, but I'll deal with it.

So we're coming into 1980 now and the biggest issue I've mostly ignored is passenger service. My home cities of Wallace and Edison has a terminal station that is just overflowing with traffic, at one point reaching up to 10,000 passengers and 5000 bags of mail waiting for transfer. I tried adding more trains and higher capacity trains and faster trains, but the bottom line here was that with only three platforms in each direction, I needed to remodel and expand. It took me nearly six months of in-game time to do, but I finally got it expanded.

Once that was done, I needed to re-organize the cities to make them more efficient. Several AIs were running buses of various costs, sizes and speeds all over the place. It was a congested nightmare! Having activated Street Lights didn't help either, it just caused more backlog. My solution was three-fold. First, I consolidated all in-city passenger transportation to one AI. Second, I got rid of all buses and moved to high-capacity trams. Finally, I re-organized most of the town into a grid optimized for space, and organized a series of circuits to transfer passengers from the city to the station and back.

In the process, I also engaged in some city reshaping, removing most of the roads and adding some eye candy. I think you'll like the results in this huge screenshot. You can see previous screenshots of the area from 1963 and 1973 here: viewtopic.php?p=1044588#p1044588