marine dump (ship and stuff)

[CommanderZ]

I guess this would vastly increase CPU load. I think a proper ship pathfinder should be made first

[ostlandr]

Barge trains??? Unless things are different in Europe, over here barges are generally lashed together in a raft and pushed from behind by a somewhat misnamed tow boat. This makes the barges and tow boat act like one large ship as far as handling.

http://www.fotosearch.com/DGT074/cb045622/

(quick web search)

Wow! I guess in some places tugboats still actually tug things on the end of a line.

http://www.fotosearch.com/results.asp?k ... chtype=sss

Hmm, I wonder if we could implement the ship's wake as a container for extra cargo... A bit of a hack but much easier than adding multiple cargo types to a single vehicle.

(Apologies: thread hijack). Theoretically, could ships be articulated? I don't mean now, today; I mean with a reasonable number of changes to the game codebase. Or is there a fundamental architectural limitation (or just too much work for too little benefit)?

The application I am thinking of is barge trains. Other people might find other uses. I am just chipping it in as a thought before anyone goes making any elegant hacks or patches to implement mixed cargoes.

cheers,

Andy

[andythenorth]

Barge trains??? Unless things are different in Europe, over here barges are generally lashed together in a raft and pushed from behind by a somewhat misnamed tow boat. This makes the barges and tow boat act like one large ship as far as handling.

Ok, good point. Given that ships are scaled completely differently to other vehicles, barges would work just fine as single sprites.

There are RL examples of strings of barges that would look better in the game with articulated ships, but it's definitely not a big deal.

cheers,

Andy

[lead@inbox]

small general cargo vessel (project 3.08)

[Purno]

Looks awesome!

[DanMacK]

I like it

Looks awesome

[andythenorth]

small general cargo vessel (project 3.08)

That's nice. I like the proportions - perfect blend of RL and toylike (that's a definite complement btw)

cheers,

Andy

[lead@inbox]

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[andythenorth]

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Objects of beauty

[ostlandr]

Avast there, matey! Looks like yer sailin' fleet will rule the seven seas. I see there ye've added a fine tramp steamer, a handsome paddlewheel steamer, and a proud sailing ship, ready for the China trade. Well done, me bucko.

[DanMacK]

Gorgeous!!!!! Absolutely beautiful. Love both of them, truly works of art. Thanks

[lead@inbox]

thanks to everybody. i'll continue

[lead@inbox]

Hmm, I wonder if we could implement the ship's wake as a container for extra cargo... A bit of a hack but much easier than adding multiple cargo types to a single vehicle.

Sirs developers. What about ship's wake?

[Zutty]

Wow these are some BEAUTIFUL ships!

How about some Narrowboats for canals?

If they were half the width of a canal tile and always sat on the left (or right), relative to their movement of direction, then they would be able to pass each other like buses do without appearing to travel through each other. Does that make sense?

[Zephyris]

If they were half the width of a canal tile and always sat on the left (or right)...

I made a dummy grf of this once to see how well it would work, it doesn't look bad! With some good graphics it could work well...

[DanMacK]

I actually thought about this myself, and it would work very well. and you'd only need 8 sprites to do it.

Now how would you add horses to ith though

[blackjak231]

Beautiful work!!! i love all of them all!

But (i know its gonna sound noobish.. ), when are we going to be able to get a grf file with all of those boats?

and here i another boat you should try to make: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/12 ... art-1.html
It will probably be very big!!!!!!

Also, somebody should try to do a submarine... the idea would be to just have a shadow drwan instead of a boat when its moving and when it stops, it comes out of the water....

[CommanderZ]

and here i another boat you should try to make: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2006/12 ... art-1.html
It will probably be very big!!!!!!

Why? Ships cannot be really bigger then one tile, so...why would you like to have a one tile big floating city?