32bit Extra Zoom Graphics Works In Progress

[maquinista]

I have updated the cadaver's TAR file with his latest model. I have modified it a bit with GIMP.

[hyperion]

the modifications made with gimp are interesting but there are still details that need to be fixed.
the hole for the round window doesn't appear in phase 2.a tall flat like this must have a rain gutter.
the top of the building looks like an arrow ,the original doesn't look like this.
maybe you wanted to make chimneys,but i think they are really too small.
ZxBiohazardZx made suggestions about windows that i think were judicious(looks good but the windows look odd...

either add balcony railings or smallen the concrete-ish slabs underneath the windows).
if the objective of the 32b project is not to make models that fit with original sprites and real principles of building construction we can use the
infinity of models available in the net in many format.

[maquinista]

This is the latest Northstar2 house, and the update of the building.

[maquinista]

Two fountains by DirtY iCE and BerberJesus.

[maquinista]

This is some small airport tiles that I have been made some time ago. They are not perfect and They need some modifications, and I will try fix them in the future, but I leave all source files if someone wants modify it.

There are needed some elements, like buildings (left building must be small, It can't be taller than they own tile), water tower, windshock, fences...

[maquinista]

This file has the tram tracks that I have made with GIMP some weeks ago. They are far from perfect but They can be useful if someone wants code some trams.

[ervin2]

I have coded the other style road vehicles depots.

Also, I have created this download page with a different classification:

http://wiki.openttd.org/Talk:Maquinista ... oom_Levels

Just a suggestion for the depo model. You should make the road go inside, plus put some objects on the inner sides, like tools, gas, ect. But that may just be unnecessary :/

[maquinista]

I have coded the latest model from northstar2. Now is much better than the original, It doesn't look oversized.

[Leanden]

Is there an up to date list anyway of all the sprites currently completed? The wiki is very incomplete!

[dbkblk]

This file has the tram tracks that I have made with GIMP some weeks ago. They are far from perfect but They can be useful if someone wants code some trams.

Hey ! Have you seen the grass between the connection of the road and the bridge (near the station) ? There is a small grass stripe.

[maquinista]

This file has the tram tracks that I have made with GIMP some weeks ago. They are far from perfect but They can be useful if someone wants code some trams.

Hey ! Have you seen the grass between the connection of the road and the bridge (near the station) ? There is a small grass stripe.

I can't fix it because is a problem of the sourcecode. Bridge heads should use different ground sprites than empty ground.

[planetmaker]

I can't fix it because is a problem of the sourcecode. Bridge heads should use different ground sprites than empty ground.

Uhm... that should be solely an alignment problem, shouldn't it? I mean... just make the northern ramp of the bridge such, that it overlaps the grass of the ground tile... or what do I miss there?

[Thief^]

The problem is that the grass extends beyond the edge of the tile, and the bridge head doesn't.

[maquinista]

The problem is that the grass extends beyond the edge of the tile, and the bridge head doesn't.

Yes. It would need four new slope tiles for bridge heads. These new four tiles would need changes in the code of OTTD, and I don't know how do it.

There are lots of graphics changes needed in OTTD.

[planetmaker]

The problem is that the grass extends beyond the edge of the tile, and the bridge head doesn't.

So... I guess that's the sprite which needs fixing then. The original one doesn't. And 32bpp is only a replacement for it; and if it - especially for the ground tiles - fails to stay within its bounding boxes - well, you see what happens. It's IMO not a failure of OpenTTD, but a failure of the graphics.

[Thief^]

The original one doesn't overlap the edges because it's just a green square, not actual grass.

[planetmaker]

The original one doesn't overlap the edges because it's just a green square, not actual grass.

Yes, I know. But then it's a short-coming or a bug of this 32bpp ground sprite to overlap.
Alternatively you can make the bridge slopes overlap properly.
In any case it's not the failure of OpenTTD, if the sprites coder fail on proper alignment or the tiles are drawn as such that alignment is bound to fail.

It probably would be moderately easy to shave off a few grass leaves at the edges.

[maquinista]

The problem is that bridge heads should use tiles like these two. Also, this only needs two new tiles, not four. These tiles can't replace the current landscape tiles because it would look strange.

Also, this is not only a problem of 32 bpp extra zoom levels, because If someone wants draw a new 8 bppground tile set with some height of the grass, he would get the same problem in bridges.

[DaleStan]

The problem is that bridge heads should use tiles like these two.

No, the people who create graphics should draw tiles that end where they are supposed to end, rather than overlapping the neighboring tiles.

[FooBar]

Adding the overlapping part to the beginning of the next tile instead of the end of the tile itself should solve this problem nicely. Basically the same technique as I used on my Transrapid track set.

While that glitches a bit in case of the transrapid track set because of the large height difference, it should be perfectly fine with small height differences like this here grass.