OpenGFX - Graphics Base Set

[Bilbo]

Terraform symbols

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What about these terraforming icons/cursors?
Up and down are modified, the equalize icons are unchanged

[Bilbo]

Three points about icons:
Isometric views are reserved for "real" objects; ie. things which appear in-game.

I've redrawn the HDD from top view, fixed.

All icons have black outlines around all non-transparent parts of the icon.

Adding black outline cause the graph to look quite ugly. I've redone the background and it is now black (with black outline), so this should be better :)

All other arrows in icons are the same size, colour and shading, these should match those too.

Colour and shading yes, but same size? No, I've seen arrows of different sizes throughout the set. I've fixed the colour and shading.

Should be better now:

Another attempt

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[Ammler]

What about these terraforming icons/cursors?

I like them more. You need some time to get familiar with the new GUI. (Like with the whole set anyway.)

Maybe it is worth to commit those changes to the repo, so we can test play them with next nightly, if it goes worse, revert shouldn't be hard.

Greets
Ammler

[Born Acorn]

I wouldn't imagine the arrows are needed on the save icon. As long as it clearly shows what it is, people should get the idea, like you would with the TTD icon.

[bokkie]

Maybe the (32bpp) toolbar by Joed can give some inspiration? I can't do it better than the one currently on OpenGFX but somehow Joed's looks a bit more professional. It has been talked about already at page 8/9/10 of this thread. Problem is that only the main toolbar has been done by him.


1st is 32bpp, 2nd is 8bpp, 3rd is 8bpp tweaked by *can't remember*

[Bilbo]

I pushed the changed terraforming icons to hg.

I removed the arrows and made the harddisk a bit larger:

No arrows

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What do you think of it now?

[cmoiromain]

I preferred the one with the arrows. Everyone is familiar with a floppy, because even today it is the universal sign for saving. People not knowing would fail to understand what the hard disk is, but the arrows make it feel like a load/save button.

About the 32bpp icons, I find them very pretty too. The only reason they look more professional though is because of the colours. With 256 colours, you can't get as pretty as that. And even though they are nice, I don't like them because they are not clear enough about what they lead to IMO.

But in any case, I preferred the CD version. I found it clear enough, but I don't mind switching to the HDD one.


I like the black graph icon better than the previous.

[Born Acorn]

Everyone is familiar with a floppy, because even today it is the universal sign for saving.

I would agree with this. Even modern and new games, with multiple cores, anti aliasing and amazing AI still use the floppy disk as a symbol of saving and loading, when the words themselves cannot be used.

[Bilbo]

Ok, so what about this floppy?

A floppy, then

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[cmoiromain]

I like it. Let's see what the others think about it.

[Born Acorn]

We have a winner.

[Zephyris]

Just a few more changes; added some extra shading to the floppy disc, made the onclick graphic, resized the graph icon to match the others of that style and tweaked the outlines to match the other icons.

[planetmaker]

Just a few more changes; added some extra shading to the floppy disc, made the onclick graphic, resized the graph icon to match the others of that style and tweaked the outlines to match the other icons.

Good work! They now look crisper and clearer to me.

[edorfaus]

Hi, I've been reading here a good while now, and finally got around to trying to help out a bit...

I'm not really an artist, and in particular not a sprite artist (programmer, actually), but that's what's needed it seems... so I decided to try my hand at it, starting with something simple. To be precise, toyland trees. :) (I like toyland, so it's what I usually play.)

Here's what I've got so far; I intended to start with the upside-down cone, but haven't drawn the top yet - thought what I have kinda looks like a fan or somesuch so figured I'd see what the rest of you think.

To be honest, this is a simple cut-and-paste job based on the cone tree... :P
That's allowed, right? Since I started with ogfx graphics, not ttd graphics?

"fan" tree, along with original cone tree for comparison.

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I used grfcodec to get the original sprites I modified out of ogfx1_base.grf, but had to convert the palette (-m 1) to get it to look right; is that normal?
Edit 3: nevermind, I figured it out. I should have used -p 2 instead. The palettes on the pics I posted will probably need back-converting before use.

Edit: added png version for inline visibility.
Edit 2: fixed the canvas size to be a multiple of 4.

[edorfaus]

It seems the muses wanted to try out their mallet on my head... I was suddenly struck by inspiration.

This is for the other toyland tree that hadn't been done yet; I stole LordAzamath's company statue this time (I hope he doesn't mind), or at least the balloon from it, and modded it to suit my purpose as a tree. The idea is a balloon being blown up, flying a while, then deflating and landing on its string.

Balloon tree

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Comments? Criticism? Suggestions? Heck, I'll even accept praise, if that's what it takes... ;)

I guess the next thing I should do is learn to code it, so I can see how it looks in-game...
Edit: Well, that wasn't so hard... Just decode a nightly, paste in my sprites, and re-encode. :) (well, a minor edit to the .nfo for 1953(it's larger))
Balloons look OK to my eyes, but the "fan" doesn't :P it just looks weird. I'll have to finish the cone inversion job, or come up with something else...

[Ammler]

Updated the development ticket, only coding left now.
https://dev.openttdcoop.org/issues/106

Please provide us also with the nfo (adjustments), if you have already done it. Would make it easier.

[Spaz O Mataz]

First sprite but what do you think for The toyland Statue?

[planetmaker]

It seems the muses wanted to try out their mallet on my head... I was suddenly struck by inspiration.

Wow, those baloons look quite nice Let's see how that we now can get them ingame... The coding is luckily not too hard on the OpenGFX side, so I guess either FooBar, Ammler or me will do that pretty soon

EDIT: I implemented the balloon trees in r132. The upside down cone will follow when I figure out where that goes

Cheers,
pm

First sprite but what do you think for The toyland Statue?

I like the funny statue! Such gnome fits toyland nicely

EDIT2: how do you guys want to be credited? If I don't hear anything special I'll add your forum nick to the credits. Of course you could also or additionally have your real name mentioned there. Just tell.

[edorfaus]

The upside down cone will follow when I figure out where that goes :)

Sprites 1947-1953, same grf as the balloon tree (ogfx1_base.grf).

Please provide us also with the nfo (adjustments), if you have already done it.

Only nfo adjustment I made was for sprite 1953, because of its changed size (the others are same size as before):

1953 sprites/ogfx1_base08.PCX 90 664 09 39 18 -9 -33

I decoded the grf with -w 1024 -h 768, so for the offsets (and filename) to match you'll have to do the same, I guess. Also, I moved the sprite 8 pixels to the left to make room for it. (I could attach the pcx, I guess, if you want it - or one with nfo from re-decoding...)

how do you guys want to be credited? If I don't hear anything special I'll add your forum nick to the credits. Of course you could also or additionally have your real name mentioned there. Just tell.

This should work, and match the others on the page: EdorFaus (Frode Austvik)
(I much prefer keeping login names in lowercase, but this forum doesn't seem to distinguish that from display names)

EDIT: Here's an improved upside-down cone tree, that actually looks like it. Only the full-grown sprite though, haven't done the growing phases yet. I think it looks better than the "fan" one, especially when it gets other colors in-game (this blue one is a little.. hm). What do you think?

[Born Acorn]

Right. A concept for 4625