OpenGFX - Graphics Base Set

[Roujin]

I was thinking of something conservative (which was why I didn't like the current ones with their grey highlight in the middle), so first draft is this. The colours are taken from already existing OpenTTD GUI window. Would something like this work?

If any, the orange one. The others are more background-ish and kinda blend in with the game behind the letters, which is bad.
I propose taking the orange one and further improving on it / trying out some things.. maybe a mix of two colors, orange being the main one and a splash of another one (transition)?

Just my personal opinion...

PS: as always, my post sounds quite negative which is not intended! Please go on with the letters, they'll surely be an improvement on the current ones
edit: hmm, Transpoyced. Is that a new fork of OpenTTD? Sounds cool
Yes, I know where that word comes from...

[DJ Nekkid]

i agree, the orange one is a good start!

[LordAzamath]

I added a black (well dark) shadow there, now it's even more with the buttons, as buttons have black text. Anyway, about the second colour, I'd take the lilac one, but I have no idea how to put it there Just stripes aren't that good I think

[Pingaware]

A good improvement. Well done. For the transition, possibly start with the 'lilac'-y colour in the top left corner and quickly change to the yellow? Might look good, might not. I can't visualise stuff properly.

[Ammler]

just like to link to issue about the title font: http://dev.openttdcoop.org/issues/379

[LordAzamath]

Err right, I somehow can't post to that issue, so I'll reply here.

I'll just make the letters all sized as the originals and there should be no problem
I used just a sans font in gimp without antialiasing, so can't really give you antialiased sprites for 32bpp atm, but I need to redraw the letters anyway, as I'm not sure about if I may use that font Probably I'll end up installing liberation fonts , but well, the current ones are just kind of proof of concept so I can change the sizes very well.. now, now, where's grfcodec when you need it
EDIT:
Now here's the liberation mono bold version

[Ammler]

Err right, I somehow can't post to that issue, so I'll reply here.

Try to login next time.

Greets
Ammler

[LordAzamath]

Yes that might work

[mrMann]

I still think that TRANSPOYCED sign is too far to the right.

[LordAzamath]

Umm.. if it was a joke, I didn't get it :S

It's just a mockup and I pasted it on the background so you could judge it in it's own environment.

Anyhoo, I don't hear much complaints so I'll give the sprites soon

[Rubidium]

Umm.. if it was a joke, I didn't get it :S

It isn't a joke. Just put "Transport Tycoon" and "OpenTTD" after eachother, then remove all spaces and start to remove any duplicate characters (leave the first).

[LordAzamath]

Yeah, I know that, I worked on those sprites . I was referring to

I still think that TRANSPOYCED sign is too far to the right.

not the transpoyced

Edit:

[FooBar]

Not that I don't like your new letters, LA. They're a great improvement if you ask me, but I just conceived the following which I still like to show...

It's basically the logo and typeface nicked off the website; including the background...
Somehow I think we should have the logo actually in the game; which can be done with LA's typeface just as well.

[Roujin]

Well, either try to convince the devs of changing that bit of code then -

OR, hack it in by replacing one of the letters with this box and applying proper offsets (and leave all other letters empty sprites).
Then, support for TTDPatch would be gone for good though

PS: no, I just cooked up a solution
lemme see *mumbles*
TRANSPOYC ED
ASRYC OPENTD

Both: OPNT
TTDPatch only: ASRYC
OpenTTD only: ED

Okay, here goes nothing: Encode the above box as the letter 'E' or 'D' with offsets so it shows nicely centered in OpenTTD, and design a similar box for TTDPatch and encode it in one of the letters 'A', 'S', 'R', 'Y' or 'C' with proper offsets
What do you think?

[LordAzamath]

While I like your suggestion FooBar, the box should be drawn with the colours of the other GUI boxes in OpenTTD GUI I think. Or if we can convince devs (which aint going to happen as they need support the oldgrfs too, unless we give them trunkable material too), the background box shoud be drawn by engine, not by sprites.
Other than that, I like

[Ammler]

The logo (specially the $-sign) is one of the ugly parts in OpenTTD. (of course IMO )

[FooBar]

TTDPatch only: ASRYC

TTDPatch just displays "Transport Tycoon" IIRC. Just like, well errr, transport tycoon

But as we're doing a seperate ogfx_extra for TTDPatch, I don't it should be much of a problem to mess a bit around with the sprites.

Anyways, it's just an idea, not a must. I'd be happy with Lord's transpoyced as well, as that's easier to accomplish (i.e. it's already drawn).

[StopRightThere]

Not that I don't like your new letters, LA. They're a great improvement if you ask me, but I just conceived the following which I still like to show...

It's basically the logo and typeface nicked off the website; including the background...
Somehow I think we should have the logo actually in the game; which can be done with LA's typeface just as well.

I really like this idea.

[planetmaker]

OpenGFX 0.1.0-alpha6 has just been released. Get it from bananas or from http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/opengfx/releases

It has a range of additions and now allows black-box free playing of temperate, arctic and tropical climate but also features considerable improvements in toyland climate. Kudos to all who contributed! Now we most urgently need sprites for toyland industries and the remaining toyland houses as well as the African manger faces. For now, enjoy the new release, though

The changelog:
- Feature: Add toffee truck
- Feature: Toy truck
- Feature: Mail truck for toyland
- Feature: Sweets truck
- Feature: Plastics truck in toyland
- Feature: Add bubble truck, the last missing truck in toyland
- Feature: Toyland monorail engine
- Feature: Toyland maglev engine
- Feature: Toyland church in an improved version
- Feature: add balloon tree in toyland
- Feature: Toyland statue
- Feature: Piggybank for toyland climate
- Feature: Add upside-down cone tree, finishing all toyland trees
- Feature: First construction stage of two-tile tower in tropical climate
- Feature: Implement modern office block for tropical climate
- Feature: Modern office block in tropical climate
- Feature: Add construction stages (wrappings) for most existing toyland buildings
- Feature: Monolev mail wagon
- Feature: Tropic church
- Feature: British semaphore style
- Change: Improved arrows on terraforming icons
- Fix: Reduced the close-x 1px right and bottom to keep it square and avoiding OpenTTD glitch
- Fix: White bottom of small submarines
- Fix: White line at battery truck
- Fix: White lines in some characters
- Fix: Replace pure white in all sprites
- Fix: Action colors for the climate preview images
- Fix: Temperate building mis-alignment.

[Roujin]

FooBar: I think you misunderstood what I wrote there. ASRY and C are the letters that are in "Transport Tycoon", but not in "OpenTTD".

pm: Ooooh If things are going on like this OpenTTD 0.8.0 might just be shipped with a complete graphics replacement
All the remaining sprites done until April 1st (probably ), is that possible?