New Graphics - Blender ".blend" thread (Works In Progress)

[ArmEagle]

Good work! I don't think the rails can be done any better than this.

Yeah, the problem that remains lies with he grass parts of the sprites. For 32bpp they were designed to 'stand up', thus overlapping tiles behind. This sometimes also overlaps tracks behind a rail/grass tile.

I guess, ultimately, track tiles, bridges, tunnels, etc, should just have a base ground sprite and a track sprite over/trough it. Bridges, tunnels, etc would then have to have a 'front' and 'background' sprite, but don't bridges already do so somewhat?

[Katran]

Wonderful!
Remained only oblique rails draw. Sprites 1031-1034.

[Jupix]

Oh my, new rails. That's very cool indeed. I can't wait till you guys get a complete set, those rails are probably the 32bpp set I'm most looking forward to.

[Varivar]

Hi all,
I' ve made a 32bit version of the tropical flat #4.

1x1_flats_trop4_32bit.png (120.24 KiB) Viewed 3977 times

It' s my very first building for OpenTTD and i hope you like it.

I have a question:
Do I have to render the building from all the four angles? This page says so, but when I play OpenTTD, I don' t see rotated buildings.

I haven' t included offsets in the image and such things and i also haven' t checked if the size of the building matches with other buildings, so it could be that it' s a bit too big or small.

[Mchl]

AFAIK it's not necessary to render all 4 views. The wiki page is more than two years old, when the 32bpp was quite different in OTTD.

On the other hand, if you do render 4 views, there's more variety. Extra views could be used to create extended grf file.

Your model looks nice. What gives it a bit of weirdness, are baloconies on each side of the corner. Perhaps you could move all windows and balconies on right-side wall to the right...
And there's also some kind of optical illusion, that I find hard to describe....

[athanasios]

You are right. Both doors lead to the same room. So the 2 balconies could be made 1 going around the corner. Balconies are pretty small, so combining them would look better. Also the top one doesn't make any sense. It should go around all the roof. And roof doors aren't so big. You could make the roof door narrower and thus add variation to your building.

[Varivar]

Your model looks nice. What gives it a bit of weirdness, are baloconies on each side of the corner. Perhaps you could move all windows and balconies on right-side wall to the right...
And there's also some kind of optical illusion, that I find hard to describe....

I' ve improved the flat, the balconies on the corner looks better now. I' ve also fixed the optical illusion on the left side of the building. There' s more detail now.

1x1_flats_trop4_32bit.png (112.9 KiB) Viewed 3643 times

[Zephyris]

Mmm, that looks very good

[Purno]

Very nice. Is that company color blue? (or does something like that not exist in 32bpp?)

[Varivar]

Very nice. Is that company color blue? (or does something like that not exist in 32bpp?)

No, as far I now city buildings don' t have company colors. The balconies are blue because the original 8bit version has blue balconies. but maybe I can make different versions with different balcony colors for some variation.

[Zephyris]

This building does use cc for variation, the balconies should be cc

[Varivar]

This building does use cc for variation, the balconies should be cc

Ok, here are the red and the white versions. I think that are enough colors. These aren' t the official company colors, does that matter?

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1x1_flats_trop4_32bit_white.png (112.65 KiB) Viewed 3650 times

[Purno]

Is making a cc version that complicated?

[Zephyris]

For trunk it requires an extra 8bpp png with the company colour drawn as normal. For the extra zoom levels patch it requires an extra png which masks of the areas which are to be company colour, the luminance of the base pixels is then maintained and the hue altered.

[Varivar]

For trunk it requires an extra 8bpp png with the company colour drawn as normal. For the extra zoom levels patch it requires an extra png which masks of the areas which are to be company colour, the luminance of the base pixels is then maintained and the hue altered.

And how do I make such an extra png? (sorry, I' m not good in such things )

[Zephyris]

For trunk you can use paint to pixel-paint the extra png. For the extra zoom levels it depends greatly on which program you are using, the best place for help would be the extra zoom level thread.

[athanasios]

Nevertheless, awesome work!

[Varivar]

Nevertheless, awesome work!

Thanks

I've searched through the grf files, but I can' t find the mask file for the balconies . The different colors on this building aren't company colors, because they doesn't belong to any player. The colors are there to give the building more variation. I've asked in the extra zoom lever thread for help. Anyway, I've rendered the building in three different zoom modes, they are in the attachment. They have correct names, but they don't have offsets. I would be very happy if someone here is able to code them for the game.

I' ve also worked on a second building, the tropical flat #3. Currently it is a bit undetailled, it needs more detail.

1x1_flats_trop3_32.png (69.14 KiB) Viewed 3014 times

[maquinista]

Nevertheless, awesome work!

Thanks

I've searched through the grf files, but I can' t find the mask file for the balconies . The different colors on this building aren't company colors, because they doesn't belong to any player. The colors are there to give the building more variation. I've asked in the extra zoom lever thread for help. Anyway, I've rendered the building in three different zoom modes, they are in the attachment. They have correct names, but they don't have offsets. I would be very happy if someone here is able to code them for the game.

I' ve also worked on a second building, the tropical flat #3. Currently it is a bit undetailled, it needs more detail.

1x1_flats_trop3_32.png

I can try it. I will attach the coded model in this post:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?p=717300#p717300

[BerberJesus]

realy good work, Varivar!