Help doing a Sprite

[vanadio]

Hi.

I want to start doing my own mods.
Can someone do a video tutorial explaining how to do that from the begining?

[wallyweb]

There have been several attempts/starts on such projects. Unfortunately they were never (?) completed. I suspect that this is due to the complexity and time required to develop such a project. That said, there are several text tutorials posted throughout these forums. If you haven't already done so, I suggest using the search tool at the top right corner of this page and look for "tutorial". You'll find about 2000 responses. After that, if you have any questions, we are usually quite good at helping out. Whatever you do, don't give up. There is always room for new ideas and contributions.

[vanadio]

I already read the tutorials.

But i had lot's of dificulties to start doing something. A video tutorial would help me so much...

For example, what program should i use to draw the sprites?

[lawton27]

I use paint

[vanadio]

But if i draw a line in paint it doesn't look pixelized, like in the tutorials
And how could you make a perfect curve line in paint?

[lawton27]

You'll need to zoom in, use the pencil tool and make your canvas smaller.

[vanadio]

Ok. Now how can i do a sprite in paint with the exact size of the game?

[lawton27]

use these:

http://users.tt-forums.net/pikka/wiki/i ... _templates

[vanadio]

I'm starting doing something but i have some dificulties painting things and creating the windows.

Look this

[wallyweb]

Here are a couple of pages that might help you:

Purno's Drawing Tutorials

Drawing Sprites

[vanadio]

It's done!!!

CP 1500, portuguese Railways.

Now, how can i put it into the game?

[Zephyris]

Try this for a start: http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php ... rstVehicle
And this will probably be useful: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 65&start=0

[vanadio]

Hum, it looks to difficult for me...

There is any program that can do that?

I've tryed GRF maker, but it don't works...

PS - How do you know the exact size of the sprite for houses?

[Zephyris]

Have you actually tried it? It is easier than it looks...

[vanadio]

Can you make a list of steps? Like a tutorial?

Something like

1)
2)
3)
...

[wallyweb]

Can you make a list of steps? Like a tutorial?

Do you mean like this?

[Zephyris]

Those are step by step instructions! Try starting here if you dont understand... http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php ... oundations

[vanadio]

I tried, but i can't understand some things...

A video tutorial would help me much...

[vanadio]

For example, I have sprite. How can i tranform it into a .NFO and .Pcx file?

And i use Open TTD 1.0.1, and the GRFWizard says that can't fins TTD patch

[lawton27]

To convert to a pcx you just need an image editor which saves as PCX, it might need to be indexed too so you can use these (depending on program):

GIMP:
http://forum.tycoonez.com/download/file.php?id=4051
PSP:
http://forum.tycoonez.com/download/file.php?id=2078
Corel Photopaint (It could be readed by Adobe Photoshop):
http://forum.tycoonez.com/download/file ... d705a1a1f7

If you don't have any of them, get GIMP, it's free.

As for the NFO that's a completely separate thing, it's simply the code, you just need a text editor, you code up your nfo as the specifications tell you and save as .nfo.