TTD Urban Renewal: a massive day to night conversion

[Hi-Torque]

Now wait a minute...dont beat up on him too much Its still a lot of work!

Here is one of the Asian buildings I found. Maybe useful for the toyland conversion. There was a whole page of them.

[Hi-Torque]

Just a 5 min copy/resize/paste here just to show the validity of the idea. And yes, it needs extensive cleanup

[Andrex]

Trooper:

because sc2000 and grfcodec both use the pcx file format, which allows for simple copy and paste.

However I export each building from the SimCity 2000 Urban Renewal Kit into a BMP file and then copy it to the PCX TTD files with Corel Photo-Paint. But the 4x4 tiles matches easily a 1x1 area in TTD.

Now, SC3000 has the BAT (Building Architect Tool) which I guess than also has the exporting feature. But I don't have the BAT and inserting SC3K buildings into TTD graphics is not as easy as SC2K ones.

And about the scale, my current excuse is that not everything is in proportion in TTD. I don't think the proportion thingy is enough reason to take the time to modify every buidling I copy, and by doing this, they won't look good anymore, because the building won't be proportioned with its design style and size.

[troopper5]

Hmm, aren't you going too far with this? I think that older "cartoon grfs" are maybe better than grfs from sc2k. With taller flats, older graphics are very good.

[Andrex]

Indeed I'm going too far. So far that I've reached the point where I don't wanna work on that anymore. I'll start making small changes of my own to try to improve the current graphics, which as you say, they are very good indeed.

[troopper5]

Ok, now i'm a bit dizzy..

I tried to install nightTTD, and my TTD didn't work anymore!
I installed all exes, and bloff, ttd didn't work, had to reinstall it.

BTW, how to install it? And what files it changes, so i can back-up them?

[Andrex]

The file NIGHTTD_main is the main file which replaces the content of trg1r.grf. The other two files has the name of the GRF file that will update in its name. If you only play in the temperate climate, you only need to install the main file.

[troopper5]

I understood the first help. But the last ones,

The other two files has the name of the GRF file that will update in its name.

I don't understand them, can you explain once again?

[troopper5]

Oh, does the main file change only trg1r.grf file? Or also other, so i know what files should i back-up.

[Dinges]

I think he means that the filename has the name of the grf file it replaces

[troopper5]

yahoo! I got them working!

There's a bug in this i noticed it just now. New airport (by Mr.Hunt) isn't same in night mod, could that be fixed?