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Australian ranch, or Welsh hill farm?

Maybe it could be climate related?

Cows from ISR. Drawn by Sanchimaru I do believe. Found via the amazing and too-oft overlooked forum search function

hows this? Its quite hard to get the texturing looking good on the big areas..

Looks good, although the contrast between the dirt and the clean areas on the roof could have been less visible/weaker on the first pic.

Zephyris wrote:hows this? Its quite hard to get the texturing looking good on the big areas..

I like it. Looks okay in game (comped). It is tricky with such a large flat space on that big minerals shed, but I think you've made it work.

My only other thought was colour - some of the source photos have blue or light green smelter buildings. I'm thinking about our discussion on how to make industries visually distinctive...

cheers,

Andy

andythenorth wrote:I'm thinking about our discussion on how to make industries visually distinctive...

cheers,

Andy

That mineral extractor monster thing is already distinctive enough by its shape and size, the gray works for it just fine.

CommanderZ wrote:

Australian ranch, or Welsh hill farm?

Maybe it could be climate related?

Outback station (ranch) in tropic, stone hill farm/croft in temperate and arctic?
http://davidwallphoto.com/images/%7BEB3 ... BBA%7D.jpg

http://www.greenlandexpedition.com/gree ... saq002.jpg

Hmm, you're a demanding audience. No promises, but I do want to draw an Australian thing with a wind pump and tin sheds, and it might look odd anywhere but tropic, so we might end up with two types of sheep farm.

On the other hand there are 34 industries left to draw - maybe there's a way to make one thing that looks good in all climates...

Maybe it could be climate related?

Don't get me wrong, I am suggesting, not demanding

This gotta be EPIC set for sure, be there climate-related graphics or not

CommanderZ wrote:Don't get me wrong, I am suggesting, not demanding

Yeah, I figured that
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Moo! Dairy farm attached (photoshop format). This has the cows from ISR in the file, but I haven't done anything with them. They need putting in some cattle pens, or waiting at a field gate or something. I'm not sure.

Partly I don't have much inspiration around animals in the game.
Partly I'm hoping someone volunteers to code custom fields http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=42440

If anyone wants to have a go at doing some sprites for fields/pens with cows, feel free - if we don't like it, trust us we'll be honest PM me if you want source photos for inspiration (I can't post here for copyright reasons).

cheers,

Andy

Made a page that shows examples of industry graphics all in one place.

http://tt-foundry.com/sets/FIRS/schema/graphics

This page is *not* canonical, there are missing elements from some of the graphics. However it is nice to see progress, and we can turn it into a guide for players when the set is done.

Working on a textile mill. This is the boilerhouse. Some 19th century textile mills had *huge* chimneys.

Great work, all it needs now is a little Fred Dibnah at the top of the chimney on some scaffold...

Will this be a typical Lancashire-style mill?

Jim Yates wrote:Great work, all it needs now is a little Fred Dibnah at the top of the chimney on some scaffold...
Will this be a typical Lancashire-style mill?

It's based on Lister Mills, Bradford. So the wrong side of the border for Fred...

Lister Mills aerial view
http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/images/pi ... -59292.jpg
http://www.archnewsnow.com/features/ima ... 57_01x.jpg

I finished the textile mill, but Photoshop ate my file

Back to the drawing board (quite literally).

andythenorth wrote:... but Photoshop ate my file ...

Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up! Back up!

andythenorth wrote:Made a page that shows examples of industry graphics all in one place.

http://tt-foundry.com/sets/FIRS/schema/graphics

This page is *not* canonical, there are missing elements from some of the graphics. However it is nice to see progress, and we can turn it into a guide for players when the set is done.

Do you have any plans for your wholesale market? Perhaps contact SAC for her Ikea-store-sprites?

DJ Nekkid wrote:Do you have any plans for your wholesale market? Perhaps contact SAC for her Ikea-store-sprites?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_Market

andythenorth wrote:I finished the textile mill, but Photoshop ate my file

...so I've drawn it again. Fortunately this is a really simple building
As usual there are various blocks which can be arranged to create different layouts.

Textile mill photoshop file. Based on Listers Mill, Bradford, UK

Working on a bakery.... Update... More...