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Re: [OTTD] OpenGFX+ Airports

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Supercheese wrote:Airship Depots and Airship Stations
Those look aaaaaaaaaawesoooooooomeeeeeee!!!! :bow:
kamnet wrote:May I suggest setting this to debut 1783
IMO, it's not that much about the airport's into date, airplane sets simply don't go that far back IIRC. Heck, you can easily make these first airfields appear from year 0.
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Voyager One wrote:
Supercheese wrote:Airship Depots and Airship Stations
Those look aaaaaaaaaawesoooooooomeeeeeee!!!! :bow:
kamnet wrote:May I suggest setting this to debut 1783
IMO, it's not that much about the airport's into date, airplane sets simply don't go that far back IIRC. Heck, you can easily make these first airfields appear from year 0.
You could just figured I'd throw out a historically significant event there. :-)
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kamnet wrote:
Voyager One wrote:
kamnet wrote:May I suggest setting this to debut 1783
IMO, it's not that much about the airport's into date, airplane sets simply don't go that far back IIRC. Heck, you can easily make these first airfields appear from year 0.
You could just figured I'd throw out a historically significant event there. :-)
There already exists a parameter in this grf to permit construction of all airports regardless of current date - indeed, I made use of this very parameter when building these new airfields.
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The Vintage Commuter airport and new Air Depots and Air Stations are now live, feel free to download and test: https://bundles.openttdcoop.org/airport ... sh/LATEST/

Just keep clicking on the button for rotations on the Commuter airport, Helidepot, and Helistation and you'll see them. :D
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So, I was thinking of splitting the new varieties of airports out into their own entries in the list, to give them better exposure rather than being locked behind four clicks of the rotations button. Thoughts?
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Supercheese wrote:So, I was thinking of splitting the new varieties of airports out into their own entries in the list, to give them better exposure rather than being locked behind four clicks of the rotations button. Thoughts?
I think that's the way to go as long as we don't get dozens of virtually identical airports :)
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planetmaker wrote:I think that's the way to go as long as we don't get dozens of virtually identical airports :)
All righty, this change has been implemented.
Eddy Arfik wrote:I often extend my airports with object tiles, as do many other people, but it looks funny with the fences in in between the "real" airport and the "fake" parts, so I've made a parameter that will allow to disable fences. Would you consider adding this to the next release?
Eddy Arfik wrote:So I have a new version here, which doesn't have parameter, instead automatically hides the fence where an object or station tile is adjacent. I think this is better solution as it doesn't add strings to need translating. Attached is diff and also compiled grf if anyone wants to try it out.
This feature has also been coded - I combined both of the patches and extended the functionality of the parameter to allow the optional hiding of fences: Never, Always, When object is adjacent, and When object or station is adjacent.

Please feel free to test these new features in the latest push build: https://bundles.openttdcoop.org/airport ... sh/LATEST/ :)
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A Small Seaplane Port has now been added! The dock graphics come courtesy of kamnet.

The optimal placement parameters for such a port are a bit more in-depth than a regular land airport, so I have attached a .gif to illustrate.

Frame 1: Bulldozing some water tiles to make room for the port, since it cannot be directly placed on water. This step can be very expensive.

Frame 2: Building the port on the bare tiles - A very important but not directly shown step is the use of a bare-water newobject to prevent the airport from being destroyed by flooding. A new bare water tile was added to SNO that can assist in this. Simply bulldoze bare ground around the periphery of the seaport and place water tiles on them to safeguard against destruction.

Frame 3: Decorating the port with some OGFX+ Airport Object tiles.

Frame 4: Av8 seaplanes at the port! Although they do not always align perfectly with the docks in all rotations...


Even with new original dock sprites, alignment compatibility is preserved with the MariCo set, should you desire to make use of its excellent objects.
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nice work.

But shouldn't the "air depot" and "air station" be called "Airship Station" etc. ? Especially while translating, it sounds weird (-> when just translating it, one doesn't know what is meant; translated it in my mind into german, french, luxembourgish and..yeah...)
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Phreeze wrote:nice work.

But shouldn't the "air depot" and "air station" be called "Airship Station" etc. ? Especially while translating, it sounds weird (-> when just translating it, one doesn't know what is meant; translated it in my mind into german, french, luxembourgish and..yeah...)
"Airship station" is a perfectly valid term to base translations off of. I chose Air Station because of the famous airship base Lakehurst Naval Air Station, the center for the US airship program and infamous for the place where the Hindenburg ignited.

The marine corps also used the term Air Station, in particular: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Cor ... ion_Tustin

For German I would imagine Luftschiffhafen would be a good translation.
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Supercheese wrote:I chose Air Station because of the famous airship base
Yeah, but that's a "Naval Air Station", not an "Air Station".
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How about "seaplane dock" ?
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WooW supercheese i was stunned with that sea airport, :bow:
This is going the change the life of those small coastal towns (i was always sad about them) not so big to have trains nor close to have road connections.

someday we will have a kansai airport with this advancements.
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If I want to upgrade to the current game automatically GRF crash occurs and the game closes.

It may be true?
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sunshare wrote:If I want to upgrade to the current game automatically GRF crash occurs and the game closes.

It may be true?
Eh, quite possibly. I do not know the criteria for savegame compatibility, and it may well be broken.

If you really want the vintage commuter, air depots, and air stations, this version should still be compatible with games that were started using version 0.4.2.
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That seaplane port is amazing, what a great idea!
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Redirect Left wrote:That seaplane port is amazing, what a great idea!
Well, the idea has been around for a very long time. There indeed was even a previous implementation of a seaplane port, but this did not have rotations, was mutually exclusive with the default small airport, and was not compatible with OGFX+ Airports.
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Lovely to see the seaplaneport in this GRF, especially the rotations and the docks!!
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A few notes from my discoveries playing with the seaport.

1) Before building the seaport, make sure you have "Build while paused" enabled in your game, and pause the game before you start.
2) The "Bare Water" tile in SNO Objects is not a water tile, but a land tile. It will not let you build this tile on seawater, so you will need to dynamite an extra tile to build the buffer. Do NOT use any of the water objects (like seagulls, etc.), or the airport will flood.
3) You CANNOT have any other type of water tile encroach on this space, including the ship dock and ship depot. Otherwise the airport will flood.

It took me a lot of trial and error when constructing the seaport and building objects around it, but in the end I got to make some pretty spiffy stuff. Definitely grab some other NewObject sets like MariCo and ISR/DWE to play with.
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kamnet wrote:A few notes from my discoveries playing with the seaport.

1) Before building the seaport, make sure you have "Build while paused" enabled in your game, and pause the game before you start.
2) The "Bare Water" tile in SNO Objects is not a water tile, but a land tile. It will not let you build this tile on seawater, so you will need to dynamite an extra tile to build the buffer. Do NOT use any of the water objects (like seagulls, etc.), or the airport will flood.
3) You CANNOT have any other type of water tile encroach on this space, including the ship dock and ship depot. Otherwise the airport will flood.

It took me a lot of trial and error when constructing the seaport and building objects around it, but in the end I got to make some pretty spiffy stuff. Definitely grab some other NewObject sets like MariCo and ISR/DWE to play with.
Hm, canals actually *could* be coded such that they do not show the stony border when built at sea level (they have a tile_height variable which could be queried to decide on drawing the stones). Currently I cannot think of many detrimental effect: only when there's a large portion of land at sea level where they are built, then they'll not show proper borders. Hm... it would need a nearby_tile_class variable to make it better.
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