[OTTD] OpenGFX+ Airports

[PikkaBird]

Yes, I think of 4 rotations.

FWIW to those using av8; since the default aircraft only use NE and SW landing and takeoff directions, only those sprites are cleaned up. The NW and SE oriented sprites do exist, they're just not necessarily very pretty.

I guess if other-oriented airports become widely used I'll have to go back and fix up another couple of hundred sprites. boo.

[planetmaker]

I've updated the snowy modern hangar and drawn snowy+rotated views for two of the buildings and the runway.

Hm, looking at the screenshot: I wonder whether the hangar's wall is too dark on the inside? What do others think?

I guess if other-oriented airports become widely used I'll have to go back and fix up another couple of hundred sprites. boo.

Well... there's still time, I think, as this set uses features available only in the nightlies and different airports probably will really pick up when there'll be really different airports available. But it might be a good goal for av8 2.0

[Alberth]

I was more thinking that the ground inside the hangar should perhaps be somewhat darker, now it looks just like outside.

[andythenorth]

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[Alberth]

Or make the outside lighter
Looks good imho.

[Bob_Mackenzie]

Now you mention it none of the buildings case shadows on to the tarmac - I suppose that's not possible draw?

[Ameecher]

The roof pitch of the hangar doesn't appear to be central, is that intended?

[Nagyzee]

Hmm, is it intentional that Layout 2 of the Metropolitan airport is exactly the same as the City airport?

[zero.eight]

Now you mention it none of the buildings case shadows on to the tarmac - I suppose that's not possible draw?

Could be done but shadows wouldn't be drawn outside of the tile so it might look odd.


Here's an improved hangar. Fixed the roof and used Andy's fix for the ground sprite. Overall it's a few pixels shorter.

GPLv2.

[zero.eight]

Building with the tower. These sprites should be aligned properly although there's some excess blue.

GPLv2.

[zero.eight]

And the "connectors". Hopefully the rotations are correct.

GPLv2.

[Zuu]

New Release: OpenGFX+ Airports 0.2.1

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- Change: Rename set to OpenGFX+ Airports
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The name displayed in the online content list in-game is still the old name. When selecting the NewGRF in NewGRF settings, however the new name is shown.


When an airplane enters/leaves the depot of the 180 degree rotated small airport, it has to rotate 180 degrees on the spot. I guess it is because the wormhole entry specify an aircraft rotation that has not been rotated 180 degrees.

[planetmaker]

Here's an improved hangar. Fixed the roof and used Andy's fix for the ground sprite. Overall it's a few pixels shorter.

Building with the tower. These sprites should be aligned properly although there's some excess blue.

And the "connectors".

Very nice and beautiful

[...]- Change: Rename set to OpenGFX+ Airports[...]

The name displayed in the online content list in-game is still the old name. When selecting the NewGRF in NewGRF settings, however the new name is shown.

Hm, that's sadly right. But it seems it's not easily possible (i.e. only via direct database hacks) to change the name of an existing project within BaNaNas.

When an airplane enters/leaves the depot of the 180 degree rotated small airport, it has to rotate 180 degrees on the spot. I guess it is because the wormhole entry specify an aircraft rotation that has not been rotated 180 degrees.

From your words that sounds suspiciously like a bug in OpenTTD's rotation code for the airports. Do you care to make a bug report for that, please? I guess that'll need Yexo looking at who's currently enjoying his well-deserved holidays and it should not get forgotten

[Pilot]

Hi everyone,
Just a question, I personally think that all of the Arctic Airports should have a small amount of Ice on the runways as there is always a small amount in arctic regions.

[planetmaker]

Hi everyone,
Just a question, I personally think that all of the Arctic Airports should have a small amount of Ice on the runways as there is always a small amount in arctic regions.

In general I do agree with you I gave it slightly lower priority than actually getting the buildings snowed and some rotations ingame (after all, why should people suddenly start to slack off while they now do a 100% job keeping the tarmac clear of ice and snow? )

In short: from POV it's planned, but simply not done yet due to sprites and time.

[Zuu]

When an airplane enters/leaves the depot of the 180 degree rotated small airport, it has to rotate 180 degrees on the spot. I guess it is because the wormhole entry specify an aircraft rotation that has not been rotated 180 degrees.

From your words that sounds suspiciously like a bug in OpenTTD's rotation code for the airports. Do you care to make a bug report for that, please? I guess that'll need Yexo looking at who's currently enjoying his well-deserved holidays and it should not get forgotten

I've reported it

[kamnet]

FWIW, the other day Skidd13 provided me with the sprites for Combined Airports under GPL v2. If somebody wanted these to work on making snowy sprites and alternate layouts, let me know and I'll pass them on as well.

[Sabre_Justice]

Congrats on the release thread!

It linked here, and I have a request/suggestion: Could you add some kind of 'Industrial' airport to the set, for us weirdos that like to use planes to carry cargos besides passengers and mail? It feels weird to build an airport to transport coal, petrol, wood or some other unusual cargo from a remote corner of the map, and have it look just like an inner-city terminal.

I'm sure there's real-life precedent of some sort you could use for graphical inspiration.

[Zuu]

Sabre_Justice: Which of the existing airports would you like to re-theme?

At the moment, airports can't change the movement patterns (state machine) of aircraft other than rotating the whole movement pattern. At some later moment the intention is that the state machine is going to be re-definable by NewGRFs, but we are not there right now.

[planetmaker]

One could simply plug different graphics on one (or all) of the existing statemachines and call that even a new airport while keeping all existing ones. I'm just not entirely convinced that the currently available movement patterns (state machines) lend itself to a nice industrieal airport. Would be worth a try