Brainwave

[Supercheese]

I have thinking to make something like military stuff... fighter, old fighter (spitfire and other WWII stuff), hangars and little runway tiles to connect things up... bit like little air show! The main thing is to not go big, because I don't find a lot time to draw things... So I should try to go tile be tile. Anyways if anyone have interest poke me and I maybe get a little motivation

I, too, have been wanting to code some WWII-era planes (B-17 & B-24 to start), and in fact I already have (unpalletized) sprites for those. Now that my coding skills have improved, I'll definitely be working on those shortly.

In other news, the emergency vehicles are going well, I'll release those sometime before the end of the year. The jetski project has stalled indefinitely, because as was presciently mentioned earlier, they end up being way too small. However, I still want to code a small sailboat, a motorboat, and perhaps something more obscure, like a trireme or galley. But andy is right, drawing ship sprites is a pain in the rear, especially the animated wakes. Ugh.

[Zephyris]

Nicely done
Remember to put it on BaNaNaS...

[Supercheese]

Nicely done
Remember to put it on BaNaNaS...

Ah, right. It is there now. Thanks once again for the excellent sprites!

[ISA]

/poke!!

Hey!!! Not with two fingers into my both eyes!

[Bob_Mackenzie]

Those sprites are spot on

Shouldn't the Spit be green and brown?

[ISA]

Those sprites are spot on
Shouldn't the Spit be green and brown?

Thanks! I dunno there are like million versions Spits in Google I could also do the green/brown!

[Bob_Mackenzie]

Those sprites are spot on
Shouldn't the Spit be green and brown?

Thanks! I dunno there are like million versions Spits in Google I could also do the green/brown!

Grey spits were later war, and as yours has a three bladed prop is early mid war....

[d0mi3l]

Could you change start date to 1783 (first flight on Ballon)?

[Lesarthois]

I though about it too, but that would aslo require to have cheap "heliports" (really, for aerostats, a strip of grass and a shack) because the helidepot that become first available isn't eyecandy either.

Maybe a simple 1*1 square for balloons, then an "early helidepot" for dirigibles, around 1900? Coudl be based on Hangar Y :
the oldest dirigible hangar still standing (1879) and the oldest dirigible hangar designed for that purpose

Being that balloons are for eyecandy purpose, it would make sense to make the "grass pads" cheap to build and cost free, or maybe just having a minimal infrastructure cost. And disabling them around 1930 when dirigibles then helicopters are introduced to avoid people using them for no cost. (Unless there is a way to ban helicopters and dirigibles to use a specific airport type).

For more eyecandy, one plane GRF provide small tourism planes (a biplan type and an "Utility") but they have rather high maintenance costs so while they doesn't cost too much, it's hard to make them profitable (one way I found is loading them with bags from Banks, but that doesn't work with FIRS for example).

For boats, someone mentionned a raft-type of boat for early times, (for the Sailing Ships GRF or related). Rope ferries might fit in that category, even if there is probably no way to make a proper cable ferry in OpenTTD (unless cheating with a rail type or road type with lots of sprite play to make it looks like water... A huge effort for a small reward!)



Autogyros would be nice eyecandy type of planes too, either for leisure like the balloon, or a profit?
Seaplanes would be nice too, but apparently no one figured a simple option to plop a dock for planes. I guess due to the limitations of OpenTTD in that regard, making seaplanes being boats is impossible or would be too silly (speed on sea vehicles is limted to 127 kph, apparently) and as for balloons, it might not be possible to ban normal planes to land on a seaplane airport.

[Pilot]

Seaplanes would be nice too, but apparently no one figured a simple option to plop a dock for planes. I guess due to the limitations of OpenTTD in that regard, making seaplanes being boats is impossible or would be too silly (speed on sea vehicles is limted to 127 kph, apparently) and as for balloons, it might not be possible to ban normal planes to land on a seaplane airport.

Seaplane's have kinda been made to work (see here: viewtopic.php?f=26&t=57133&hilit=seaplane+airport) but the outcome isn't exactly amazing. Pikka's AV8 includes the few Seaplanes that have actually been drawn and coded, but that's about it.

[kamnet]

A reminder for anybody who does want to code a seaplane set, I have lots of stats for seaplanes, floatplanes, flying boats and amphibious planes, and eventually I get around to organizing amphibious helicopters as well.