TARS New Objects [Pistes, Lifts, Landscapes] Development

[SwissFan91]

DP.

I'm looking for 4 or 5 testers who could devote some time to testing TARS grfs as they near release. This would stop each one having to be released as an alpha - and will speed up the whole process. First 5 people to PM will get the job!

[SwissFan91]

This was drawn quite a while ago:

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Is this something people would use? Is it worth the 'hassle' of splitting the sprite, getting it coded and people laying it out ingame? See poll.

[SwissFan91]

Things are really coming along with this. Yoshi is coding the mountain lifts and Wallyweb is coding some pistes.

But obviously skiers and snowboarders can't go all day without a break, so here we have the start of TARS Mountain Lodges:

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I'm trying to get several options in each direction. They will have all snow transitions etc etc.

[Phreeze]

awesomest !

[Pingaware]

Every time you post something new after an extended break, it seems like your spritework has got exponentially better SwissFan. These are excellent.

[ISA]

Every time you post something new after an extended break, it seems like your spritework has got exponentially better SwissFan. These are excellent.

I second that!

[Quast65]

+3 Lovely stuff!!

[SwissFan91]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I am finally getting some organisation to my wilderness of TARS work and things are creeping towards release(s).

I have drawn two extra lodges and split them into Base Lodges and Mid-Mountain Lodges:

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[SwissFan91]

OK I have edited my last post to show the newly drawn final Base Lodge. Now begins the templating and snow transitions process!

[SwissFan91]

TARS Mountain Lifts have been released here.

It currently contains gondola sprites in all directions with three station types. I have a lot planned, some of which can be seen here:

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A huge thanks to Yoshi (coding) and WallyWeb (general help and moral support) without which this would never have been released.

Enjoy!

[Dave]

These are great!

[SwissFan91]

TARS Pistes TrailBlazer has also been released here.

A huge thanks to WallyWeb for helping with this one.

[lawton27]

The new releases are superb! I need to start working on an alpine scenario!

[Pyoro]

My only complaint is that I'd probably prefer those two GRFs to be one; they seem to cover similar enough "themes" to warrant that.

Otherwise: nice, there can never be enough NewObject variations

[SwissFan91]

That's a valid point Pyoro.

From my limited coding knowledge (Yoshi and WallyWeb should know more) I know that these both use huge amounts of code. Each gondola tile is 16 animated sprites, for example and I know TARS Pistes uses huge amounts of code (although the graphics look very simple!)

I think there is justification for having Pistes and Mountain Lifts separate as some people may just want some lifts without making a whole ski resort. Most of my games I run right on the GRF limit though so I appreciate the need to try and keep it into as little files as possible.

[SwissFan91]

Here's a quick in-game shot of v0.2 progress:

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Gondola cabins have been detailed and shortened and the cables have new pylons to roll over.

Chairlifts have been added, again with three stations to chose from.

[lawton27]

Ooooh! Can't wait!

[ISA]

Here's a quick in-game shot of v0.2 progress:

I was messing around with Your new fabulous graphics and in one time I got stuck... Just asking if there's a way in the future (maybe?) to get over railroad (single or double track)? In my case I had road and double track side by side. As far as I know object have to overlay any graphics and that should mean much clipping issues...

Edit: One more thing... Comments in the new object menu? Can we have English please!

[SwissFan91]

Here's a quick in-game shot of v0.2 progress:

I was messing around with Your new fabulous graphics and in one time I got stuck... Just asking if there's a way in the future (maybe?) to get over railroad (single or double track)? In my case I had road and double track side by side. As far as I know object have to overlay any graphics and that should mean much clipping issues...

Could I have a screenshot of what you mean?

Edit: One more thing... Comments in the new object menu? Can we have English please!

I thought all menu items were in English? Have you found some that aren't?

[Yoshi]

Here's a quick in-game shot of v0.2 progress:

I was messing around with Your new fabulous graphics and in one time I got stuck... Just asking if there's a way in the future (maybe?) to get over railroad (single or double track)? In my case I had road and double track side by side. As far as I know object have to overlay any graphics and that should mean much clipping issues...

There is an "overlay" tile below the station tiles. That should overlap over the neighbour-tile.

Edit: One more thing... Comments in the new object menu? Can we have English please!

That might be caused by setting the default language to german (I'm german so I did that while coding ).
I'll set the fallback language to english for the next release, ok?