Empty Tile GRF

[planetmaker]

Alright, thanks, I'll take a look at that.

Also, I've again been too naive with coastal tiles - they don't work as hoped, at least not for any nightly at least from 24448 onwards. Only works for some revs around 24110 - 24309. I guess the sprite numbers changed somewhere in-between ...

Coast tiles don't have normal sprite numbers. You cannot use replace on all of them. Some require replacenew.

[Pyoro]

Alright, steep slopes were simply missing tile_check - really odd, could swear I tried that yesterday unsuccessfully. Works today though ...

...as for the coast tiles; doing this in a reliable way is probably beyond me, so I simply made 2 different views - one should work for ~R24309 and some older revs, the other one for anything newer (as far as I can tell).

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Not exactly satisfying, but well, I can't really think of anything better ^^;

[SkiddLow]

Do it

[zooks]

Great GRF! Makes my towns look so much better! Thanks

[Pyoro]

I'm thinking about adding some sort of "borders" for scenarios -

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- but aside from the obvious issues with how this currently looks, how do company colors work with NewObjects? Do I need to do more than setting the OBJ_FLAG_2CC flag and choosing the correct color? ^^;

[Transportman]

I think if you use the company colors from the palette, the recoloring should happen automatically (someone confirm please). If I read the specs correctly, OBJ_FLAG_2CC is not needed, unless you also want to use the 2nd company color.

[Pyoro]

Mh, can't seem to get that to work. Well, not that important, at least I saw the baseset sprite number for coastal tiles in new OTTD versions changed so they're broken again \o/ I suppose it's more worthwhile fixing that first anyways ...

€: added one with a coastal sprite that should work with the newest nightly. Also added some FIRS like fruit plantation tiles -

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Also attached the source, should it ever need a quick sprite number change again. Or for whatever other reason anyone would be interested

[trainman1432]

Good to hear

Bit of playing with them actually quickly found me annoyed by #3 being rather limited, so I made another version with more farming related sprites, including references to some FIRS animals (obviously those will only load properly when playing with FIRS).
Example of a rather dirty sheep farm:

farm.png

What roadset?

[Pyoro]

TTRS roads, "old style". Don't know when exactly they change, around 1950 maybe? ^^

[Pyoro]

Well, didn't expect to do another update for this, but here it is - base_sprite_shores instead of using explicit sprite numbers for coast tiles so hopefully this'll stay compatible to all future OpenTTD versions You'll need at least r25230 for this to work properly. Other than that there's really no big differences and the old coast tiles should (currently) still work anyways - it did however free up the other coast views so it's now possible to manually build lakes again -

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(it's not possible to use them for ships though, just eye-candy ... )

[Pyoro]

New version. This now has officially more public releases than DBSet ... alright, just kidding, didn't actually count
Anyways. Removed the farm fields since they can be found in this GRF now (along with other farm stuff). Everything else pretty much stays the same.

I'll also upload the source in case anyone needs to reduce the number of GRFs loaded for a game; since this one is super-easy to merge it shouldn't be much trouble

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[Pyoro]

Yet another new version. Heh. You'd think with something as simple as this, one would be enough ... clearly not, at least if you are as "organized" as I am

- removed the forest tiles. They'll be found somewhere else some time soon (right after Half Life 2 Episode 3 is released)
- properly uses the MISC category now

Basically it's gone full circle back to version 2 or something (alright, alright, the coastal tiles actually work properly in this one. Not like I'm always being chaotic for NO reason).
Still the GRF to do pointless things with.

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...rite.

[GarryG]

I like the emptygrf at the beginning. The grass along side rivers makes them look like a canal and drains. Makes them excellent it have rivers passing through towns.

The roads used in the pic .. what roads are they? I like the tunnel entrances as also have a pedestrian walkway too.

[Pyoro]

That save is so ancient I'm not even sure anymore:
BK Enhanced Tunnels 1.1 and Total Town Replacement Set I think.

[GarryG]

Thanks for your reply, but unfortunate what you suggested don't work. Maybe it because I using the latest in OpenTTD 1.5.

Custom Tunnel Entrance will give that tunnel for rail but not for road. I thinking maybe be Canada roads, but none of the Canadian NewGRFs will work for me as all the graphics to them are pixelated.

I will keep experimenting and let you know if successful.

[Pyoro]

Sucks.

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That's the full GRF list for that game in the original screenshot. Don't forget that some of those GRFs have parameters.

Whatever it is, it's definitely not Canadian


As a remote PS: on the topic: I haven't forgotten about my promise for trees. I simply got hit with a severe case of real-life. I suspect I'll get over it at some point though ^^;

[PaulC]

I believe those are the "modern" style roads in TTRS3. They only appear after 1950, though I think you can change that with a parameter.

[GarryG]

PaulC and Pyoro, thank you both kindly for your suggestions. This allowed me to experiment more and found that these tunnels are from TTRS3 and they become available from 1970 if not set any parameters.

If change the "Time Era Used" parameters can make these tunnels become available a lot sooner. I tried "ignore eras and use house from any at random" and set date when start game to 1930 and these tunnels were available, but unfortunately modern buildings also available early and seems a bit strange old vehicles running around a modern town.

I want to try building a scenario from Sydney to Newcastle in Australia including suburban stations to scale (25 squares per km). There are many underpasses (subways) where roads pass under the railway line in Sydney so these tunnels with subways just make some locations look better .. I hope. I will experiment the next few days and see what I can do. Again thank you for your help.

[Pyoro]

Apparently someone is interested in snow. So:

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Like this, maybe? ^^;

[planetmaker]

I can encourage anyone who feels like to add the empty ground tiles as objects to OpenGFX+Landscape. It would be a good addition indeed. I'd happily accept such patches or pull requests.