"Iron Horse" - A modular train set based slightly in reality

[RichardJGE]

It's because of two things happening:

1. train 1 is lost. train 1 is trying to go to the other station on the line, but cannot find a direct path to it (yet).
2. there's a piece of extra rail hidden behind trees.

Because of these two things, train 1 is entering that extra half tile rail - the path of least resistance. The unscheduled station and back-facing path signals are both considered source of resistance (penalty) according to YAPF path finder used in the game.

Now, let's dettach this latest thread and move it to OpenTTD Problems, as this has nothing to do with Iron Horse?

Ah, thank you for clearing that up. So if the path of least resistance involves a block, the train shall ignore it.

Yes, I am relieved that it has nothing to do with IH.

Best,
R.

[andythenorth]

Working on a new roster

Repainted a NARS 2 sprite - made it taller, added 2CC.

[andythenorth]

6 axle version.

[DanMacK]

Nice!

[andythenorth]

Also repainted the NARS doodlebug and some coaches The screenshot shows the effect I wanted - the big modern diesels are much bigger than some of the older / smaller vehicles

[Emperor Jake]

Nice to see progress

Two questions though: Will this roster contain the old electrics that DanMack drew a couple pages back? And will it be possible to combine rosters? (e.g. British + American)

[andythenorth]

Will this roster contain the old electrics that DanMack drew a couple pages back?

Nah, they're for something else, later

And will it be possible to combine rosters? (e.g. British + American)

Nah, although it would be quite a trivial change in NML for anyone who wants to do it themselves and recompile.

[andythenorth]

Two more. Twin-pack freight loco, and a small narrow-gauge loco.

[Snail]

Two more. Twin-pack freight loco, and a small narrow-gauge loco.

Looking good!
However, the shading is wrong in the NW-SE view (especially the cab). Are the diagonal views simply mirrored?

[andythenorth]

However, the shading is wrong in the NW-SE view (especially the cab). Are the diagonal views simply mirrored?

Yes. I've stopped shading 'correctly', the original sprites often don't do this, and it makes drawing very much slower.
The — views are also 'wrong'. But it looks ok in game.

[andythenorth]

More for the new roster

[kackofant]

greetings!

i barely play ottd these days... but was zum fick?! the new african roster is great... even it lacks some african terrain. especially the hofman garatt is a gem!

is there any chance to include the old german engines in the early roster of this set? if you want i can provide some more informations

[andythenorth]

There will be a german / dutch tank engine The other stuff we'll include originates from multiple countries, or is made up

There is a matching FIRS economy for the African roster - "In a Hot Country", which will be available in FIRS 2 (released "soon") or is in the nightly FIRS builds.

http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/firs/push/
http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/firs/pus ... ot_country

[kackofant]

thats an information (regarding firs). may ottd gets interesting again? the iron horse south america roster was a great step in the right direction.

and my questions was a bit odd vebrlaise verbalised, sorry. but i will see what comes up. at least it look very promissing atm.

[NekoMaster]

The Big Goat Locomotive reminds me of a GE U50 or Alco Century 855, in size and power Was that intended or purely conuincidental that it looks similiar IMO

[andythenorth]

Big Boat is a non-specific 6 axle wide cab, as GE or EMD would manufacture The Baby Boat is shamelessly a GE U18B.

[Shinkansen500]

Great Newgrf set. I Love Iron Horse, but i have only one question. Is not possible to use all the roster trains "Pony", "Llama" and "Antelope" together? I don´t know with this is possible, to add a option to avaliable all trains together?

[andythenorth]

Is not possible to use all the roster trains "Pony", "Llama" and "Antelope" together?

Nah. Playing with multiple simultaneously rosters was considered a couple of times and ruled out. The goal of Iron Horse is to have only a limited selection of trains available.

Players who really want to have multiple rosters active can get the source code and make that change for themselves.

http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/iro ... repository

[NekoMaster]

Is not possible to use all the roster trains "Pony", "Llama" and "Antelope" together?

Nah. Playing with multiple simultaneously rosters was considered a couple of times and ruled out. The goal of Iron Horse is to have only a limited selection of trains available.

Players who really want to have multiple rosters active can get the source code and make that change for themselves.

http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/iro ... repository

Because I'm not a coder (can't manage to wrap my head around coding in general) I hope that it won't be too much to ask if someone could build a "All Roster" version of Iron Horse. I like the line up of vehicles in Iron Horse though for sets like these I like to have everything available.

[andythenorth]

One day, some moar Horse