[OTTD] American Trains Pack - ATP (Looking for Help Coding)

[BarbarianKabbage]

Hello. I am BarbarianKabbage, a person who aspires to make a train set of American trains.

The paint schemes I am trying working on currently is: Union Pacific and BNSF and Amtrak stuff

if anybody would like to help code, I could use the help because I don't know the first thing about coding for OpenTTD.

Graphics will be posted here for you guys to keep track of.

License: GPL v2

Current Helpers (Thanks to you guys who help me! I wouldn't have been able to make it this far without you!)
Growl
Sylf

THE LINK BELOW IS THE LINK TO THE TRACKER
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Amtrak:
Surfliner Coaches - Complete

Superliner Coach 1 - Complete


Fails:

That was my attempt at making a Union Pacific GP38 and it failed miserably.

Locomotive Set (ATM)


These were donated to my by ISA (Thanks mate!)


ES44AC/DC Reskin to BNSF Heritage II Paint Scheme

[Leanden]

Always nice to see new faces on the scene.

If you are tempted at all to learn coding, a good place to start would be here: https://www.tt-wiki.net/wiki/NMLTutorial

[wallyweb]

Always nice to see new faces on the scene.

/me echoes

If you are tempted at all to learn coding, a good place to start would be here: https://www.tt-wiki.net/wiki/NMLTutorial

Another option is m4nfo by Michael Blunck whose DBSet has been a rail set standard in the TTDPatch/OpenTTD platforms almost from their inception. The details are here: http://www.ttdpatch.de/grfspecs/m4nfoManual/index.html

[ISA]

Always nice to see new faces on the scene.

/me echoes

faint echos was heard. I repeat it forward

As for all the Northern America stuff... It has be awfully quiet other side of the Atlantic and it would be nice if somebody would pick up something. I do not know is there some work done "back stage"... but for the ATP I would start collecting all the sprites (and chat about possible copyright issues) what has already been drawn. There has been a lot of stuff done back in the days. Update and add new sprites afterwards...

[Leanden]

Instead of continuously editing the first post its best to reply to your own thread or people wont see your updates.

[Sylf]

ey... can I offer my help on the coding part?
I've only coded an industry set so far, but I think I can learn about coding vehicles too.
And I can handle request for DevZone, compile farm etc, while still keeping you as the project owner.
I'm not the fastest coder, but I probably won't bail on you.

[BarbarianKabbage]

Well, I just sent my application to make a project on DevZone. I'll keep watch for any reply.

And Sylf thanks for offering to help code!

[The Growl]

Your trains are very good for a first try! Don't let yourself get down, with some editing, they'd look like the real thing, scale in mind of course.

[ISA]

Fails:

Try more. everything comes in time!


And for the set... Feel free to use them. They just have sit on my USB drive few years now...

[BarbarianKabbage]

Fails:

Try more. everything comes in time!


And for the set... Feel free to use them. They just have sit on my USB drive few years now...

When I saw this my jaw dropped all the way through the earth to China.

I can't thank you enough!

[BarbarianKabbage]

@Sylf the DevZone project got put up

[BarbarianKabbage]

Coding Error:

Code: Select all

spriteset(spriteset_flatbed_truck_1_goods_empty, "gfx/es44ac.png") {
    //left_x, upper_y, width, height, offset_x, offset_y
    [ 0,      0,        8,    26,      -4,      -13]
    [ 9,      0,       22,    21,     -11,      -11]
    [ 32,     0,       32,    13,     -16,       -7]
    [ 65,     0,       22,    21,     -11,      -11]
    [ 88,     0,        8,    26,      -4,      -13]
    [ 97,     0,       22,    21,     -11,      -11]
    [ 120,    0,       32,    13,     -16,       -7]
    [ 153,    0,       22,    21,     -11,      -11]
}

spriteset(spriteset_flatbed_truck_1_goods_full, "gfx/es44ac.png") {
    //left_x, upper_y, width, height, offset_x, offset_y
    [ 0,      0,        8,    26,      -4,      -13]
    [ 9,      0,       22,    21,     -11,      -11]
    [ 32,     0,       32,    13,     -16,       -7]
    [ 65,     0,       22,    21,     -11,      -11]
    [ 88,     0,        8,    26,      -4,      -13]
    [ 97,     0,       22,    21,     -11,      -11]
    [ 120,    0,       32,    13,     -16,       -7]
    [ 153,    0,       22,    21,     -11,      -11]
}

That is my spritesheet code for this:

But when I try to compile, I get this error:
D:\grfs\mygrf>nmlc -c --grf mygrf.grf mygrf.nml
←[Knmlc ERROR: Image file "gfx/es44ac.png": 8bpp image does not have a palette
Included from: "mygrf.nml", line 13

The .png is called es44ac fyi

[Sylf]

The error message is the hint: the png image needs to be using one of these palettes: https://newgrf-specs.tt-wiki.net/wiki/P ... s#Palettes
DOS palette is generally recommended, as it contains more colors. Don't be fooled by the name "DOS" palette.
The palette files for Photoshop, Gimp, and Paint Shop Pro are available: http://dev.openttdcoop.org/documents/1

[BarbarianKabbage]

That makes no sense because PixelTool uses the palettes.

[Leanden]

That makes no sense because PixelTool uses the palettes.

Just because you only used colours from the pallette, doesnt mean the image is palletized. You need an image editor and the pallette files and then apply the pallette by indexing the image.

[BarbarianKabbage]

That makes no sense because PixelTool uses the palettes.

Just because you only used colours from the pallette, doesnt mean the image is palletized. You need an image editor and the pallette files and then apply the pallette by indexing the image.

Index? I've never heard of that before.

[Leanden]

[BarbarianKabbage]

I did that... it still didn't work.

[Sylf]

I did that... it still didn't work.

Can you post the indexed image? Or better yet, you can start committing sprites to the repo. (repo help)

[BarbarianKabbage]

I did that... it still didn't work.

Can you post the indexed image? Or better yet, you can start committing sprites to the repo. (repo help)