Country Roads (NRT)

[Kruemelchen]

One little question (totally unrelated to the GRF, just for my personnal culture) : what is a sand road?
It looks like a regular dirt road to me when I look on Internet?

Well I'm sorry that might just be a sign of my bad English
I'll change it to dirt road then, in future releases, thank you!

And, if there is any other string, you think is poor English, I'd be nice if you'd throw me a hint

[Lesarthois]

Oh, well it might have a meaning. But it seems that "sand road" might be innappropriate in Arctic and Temperate climates

[Lesarthois]

So I was playing and I came across that bug :

Jones & Co., 22 Mar 1886.png

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I dunno if it's Country Road or the whole NotRoadType that is in cause.

If you don't catch it, I installed an electric tram line, and the catenaries doesn't appears where the sand road is.
(BTW I'm a bit annoyed that HAUL vehicles doesn't drive on normal roads... It's why I laid down the tram line, it looked less silly that having two roads side-by side)

[Kruemelchen]

So I was playing and I came across that bug :
Jones & Co., 22 Mar 1886.png
I dunno if it's Country Road or the whole NotRoadType that is in cause.

If you don't catch it, I installed an electric tram line, and the catenaries doesn't appears where the sand road is.
(BTW I'm a bit annoyed that HAUL vehicles doesn't drive on normal roads... It's why I laid down the tram line, it looked less silly that having two roads side-by side)

Thank you for the bug report!

It is actually the sand road that is killing your electric tram's catenary
You can re-enable the catenary by disabling the "snow marks" via parameter.

But I'll look further into it, thanks

PS: At time of coding, it wasn't possible to A) forbid tramways on road types; and B) to define custom road side decorations, so I used fake catenary graphics for my snow mark poles-feature. I doubt this has changed until now, but when it's possible to do that, I plan to incorporate A) and B) accordingly.

[Lesarthois]

So I kept playing with the set, and I found out that even if I allow normal vehicles on Heavy haul road, the option only applies to Mud road, the Heavy Haul Road is still restricted to heavy-haul flagged vehicles.
Which I think, if that's a deliberate choice, should be the opposite - it would make sense that light vehicles would not go on muddy roads, but could go on a paved road.
I noticed slight tecture issues on road bridges, but I use a bridge replacement set so the issue might be on their side, as you see grey lines appearing - they would be invisible with grey road textures.

[Kruemelchen]

Thank you for your report

So I kept playing with the set, and I found out that even if I allow normal vehicles on Heavy haul road, the option only applies to Mud road, the Heavy Haul Road is still restricted to heavy-haul flagged vehicles.
Which I think, if that's a deliberate choice, should be the opposite - it would make sense that light vehicles would not go on muddy roads, but could go on a paved road.

Actually, the "Heavy Haul Road" isn't a part of this NewGRF, so touching it was out of scope when I created it.
I can, however, understand that it feels inconsistent in the way you describe it.

Maybe I can write a small NewGRF that allows normal vehicles on the heavy haul road over christmas holidays

I noticed slight tecture issues on road bridges, but I use a bridge replacement set so the issue might be on their side, as you see grey lines appearing - they would be invisible with grey road textures.

Can you post any pictures, or tell me which bridge replacement you are using?

My set uses a wooden surface texture for bridges (which inevitably only looks good on wooden bridges imho) that I adjusted to match with the standard (OpenGFX) bridges. However, it fits with the "Total Bridge Renewal Set" as well.
I can only assume, that the bridge replacement you are using, draws a broader bridge surface that only was made to support standard tarmac/paved roads?

[Kruemelchen]

New version out now!

Thanks to the great efforts of the NRT devs it's now possible to use the snow mark feature in combination with electric tramways on sand roads without glitches (read: you're awesome )

Country Roads 0.2.3

• new 'feature': houses won't be build along mud roads, unless normal RVs are allowed to drive on them via parameter*
• bugfix: better alignment of snow marks in order to allow tramways to traverse sand roads without graphical glitches
• bugfix: city roads not convertible to mud roads anymore, unless they allow for normal RVs usage
• change: new standard speed limit of 30 km/h on sand roads
• bugfix: now snow graphics used on dead-end roadstops (updated)

* You need the newest instalment of NRT/RATT to run this version!

[Kruemelchen]

At the moment I'm trying to get the look more in line with opengfx, as well as make it overall cleaner and less bulky.

This is how it looks right now:

finer snow marks with CC

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fake snow roadside decoration

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Oh gosh, were did I my those snow chains!

The finer drawn snow marks now use company color and might be much more useful as I made the road appear even lighter
The heaps of snow are just decoration and might be switch-able via parameter. There will be different snow amount, based on town zones, though.

Cheers

[acs121]

Looks much better with CC snow marks.

[supermop]

At the moment I'm trying to get the look more in line with opengfx, as well as make it overall cleaner and less bulky.

This is how it looks right now:
Carnway Transport, 16. Jan 1958.png
Carnway Transport, 23. Dez 1958.png
Oh gosh, were did I my those snow chains!

The finer drawn snow marks now use company color and might be much more useful as I made the road appear even lighter
The heaps of snow are just decoration and might be switch-able via parameter. There will be different snow amount, based on town zones, though.

Cheers

Looking great! different amounts of snow on roads by town zone is a good idea - I may borrow that for Unspooled!

[Kruemelchen]

Looking great! different amounts of snow on roads by town zone is a good idea - I may borrow that for Unspooled!

Thanks
Btw, I always thought, Unspooled is in need of some winterly flair on snow

[supermop]

Looking great! different amounts of snow on roads by town zone is a good idea - I may borrow that for Unspooled!

Thanks
Btw, I always thought, Unspooled is in need of some winterly flair on snow

Someone is out there plowing all those dirt and gravel roads all winter...

[Kruemelchen]

As mentioned in the other thread I made this afternoon a proof-of-concept implementation of a water way road type:

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As you can see the water way looks basically like a canal, but has different decorations in different town zones:
1) riverside
2) canal
3) promenade (with white fence)

Special eyecandy are the rounded edges, which took most time to draw. The rest (except the fence) is taken from OGFX

Now nothing is holding us back from creating a Venice themed gondola service

I'm not sure, however, if the water way fits this GRF well. So maybe I'll split it into a separate GRF before I can release the next minor release of country roads (hopefully soon-ish)

Why I made this was because I wanted to have fords like in the bottom of the screen. However, I'll probably make these as objects when I've learned how to code them. Or I convince GarryG to add one to his awesome objects set

[Supercheese]

That is quite impressive! Very nice job

[Quast65]

The heaps of snow

Would you mind posting those graphics separately (I hope you have them as a separate layer) when you finish them?
I think those look very nice and could be very usefull for other purposes (like heap of snow on an empty platform)!

[Kruemelchen]

That is quite impressive! Very nice job

Thank you

Today I drew yet another fence, that even comes with (randomly placed) flowers:

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Would you mind posting those graphics separately (I hope you have them as a separate layer) when you finish them?
I think those look very nice and could be very usefull for other purposes (like heap of snow on an empty platform)!

I very planned to do this, I'm sorry I haven't come to it yet. The big heaps of snow are finished, only the small ones have fled from my attention (I think the spring did that )

But here you go for the first part. You may use and modify it any way you like

heaps of snow road decoration (use as overlay), license: GPLv2

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[Quast65]

Thank you very much!

[Lesarthois]

Lovely! That would be nice on a high water level map. Or to make "scenic" places, or well, jsut for eyecandy.
A nice touch would be to have anphibious vehicles.. I think, there are those "Ducks" vehicles in the USA?


Well in the UK too, apparently

[Kruemelchen]

I'll make a few of those buses, probably as addition to my SUV set. Right now, there is only 1 off road car present in the set, but I'll add more on the way.

Meanwhile I think I'll draw a small set of boats to use with the canals. First, a gondola (unpainted though):

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[acs121]

I dunno if it's possible to have "transition tiles" between roadtypes...it looks quite ugly connected to other roads.