slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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the same holds true for the other part of the chain. it might be an old issue but, it should still be solved. i only noticed it today however. here is an explanation once more: water reservours and water towers placed on grass looks like they are placed on sand.
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Re: slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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Water Tower and Water Supply can only be built in deserts.
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Re: slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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no, they can not be built only in deserts. i have actually built them on grass. at map creation they also spawn on grass. you should add grass as a possible ground texture, alongside sand.
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Re: slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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andreasaspenberg wrote: 09 May 2021 16:58 no, they can not be built only in deserts. i have actually built them on grass. at map creation they also spawn on grass. you should add grass as a possible ground texture, alongside sand.
Rather than just flat-out telling a dev that he is wrong, uploading a savegame or a screenshot would be a) more helpful and b) considerably more polite.
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Re: slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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More accurately, water towers can only be built in desert towns. A town is a desert town if its centre tile was a desert tile when the town was founded, however desert towns can still extend into green land nearby, and the water towers can end up building in that area too.

I'm not sure if the sand underneath is part of the water tower graphics or if it would be possible to take the sprite and overlay on a grass tile instead.
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Re: slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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jfs wrote: 10 May 2021 10:23 More accurately, water towers can only be built in desert towns
This isn't actually the case, at least in the Scenario editor. The Water Tower tile must be desert, the tile under the town centre does not affect it.
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Re: slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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i have a save. it just never occured to me to upload it here. that save shows both things placed on grass but with a sand texture. it is played on subtropic but, without any sand.
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Re: slight glitch: sand appears under water towers placed on grass

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You are using a NewGRF which changes the behaviour of industries, including ignoring climate variations. It is therefore the responsibility of the NewGRF to provide the appropriate graphical changes.

This is not an OpenTTD glitch.
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