[OTTD] Dave's Screenshots - Old Screenshots Compilation

[andysine]

Damn - The british stations set looks amazing. It isn't released yet is it?

Great shots Dave!

[Badger]

Damn - The british stations set looks amazing. It isn't released yet is it?

Yeah, what ever happened to it?

[mph]

I'm very lazy I'm afraid. I got a new computer and haven't managed to get grf codec and everything working right yet. Those screenshots reminded me of how bad i've been.

At the very least ill get the few missing graphics done soon, and release whats done so far, and perhaps someone would be able to pick it up and finish some of th coding off, as It all got a bit beyond me.

Sorry, they have been in development for a long time.

[Badger]

Just glad to here they're still alive somewhere.

[Dave]

I'll still use them even if you claimed they were finished now.

[Dave]

More then... Concentrating on stations this time.

4: Poole
One of the later-added stations on the network, Poole is an intermediate station on the direct Shipley-Lancing Line, known as the North Valley Line for the Valley it crosses between Oadby and Poole. An equivalent would be the Trent Valley Line as a quicker route up the West Coast to Stafford. In this shot, we see the loading train of 0-6-0T No. 7260, whilst sister tank 7261 is approaching with a train from Oadby.

5: Winchester
A station on the Holloway Loop, Winchester is a bustling station on the very west side of the map. There are two non-electrified platform for occasional services from the Western Main Line. Trains call at all stations before continuing up a lightly used line to Winchester, which connects with the Holloway at Winchester South.

6: Lancing
The Flagship station in the north west, Lancing, has 9 platforms. Here we can see the north facing bay for the branch to Mickelthwaite, and the electrified through platforms. This station is a beautiful piece of architecture, something which the Midland is famous for all over the world.

[Dave]

7: Network Map

Bit of an odd map, but there we are...

From the top:

Red: Far Western Line
Lancing
-- Holloway North Junction
Vicarage
-- Tower Passing Place
Mickelthwaite

Yellow: Holloway Loop (travelling clockwise)
Lancing
-- Blaydon North Junction
Blaydon
-- Blaydon Station Junction
-- Blaydon South Junction
Newcastle
-- Winchester South Junction
Winchester
-- Passes Holloway EMD
-- Holloway North Junction


Purple: Western Main Line
EITHER
Lancing
-- Blaydon North Junction
-- Blaydon
-- Blaydon Station Junction
-- Blaydon South Junction
-- Newcastle South Turnout
-- Newcastle
OR
Winchester
--Winchester South Junction
THEN
-- Buckley North Junction
Buckley
-- Buckley South Junction (Under Construction)
-- Passes Oadby Richard Karr Ltd.
-- Oadby West Junction
-- Shipley Tunnels
Shipley


Brown: Western Main Line (North Valley Line)
Lancing
-- Blaydon North Junction
-- Blaydon
-- Blaydon Station Junction
-- Blaydon East Junction
-- Aylesford West Junction
Poole
-- Poole Junction
-- Oadby
-- Shipley Viaduct Junction
Shipley
THEN CERTAIN TRAINS EXTEND TO
-- Shipley Viaduct Junction
-- Brierley Valley West Junction
-- Passing Brierley Valley TMD
-- Newtown Station Approach
Newtown

Pink: Central Line
Newtown
-- Newtown Station Approach
-- Brierley Valley East Junction
-- Brierley Valley Tunnel
Brierley Hill
-- Brierley Bridge
-- Worsbrough West Junction
THEN SOME TRAINS BRANCH TO
-- Worsbrough
BEFORE REJOINING AT
-- Worsbrough East Junction
Preston

The white circle denotes Huddersfield station, which isn't connected - this is due to the station being under construction.

[Lilman424]

perhaps there's a possibility of a save game dave?

[Roujin]

Wow - Lancing station is bigger than the town itself

Great screenshots, Dave

[Dave]

Wow - Lancing station is bigger than the town itself

Great screenshots, Dave

Thanks.

I banked on the town growing... But it never did, haha. Compare that to Shipley, for example, which started with 990 residents and now sits at a fairly juicy 4,000.

[lobster]

those stations aroused me like mad. awesome material.

[Gord]

Excellent stuff, can't wait for those stations.
one question, i notice you don't use waypoints to make sure your trains visit the right platforms...but looking closely, instead of waypoints, are you just treating the end parts of the platforms as waypoints as they seem to have their own names?...because if you are, thats a superb idea and one i would have to pinch!

[Dave]

To some degree, yeah. You can see that with Poole.

However with Lancing, I'm using waypoints in terms of using bare tracks. I'd like to use the signalboxes as stations that can be routed "through" but haven't yet found a way of using waypoint graphics as a station.

But yeah - you're not far off the mark.

[Dave]

Dave Worley is BACK!

Find attached a couple of screenies from a game I've started. GRF files are the usuals; I'm using OTTD 1.0.0-RC3 or however one might term it.

Note: I started this game with one town and low industries. It came up with a fairly interesting map with a number of industries. However as you might see, I've cheated to get myself a billion pounds, and build whilst paused. So £965m in, I'm still on Jan 1st 1921.

This is a conceptual game, intended to get the most I possibly can out of OTTD's model in terms of realism and attractiveness rather than efficiency and productivity. Obviously it's not necessarily true that you'd have a line of towns along a coast, but that's just how I've created this game. I've gone for a number of different concepts as seen in the UK, including mainlines, secondary mainlines, commuter lines and rural and branch lines. I've also created a "London-like" area with small towns and cities close to each other to hopefully create a metropolis later on. To this end I've created a circular line around this area, which can be seen in image 3.

The full map is below:

The current routemap is also below. Underneath will be a fairly in depth description...

Mainlines

West Coast Main Line
Yeovil
Poole
Whitehaven
Frome
Prescot
Newcastle
Cresswell
Reedham
Sudbury
Cambridge

East Coast Main Line
Newport
Exeter
Market Moreton
North Morcester
South Morcester
Shirebrook
Nine Elms
Dawlish
Fletton and Wheatley*
Sotherton St James

South Eastern Main Line
Cambridge
Sudbury
Dartford*
Ashford
Londonthorpe
Rushden
Motherwell
Cheadle
Brierley Hill
Fletton and Wheatley
Sotherton St James

Midland And Eastern Line (dashed)
Prudhoe
Reading
Gretton
New Waltham
Rushden
Motherwell
Cheadle
Brierley Hill
Fletton and Wheatley
Sotherton St James

Commuter Lines

Cambridge and Parkhouse Line
Cambridge
Caterham
Bingley
Durham
Keynsham
Long Sutton
Selston
Parkhouse

Preston-Newport Line
Preston
Rossington
Chepstow
Stafford
Newport

Rural and Branch Lines

Far North Line
Rossington
Andover
Rawtenstall
Bromsgrove
Lewisham
Kinbrace

Knutsford Hills Loop
Sudbury
Dartford
Knutsford
Braintree
Coventry
Reedham

Lakeside Line
Canterbury
Stratford
Rivingford
Rayleigh

Bold denotes principal station
Italic denotes local and rural stations
* denotes a station not served on route.

The Sotherton area is intended to be a London-eqsue metropolis. Eventually...

I've built the Sotherton Loop to try and establish a route in the "city":

Sotherton Loop
Sotherton St James
Lighthouse Crescent
Fareham End
Dereham
Darby Road

and

Sotherton-Maltby Line
Sotherton St James
Darby Road
Maltby

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So there you are, a game that's got some brilliant potential, but this isn't an easy game to even unpause - there's a lot of empty space, and I've not even considered industries. Needless to say many of the industries on the map will be removed to allow me to completely customise the routes taken. I think this one will be a cracker.

[jvassie]

A very nice start there Dave!! Eager to see this develop!

Regarding the empty space on the map, do you intend to fill it with more towns and more routes to an extent?

[Dave]

A very nice start there Dave!! Eager to see this develop!

Regarding the empty space on the map, do you intend to fill it with more towns and more routes to an extent?

Not sure. I love this new "found town" option on OTTD as it means you can start a new route whenever you want. I think I'm going to start the game now and then create later on.

[jvassie]

A very nice start there Dave!! Eager to see this develop!

Regarding the empty space on the map, do you intend to fill it with more towns and more routes to an extent?

Not sure. I love this new "found town" option on OTTD as it means you can start a new route whenever you want. I think I'm going to start the game now and then create later on.

Lovely, look forward to seeing a thorough documentation of your progress!

*wonders if Ameecher is reading this*

[Ameecher]

I am reading it, but without pictures. Meh. I'll look in a few months.

[Dave]

Few screens for you:

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Sudbury

A principal station on the West Coast Main Line, Sudbury is formed of two through platforms and two north facing bay-platforms. There are local, commuter and express services calling at this station. This image captures a busy afternoon at Sudbury, with the adjacent Dartford to the north.

Departing to the west is 3417 'City of Sudbury' having just left the station. Classmates 3418 'City of Yeovil' and 3419 'City of Poole' are both in the station. All three are on semi-fast services up the West Coast, calling at all principal stations. To the north, 7266 arrives at Dartford on an anticlockwise service around the Reedham Loop. Note the four track level crossing - the city insisted this was built to allow expansion on the east side of the station in years to come.

Building in the South

As the network stabilises and the Freight Division is launched, the BTB has been building west from Sotherton to Bridgwater and Biddulph, with stations at Newbury and Wrexham, which is in the image above. The railway has been completed as far as Biddulph, but there is still some work to be done on the way to Bridgwater. Whilst there are stations on this route, it is mainly expected to be a busy freight corridor.

Sotherton

With the network running at a profit now, the BTB has been given permission to extend west (as mentioned above). To this end, the corporation built a new station in the Centre of the planned Sotherton conurbation. It is smaller than St James, and has no connection to the Sotherton Circle, but is intended to be a terminus for this new railway. To help along the construction of the city, the BTB built roads connecting all suburbs and the city itself, which should see the city's population up to around 4,000. Note the flat crossing with the Sotherton Circle, which was necessary to save as much space as possible. The Sotherton station is the only one built on the new Newbury Forest Line, and the formation is yet to be signalled beyond Sotherton Bridge.

[Kogut]

I think that "show reserved tracks" looks weird on screenshots.