mb's casual screenshots

[michael blunck]

I think I should also post some screenshots which have been piled up on my hdds over the years. This will all be quite mixed: old and new, released, yet unreleased or never to be released stuff - really casual.


A class 150 hauled heavy coal train has to wait at Sinfingley Depots, while a historic ET 87 on its extra tour for the local rivet counters from Sinfingley main station blocks the single track main line to Dunwell:

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Another harbour scene showing integration of MariCo objects and NewStation's freight sheds:

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A pair of V36s in their usual double-head scheme hauling a train with swap container cars:

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regards
Michael

[arikover]

Sweet...

[TinyMusic]

How about some screenshots of your Medieval-looking town set?

[michael blunck]

How about some screenshots of your Medieval-looking town set?

Coming soon.

Plarthill. A small village located at the sea, almost unspoilt from modern industries and the ubiquitous concrete architecture. Local industry is mostly farming and nursery:

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An old-fashioned fully animated shipyard, part of my private ECS implementation. Quite fascinating how they're building ships which suddenly disappear when being finished:

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Modern times arrive. A collection of small town industries are beginning to encircle the moated castle of Count Balthasar the Elder, Duke of Sonnway:

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regards
Michael

[Muzzly]

Very nice screenshot !!! Especialy random8.png.
Is it from your "Medieval-looking town set". Will it or is it available to download ?

Thanks

[Pyoro]

Count Balthasar the Elder, Duke of Sonnway

Must have an interesting history to still use his Count title when he actually rules a Duchy xD

[TinyMusic]

Michael, please, please, give us a sprite drawing course

And if possible revive ttdpatch.de

[arikover]

Really cool screenshots! And thanks for the preview of your current work!

A collection of small town industries are beginning to encircle the moated castle...

Are these industries built by local authority, like they are in Pikka's TaI? And do they accept/produce specific cargos?

[michael blunck]

[...] Are these industries built by local authority, like they are in Pikka's TaI? And do they accept/produce specific cargos?

These aren´t "industries" but "houses/buildings", see discussion here: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 6e#p644278 and follow-ups.

It´s an really old idea, dating back to 2007.

regards
Michael

[arikover]

Yes, they exist in other sets (like in the Japanese Buildings Set for example), but as far as I remember, they only accept cargo. So what I wanted to know was whether your (industrial) houses/buildings can produce cargos (other than passengers and mail), e.g. food or goods.

[michael blunck]

@arikover

Yes, they can, and most of them are doing. Generally, house tiles can produce cargo and distribute a certain amount by use of Callback 2E.

The underlying idea of those "town industries" together with the developement of CB 148 (watched cargo accepted) and associated variables was to tweak town growth in a specific way to obtain "areas of accretion".

regards
Michael

[Dave]

Oh Mr Blunck, welcome to the party! Brilliant!

[wallyweb]

Question: How many town building types are allowed?

[michael blunck]

Question: How many town building types are allowed?

Officially, 254 in TTDPatch against 511 in OTTD. Misusing animation, you may cram in way more.

regards
Michael

[wallyweb]

Misusing animation, you may cram in way more.

But then all in good concience and a sense of fair play, we wouldn't do that, would we Michael? ... Michael? ... Michael? ... OMG! Methinks the lad is scheeming!

[umingio00]

Great pictures.....


And what kind for your NewGRFs on the rails,house,etc?

[YNM]

They're mostly yet-to-be-released/updated GRFs by michael blunk himself...

[michael blunck]

Instead of presenting latest shiny stuff, let´s take a look today into the past with some screenshots from 2004.


A never released "city station" for the NewStations set in a very old-fashioned surrounding. Note the half-baked charm of the later NewStations large hall in the upper left. OTOH, the ship depot in the lower left had been only released with a NewShips "test version" a year ago!

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A never released ECS furniture factory in the snow with accompanying railway sheds. Obviously, the lack of buffer stops reveals its aged origin. In the foreground, a Prussian G10 hauled freight train delivering component parts can be seen:

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A most gruesome experience for those passengers waiting to board the Plarthill train on july 7th 1921 happened when they became eye witnesses of that train derailing inside Tenfingbury Springs main station, with 5020 dying in the blaze of the wreckage. Later, the fact-finding commission blamed the train´s overcrowding by some 2400%, as well as the tinderlike construction of TPRC´s coaches for the high number of casualties:

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regards
Michael

[FLHerne]

A never released "city station" for the NewStations set in a very old-fashioned surrounding.

That style would be really good for inner-city termini - the current 'large roofs' look too open on their own and the (beautiful) Bamberg is rather limited for such roles because of the slope requirement.

Perhaps you could finally get around to it in NewStations 0.6/0.7? Please?

[michael blunck]

That style would be really good for inner-city termini - the current 'large roofs' look too open on their own and the (beautiful) Bamberg is rather limited for such roles because of the slope requirement.

Perhaps you could finally get around to it in NewStations 0.6/0.7? Please?

Definetly not in 0.6, which will add freight sheds and maintenance depots, but probably in 0.7, for which I planned some larger station building additions to be combined with those "halls".

regards
Michael