Rob's Finished Graphics

[kamnet]

Many years ago Rob (aka RobC) participated in the first wave of graphics replacements for TTD. At the time it was a crude hack that required patching the original grf files using a self-extracting executable. Later the NewGRF standard would be developed, and for awhile many of these graphics would be converted over from the .exe to the proper .grf format. A few of Rob's graphics were converted, many of them were rolled into other NewGRFs with his permission.

These are the ones that didn't make it, and until now have been left abandoned in 2003, unloved and unwanted. With Rob's blessing I'm now uploading these for availability here, on BaNaNaS and GRFCrawler under GNU GPL v2 license. These are all converted over using GRDTOGRF, and have proper GRFID. These should all work without issue. If you find something isn't right, feel free to unpack the GRF, fix it, and add it back here. I'll update this first post with the latest versions. Individual files with descriptions will be uploaded, I'm also attaching all of them as a single-pack folder for now.

• Dock with Container Crane
  Iron Ore Mine with Crane
  Coal Mine with Shafts
  Coal Mine with Shafts and Vehicles
  Saw Mill with Overhead Crane
  Farm with Large Silos
  Forrest with Logging Truck (Temperate)
  Forrest with Logging Truck (Arctic)
  Coal Power Plant with Chimney
  Railroad Crossing with Barrier
  Restaurant Statue Replacement
  Restaurant Statue Replacement with Cars
  Cricket Stadium
  New Heliport

[kamnet]

Dock with Container Crane

A single-tile dock with overhead container crane in all climates. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

Note from Rob: "The tip of the crane disappears from time to time." If anybody wishes to fix this, feel free and re-upload in this thread.

[kamnet]

Iron Ore Mine with Crane

TTD-style iron ore mine with crane and vehicles in temprate climate only. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Coal Mine with Shafts

TTD-style coal mine with larger mine shafts in all climates. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Coal Mine with Shafts and Vehicles

TTD-style coal mine with larger mine shafts and vehicles in all climates. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Saw Mill with Overhead Crane

TTD-style saw mill with overhead crane in temperate climate only. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Farm with Large Silos

TTD-style farm with larger silos in temperate climate only. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Forrest with Logging Truck (Temperate)

TD-style forest with logging truck in temperate climate only. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Forrest with Logging Truck (Arctic)

TTD-style forrest with logging truck in arctic climate only. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Coal Power Plant with Chimney

TTD-style coal power plant with larger chimney in all climates. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Railroad Crossing with Barrier

A grade level railroad crossing with raising arm barrier in temperate climate only. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Restaurant Statue Replacement

Replaces town statue with a restaurant in all climates. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Restaurant Status Replacement with Cars

Replaces town statue with a restaurant with vehicles in all climates. Release by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

Cricket Stadium

Replaces American-style football stadium with cricket stadium in temperate climate only. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[kamnet]

New Heliport

New style heliport replacement. Released by Rob (Rob Claessen) under GNU GPL v2 license.

[wallyweb]

Excellent bit of collaberation.

[Lakie]

I get the impression you could merge the Forest logging vehicle ones with an automatic climate check, similarly I feel one could merge the Coal Mine shafts and use a parameter to control the showing of vehicles on the tiles?
I 'd be willing to take a look at it later, if you'd like.

~ Lakie

[kamnet]

Sounds like a good improvement! You could probably do the same merge with the Restaurant Statue Replacement, whether to toggle vehicles. Or, maybe just make them appear randomly?

If you're also interested in fixing a few things, there is also a version of the ship depot that has the old-style shed with a crane over it, but it only replaces the front-half of the depot. The design has changed in OTTD so it doesn't work right.

[Lakie]

Not sure about that, it'd require splitting and merging sprites I suspect.
Please note that the below will not work with the TTDPatch stable builds due to Action14.

Coal Mine Replacements
Parameter 0:

• 0 - Larger coal mine shafts only,
• 1 - Larger coal mine shafts and vehicles,
• 2 - Coal mine vehicles only.

Source:

newcoalmine.nfo

(2.38 KiB) Downloaded 136 times

newcoalmine.png (5.17 KiB) Viewed 12917 times

Download:

newcoalmine.zip

(13.42 KiB) Downloaded 180 times

Forrest Logging Trucks
Changes automatically depending on climate.

Source:

forrestlogtruck.nfo

(1.23 KiB) Downloaded 141 times

forrestlogtruck.png (1.68 KiB) Viewed 12917 times

Download:

forrestlogtruck.zip

(8.12 KiB) Downloaded 171 times

Statue Restaurant Replacements
Parameter 0:

• 0 - No vehicles out front,
• 1 - Vehicles out front.

Source:

statuerestaurant.nfo

(1.52 KiB) Downloaded 135 times

statuerestaurant.png (1.98 KiB) Viewed 12917 times

Download:

statuerestaurant.zip

(8.45 KiB) Downloaded 165 times

[Edit] Should be GPLv2 compliment as the sources are provided above...
Not perfect, but they work.
~ Lakie

[andythenorth]

<boring_licensing_chat>

I'm interested - how are these licensed under GPL?

They are derivatives of copyrighted materials, which I guess the authors haven't been granted rights for? (TTD base graphics)

</boring_licensing_chat>

Safer to release them under a vague 'public domain' / no license situation. I think implying they are GPL creates a situation where anyone else modifying them is unintentionally infringing copyright.