Dutch stations set

[FooBar]

I don't know why there's two seperate wiki's

Allow me to fill you in on that

The TT-wiki was started as part of the forums. It's supposed to be for forum-related stuff, and houses the newgrf-specs, a bunch of tutorials. The OpenTTD wiki houses the OpenTTD manual and is supposed to be for stuff that's directly related to OpenTTD.

IMO NewGRF pages are only indirectly related to OpenTTD (you can play the game just fine without it), but they're directly related to the TT-forums and thus the TT-wiki.

[bremerjoe]

Maybe we should link to some of those TTwiki pages from the NewGRF page of the OTTD wiki then?

[YNM]

Sorry, could I have the sprite for plain platforms ? It's to be used for some underground metro stations (will be dutch looking, too )

[FooBar]

Normally you would be able to find such in the repository, but for some reason that's not accessible at the moment. I'm not sure if that's temporary or anything, but because I'm going on vacation this afternoon I'm not able to follow up on that, I'll check it in two weeks or so and report it if it's still unavailable.
The other option is of course to decode the set and grab the sprites from there.

[Purno]

Sorry, could I have the sprite for plain platforms ? It's to be used for some underground metro stations (will be dutch looking, too )

I was able to find my huge work-sheet, which happens to contain some sprites for basic platforms

[planetmaker]

I was able to find my huge work-sheet, which happens to contain some sprites for basic platforms

The link does not work.

[FooBar]

It does here...

[planetmaker]

It does here...

I always get "The selected attachment does not exist anymore.", both from home as well as from work.

[FooBar]

Weird. Even with CTRL+F5 the attachment doesn't disappear. I did notice the "attachment doesn't exist" message on some other post somewhere past week, but didn't think much of it at that time. The forums are falling apart

[Quast65]

lol, I think the forum just decided it needs a holiday

By the way, I have an unpacked version of the set here on my computer. If it is ok, I can post the file here (or only the plain platforms)

[YNM]

Lol Quast65, why don't you say it from first ?
If you say that from first, maybe the sprites are half way

Just put it here, my request. I don't know around allowance.

[FooBar]

I don't know around allowance.

The set is GPL licensed, so that won't be too problematic.
But if I were Quast65 I wouldn't upload a decoded version of a GPL licensed set that isn't his own. As that basically means that anyone can ask him for the source, which he cannot provide because nobody has it at the moment

So you probably best run it through grfcodec yourself. You need grfcodec anyways if you intend to make a station set yourself, so it doesn't hurt to get some experience with it.

[Quast65]

I thought so that it would be a bit problematic, that is why I asked before posting it.

However, I have been a naughty boy and PM-ed him the sprites....

[FooBar]

However, I have been a naughty boy and PM-ed him the sprites....

You're of course free to do that. That limits the people how can ask you for the source to exactly one, which should be managable

[Ammler]

the sources are up again as mercurial repo (svn is down)

[FooBar]

Thanks, Ammler!

[ths]

Hey everyone,

Brand new to the forums (my first post) but a long time TTD and OpenTTD player. This week I decided to try and design a sprite for TTD myself for the first time. What better place to start than my hometown station Delft. I'm quite happy with the result, so I decided to post it to see what you guys think. Seems to be quite a few Dutchies who probably know the station in here. Any comments/tips/tricks etc are very much appreciated.

2 pics attached. With some station tiles from the dutch station set, and some trains from the dutch trainset in the background. However, the station is photoshopped in, since I dont know how to code, and none of the recommended programs run on mac.... If anyone would enjoy coding this station building please let me know... Maybe you can also tell me what else I need to do in order to prep this for coding, other than drawing the other direction...

Thanks

ths

[Transportman]

Hey everyone,

Brand new to the forums (my first post) but a long time TTD and OpenTTD player. This week I decided to try and design a sprite for TTD myself for the first time. What better place to start than my hometown station Delft. I'm quite happy with the result, so I decided to post it to see what you guys think. Seems to be quite a few Dutchies who probably know the station in here. Any comments/tips/tricks etc are very much appreciated.

2 pics attached. With some station tiles from the dutch station set, and some trains from the dutch trainset in the background. However, the station is photoshopped in, since I dont know how to code, and none of the recommended programs run on mac.... If anyone would enjoy coding this station building please let me know... Maybe you can also tell me what else I need to do in order to prep this for coding, other than drawing the other direction...

Thanks

ths

It looks good, except for some details that are missing:

• NS sign above the entrance
• Details in the roofs next to the middle
• Tower looks more 8-cornered in pictures I saw on Wikipedia, in your image it looks square

Coding: I don't know who coded the set, and if inclusion would be soon, since this set is still in the old programming language for NewGRFs (which is more difficult to understand) and the new language (which is more easy to understand) does not yet support stations.

[jor[D]1]

Very cool, recognized it immediately without even reading the text.

Next step The Hague CS? It would do great in OTTD

[oberhümer]

Spontaneously I'd say it needs to be about 25% smaller. The building connectors are also the same width as the towers in the corners. The right tower seems very slightly too tall (shave off some of the roof?), but that might just be a trick of perspective; the left one is much too wide, there's really barely anything there in the original.


Also:

none of the recommended programs run on mac

GRFCodec and NFORenum run fine with WineBottler, as do many other Windows programs. Takes a little setup, but it's worth it.