[NRT] RattRoads - 1.2.1 released 05-20-23!

[GarryG]

Question what is NRT .. it not click with me.

When I first started doing the roads I was only intended to add just a gravel road and a few with fences using Andrew360s roads. His 6 roads and about 4 I was think of but I got carried away

Will have a look at some ideas and see.

Cheers

[wallyweb]

Question what is NRT .. it not click with me.

Not Road Types ... Its what started this whole road type thing.

When I first started doing the roads I was only intended to add just a gravel road and a few with fences using Andrew360s roads. His 6 roads and about 4 I was think of but I got carried away

Still getting good good vibrations?

[GarryG]

Not Road Types ... Its what started this whole road type thing.

So they to blame are they

Maybe the different sets that have the fake roads in might like to now to change them to actual roads? I used IDs 14 and 15 for the 2 Industrial Roads.

The grf I uploaded last night didn't code properly and still has the previous Industrial Roads in it. So try this one it will/should have the ISR road and the Concrete one.

As of an hour ago been 435 aftershocks .. This morning at 4:18 was a 5.3 and at 8:22 was a 4.9. The 5.3 might have been while all the dogs started barking this morning.

[leifbk]

Still need to remove one of the dirt tracks, just haven't decided which one it should be yet.

I hope you keep the light one, because on the dark one the eGRVTS horses are very hard to see.

Uh, I thought of the dark brown original RattRoads. I'm testing your new version right now. Cool

Although the brown horses are still a little hard to see.

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[GarryG]

I hope you keep the light one, because on the dark one the eGRVTS horses are very hard to see.

That is a problem with the brown.

Been looking at farm tracks in Google Earth see if I can find something more suitable. I guess they be closest thing to how main roads would have looked back in the 1800s and earlier.

Some have a grey stone or gravel look from main road to farm house and buildings and the brown tracks leading off to the crops and other places on the farm. So might work if I change the dirt colour and see how gravel or grey stone will look.

We shall see what can do.

[GarryG]

What if I make the tracks a gravel type?

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My idea is to make these tracks look natural ground surface so can be used in games before motor vehicles.

Also changing the fence line on curves.

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I see in real the fences follow the curves rather than do 90 degree turns.

Here the game file again with those few changes.

[wallyweb]

What if I make the tracks a gravel type?

Call them gravel if you want, but they look like dry, dusty dirt to me. They look good.
For gravel you should replace most of the brown with grey.
Having both dirt and gravel as separate roads would be good.

My idea is to make these tracks look natural ground surface so can be used in games before motor vehicles.

Agreed.

Also changing the fence line on curves.
I see in real the fences follow the curves rather than do 90 degree turns.

ISR=Industrial Stations Renewal
The ISR roads are industrial station roads such as one might find around stations serving industries or rail/classification yards. Those roads are not fenced because if there is to be a fence, it surrounds the entire industry or rail yard.

Also, as station roads, keep the maximum speed at 50 km/h.

[GarryG]

Call them gravel if you want, but they look like dry, dusty dirt to me. They look good.

That is a good name for them "Dusty Tracks". Shame we can not animate them when a vehicle travels along them they create dust.

For gravel you should replace most of the brown with grey.

The brown dirt road is in Andrews360 lot so will still have that one. In my set I'll do the dry dusty gravel ones.

Having both dirt and gravel as separate roads would be good.

Hope to do just that so have all types.

For now there be 2 road sets. The one that Andrew360 is doing and the one I am doing. It easier for him and me to work on them that way without us conflicting.

The 2 Industry Roads I did thinking just keep the ISR one as it suitable for inside the depot extensions. The other one thinking it can also be a dry dusty road with fences as the one I did/doing don't have fences. Be nice had both I think.

The ISR roads are industrial station roads such as one might find around stations serving industries or rail/classification yards. Those roads are not fenced because if there is to be a fence, it surrounds the entire industry or rail yard.

Industry roads will not have the fences. Just some of the asphalt roads and gravel roads will have fences.

Also, as station roads, keep the maximum speed at 50 km/h.

Wonder if this speed should be slower maybe 25 or 40. Andrew360is planning to allow players to set the speed parameters. Have the normal speed, double speed and what ever the speed of the vehicles are..

[wallyweb]

Also, as station roads, keep the maximum speed at 50 km/h.

Wonder if this speed should be slower maybe 25 or 40. Andrew360is planning to allow players to set the speed parameters. Have the normal speed, double speed and what ever the speed of the vehicles are..

These are private roads not for general street travel ... Keep the options at 50 km/h (35mph) or lower.

[Andrew350]

Andrew360 is planning to allow players to set the speed parameters.

Well, maybe. I'm still not convinced making a speed parameter for each individual road is a great idea, while adding more options for pre-set speeds is certainly doable, although requires deciding on which speeds to use

[GarryG]

Well, maybe. I'm still not convinced making a speed parameter for each individual road is a great idea,

I agree .. Honest I prefer the roads have a set speed that you and I decide and can not be changed. But we have some players who wear boots with lead in them and like to push the pedal to the metal. So maybe a parametrs for normal speeds that we set and no speed limits for the rev heads.

[Andrew350]

There's already a setting to disable speed limits entirely, although currently it is also tied to having "normal" costs. Maybe speed should be it's own setting without influencing any costs, especially since players can use a base cost mod to get the prices they want...

[GarryG]

Maybe I do these roads but not sure what speed they should be. These taken in street where I staying.
This was yesterday

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And this today.

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Can we make roads that also allow boats?

[kamnet]

Have a parameter that allows the player to set what slow/regular/high speed is. Then allow player to configure each road to slow/regular/high. Default setting is whatever the openttd default is.

[Andrew350]

Although the brown horses are still a little hard to see.

I did a little bit of experimenting tonight to see if I could relatively easily (read: not redraw by hand ) change the coloring to give a nice result while allowing horses to be more visible. This handy animation shows off what I thought was the best result: (sorry it's zoomed in, GIMP must have done that!)

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Might be kind of hard to tell from a still image, but I actually think I like it more, and it does show the brown horses a little better. Just wondering what you guys think though

[GarryG]

I think the lighter one better .. not just show the horses a bit clearer but gives what Wallyweb mentioned before a "dry dusty look".

[GarryG]

Had a go making some grey dirt road and track.

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Being able to make these different roads and tested with my bridges and realised I have so bridging to do and also the roads that go over the bridges.

I never seen a road that has a dirt surface

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So have some tweaking to do here.

[leifbk]

I think the lighter one better .. not just show the horses a bit clearer but gives what Wallyweb mentioned before a "dry dusty look".

From what I remember of seeing dirt roads here in Norway at least, they're more like the colour of the gravel road in the tracks, with lines of green in between. More like this, actually:

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Although I think there should be only three "tracks", the (broader) middle one being used in both directions.

[GarryG]

Although I think there should be only three "tracks", the middle one being used in both directions

I been thinking something like that too. Keep this design, but put some extra gravel in the middle.

[leifbk]

Although I think there should be only three "tracks", the middle one being used in both directions

I been thinking something like that too. Keep this design, but put some extra gravel in the middle.

If you just put "extra gravel in the middle", the mid track will become much too broad. It shouldn't be more than one and a half or at most double the width of the outer tracks. Ideally, the dirt track should look narrower than the more modern roads.