North Korean Set - latest update 21/12/2022

[Erato]

I wanted to change 1 sprite and fix a bug that was reported. Did a little bit more than that.

DPRK Trains 1.12 - 12/01/2021

dprktrains-1.12.tar

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Changelog:
Added: Buffed DK4 metro
Added: Livery for smallest narrow gauge diesel locomotive
Added: Liveries for 200, 300 and 900 series diesel locomotives
Added: Livery for K62 diesel locomotive
Added: Liveries for Juche EMU
Changed: All locomotives now refit to passenger instead of goods
Changed: Roof of pre-war railcars darker
Changed: Redone sprites for 200, 300 and 900 series diesel locomotives
Changed: 300 and 900 series diesel locomotives made smaller
Changed: Tweaked 1000 series EMU sprite
Fixed: Horizontal sprite of narrow gauge diesel locomotive wrong way around
Fixed: Red Flag 2000 purchase sprite 1 pixel off
Fixed: Not being able to change livery on some locomotives

[Erato]

It's finally done! Station buildings in the scale of the houses set.

So the houses set came out before the station set. The original planning was for it to be the other way around, but I really liked adding snow to it, which gave me the push I needed to finish the house set. Snow awareness for the platforms is still not ready, and will take some more time, as it's quite big. This is the last DPRK Stations NewGRF I have planned. I'm not touching industry again. I don't play with it enough to care.

DPRK Stations v2 Buildings was made completely from scratch, and was started before the houseset, even. I like how that happened twice now. I didn't like the way the scale of the platform roofs didn't match the station buildings, which was an artifact of how I scaled the first station building in v1, which lead to me redoing both the station set and the house set. The station buildings are the main reason I redid the station set at all. Backend improvements are just a nice bonus. Not every station building from v1 is in here, and not all will be. I might add more station buildings later, so it's not impossible that I might bring some of them back. I particularly dislike the way OpenTTD deals with metros (that is to say, it doesn't) so I don't feel strongly for bringing the metro tiles back.

So without any further ado, enjoy.
DPRK Stations v2.0 - Buildings - 25/01/2021

DPRK-Stations-v2.0-Buildings.grf

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Changelog:
Added: Additional generic rural stations
Added: Chongjin, Sinanju Station
Added: Rural station tiles with slopes, to connect to platforms
Feature: Snow awareness
Changed: Redone all sprites at new scale
Changed: Different generic concrete station
Removed: Sonbong east station
Removed: Kaesong station
Removed: Kaeson station

[EG0611]

Hello Erato,

I am using your DPRK Stations Set on JGR Community server and they look great. I would like to ask you that do you consider to improve buffer stops as currently "platforms with buffer stop" act like trackless station tile rahter than being a half-trackless station tile. As you can see 5 tile train doesn't enter to the last tile of station of 6 tiles.



Also there is no station tile with 3 sided platform with buffer stop. Would you consider to add it as well?

[michael blunck]

@EG0611
Station tiles with buffer stops are (have to be) always non-track tiles. Else trains would move into/through the buffers.

It would be possible to make buffer tiles 'trackable', but in this case the player would have to restrict all the trains to not move to the ends of platforms with buffer stops.

regards
Michael

[EG0611]

@michael blunck

As far as I know many station sets have half-trackless station tiles as buffer stops.

[Erato]

Hello Erato,

I am using your DPRK Stations Set on JGR Community server and they look great. I would like to ask you that do you consider to improve buffer stops as currently "platforms with buffer stop" act like trackless station tile rahter than being a half-trackless station tile. As you can see 5 tile train doesn't enter to the last tile of station of 6 tiles.

Also there is no station tile with 3 sided platform with buffer stop. Would you consider to add it as well?

Like Blunck said, I'm not gonna make it so you can drive (partially) through them. That's because it's impossible to do.

As for your second point, I discontinued 2-sided platforms when I released the DPRK Station Set v2. They're never coming back. They're the most unrealistic thing that only exists because that's what was normal back in the TTO days. I was a fool for even adding them to the original North Korean station set. The reason why you still have them in your game at all is because you're using a discontinued version of the North Korean station set.

[michael blunck]

@michael blunck

As far as I know many station sets have half-trackless station tiles as buffer stops.

There's a difference between a non-track station tile and its graphical representation.
I.e., you may paint a full-length or a half track or no track at all on such a tile.

regards
Michael

[Erato]

I've implemented snow awareness for the entire station set. Enjoy

DPRK Stations v2.3 - Platforms - 27/01/2021

DPRK-Stations-v2.3-Platforms.grf

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Changelog:
Feature: Snow awareness

DPRK Stations v2.3 - Eyecandy Part 1 - 27/01/2021

DPRK-Stations-v2.3-Eyecandy-Part-1.grf

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Changelog:
Feature: Snow awareness
Fixed: Not all platform ends waypoint orientations available
Fixed: Wires poking through depots

DPRK Stations v2.1 - Eyecandy Part 2 - 27/01/2021

DPRK-Stations-v2.1-Eyecandy-Part-2.grf

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Changelog:
Feature: Snow awareness

[Erato]

The source code for those who are interested. The forums only allows up to 3 files per post, so this had to be a separate post.
I've moved from CC BY-NC to CC BY after hearing concerns about streaming and YouTube regarding non-commercial licenses. For my NewGRFs, licenses indicated on BaNaNaS are leading.

[Erato]

The industry set is probably not going to come back any time soon. I personally don't play with freight, and making an industry set is quite a large time investment. Sorry about that.

I'm not touching industry again. I don't play with it enough to care.

Words are part of a balanced diet.

I decided to make the Industry set v2 anyway because I was playing a singleplayer game that I want to keep playing on for a long time, and industries just make for really good eyecandy. And since there's nothing better than eyecandy, I just gotta.
OTIS didn't exist when I started this, and even if it did, I'd need to make the eyecandy objects for it anyway, so I might as well. For the industry object set I'll make sure to add overlapping tiles for OTIS.

I now have at least one layout for every industry in my first chain, so I thought this was a nice time to announce that industry's back on the menu.

Z.FORUMOVERVIEW1.png (10.96 KiB) Viewed 16682 times

I'll make other chains and industries as and when I feel like it, so it might take a while before you'll see a first version.
Feel free to tell me what you think.

[Quast65]

Very nice!
And thank you for planning to also make it available as objects!

[Fredinho]

Not gonna lie, this made me very happy!

[Erato]

Thanks guys.

OTIS compatibility, bugfixes and new Juche EMU stuff.
DPRK Trains 1.13 - 09/03/2021

dprktrains-1.13.tar

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Changelog:
Added: OTIS bulk cargo recolouring
Added: 5/6 car Juche EMU
Added: New Juche EMU livery
Changed: Cost Juche EMU rebalanced
Changed: Pantograph position Juche EMU
Changed: Stake wagons now accept Tropic Wood
Fixed: One locomotive was not changed to PASS
Fixed: Graphical glitch on brakevan-open wagon

[Erato]

Quick feature request
DPRK Tracks 1.7.1 - 10/03/2021

dprktracks - 1.7.1.tar

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Changelog:
Added: Parameter to turn off custom depots

[Erato]

Some more freight stuff
DPRK Road Vehicles 2.3 - 10/03/2021

dprkroadvehicle_2.3.grf

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Changelog:
Added: OTIS bulk cargo recolouring
Added: Tropic wood now produces wood sprites
Added: Box variant for Sungri 64 and Sungri 17
Added: Dump trucks
Added: Chollima 91 livery
Changed: Trucks more powerful
Fixed: Some offset problems
Fixed: Wheel layout double decker bus
Fixed: Sungri64 bounding box too small

[Erato]

Found a new diesel locomotive on Twitter, and TELK decided to translate the DPRK sets, so translations will be rolled out as time goes on.
DPRK Trains 1.14 - 07/04/2021

dprktrains-1.14.tar

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Changelog:
Added: New Narrow Gauge Diesel
Translation: Korean

[Erato]

Separate post due to forum constraints, but the townnames have also received a korean translation.
DPRK Townnames 1.1 - 07/04/2021

dprknames-1.1.tar

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Changelog:
Translation: Korean

[Erato]

A third entry came in for the GRF competition, the deadline is coming up soon, and I'm done with exams, so I decided to try and get a NewGRF made for the competition. I'll make some Pyongyang landmarks for it. Here's two I've already finished. The Arch of Reunification and the Juche Tower. I'm thinking of a mix between communist monuments, traditional Korean architecture and modern Korean architecture.

[perverted monkey]

Where is the parade of the gorgeous North Korean army girls? No vote without them!

[sudosu]

I love your work!

I found something weird though: when loading the North Korean Trams Set, it seems to influence the buying and running cost of train vehicles.
No change in parameters, cost modifiers are the default (1x)

without the Trams Set:


with the Trams Set: