AuzObjects

[GarryG]

Certainly

Your awaking and I about to go to dream world.

I think the handiest way, is to do that as a slope-aware and snow-line aware set.

I forgot I did do a ice water slope aware set before .. but looks like I forgot to code them in

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You are very welcome to use these graphics for wintertime:

Will use what you done too.

Possibly a good idea to give Frozen stuff a separate submenu

We could do that. See how many object sets need to be made and then I decide what water object set they can go in.

Cheers .. good night

[Quast65]

Good night and I wish you a very goodmorning when you wake up and read this

See how many object sets need to be made and then I decide what water object set they can go in.

That doesnt matter too much, you could start in regular AuzWaterObjects and fill that up and then continue in AuzWaterAddOns.

A couple of other things I noticed (both in Water Objects v15):

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1. The 7 items I put in the red box are snow-line aware and change to ice in winter, however none of the other tiles in that menu do that.
I think it is best to remove snow-awareness from them, so no change in winter.
And then put all new snow-aware water objects in a new separate sub-menu


2. I noticed that there are 2 Water Objects sub-menu's.
I think you can safely give them the same objectclass and combine them in one submenu.

3. Something weird happens to people fishing when it is winter

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All is fine in summer, but I think that when winter comes, suddenly the base-graphic changes...

[Quast65]

Furthermore:

4. You have navigator markers in Auz Airport & Boating Objects, as well as in Auz Water Objects Addons.

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Those in Auz Airport & Boating Objects give more choice.
Keep those, remove the navigators from Auz Water Objects Addons, frees a couple of ID's there again

5. As you can see in the above picture, there is grass under the menu-graphic of the Navigators Markers.
That should be water, I think that in the code, you need to change the basetile to water.
Same for loads of the boats in Auz Airport & Boating Objects and a couple of boats in Auz Water Objects.

The thing is, that if you want some stuff inside an actual lake to be safe from flooding, you need to place objects with water graphics next to them on DRY cleared land.
Your graphics then stay grassy, if they get a water-base-tile they will look watery even when placed on dry land

[GarryG]

It's morning here now. A lovely 15 degrees out side and sunny.

A couple of other things I noticed (both in Water Objects v15):

Some of those faults your findings, some I knew about and just not had chance to try fix and when did have chance completely forgot what the problem is.

Big reason why I not put them on Bananas yet. Some sets need adjustments not just in graphics but also in coding.

Today I'll work on the ice water and then after that see what repairs I can do to all the water sets.

Cheers

[Quast65]

My goal in life is to provide you with a never ending to-do-list

[GarryG]

My goal in life is to provide you with a never ending to-do-list

We'll get to the end of the list tomorrow .. but they say tomorrow never comes ..

EDIT:

You can test these if like. They have straight, outer curve and inner curve transition pieces to do along side ice roads.
Also some people ice skating and some ice water.

There under the Menu heading Frozen Water(Ice)

Tomorrow I see if I can make some river pieces with ice to go with the wide rivers that now available in OpenTTD.
These will be in the AuzWaterObjectsAddOn set as other set now full.

[Quast65]

Nice, exactly what was needed!

However there are some issues....

1. Ice lakes Slope Aware:
One of the menu-graphics has water on both sides

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2. Ice lakes Slope Aware:
The water is not moving...
Could it be that the watergraphics you put in are in 32bpp?
That way it wont recognise that it is animated water colors, recode in just 8bpp then

3. The Ice Transitions:
They all have the same issue I think as a lot of your other water objects, but with a twist..
In summer it looks like this when you place them on freshly demolished land next to a road to keep it from flooding:

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Which is good

But in winter (so when snow-line reaches it), it looks like this:

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Not good

Also when you place these objects on dry land, it doesnt show water under it.
And it should do that, so I think its a code issue.
Could you post the code of one of those objects?
I'll take a look to see if I can spot what needs to change.
I think it may be something like GROUNDTILE_NORMAL to GROUNDTILE_WATER (its been a while since I coded objects in NML)


EDIT:
It may be a good idea though to switch to PM's while we adress these issues.
That way you wont have to keep upping the version-number and also Kamnet doesnt have to keep track of new versions untill we get this fixed

[GarryG]

The water is not moving...

I forgot that also need a mask in 32 bit if have animation. I'll re-do them as 8 bit as that be easier.

One of the menu-graphics has water on both sides

That is a strange one .. you sure you didn't have a lot of rain and it flooded? Most likely a coding issue.
I get mixed up if I need both or one of these codes in object_flags

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OBJ_FLAG_ON_WATER,   OBJ_FLAG_DRAW_WATER

At moment I only have OBJ_FLAG_ON_WATER. Maybe need the other one as well.

They all have the same issue I think as a lot of your other water objects, but with a twist..

Most likely a coding issue.

Those issues will give me something to work on today.
If your still awake here the source.
The Ice Transitions codes are called
ice01, ice02 and ice03. People on ice is ice04.
The slope aware called icelakes.

Will PM future problems.

Cheers

[Quast65]

If your still awake here the source.

Just came home from work, so just before bed

At moment I only have OBJ_FLAG_ON_WATER. Maybe need the other one as well.

Yes!

I think the other issue (in winter) is here:
This:

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//calculate ground sprite for object
switch (FEAT_OBJECTS, SELF, switch_ice01_object, [
    STORE_TEMP(0, 0),
    STORE_TEMP(GROUNDSPRITE_WATER, 1),
    STORE_TEMP(terrain_type == TILETYPE_DESERT ? GROUNDSPRITE_DESERT : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1),
    STORE_TEMP(terrain_type == TILETYPE_SNOW   ? GROUNDSPRITE_SNOW : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1),
    STORE_TEMP(snowline_height == 0xFF ? 0xFF : nearby_tile_height(0,0) - snowline_height, 255),
    STORE_TEMP((LOAD_TEMP(255) == -1) ? GROUNDSPRITE_SNOW_1_4 : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1),
    STORE_TEMP((LOAD_TEMP(255) ==  0) ? GROUNDSPRITE_SNOW_2_4 : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1),
    STORE_TEMP((LOAD_TEMP(255) ==  1) ? GROUNDSPRITE_SNOW_3_4 : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1)
        ]) {
    switch_ice01_view;
}

Should become:

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//calculate ground sprite for object
switch (FEAT_OBJECTS, SELF, switch_ice01_object, [
    STORE_TEMP(0, 0),
    STORE_TEMP(GROUNDSPRITE_WATER, 1),
    STORE_TEMP(terrain_type == TILETYPE_DESERT ? GROUNDSPRITE_DESERT : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1),
    STORE_TEMP(terrain_type == TILETYPE_SNOW   ? GROUNDSPRITE_WATER : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1),
    STORE_TEMP(snowline_height == 0xFF ? 0xFF : nearby_tile_height(0,0) - snowline_height, 255),
    STORE_TEMP((LOAD_TEMP(255) == -1) ? GROUNDSPRITE_WATER : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1),
    STORE_TEMP((LOAD_TEMP(255) ==  0) ? GROUNDSPRITE_WATER : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1),
    STORE_TEMP((LOAD_TEMP(255) ==  1) ? GROUNDSPRITE_WATER : LOAD_TEMP(1), 1)
        ]) {
    switch_ice01_view;
}

That may do the trick... Goodnight

[alan98]

Hi Garry,

Would it be possible to take these two objects from Fake Airport Objects set (I hope @Quast65 will not be against this idea), re-paint both objects in dark green color and add it to yours military objects set as a military radar/transmitter as anti-aircraft warfare?

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Cheers,
Alan

[GarryG]

Would it be possible to take these two objects from Fake Airport Objects set (I hope @Quast65 will not be against this idea), re-paint both objects in dark green color and add it to yours military objects set as a military radar/transmitter as anti-aircraft warfare?

We could do that .. are they all green from top to bottom or green and white instead of red and white?

Cheers

[GarryG]

AuzBoatingObjects
Subject: Houseboats

Looking through some of my object sets finding objects that I did but forgot to code.

Found some houseboats and 6 crew canoes.

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Also some navigation markers that still in process being finished .. hope to eventually add them too.

[alan98]

Would it be possible to take these two objects from Fake Airport Objects set (I hope @Quast65 will not be against this idea), re-paint both objects in dark green color and add it to yours military objects set as a military radar/transmitter as anti-aircraft warfare?

We could do that .. are they all green from top to bottom or green and white instead of red and white?

That's great! Yes, they should be all green from top to bottom for hiding purposes in contrast to civil radars which are painted in red and white to increase visibility.

Cheers,
Alan

[GarryG]

That's great! Yes, they should be all green from top to bottom for hiding purposes in contrast to civil radars which are painted in red and white to increase visibility.

Shall see what Quast65 thinks of the idea and if ok with him shall see what I can do.

[Quast65]

That's great! Yes, they should be all green from top to bottom for hiding purposes in contrast to civil radars which are painted in red and white to increase visibility.

Shall see what Quast65 thinks of the idea and if ok with him shall see what I can do.

Sure, its GPL-licensed!

[3iff]

Well, maybe...
Its certainly something to doublecheck if updating doesnt work.
Here is a part of my config file, that relates to blitter settings (one early on and a couple a bit further down):

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[misc]
display_opt = SHOW_TOWN_NAMES|SHOW_SIGNS|FULL_ANIMATION|FULL_DETAIL
news_ticker_sound = true
fullscreen = false
graphicsset = "OpenGFX"
soundsset = "OpenSFX"
musicset = 
videodriver = 
musicdriver = 
sounddriver = 
blitter = 
language = dutch.lng
resolution = 1920,1057
screenshot_format = 
savegame_format = 
rightclick_emulate = false
small_font = 
medium_font = 
large_font = 
small_size = 8
medium_size = 10
large_size = 16
small_aa = false
medium_aa = false
large_aa = false
sprite_cache_size = 64
player_face = 3058084888
transparency_options = 3
transparency_locks = 0
invisibility_options = 254
keyboard = 
keyboard_caps = 
mono_font = 
mono_size = 10
mono_aa = false
max_sprite_cache_size = 64
last_newgrf_count = 2304
sprite_cache_size_px = 128
support8bpp = no
blitter-32bpp-aa-level = 2
blitter-32bpp-aa-anim-slots = 4
blitter-32bpp-aa-anim-threads = 0
gui_zoom = 2
font_zoom = 2
zoning_overlay_inner = 0
zoning_overlay_outer = 0
extra_display_opt = SHOW_MONEY_TEXT_EFFECTS
video_hw_accel = true
video_vsync = false
cargo_payment_x_mode = 0
extra_transparency_options = 0
extra_transparency_locks = 0
gui_scale = -1

To be sure, maybe test it also out with a GRF that totally relies on 32bpp graphics, like one of the extra-zoom GRF's that uses extremely realistic graphics (like the Czech ones).

But try updating first.

Well, I just changed the config to read "blitter = 32bbp-optimized" and it worked.

I've a vague feeling I did this a long time ago and hadn't changed it. I suspect I had to recreate the config file at some time and the settings returned to 8bpp defaults.
It's not something I would have changed back on purpose...and all my earlier versions of ottd (I keep a few) had 8bpp-optimized so I didn't realise that was the issue...but I do now.

So, Many thanks Quast for your patience in trying to help me fix this. Your suggestions helped even as I was realising that the issue was with my system, somewhere.

Garry,

Now I can see your graphics in their full majesty, I have spotted a few small issues.

Pre-1900 graphics.
The wagon section, there are a few typos referring to WAHON (obviously should be wagon)
The the churches sectoin, you have a CEMENTARY (instead of cemetary)

Townobjectaddons
There are a few pink walls for shopping malls, car parks, shops and sydney shop.

Just to add, I'm blown away with the depth of your graphics. Absolutely superb.

[Quast65]

Well, I just changed the config to read "blitter = 32bbp-optimized" and it worked.

Good to know that that was the issue and that it is fixed now!

There are a few pink walls for shopping malls, car parks, shops and sydney shop.

That is intended behaviour, those are modular parts, buildingblocks so to say.
The pink walls are to show "inside" walls, those that you should not be able to see anymore in a complete building.
Not much use to also draw pretty graphics, if you dont see them anymore

However, you can also find those blocks (and possibly some more) in the Auz Car Parks and Subway Overlays (and add-ons) GRFs
And those do have "inside" graphics

[3iff]

Ah, I didn't know. I guessed that you wouldn't have set those to pink and just left them like that unintentionally.

I'll give them a try now I know what's going on. I agree, no point in drawing stuff that can't be seen!

[GarryG]

Now I can see your graphics in their full majesty, I have spotted a few small issues.

Those spelling mistakes are fault of my keyboard .. keys keep moving and making me hit the wrong letters

Appreciate people reporting problems as I seem to miss a few.

However, you can also find those blocks (and possibly some more) in the Auz Car Parks and Subway Overlays (and add-ons) GRFs
And those do have "inside" graphics

I need to re-do some of my objects sets and remove some double up. When I first did them I never realized I could give them the same "class: CODE" in both sets.

That's great! Yes, they should be all green from top to bottom for hiding purposes in contrast to civil radars which are painted in red and white to increase visibility.

How will this look for the tall one?
Wondering about the radars on the ground if should be on towers?
Be a few days before I can work on them again. Shopping day today and train riding Thursday.

[GarryG]

Over the past few weeks I Iearn a few things in coding I never understood before or forgotten how to use. One reason I had been double up of some objects. Somew objects you would find the same one it 2 or more object sets. I hope to re-do some objects sets to remove the double ups and combine some sets together to reduce the number of GRF files.

I can reduce the AuzTownObjects, AuzTownObjectsAddOns and AuzObjectsPre1900 into 2 sets instead of 3.

Similar to AuzWaterObjects, AuzWaterObjectsAddOns and AuzBeachObjects .. can be reduced to only 2 sets.

The AuzBoatingObjects I think can stay separate as plan to add more boats and Navigation markets and any thing else I can find that is related to Boating.
This set also includes 6 items of Heathrow Airport which will be placed somewhere else. I don't think I need to make a separate airport set as there are already some great airport object sets already available.

Hope to start working on them over the Easter Break.

Cheers