AuzObjects

[GarryG]

HERDING LIVESTOCK TO MARKET
I started a new post looking at making animal herd to use before trains and road vehicles became available in game.

Futher dteails go to
viewtopic.php?p=1260079#p1260079

Cheers

[belgi]

AuzFakeRailsAndTrainsObjects

This is a old set I did way back in 2016 of fake railway lines with Australian New South Wales freight wagons and coaches.
I had lost the source so forgot about it and today going through some old CDs that I found hiding on me. On it are some of the old projects I did between 2015 and 2018.

So thought I would revive it again.

The idea was to make some fake marshaling yards like in this image.
Fake Tracks.png
It also has Survey Markers so you can map out where you want to lay your railway tracks and not cost you an arm and a leg.

I hope eventually do work on this again and make it a bit easier to find the pieces and more variety of rolling stock.

Hope you like.

EDIT:

Forgot to upload the source in case some other codes might like to use and change the freight wagons and coaches to suit the trains they use in their games.

EDIT EDIT:
Forgot to mention .. when I first made this set I added the Fake Main lines and Survey Markers to use in Scenario Editor. I would place these where railways lines should go to help prevent towns building where they not suppose to. When start to pay the game just a matter of replacing these Fake Railway lines and Survey Markers with proper railway lines. The Fake Tracks are rusty so you know they not been used.

It's great! I tried playing around with it a bit and built a great marshalling yard. It is brilliant! It took me a little longer to put it together as I imagined and there are still a lot of things to be done. But if it was possible to somehow modernize the graphics and put more modern vehicles there, that would be amazing! Thanks

and have a nice day!

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[GarryG]

It's great! I tried playing around with it a bit and built a great marshalling yard. It is brilliant! It took me a little longer to put it together as I imagined and there are still a lot of things to be done. But if it was possible to somehow modernize the graphics and put more modern vehicles there, that would be amazing! Thanks

There was suppose to have been a lot more added to this set, but when I lost it I never tried re-making it. Fun part when I get chance to work on it again and what coding I have learnt since .. especially the multi-select coding .. I believe I can improve it heaps.

The shunting engines was the last bit I was coding and was suppose to have engines available on all 3 tracks .. but was never able to finish it.
Might be a good thing for me to work on while I figure out the best way to make the "Herding Livestock to Markets"
Like the image you uploaded .

Cheers pal

[belgi]

It's great! I tried playing around with it a bit and built a great marshalling yard. It is brilliant! It took me a little longer to put it together as I imagined and there are still a lot of things to be done. But if it was possible to somehow modernize the graphics and put more modern vehicles there, that would be amazing! Thanks

There was suppose to have been a lot more added to this set, but when I lost it I never tried re-making it. Fun part when I get chance to work on it again and what coding I have learnt since .. especially the multi-select coding .. I believe I can improve it heaps.

The shunting engines was the last bit I was coding and was suppose to have engines available on all 3 tracks .. but was never able to finish it.
Might be a good thing for me to work on while I figure out the best way to make the "Herding Livestock to Markets"
Like the image you uploaded .

Cheers pal

Thanks! I like all your sets. I admire your work because it is really great.
I know you're dealing with livestock now and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!
I'm happy to wait, the important thing is that it works.

Be well!
Have a nice day!

[GarryG]

I've started up a new forum where members can leave photos and videos of trains they have taken themselves.
Videos and Images of Trains
viewtopic.php?t=90763
Photos and videos welcome that you have taken in the past and new ones taken recently.
Can also leave some stories of your experience with railways.

Enjoy

[Lobotron]

Maybe that's what happening...certainly most/all 32bit graphics is invisible to me.
But if that's the case, then perhaps it should be fixed at source...?

I put question about this on Discord few weeks ago but they replied with "GrfWizard was made for 8bit graphics". This time there weren't 32bit version and this tool came 15 years ago.

What is the link to join the discord group

[GarryG]

AuzMilitaryObjects

Subject: Military Parades

For those who liked the Military Object set I been making .. I am making a set of military people that will actually march around the roads.

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I will place a test game file here for now.

HerdingLivestock.grf

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Plan to add Military Bands later next week.

All future updates to these can be found at
HERDING LIVESTOCK TO MARKET
viewtopic.php?t=90736

Cheers

[GarryG]

AuzFarmObjects
Subject: Eye Candy Tractor

Testing a idea of a single road with a tractor.

While working on the HerdingLivestock project I came up with this idea this morning so had to give it a try.

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It is a single farm road that is in the center of the tiles and a tractor that will travel on this road. It has no left or right side.

The tractor is Eye candy for now and it travels around the road on the farm.

Got some other ideas to add to this but hope to finish the HerdingLivestock project first.

You can give it a try if like.

[Quast65]

I would very strongly like to suggest that you dont mix up too much features within one single GRF...

You are making a lot of GRF's (nothing wrong with that by the way, keep on going), but it is already difficult for people to find certain stuff.
It will make it even harder if you are putting roads and vehicles inside Object-GRF's...

I would very much like to suggest to add the roads (so also the Beachroad and the StockRoad in HerdingLivestock) to your Auz-Road-GRF
And put the tracktor (and maybe other new vehicles that are in the same kind of category) into a new separate GRF.
This will keep it a bit more clear and easier to find

a tractor that will travel on this road. It has no left or right side.

Something I noticed (also with the military personell), I think you did your testing with setting on Left-hand drive.
Then indeed they go in the middle of a road.
But, not when you have your settings on Right-hand drive...
This may be something to look into, does anyone have suggestion how this may be possible and fixed?

[skc]

Something I noticed (also with the military personell), I think you did your testing with setting on Left-hand drive.
Then indeed they go in the middle of a road.
But, not when you have your settings on Right-hand drive...
This may be something to look into, does anyone have suggestion how this may be possible and fixed?

Although I'm not familiar with how NewGRF's are coded, but I'd imagine it'd be a matter of doing a check for LHS or RHS for road vehicles and then inverting the pixel offset.

[GarryG]

I would very much like to suggest to add the roads (so also the Beachroad and the StockRoad in HerdingLivestock) to your Auz-Road-GRF

Maybe these 3 be in a set road set together but not necessary with my other roads. Since these roads are different players might like to use them with other road sets.
Probably each road have its own parameter so can disable the ones they not want to use.

Something I noticed (also with the military personell), I think you did your testing with setting on Left-hand drive.
Then indeed they go in the middle of a road.

When I first made the livestock I test both roads and worked perfect. When I made the ones to go on all the road I didn't test them on right side as thought they should be ok.

To have those hogging all the road I might need a US and a UK set.

I been forgetting that this game is all optical allusion .. the ones that hog all the road they don't really .. they just like a tall vehicle.

I got some thinking to do. While I thinking how to fix the road hogs I will make a separate road set with the Beachroad, Stock Route and the Farm road until its time to go get the bus to a railway station. Sometimes sitting watch trains help the brain.

Cheers

EDIT:

Just tested the military and other pieces that hog the whole road and they definitely need adjusting.

I thinking maybe I should make a separate UK set and a US set.

[kamnet]

That may do the trick... Goodnight

Did this fix for Auz Water Objects ever get updated?

[GarryG]

Did this fix for Auz Water Objects ever get updated?

Good question .. I did do something to AuzWaterObjects on the 5th April but did not convert it to a GRF for some strange reason Will check it tomorrrow when I not so tied and can concentrate on what I doing.

Cheers

[GarryG]

AuzFencesObjectsAddOns
Subject: Hedge Fence with trees.

Other in the forum
Videos and Images of Trains
viewtopic.php?p=1260603#p1260603
Martin has unintentional given me a idea in one of his photos of a hedge fence with shrubs.

So I cam up with this idea and wonder would you use it in your games? If so I will make gates and slope pieces to go with these.

Cheers

[GarryG]

Some updates:

AuzBeachObjects:

The beach road can now be disabled.

AuzBeachObjects.grf

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AuzFarmObjects:

Removed the Farm Tracks and placed it in its own set called AuzFarmRoads where you will also find a Stock Route.

AuzFarmObjects.grf

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AuzFarmRoads.grf

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[Quast65]

AuzBeachObjects now has the issue that when you disable the road via Parameter, that the whole GRF gets an error.
Same issue as before with that vehicle-set.
Needs investigation, please post your current sources for the beach-objects.

AuzFarmObjects still has the Parameters for a road, were those not removed?
Also, if you use the parameter, same issue as above happens, GRF disables itself due to an error.
Also, please post current source.

Things are never easy hey

EDIT:
I think I may have seen the issue...

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Because you also have other parameters for the road, those may cause an issue when the actual road is disabled, as the item_stockroute they referr to isnt active anymore.
What happens if you move:

Code: Select all

if (param[0] == 0) {

to the top of that piece of code?
So just before:

Code: Select all

if (param_difficulty == 0) { //normal speed limit

I wonder if it will then disable the entire part of the code, when you disable a road and then no more references to item_stockroute rermain...

[ebla71]

Martin has unintentional given me a idea in one of his photos of a hedge fence with shrubs.
So I cam up with this idea and wonder would you use it in your games? If so I will make gates and slope pieces to go with these.

It really looks nice and would be great to show limits of parks, gardens, cemeteries and the like.

However, I am a bit sceptical if it will have enough contrast relative to the green background of temperate climate as this here is desert, right?

Could you check and maybe use a slightly brighter green if not distinct enough from background tile?

Also, some diagonal piece would be nice to align the boundaries better with the edges of the screen. In the "old fence set" you had some that were nice, but with the newer ones only these 90 degree corners are possible.

[Martin]

Martin has unintentional given me an idea in one of his photos of a hedge fence with shrubs. […….]

I like the result (also nice that one of my photos has been of some use. )

[alan98]

Hi Garry,

You have some cars in AuzCarPark. We have an object for firecar in Fake Airport set. Would it be possible for you to take one (some) of the car you already made add the flasher and turn them in police and ambulance cars?

Cheers,
Alan.

[kamnet]

Would it be possible for you to take one (some) of the car you already made add the flasher and turn them in police and ambulance cars?

In case you didn't know, these are already available in the Eyecandy Road Vehicles set.