Zimmlocks creations develoment thread

BobXP · Post by **BobXP** » 11 Aug 2004 10:53

nice one

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 11 Aug 2004 18:51

This building i named the Multimedia-Office, i have tryed to create something new, something what should look like hudge TVs and a moving news paper on the building, it a real experiment and i have captured the diffrent stadges you can see it in the screenshot. but to see the real thing i have added the sprite in a zip, as you all know now i can only make DOS exe and undo files so can someone or two with DOS have a look and just tell me your opinion.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 11 Aug 2004 19:37

That's pretty cool!

You know, you can make an animated GIF, so as to be able to post here what it looks like in motion.

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 12 Aug 2004 14:40

krtaylor wrote:That's pretty cool!

You know, you can make an animated GIF, so as to be able to post here what it looks like in motion.

Yeah,

i just forgot that possibility. But its harder to realize than you think. I have something here, the real thing looks much better its just for the idea

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 12 Aug 2004 15:03

That's pretty nice

I would still recommend you to recolor the building...

Blueish might look good on that one...
Or maybe company blue so it gives it a random color all the time?

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 12 Aug 2004 16:14

GoneWacko wrote: Or maybe company blue so it gives it a random color all the time?

That should actually be standard procedure on almost all buildings. Adds needed variety to the cities.

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 12 Aug 2004 16:29

krtaylor wrote:
GoneWacko wrote: Or maybe company blue so it gives it a random color all the time?
That should actually be standard procedure on almost all buildings. Adds needed variety to the cities.

Have to do some experiments with that, can be nice, i used it only on the Modern-Office-Block, there it produces 3 diffrent colors so if all buildings have this i think its not nice the town ll look like a toy town, but for the next building perhaps...
I have finished the full look of the Multimedia-Office and start now with the various construction sites, below a few shots of this building in town.

Jezulkim · Post by **Jezulkim** » 12 Aug 2004 18:04

That looks much more realistc than original ttd city great work!

That round red building looks cool too!

Korenn · Post by **Korenn** » 12 Aug 2004 18:20

I was thinking,
can't you use a random action 2 to decide on a building's graphics? or, if not, patchman might be able to add it, so you can have several (random) version of one building, which results in far more possible buildings in a city than originally.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 12 Aug 2004 18:43

You cannot. Company colours only work on sprites that have been hard-coded to allow them to work. I spoke to patchman about it whilst i was messing with the farms. I think you have to write some more action stuff for them, like you say.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 12 Aug 2004 19:31

Randomizing buildings has been suggested, and there hasn't been a response yet. If a large number of good buildings had already been drawn, Patchman might include a patch to make them useable.

duffman · Post by **duffman** » 13 Aug 2004 00:26

I personally like scr1 the best (the dull coloured tower), and the green tower does seem to look out, but not that much either.

How many new buildings till this super-dooper pack comes out?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » 13 Aug 2004 05:04

The dull coloured tower is nothing more then a building state of the gold coloured tower.

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 13 Aug 2004 08:36

krtaylor wrote:Randomizing buildings has been suggested, and there hasn't been a response yet. If a large number of good buildings had already been drawn, Patchman might include a patch to make them useable.

The company colors work only on building who had this on the original building to, the Modern-Office-Block has this. I used the roof of the factory (it changes color to) on the prison but it turns out to just stay bleuis so it works only if set somewhere else, i used so trucks to and they dont change color. I just draw buildings and can do a little changing in the NFO sheet and can make DOS.exe thats all. For all other activetys i have to call for help.
Anyway, i am happy to hear you all like more or less my creations and continue my work.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 13 Aug 2004 10:07

I think you need to re-color the green one still. The windows are freaky, why does the colour change so much like that?

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 13 Aug 2004 10:18

To prevent sunlight shining in windows are coated with metaloxides on some buildings. That sometimes results in freaky window colours lie copper or iron-coloured, mirroring windows. Perhaps a suggestion?

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 14 Aug 2004 08:56

Its verry difficult to do the windows, the view we have on a city is a birds eye view, this means that the reflexion on the window are the reflections of the city, not the sky. Normaly we walk in the city and see the sky reflected on the windows. I have tryed to do a building with more bleuish windows but it looked verry weird.

peter_k · Post by **peter_k** » 14 Aug 2004 13:10

WOW ! What a nice buildings ! Congratulations !

1. Where can i find streets from your screens ?
2. When you will finish all graph, can You link them to one GRF file ?

Good work !

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 14 Aug 2004 13:37

The shot use the European Roadset
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=4416

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 14 Aug 2004 16:11

Thanks Steve

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Zimmlock: if they used copperoxide the windows have a copper-coloured reflexction. More exotic than dull blue

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