Six New Airports - Released

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 02 May 2006 01:35

The structure of the airports .h files changed a bit in tonights trunk... so here is a new update with it fixed.

And as a little surprise - Celestar asked if the Intercontinental could be expanded to have longer runways... so it is now a 9x11 airport, with length 8 runways. Since I had some more space, I added a few extra bits of airport scenery.

Let me know if I broke anything. Most of the changes were just to position data, and not to the state machine at all. That required lots of adding 16 to some vars, 32 to others. Not too hard, so nothing should be any more broken than before

christooss · Post by **christooss** » 05 May 2006 02:24

Another stupid question from me

Please tell me what is 4b

and clearify to me. 3b is a district airport. Right?

ElectricA4 · Post by **ElectricA4** » 18 May 2006 13:44

Just a suggestion, perhaps helistations could be shrunk from 2x4 to 2x3?

comrade-max · Post by **comrade-max** » 02 Jun 2006 21:18

id rather see them have the hanger removed and replaced by a tower 2 be honest, ATM they make helidepots obscelete, they should be likee super-iner-city airports, for when local authority is set to hostile

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 06 Jun 2006 14:10

Here is the latest version with the District airports removed. This is a trunk-candidate, so has had a whole host of extra cleanups applied.

White Rabbit · Post by **White Rabbit** » 06 Jun 2006 19:53

Which of the new airports are 'small' ones (where large planes crash often)? Or are they all 'large'?

mart3p · Post by **mart3p** » 06 Jun 2006 20:33

White Rabbit wrote:Which of the new airports are 'small' ones (where large planes crash often)? Or are they all 'large'?

The Commuter airport is 'small', all the others are 'large'.

proudmoore · Post by **proudmoore** » 06 Jun 2006 21:41

Pardon me if i'm being rather stupid, but how do you make this work? Does it require a certain nightly? I tryed applying this to r5078. I put the file (arports_145.grf) into data, and left it at that. However, nothing shows up on the build airport menu. I looked through the Configure Patches, but i couldn't find a switch for it.

Please tell me! I really want to try using this!

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 06 Jun 2006 22:22

proudmoore wrote:Pardon me if i'm being rather stupid, but how do you make this work? Does it require a certain nightly? I tryed applying this to r5078. I put the file (arports_145.grf) into data, and left it at that. However, nothing shows up on the build airport menu. I looked through the Configure Patches, but i couldn't find a switch for it.

Please tell me! I really want to try using this!

You need to compile the source code with the patch applied. And the file needs to be named "airports.grf". The forum modifies the filename

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 07 Jun 2006 10:57

Its so two files named airports.grf can be uploaded without conflicts.

With airports.grf, the Helipad icon looks very very.. well.. strange. Could that be made more realistic looking? (not all helipads have a H, some have crosses and others just have a white circle)

There are graphics I made over a year ago in this thread, if needed.

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 07 Jun 2006 12:15

Born Acorn wrote:Its so two files named airports.grf can be uploaded without conflicts.

With airports.grf, the Helipad icon looks very very.. well.. strange. Could that be made more realistic looking? (not all helipads have a H, some have crosses and others just have a white circle)

There are graphics I made over a year ago in this thread, if needed.

I agree the animated helipad with flashing lights is pretty, but it is just artistic licence.

To avoid the "you've got the helipad graphic wrong" accusations, I used the info in the Federal Aviation Authority's specification for laying out helipad markings; here. Our helipads are public helipads, thus section 31.b (p29) applies, (images Fig 3.8,3.9 on p40-41). It is a large white H with no surrounding circle or anything.

For transport heliports, the marking is the same (41.b, p51). For hospital heliports, it is a red H on a white cross background. For helipads on airports, the same white H should be used; section 65.d, p81. Appendix 2 gives the dimensions for these helipads.

Of course, helipads in your country may differ - heck, they may be different in the UK. But the FAA info was the easiest to find, and I suspect is an international standard, since different airport markings would be potentially dangerous for visiting pilots.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 07 Jun 2006 12:26

Its not that, its that the H is strange. The perspective is a bit off, and it looks a wee bit lopsided. This is due to a missing pixel on the side closest to the rightmost vertical line of the H. I made it thinner looking and hopefully balanced it a bit more. I also included a smaller version. You don't have to use this or anything, but I'm just rying to help.

(This might sound like nagging, but its only constructive criticism)

Not to mention that it will be out of place with other graphics in the game like the conventional graphics on the heliport, the oil rig and the airports. It may be better to follow consistancy.

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 07 Jun 2006 13:05

Born Acorn wrote:Its not that, its that the H is strange. The perspective is a bit off, and it looks a wee bit lopsided. This is due to a missing pixel on the side closest to the rightmost vertical line of the H. I made it thinner looking and hopefully balanced it a bit more. I also included a smaller version. You don't have to use this or anything, but I'm just rying to help.

(This might sound like nagging, but its only constructive criticism)

Not to mention that it will be out of place with other graphics in the game like the conventional graphics on the heliport, the oil rig and the airports. It may be better to follow consistancy.

Okies - do you want to edit the airports.grf, and update the H for me. I would appreciate it, as graphics is really not my thing. (Heck, I couldnt get perspective right on 3 lines

).

I could have used the default helipad, but wanted to try out a true H. If it doesnt fly, I'll ground it, and take off with the old helipad

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 07 Jun 2006 13:42

Here you go. I also made the rightmost side of those hangars one shade lighter to comply with where the sun is in TTD.

gkirilov · Post by **gkirilov** » 24 Jun 2006 12:47

Timestamp:
06/23/06 22:05:40
Author:
richk
Feature: Add 4 new airports. 2 for aircraft, 2 for helicopters.
Commuter airport: Small. 5x4. 3 terminals, 2 helipads.
Intercontinental: massive. 9x11. 8 terminals, 2 helipads, 4 runways.
Helidepot: a small heliport with a depot for helis only.
Helistation: a large heliport with 3 helipads and a depot.

Grigory1 · Post by **Grigory1** » 24 Jun 2006 20:04

Intercontinental 9x11 at me bug

mart3p · Post by **mart3p** » 24 Jun 2006 20:23

Grigory, I think the problem is the NewGRF file that you are using. The intercontinental airport looks fine with the standard graphics.

Grigory1 · Post by **Grigory1** » 24 Jun 2006 21:07

It is very a pity to me

mart3p · Post by **mart3p** » 24 Jun 2006 22:21

Grigory, what GRF file is it that you are using?

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 24 Jun 2006 22:53

Grigory1 wrote:It is very a pity to me

Grigory - I reuse existing airport graphics to get the look I want for the major airport rather than create whole new graphics. Your screen does not use the default graphics, and that creates quirks as your .grf pulls in inappropriate graphics.

Its not a bug in New Airports; if you mess with the core graphics, you will get unpredictable results.

Also, the version in trunk uses the SPR_AIRPORT_APRON sprite for existing sprites, so the whole airport (apart from new tiles) has black tarmac when I apply the newairport.grf from born_acorn's site. You must be using a now out-of-date version of the airports.

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