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Skyrise · Post by **Skyrise** » 22 Jul 2006 00:46

Hello,

I will shortly introduce myself as a hardcore TTD fan and occasional editor of all sorts of games.

As a hobby I used to make skyscrapers (one of my fascinations) in blocks-playground Bryce5. I could use Blender, which shouldn't be too hard.

Then I would like to know if you are still looking for more buildings, AND... perhaps put in some taller buildings in OTTD, because there were pretty none in original TTD (which ofcourse is a shame for a skyscraper freak like me).

All simple buildings made in Bryce;

Skyrise · Post by **Skyrise** » 22 Jul 2006 00:47

Ofcourse, I was not immediately thinking of 60-story high buildings for TTD, but perhaps elegant 10 to 20 story high buildings?

Post by **WWTBAM** » 22 Jul 2006 00:56

can you please remove te image and link to it using the [url] tags as you are table breaking.

CryingCorvus · Post by **CryingCorvus** » 22 Jul 2006 01:20

http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/Enhan ... eplacement
just enter wiki and you'll be see what stays to do. And i think is no need to have high buildings in OTTD. U can do something if you still want

Ben_Robbins_ · Post by **Ben_Robbins_** » 22 Jul 2006 12:02

High buildings look good, but they cant be too high in the game, or you would never see the whole graphic at one time, and it would do nothing but obscure the view.

With each square being 12.5m, that would mean skyscrapers, like the taipei 101, would be a screen and a half high when most zoomed in.

Personally i think anything more than 8-10 tiles in height would be to high, but make them however you want.

Killer 11 · Post by **Killer 11** » 22 Jul 2006 13:36

robotboy wrote:can you please remove te image and link to it using the [url] tags as you are table breaking.

well that really depends on the resolution you use to me it's all perfect on 1280x1024

And skyrise those are awesome you really could help make buildings for OpenTTD

Post by **Dave** » 22 Jul 2006 14:10

Killer 11 wrote:
robotboy wrote:can you please remove te image and link to it using the [url] tags as you are table breaking.
well that really depends on the resolution you use to me it's all perfect on 1280x1024
And skyrise those are awesome you really could help make buildings for OpenTTD

Nope. Even on 1280x1024 it creates the need for a scrollbar.

As for the buildings -

Incredible stuff!

Killer 11 · Post by **Killer 11** » 22 Jul 2006 15:36

what scroolbar??? i ave no scroolbar it fits perfectly...
oh it's Internet Explorer thing(turned that "thing" on to look)

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » 22 Jul 2006 16:15

Wow, they look great. A better place to take these efforts might be Open City - http://www.opencity.info - which is full 3D and would be able to make better use of these models.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 22 Jul 2006 16:27

Killer 11 wrote:oh it's Internet Explorer thing(turned that "thing" on to look)

YOU HAVE SPOKEN THE FORBIDDEN WORDS. Blasphemer!

I don't think I agree the models would be used better anywhere else, after all, Skyrise introduced himself as a hardcore TTD fan and described his intent to create buildings for OTTD.

Aracirion · Post by **Aracirion** » 23 Jul 2006 10:36

Hi Skyrise

There are some people who want to just replicate the old graphics and not anything new, and they won't like the idea

. But others like myself wouldn't mind seeing some new buildings in it, personnally I think no Graphics that look good should be rejected, and yours look quite cool! Once the new Graphics are implemented it shouldn't be too difficult to add an option to play only with old stuff for those people who want nothing new.

The only problem is apparently that people start talking about how maybe new Grafix are never going to be implemented. I think that should be sorted out quickly ...

Otherwise: you will find specifications on the wiki main new grafix page. As you can see in the city building page there are quite some new graphics, and personnallly I'd prefer having a new graphics version with buildings that differ from the original to having no new graphics version at all.

The main question now will be what applications do you use? Can you handle Blender? As far as I know most people model in external applications and then import into Blender to texture and model.

I would be happy about more people working on the Graphics, thanks a lot for offering your help!

Alltaken · Post by **Alltaken** » 23 Jul 2006 23:33

A big thing being waited for is support for new graphics.

we have a set of 32bpp Icon graphcis that are ready to be implimented now.

Many buildings can be interchanged into the game now. and also road graphics can be implimented without anything special done.

the project "will" happen, as so much work has gone into it, its not just going to not happen. but it does seem to be doing what open source always does, which is go at its own pace.

if people want the graphcis in faster, then we need people to step up and take a postition between graphics artists, and coders. to try and solve problems, and create standards for the file format etc... to meet

Alltaken

bobingabout · Post by **bobingabout** » 24 Jul 2006 10:19

Dave Worley wrote:
Killer 11 wrote:
robotboy wrote:can you please remove te image and link to it using the [url] tags as you are table breaking.
well that really depends on the resolution you use to me it's all perfect on 1280x1024
And skyrise those are awesome you really could help make buildings for OpenTTD
Nope. Even on 1280x1024 it creates the need for a scrollbar.

As for the buildings - Incredible stuff!

fits perfectly onto my screen aswell as 1280x1024.

EDIT, yes, IE has a scrolebar, seems to add a lot extra to the right of the pictures in IE.

Skyrise · Post by **Skyrise** » 24 Jul 2006 14:13

Hey all!

Thanks for the reactions. I will give a quick look at opencity which promises to be a beautiful initiative.
About my buildings; I already mentioned that I was not going for 1,5 screen 80 story highrises, but perhaps smaller 10 story versions, that we already know in nowadays OTTD.

I will look trough the graphics wiki and give Blender a try.

Also, for isometric fantastic buildings that ARE too high, take a look at http://www.skyscrapercity.com at the Superpolis subforum! =)

seifip · Post by **seifip** » 01 Aug 2006 12:49

Your buildings are cool

I would really like to see them in OTTD in a smaller version...

spock · Post by **spock** » 02 Aug 2006 09:01

bobingabout wrote:
Dave Worley wrote:
Killer 11 wrote: well that really depends on the resolution you use to me it's all perfect on 1280x1024
And skyrise those are awesome you really could help make buildings for OpenTTD
Nope. Even on 1280x1024 it creates the need for a scrollbar.

As for the buildings - Incredible stuff!
fits perfectly onto my screen aswell as 1280x1024.

Here too

But I guess there are tioll many people using lower resolutions, so I guess it's just nice to thumbnail the images

Anyyway, the buildings look really nice, but it isn't really in the style of OpenTTD

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