[WIP] British Trackside Pack

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 12 Aug 2006 14:58

*Shameless bump.*

lws1984 · Post by **lws1984** » 12 Aug 2006 17:56

Oooh, this looks good!

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 12 Aug 2006 20:48

I've begun work on stations, with the basic platform sprites drawn.
First actual station being worked on:

Loughborough Central.

This is in the early stages, but has taken a while all ready. The road on the bridge will not actually allow road veichles, so don't ask if it does, and don't try to be a smart-arse and tell me it doesn't because I already know.
Approach Ramps will be drawn later.

I need to draw on the station buildings and canopy, and then flip the whole thing, re-shade it, then cut it all up into it's individual sprites.

Well, one thing's for sure, I'm going to be at this for a while.

CPCNMAN007 · Post by **CPCNMAN007** » 13 Aug 2006 01:03

2-10-0 wrote:I've begun work on stations, with the basic platform sprites drawn.
First actual station being worked on:

Loughborough Central.

This is in the early stages, but has taken a while all ready. The road on the bridge will not actually allow road veichles, so don't ask if it does, and don't try to be a smart-arse and tell me it doesn't because I already know.
Approach Ramps will be drawn later.

I need to draw on the station buildings and canopy, and then flip the whole thing, re-shade it, then cut it all up into it's individual sprites.

Well, one thing's for sure, I'm going to be at this for a while.

Very nice, good work

Ronstar · Post by **Ronstar** » 13 Aug 2006 23:23

It looks nice for a purely island-platform layout, however being rather intimately acquainted with Loughborough Central, a few critical observations:

- The bridge does not span the whole station as shown, it has a central pier. It'd probably look better to have the "island" graphics show only the central pier, and let the abutments at each end be on adjacent tiles.

- GCR brick-built structures (save for station buildings themselves) were lined with alternating courses of blue and red bricks. This gave a generally purple colour from a distance (although the ravages of age meant the the porous red bricks have now attracted a large quantity of soot making this rather nice finish hard to spot, rendering it a dark blue over all)

Definitely something you should continue with, though.

Ronnie

Post by **Dave** » 13 Aug 2006 23:24

Agreed... Looks good.

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 13 Aug 2006 23:30

Ronstar wrote:It looks nice for a purely island-platform layout, however being rather intimately acquainted with Loughborough Central

Yes, I work down there aswell.

Ronstar wrote:- The bridge does not span the whole station as shown, it has a central pier. It'd probably look better to have the "island" graphics show only the central pier, and let the abutments at each end be on adjacent tiles.

Indeed, the central pier is already drawn, as are some messed up stairs, since I forgot the Ticket and other offices building. That will require drawing.

Ronstar wrote:- GCR brick-built structures (save for station buildings themselves) were lined with alternating courses of blue and red bricks. This gave a generally purple colour from a distance (although the ravages of age meant the the porous red bricks have now attracted a large quantity of soot making this rather nice finish hard to spot, rendering it a dark blue over all)

I'm just trying to get the basic shape of everything before working on everything else with shading and such.

Ronstar wrote:Definitely something you should continue with, though.

Something I definatly will do.

BobDendry · Post by **BobDendry** » 14 Aug 2006 08:55

The outer side of that tunnel makes my eyes bleed for some reason.

m3henry · Post by **m3henry** » 19 Aug 2006 10:26

looks like a GWR staition, island platform at road bridge, build stairs down to platform

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 03 Dec 2006 11:24

*Dig dig.*

It's been a long time since I've posted on this thread, but now, I bring ye forumers some... Errr...

Well, it's a station. Quorn and Woodhouse, to be precise and I can't say yet if it's complete or not. What do you guys reckon? What improvements should be made?

note: The blue is not CC, but should it be?

Ameecher · Post by **Ameecher** » 03 Dec 2006 13:44

Wow that looks good! It should be Company Colours IMO. The trouble with having the bridge means you will not be able to add real roads to make it look like it is connected because roads cannot be build like this:

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Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 03 Dec 2006 14:32

Don't worry, I'll deal with ramps later on. in the meantime, I want to check if people actually think it looks ok before I venture even further.

White Rabbit · Post by **White Rabbit** » 03 Dec 2006 15:34

Company colours would be fine.

I think the station could use some benches (or shelters, if benches are too much of a luxury

), some 'inside out' platforms (see screenshot), and some full platforms. Those inside out platforms could really be improved with your foot crossings (I don't know if people still cross platforms that way...I tend to not wander across rails

).

I'll let other people comment on your existing work.

Post by **Dave** » 03 Dec 2006 15:50

I do believe that eis_os is working on a feature that will allow road vehicles on station tiles. I dunno if that would help THIS out.

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 03 Dec 2006 16:18

I reckon that would help a hell of a lot for playability.

Ronstar · Post by **Ronstar** » 22 Dec 2006 13:48

Looks pretty good - very close to the original. Just missing a building in the middle.

Ronnie

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 22 Dec 2006 14:00

Indeed, but if I keep adding all the buildings, it will look out of scale.
And every time I drew it, it looked crap anyway.

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 01 Nov 2007 20:01

Dig dig.

Something I've been working recently.

m3henry · Post by **m3henry** » 01 Nov 2007 21:00

well I never, almost complete, just needs loads of black, everywhere.

Post by **Dave** » 01 Nov 2007 21:40

Awesome stuff mate. Looks really good.

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