Nice trees : which grf it is ?

[MagicBuzz]

I often saw very nice trees in screenshots, but I can't find which GRF it is.

According Astath's post http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=28860 it seems it works with OTTD, and it should be "stolentrees".
But I can't find it anywhere :/

Could you tell me where to find it?

[WWTBAM]

try SAC's thread in ttdpatch graphics

[MagicBuzz]

i did. i just found 1 grf and it's not this one.
the thread is just 41 pages length, and the trees should be lost somewhere in it as I can't see it :
- first link on first page just changes some graphics (pylons, etc.)
- i found a stolentrees.zip at page 33 but it's only a PCX file, not a grf

[Wolf01]

it should be 2 or 3 pages further

[MagicBuzz]

i found it on the 39th page.

but it's a windows version

waaaaa

[DaleStan]

And the problem with that is?

When it comes to grf files, "Windows" and "DOS" refer to the palette of the graphics in the file, not the required host OS.

[SAC]

It should be noted though that these trees are in fact a "test version" released only as a sort of taster, noting else.

As for DOS versions, as there are players out there using the DOS-version I'd very much like to provide a final INFRA-set for DOS as well. However, not sure how to do that but possibly there will be someone willing to offer the help when the time comes!

[Purno]

It should be noted though that these trees are in fact a "test version" released only as a sort of taster, noting else.

As for DOS versions, as there are players out there using the DOS-version I'd very much like to provide a final INFRA-set for DOS as well. However, not sure how to do that but possibly there will be someone willing to offer the help when the time comes!

GRFcodec can do that with a simple command. I don't know the exact command, but I believe you can find out quite easily if you run the program without any command. You just need to know how to handle MS-DOS tho, IIRC.

[Born Acorn]

There's actually a lot of OpenTTD players that use the DOS palette, as they do as they are told by the instructions and use their old DOS CDs.

[MagicBuzz]

It should be noted though that these trees are in fact a "test version" released only as a sort of taster, noting else.

As for DOS versions, as there are players out there using the DOS-version I'd very much like to provide a final INFRA-set for DOS as well. However, not sure how to do that but possibly there will be someone willing to offer the help when the time comes!

as i can see, dos and win versions doesn't use the same palette.
it means some of the trees are dotted with blue pixels. it's not a big problem, but they are less nice as they should.

[SAC]

There's actually a lot of OpenTTD players that use the DOS palette, as they do as they are told by the instructions and use their old DOS CDs.

Didn't know that! Even more a reason as to why a DOS-version is needed. As Purno says it's doable using GrfCodec and I'll look into it, although in the end I believe someone actually playing the DOS-version may have to assist me with this.

as i can see, dos and win versions doesn't use the same palette. it means some of the trees are dotted with blue pixels. it's not a big problem, but they are less nice as they should.

Sorry about that, but again; this is a test version and wasn't even planned to be released in the first place, so I'm afraid you'll have to settle with it for now - unless someone with time on his/her hands can be bothered to convert the test.grf into a DOD-version as well - for the time being!

[Connum]

I just wanted to remark that I use the Windows-version files but nevertheless got the blue pixels on the trees! Don't get me wrong, this is not a complaint - like you said it's just a test release - but I just want to understand why this is happening! But didn't DaleStan say that OTTD just uses the palette of the grf file?

I'm confused!

[SAC]

I just wanted to remark that I use the Windows-version files but nevertheless got the blue pixels on the trees! Don't get me wrong, this is not a complaint - liek you said it's just a test release - but I just want to understand why this is happening! But didn't DaleStan say that OTTD just uses the palette of the grf file?

I'm confused!

Odd! Well, I don't use the test version myself but I haven't heard anyone mention these blue pixels before - unless of course you use a DOS-version of OTTD, (not sure how this OTTD-versions works as I've never used any of them), which could explain why you get the blue pixels!

[Connum]

Hmm don't ask me why but I made a new clean "installation" (well I extracted the files from the archive and copied the original TTDLX files into the folder) and now the trees work without any annoying pixels! =) Just great!

[Born Acorn]

I just wanted to remark that I use the Windows-version files but nevertheless got the blue pixels on the trees! Don't get me wrong, this is not a complaint - liek you said it's just a test release - but I just want to understand why this is happening! But didn't DaleStan say that OTTD just uses the palette of the grf file?

I'm confused!

Where did you get your data files from? (tg1r.grf, sample.cat, etc)

[DaleStan]

There's actually a lot of OpenTTD players that use the DOS palette, as they do as they are told by the instructions and use their old DOS CDs.

Didn't know that! Even more a reason as to why a DOS-version is needed. As Purno says it's doable using GrfCodec and I'll look into it, although in the end I believe someone actually playing the DOS-version may have to assist me with this.

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$ cp winfile.grf dosfile.grf
$ grfcodec -dp2 dosfile.grf
$ grfcodec -em1 dosfile.grf

If you're using XP/NT's cmd.exe or 9x/Me/XP/NT's command.com, instead of a Unixy system, "cp" needs to be changed to "copy".

I suppose I should wikify this at some point.

[SAC]

Thanks!

I'll look closer into this when the time comes!

[MagicBuzz]

i'll do a test with the grf converter this evening if sac allows me to do it.

[MagicBuzz]

it works

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C:\MPS>grfcodec -dp2 stolentrees_temp.grf
GRFCodec version 0.9.10 - Copyright (C) 2000-2005 by Josef Drexler
Decoding:
stolentrees_temp.grf has 136 sprites, maxx 40, maxy 64, maxs 2568.

C:\MPS>grfcodec -em1 stolentrees_temp.grf
GRFCodec version 0.9.10 - Copyright (C) 2000-2005 by Josef Drexler
Encoding in temporary file stolentrees_temp.new
Warning: Found 1 fewer sprites than sprite 0 reports.:100%, Redundancy:100%)
Loading sprites/stolentrees_temp.pcx00% (Transparency:100%, Redundancy:100%)
Sprite  135  Done: 99%  Compressed: 40% (Transparency:100%, Redundancy: 40%)
Renaming stolentrees_temp.grf to stolentrees_temp.bak
Replacing stolentrees_temp.grf with stolentrees_temp.new

Done!

Now I have nice trees with my DOS files based OTTD.

SAC, you can do the same, or ask me to share it
I won't distribute it till you don't give me autorization

[Connum]

Where did you get your data files from? (tg1r.grf, sample.cat, etc)

I own the original game in different versions, TTO, TTD (DOS) and TTD (Win)... I could swear that I had copied them from the Win CD all the time... But maybe I accidentally used the DOS version for the first installation! Nevertheless, it's now working like a charm! =)