How to code new .grf's?

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How to code new .grf's?

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Hello all, this is my first post but I've been reading these forums for months.

Anyway, are there any better tutorials anywhere, than the wiki on making new grfs? I'd like to code from scratch because every time I try copying something already done I end up ruining all the graphics installed in my TTD :( . If anyone could give me some hints or point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful. And when I can code I'd like to get involved in some of the cool projects you got going on here!

Heres a pic of a southeastern networker I knocked up earlier with help from Purnos drawing tutorial hope you like it!

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thanet-bomber wrote:Anyway, are there any better tutorials anywhere, than the wiki on making new grfs?
Not to my knowledge. Have you gotten to the point where the tutorial mentions NFORenum? If not, jump ahead, and read that section, and then go back to where you were.
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thanet-bomber wrote: Heres a pic of a southeastern networker I knocked up earlier with help from Purnos drawing tutorial hope you like it!

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Re: How to code new .grf's?

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Purno wrote:
thanet-bomber wrote: Heres a pic of a southeastern networker I knocked up earlier with help from Purnos drawing tutorial hope you like it!

Jr.

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FYI, the image does not show up...
FireFox show when You make right click on image and take show/view image :)
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Aye, strange, it works now.

Anyways, looks very good, but the front looks a bit weird in _ view. But I'd need a pic of the real thing to see if that's supposed to be.
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Re: How to code new .grf's?

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ISA wrote:
Purno wrote:
thanet-bomber wrote: Heres a pic of a southeastern networker I knocked up earlier with help from Purnos drawing tutorial hope you like it!

Jr.

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FYI, the image does not show up...
FireFox show when You make right click on image and take show/view image :)
about this: just doawnload the latest version... there are no ploblems like this with that one
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Yeah it does look a bit odd in _ view and also in the \ and / views I think I didnt really know what to do with it. I tried copying the EMU's in PikkaBirds UKRS set but theyre all squarer than this one. Here's a pic which has a fairly good angle:

http://www.freewebs.com/norwoodpark/nor ... den466.JPG

Anyway I'm not particuarly interested in being an artist I just drew this cos it's the horrible train I have to get to work every day :( anyone got any tips on where to start with coding?

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My suggestion;
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Post by tigerface »

did you edit that sprite? it's different to what I have on my computer!!
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Yeah, I edited the front, only a few pixels.
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oh right thought so looks much better cheers! you're drawin tutorials are awesome that only took me about an hour to draw! if only there were tuts like that for coding I still can't get it in my game :(
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You *could* take a look at GRF Maker, it still requires you to know how NFO is put together, but makes things a little clear, and saves time on allignment...
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Oh that sounds interesting I'll have a look for that and give it a go. Cheers mate!
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GRFcodec says can't read truecolour PCX files. What does that mean? I only used the colours from the palette!?!
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You need to save it as 256-color file.
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