Help with my Map

Whopper · Post by **Whopper** » 04 Mar 2007 16:09

Hi there, I am new to these forums so I will explain my visit a little.

During an internship in Afrika I had to fill in many hours of free time on an ancient computer, so I had to find a game that didn't need a good computer and that could take you ocupied for ages: so I downloaded good old TTD.

The only thing I always hated about TTD was that the infrastructure of cities was terrible and that a city always was nothing more then a big mess of streets and buildings put together. So I started making a Latin American/ carribean based map and tried to make the cities more realistic and real.

Unfortunately you can't customly place buildings like in Locomotion so I needed to create the cities with a hugh amount of placing roads deleting and expanding.

Now I am back home I unfortunately don't have the amount of time anymore to finish the map but I hoped that someone might be interested in helping me out?

Here are some pictures of my map:

BBoy Symm · Post by **BBoy Symm** » 04 Mar 2007 16:16

Holy..Crap.. You must have put so much work in this! Absolutely amazing.
So what do you want people to do? Finish it for you? Help you?

Lordmwa · Post by **Lordmwa** » 04 Mar 2007 16:17

That is vey impressive

Lordmwa · Post by **Lordmwa** » 04 Mar 2007 16:19

you managed to get a map that size to work on an old PC!
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I would help testing or whatever if that is what you wanted but did you write it in ttd or openttd? it wasn't clear

cmoiromain · Post by **cmoiromain** » 04 Mar 2007 16:19

omg this map is enormous!
How many hours have you spent on it so far?

Whopper · Post by **Whopper** » 04 Mar 2007 16:32

You really don't want to know how much time I spend on it, especially the big cities take a hugh amount op effort

I would like help from people to finish it, because I know that if I am going to do the rest on my own with my current lack of free time that it will take ages. So if you are creative, have some knowledge about city infrastructure, enoug free time and would like to help finish this map, pls mail me @ marijnheitkamp@gmail.com

It's on the largest map size of open TTD, the northern part is almost finished so I think it's about 40% done.

Ben_K · Post by **Ben_K** » 04 Mar 2007 16:55

Wow, sadly I have hardly any time for that kinda job Im afraid buit that is one REALLY awesome piece of work. You must have the most incredible patience and enthusiasm!

Jupix · Post by **Jupix** » 04 Mar 2007 17:27

I'd hate to see all that logic and beauty vanish when I start playing the scenario and the internal town expansion kicks in.

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 04 Mar 2007 18:21

SAC should see this!

This is awesome! I bet it took you a year to build this

Bad Hair Day · Post by **Bad Hair Day** » 04 Mar 2007 18:35

In my opinion, this is art in it's own special way. Well done on creating it. I certainly would not have had the patience to create it.

iNVERTED · Post by **iNVERTED** » 04 Mar 2007 21:01

*points to sig*

I think phpbb needs an image size filter.

That said, that map is simply amazing.

Sleepie · Post by **Sleepie** » 04 Mar 2007 22:29

Really great.

I know how long I work on my own scenarios (and they are far away from looking so amazing as yours) so I'm sure you have worked at this at least for several month, kudos!

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 05 Mar 2007 06:23

iNVERTED wrote:I think phpbb needs an image size filter.

It's not hard to get one, if you use a functional browser. But I decided I didn't like it (in the one I found, the maximum width was hardcoded), so I use this instead.

csuke · Post by **csuke** » 05 Mar 2007 12:12

just for this we need a patch which completely disallows the towns from adding/removing *anything* as it would be a heinous crime to do so...

XeryusTC · Post by **XeryusTC** » 05 Mar 2007 14:29

csuke wrote:just for this we need a patch which completely disallows the towns from adding/removing *anything* as it would be a heinous crime to do so...

There is such a patch already, look for townsbuildnoroads or something simular.

Darkvater · Post by **Darkvater** » 05 Mar 2007 15:22

Those screens are absolutely *STUNNING*

Right there on par with SAC

There is only a small problem I see with your scenario...you cannot really play it. From the screenshots all towns are fully built leaving you no space for railroads, stations, airports, etc. etc. Perhaps it's not meant to be played but just looked at like art or paintings.

Nevertheless..stunning, even more so as there is no way of placing individual buildings and it must've taken an immense amount of time to get everything right...and 2048x2048 on an old computer..whoo, absolutely stunning.

Btw, would you mind if I were to take your 'lake punica national park' screenshot and put it on http://www.openttd.org/screens.php? That's an absolutely awesome picture (perhaps if you are comfortable with that, you could send me the savegame and I'll try to find an even more ideal position to screenshot).

brupje · Post by **brupje** » 05 Mar 2007 16:35

impressive!

it's art indeed

Sleepie · Post by **Sleepie** » 05 Mar 2007 17:16

XeryusTC wrote:
csuke wrote:just for this we need a patch which completely disallows the towns from adding/removing *anything* as it would be a heinous crime to do so...
There is such a patch already, look for townsbuildnoroads or something simular.

Yep, but that's imho only half of the way, because it doesn't prevent towns from building houses along already existing roads like for an example along the roads in 'Sumita Park'. But of course it would be really a improvement.

For a 'complete' solution we need imho a tool to mark some user-defined areas of the map as 'special restricted areas'. Towns are not allowed to build anything in these areas (in-game). These areas should be handeled in the same way as for an example light towers tiles or other 'eye-candy' objects you can build in the scenario editor. But with having this we need also a way to make these areas visible somehow (maybe in a special view or something like that), because it would be a pain to get this info only with the 'tile info tool'.

Well this only an idea how this could possibly work. I dunno how much work it will be, but I expect a lot. Maybe this will be easier with the new map array, or even a feature of it

Whopper · Post by **Whopper** » 05 Mar 2007 21:07

Darkvater wrote:Those screens are absolutely *STUNNING*
Right there on par with SAC

There is only a small problem I see with your scenario...you cannot really play it. From the screenshots all towns are fully built leaving you no space for railroads, stations, airports, etc. etc. Perhaps it's not meant to be played but just looked at like art or paintings.

Nevertheless..stunning, even more so as there is no way of placing individual buildings and it must've taken an immense amount of time to get everything right...and 2048x2048 on an old computer..whoo, absolutely stunning.

Btw, would you mind if I were to take your 'lake punica national park' screenshot and put it on http://www.openttd.org/screens.php? That's an absolutely awesome picture (perhaps if you are comfortable with that, you could send me the savegame and I'll try to find an even more ideal position to screenshot).

Well, there is actually plenty of space in the big cities, most have green and open areas, it's a peace of cake to make a lot of money withing one of the cities (maybe to easy). the only problem is the random town expansion that you get pretty soon after you transport passengers to and from the city. Surely you can take the lake punica national park" screenshot and put it on the website.

Ben_Robbins_ · Post by **Ben_Robbins_** » 06 Mar 2007 02:11

Those images are more than awesum! The canals, and crater, and parks and housing estates and all those islands and everything!...incredable. The trees have been placed with such presision as well!...Seriously, Well done!

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