Worley's Sidings Pack (v0.1 released!)

[Dave]

Worley's Sidings Pack

A small venture to begin with, I'd like to see this build up to hold a huge number of station tiles for creating realistic and planned reception sidings, Traction Maintenance Depots, disused loops, old branch sidings, etc, etc, etc.

Version 0.1 is available. It was released on the 2nd of September.

This link takes you to the latest version's release post

Critique and comments welcome.

Enjoy!

(I'd like to see my work in action; if you'd like to use it in your games and send me some screenshots, I'd be most grateful!)

[daylight]

these are nice.

im playing a game now where i have an old station that ive shut down, and i was thinking about something like this.

one thing- i think it would be nice if the buffers themselves had some more plants and rust and stuff too. they look too "clean

[Ben_K]

Nice start Dave. A few things though:
- They are a bit too orange and single tone. (It looks like just a tweak with the RGB sliders. )
- The buffer is too clean!
- You can draw the diagonals too - as long as you only use one per tile. Its better than nothing and would help in situations like your mock-up shows.

Also, many of you may be aware that Boekabart did an OTTD patch that will add overlays to rails dependant upon usage amount. It actually works really well. For now, it only has a single stage of degradation but he has sprites to support 3 stages. The other advantage is that it would support different overlays in GRF form.
Link is here

[Dave]

Well I was doing this mainly just for cosmetics.

As for the RGB change, it pretty much near enough is just that - there are four shades involved in making the rails look silver, I just swapped the four shades for four shades of that brown. Although it looks a bit uniform, remember there isn't that much difference other than the colour. I realise the buffer stop is a bit clean, I have to admit that's my next challenge, as is building up a few grassy bits. Foliage

Ta for the critique gentlemen.

[wallyweb]

Well I was doing this mainly just for cosmetics ...

... as is building up a few grassy bits. Foliage

Excellent concept sir.
A couple of suggestions:
1. Substitute "weedy" for "grassy". Grass is too clean. Weeds are properly decrepit.
2. Keep them as station tiles. They are ideal as a siding for that occasional slow moving work train that needs to pull off to allow the express a clear track.
3. I shouldn't worry about the angle track in TTDPatch unless it is possible to add it as another option in the track laying tool.

[athanasios]

I 'd like a goat grazing...
No, let me be serious: It is very nice. Also some goods and oil rail cars or even a loco left over to rotten and rust.
A link with a few photos: http://www.fivosv.com/photos/galeries/k ... /index.htm

[SkeedR]

If this is a station, perhapse you could make the transition from Clean to disused better?
Like, instead of going from Clean to disused in an instant, it's a gradul. Over a tile maybe?

[m3henry]

very nice, when coded, i suggest it be put in the 'default' station class.
Also try making a transition tile, one end of it being clean, and the other side being rusty, same with the weeds and all, it could be a seperate station tile or coded when there is no rusty track next to it.

[welshdragon]

DaveW. can you PM me the files? then i can try and do something with them (something means my idea jyust went out of my head) Maybe, it could replace the void station piece (idea just returned to me) and i'll try to make a 'crumbling' platform to make it look like an abandoned station....

[daylight]

hi.

i had a little go at doing something. i stole some of pikkabirds uk coal and livestock cars- (Sorry!) and edited them slightly. -just to see what it would look like with a few old wagons.

also had a go at plants on the buffers.

[XeryusTC]

It's all up to Dave now .

[Tom0004]

i'm liking that fence, daylight's added to the picture.

any chance getting it into company colours ?

[m3henry]

dude, the fence is awesome!!!
it should be in a fence grf as for CC, a 2x2 pixel tag could go somewhere on it

[daylight]

ok- well. i dont want to go off topic here so im going to start a new thread. (http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=33856)

some of you seemed to like my fences so i made a complete set for the tracks. so- any discussion about that- go there!

of course-talk about my fence and daves siding all you like here.

[Dave]

Take it easy gentlemen! One day away and bam!

Well, XeryusTC has coded the tracks very nicely, and I'm plaesed to report I'm looking at some sort of release tomorrow.

I'll add a few weeds to the tracks and buffers.

"Transition" pieces aren't required, I don't think; not at TTD's Scale. You rarely see a piece of track "gradually" become more rusty. There is a dead stop where trains stop and the track is rusty from there. The issue with the way the .grf would work, I've already covered.

[Psistorm]

the ideas in this tread are quite nice - ideal for realism lovers

as to the transition piece: one reason for such a piece would be, imo, that right now, the transition blank -> rusty happens right at the tile border, which looks a bit strange to the eye. but if it would happen at maybe 1/3rd the tile, this effect would be different. maybe allow 1-2 pixels transition and it might look good - just an idea though

[Dave]

Let me get the original release out, and then I'll have a look at it - remember that I can't just release it, I have to send things to XeryusTC first!

Thank you again for your critique gentlemen.

[Dave]

So here it is! Dave Worley's first ever commercial grf! Coded by... XeryusTC

DOS and Windows versions exist here. You'll need the NewStations settings in either flavour of the game though, so don't hassle me about that!

Enjoy!

v0.2 hopefully coming soon!

[athanasios]

I enabled it and my PC didn't crash yet...
OK. It is nice. And now I can see that your next step should be the transitional tile.
Thanks a lot.

[Ameecher]

Oooo, very fancy pants.