Industry Sprite Help

[tb2571989]

As mentioned in http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=36391 it was suggested to me to recreate the coal mine sprites.

Can I ask what grf file the mine sprite is in, as i'd rather not have to go into paint and remove all the grass colour from around the edges manually.

If the legality of this could be disputed, don't worry about it. I'll continue to play with the Purple Pixel Glitch.

[Trond]

trg1r.grf sprite 2022 -> 2025 have that glitch buildt in I think

Edit: Ofcourse, if you download the new graphics from the 8bit project, the bug is already gone, and you got a new coalmine
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=35310

[tb2571989]

Thank you very much. I didn't realise there would be lots of different bits of the coal mine. *sigh*

This could get interesting. Many thanks.

EDIT: When I open the file "tgr1.grf" in WinGrf there bicky of icky purple stuff.
When I open the file "tgr1r.grf" in WinGrf nothing happens. O.o.0?

[Trond]

I dont use wingrf, I use grfcodec wich come with OTTD, and after that I use PSPro for sprites and notepad for the nfofile...

[tb2571989]

Gah! Your giving me an excuse not to bother! I really want to try and do this...start dabbling in graphics.

Also, I'm not a massive fan of GRFWizard...had some problems with it in the past.

One more my friends, into the breach.

[Trond]

well, you use grfcodec to extract the grf file to 2 files, one with the code and one with the sprites... grfodec is in the OTTD folder and is used from dosprompt. grfcodec -d trgr1.grf and you get two files in the spritefolder within the OTTD folder... edit the sprites and use grfcodec to build it together to a grf file again... grfcodec -e trgr1.grf (just taking all this out of my head, but I think thats how it works )

BACKUP your files first just in case!!

Theres a bit of info on this around the forum if you do some searching...

[tb2571989]

Just says error: file [the grf, i presume] not found.

I'll have a look and see what the search can dig up.

[Trond]

yeh, copy the original grf from datafolder to OTTD folder I forgot that

[DaleStan]

Also, I'm not a massive fan of GRFWizard.

He never said "GRFWizard".

[tb2571989]

*facepalm*

Very true...he didn't.

Still not working

[DaleStan]

It's helpful if you show us what you're typing (including the full command prompt), and not just the error message.

[LordAzamath]

have the trg1r.grf in the same folder as grfcodec...
open console
URL is the folder location

Code: Select all

cd [paste the URL here]
grfcodec -d trg1r.grf -p 2

on linux

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cd [paste the URL here]
./grfcodec -d trg1r.grf -p 2

If you have trg1.grf, just leave the -p 2 option away.
You get two files in the /sprites folder, one is trg1(r).pcx, the other one is trg1(r).nfo
You can open the pcx file with ano normal drawing application (eg GIMP)

Now see what sprites are the coal mine sprites from pcx. yhere is a little number above them in pcx. Copy the first three lines from trg1r.nfo and the lines starting with sprite numbers, you need. Save it as some other nfo file and run nfo renum on it, don't worry if it gives any errors, you don't have ActionA nor Action8 yet
To get them, look into the specs

[DaleStan]

PATH! PATH! Paste the PATH.

The URL would start with "file://", and I strongly suspect that cd would not appreciate this incantation.

[LordAzamath]

Maybe I didn't mean THAT URL ... I added a note, what do I mean by URL this time And well... on linux, file system is like file:/home/ or something like that...
But speaking of standards, I agree that I named it wrong.
One thing I forgot to mention -
You can get nforenum for out great friend's (or sometimes, Dalestan's) signature.

Path! Path... indeed

madis

[tb2571989]

EDIT: Now fully working. Thank you very much, guys.

[DaleStan]

No distribution of the original graphics. Even if you have modified four of the sprites.

Make a newgrf instead. Or, preferably, two of them; one each DOS and Win.

[tb2571989]

Oops, sorry.

I'll go and have a look at coding now.