[OTTD] Smaug's Vision Flights

[mira666]

wow, thats all i can say

[Smaug]

This nice little touristic town, called Cassandra, once in a while organizes a theme day called "Back to 1940". People, mostly brought by a cruise ship that docks once in a while, can take ride on an old steamer or take a panoramic flight with an airship.

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Both the steamers and the airships serve between Cassandra Dock and Cassandra Airport. The steamers go a little further to Cassandra Station where people can take a regular train. From Cassandra Station they can also take an old tram that will bring them back to Cassandra Dock. As you can see at the old airport station of Cassandra there's a lot of interest for old day transportation.

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For real now: to bad the cruise ship won't take tourists. I hope MB will update his beautiful ships soon.

[Frankb88]

Hey Smaug,

Just had a browse through your screen shots and all i can saw is wow really. My previous favoruite was Gord, his screen shots are very easy on the eye, but your shots win hands down against all others in the forum.
Im one of those people who are very superficial, its all about the looks for me and not as much about the mechanics.

[Badger]

Lovely stuff again, you gotta post more!

[Smaug]

I found some time to finish my new town Nishynger.

You can see the main coal line crossing the centre through a 4-way tunnel. East of Nishynger, just a short distance away, is the location of Nishynger Power station which provides the electricity for this part of the map, roughly a fifth of it (256x2048).

[Gord]

Fantastic shot!

Now if only underground stations were possible, one would fit quite nicely in those tunnels under that town.

Sriously though, i'm afraid with the upkeep of my sceenshot thread when people are posting gems like that!

[Red Dragon]

Wow, another great screenshot!
I love the golden tower in the wooded parkland, and I must ask where you got that light brown rail ballast, I can't find it anywhere.

[Wolfie276]

AMAZING!!! keep em coming

[Badger]

Your pics remind me of SAC's work - thats a good thing

[Bad Hair Day]

That is probably the best looking shot I have seen for a long time. Excellent work Smaug.

[Smaug]

I must ask where you got that light brown rail ballast, I can't find it anywhere.

Well, I would be suprised if you did. It's a very old grf that dates back to the year 2003. I don't remember where exactly I found it. At least I can't find it anymore. Dinges made it and two years ago I posted it for someone in this topic. Just scroll down to my post. There are a few parameters which I have completely forgotten except for the one that sets lighter ballast and that's number 2. Just put a 2 behind the grf. This grf will also give you gridless terrain.

Your pics remind me of SAC's work - thats a good thing

I wish I had SAC's graphics skills. I think no one will ever come even close to what she has made, but one can try

For some other grf's, the oneway road arrows are a modification I made to one billion daleks' oneway road grf, and I use grassy knoll grf - also by one billion daleks - to keep buildings away from highways, distant roads and for example around parks like the park around the watch tower. Only the original grassy knoll grf doesn't have gridless tiles. I did also modify that.

To all others who replied: thank you very much. You are all too kind.

[Ameecher]

Your pics remind me of SAC's work - thats a good thing

Couldn't agree more. Awesome.

The only thing that ruins that screenshot for me is that really really yellow fort on the hill.

[Smaug]

The only thing that ruins that screenshot for me is that really really yellow fort on the hill.

Yeah, I know, but when I build it the other colours refused to appear. I know there is a light brown coloured watch tower, but according to the wiki it will only appear in the scenario editor. When you build a watch tower in game you will get it in company colour. I think this is realy realy realy rediculous. So when you happened to have your company colour in red, you will get a red tower, aaaaaaaah! You can bypass that by changing your company colour to the one you would like your watch tower to be in and change it back when you are done. The colour won't change then. I was unlucky to discover all of this after I build the tower so now I'm stuck with a golden tower. But hey, didn't the ancient Maya's build their stuff in gold? Maybe I soon modify George's grf that is responsible for the watch tower, hehehe, but lately I'm happy when I can just play OTTD for a few minutes.

I'm also not satisfied with the steel rail bridge that crosses the coal line and the highway. I will change that in the light brown stone bridge soon and post a new screenshot of the town in concern.

[DarkLoki]

Amazing screenshots. An enormous mix of tracks and roads in a beautiful setting, I think they are the best I have seen here so far.

[Smaug]

I've been quit busy with building new towns and new railroads. Because the connections are not all finished their isn't much traffic yet. Nevertheless I made this screenshot to show till I've got something better...

[Ameecher]

All that shot lacks is road vehicles.

[BR 155]

Smaug, your shots make me stunned .

One question: I can´t find the bridges you use in your grf-settings on page one. Which set are you using apart from the viaduct?

[Smaug]

The bridges on page one don't belong to any bridge set; they come with the Total Town Replacement Set v3 which you can find here. Note that this set has only new bridges for roads.

The bridges you can see on page two belong to the Total Bridge Renewal Set which you can find here, but there is not yet support for other road sets. The roads you see in my screenshots are a modification of my own for my own use.

Kind regards,
Smaug

[BR 155]

Thanx very much . The Total Bridge Renewal Set is an amazing project I didn´t noticed before.

Let new shots come up and consider to take part at Amecheers Screenshot Competition Round 2. I´ve seen some poetential winners in your topic .

[Smaug]

All that shot lacks is road vehicles.

As you can see I've done something about that. And as you probably can see too I've been experimenting with the control AI cheat, and it seems to work out fine: lots of vehicles in different colors. I just have to keep the budgets of the AI opponents close to zero to prevent them from building anything. I will do some more testing on this and tell you about the results.

Let new shots come up and consider to take part at Amecheers Screenshot Competition Round 2. I´ve seen some poetential winners in your topic .

I'll think about that one. Thanks for the compliment