"Pimp My Sprites" - eGRVTS - New testing version [June 2012]

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Organisation of eGRVTS2: Multiple GRFs or one big one?

All vehicles (trucks, buses & trams) in one big GRF
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All vehicles in one GRF and individual types can be disabled via parameter
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Trucks, buses & trams in three separate GRFs
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Some other organisation
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"Pimp My Sprites" - eGRVTS - New testing version [June 2012]

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Hi all,

I am currently working on a big update to eGRVTS, primarily adding nicer graphics, random graphical variation and graphics support for more cargoes from other grfs... I know there are a lot of people out there with far better graphics abilities than me and here is your chance to improve the graphics in eGRVTS! And I can promise no boring repetitive drawing will be involved, just pure artistry.

The grf is going to be assembled by some of my own custom scripts, this takes all the pain out of coding thousands of sprites per vehicle and makes it simple to include more loading stage graphics, more cargoes and random graphical variants. Instead of manually drawing all the loading stage and cargo graphics for a vehicle the sprites are automatically generated by layering together different components of the vehicle. For example all I have to do to add a new cargo to all the flatbed trucks is put the 8bpp .pngs for the cargo (drawn to the correct templates) in the correct folders and the scripts will assemble all the different vehicle sprites and nfo code...

The example below should make what I mean a bit more clear. These are the graphics which stack together to produce the 5th generation flatbed truck fully loaded with wood. Starting at the bottom is the background sprite shapes/magic blue, followed by the lower layer of the truck cab graphics, followed by the lower layer of the flatbed graphics, followed by the third loading stage of wood, followed by the upper layer of the flatbed graphics and finally the upper layer of the truck cab graphics...
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Task 1: Truck cabs

These are the cabs which are assembled with different "tails" (e.g. flatbed/bulk hopper/tank/etc.) to produce the various generations of trucks. There are 19 sets of graphics:
* C1: Horse drawn carriage (short)
* E1-4: Modern express diesel trucks
* N1-6: Modern normal diesel trucks
* ON1-3: Old (short) diesel/petrol trucks
* S1-3: Steam lorrys
The current sprites are included in the .zip.

The sprites are arranged with the 8 sprites for the lower graphics layer on the left and the 8 sprites for the upper graphics layer on the right (see the first post to understand how these two layers are used). I have attached the second generation normal diesel truck sprites as an example...

I challenge anyone to pimp these sprites!

*edit* So you can test out your new creations I have also attached the long (for E1-4, N1-6 & S1-3) and short (for C1 & ON1-3) box sprites for your layering pleasure...
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Nice, will you also supply 2cc for the vehicles and realistic names?
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Hyronymus wrote:Nice, will you also supply 2cc for the vehicles ...
Yes of course!
Hyronymus wrote:... and realistic names?
Possibly... it would be simple to include via a parameter, though I would need help as I know far too little about real life trucks to give them sensible names myself :)
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Zephyris, once I sent You some prites of the trucks, couldn't use some of them?
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I had totally forgotten about that! I will have a look through my pms...

*edit* Yup found them, I guess that is the N1-5 sorted!
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I know that it is not something trivial to decide, but are you planning to add realistic acceleration values for all vehicles?
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Terkhen wrote:I know that it is not something trivial to decide, but are you planning to add realistic acceleration values for all vehicles?
Yeah, it's about time that I worked those out! I have put the variables into my csv->action0 converter, though I still need to work out what the values should be!

And for those who are interested these are colossal404's sprites for the N1-5 trucks tweaked to fit into my vehicle template... Pretty nice I think!
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I'd like to ask of can I/we edit the rear lights?
And will the cargoes edited in the next step or they will stay at the current grahics?
Edit: and could the cab's size bigger? It would be nice, especially for the steam trucks.
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colossal404 wrote:I'd like to ask of can I/we edit the rear lights?
Feel free to make any modifications you like... Do some pimpin'!
colossal404 wrote:And will the cargoes edited in the next step or they will stay at the current grahics?
The next step will be to create the new box/flatbed/bulk/refrigerated/armored/etc. graphics (I am working on the ones you have already done as a starting point) and then move onto different cargoes for the flatbed and bulk vehicles, e.g. cars/engineering supplies/lumber/aluminium/etc.
colossal404 wrote:Edit: and could the cab's size bigger? It would be nice, especially for the steam trucks.
I would like to keep the sprite sizes the same, but the cab could extend further back into the vehicle. See the attached image, the cab could take up the turquoise part and the cargo could take up the pink part.
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Zephyris wrote:
colossal404 wrote:Edit: and could the cab's size bigger? It would be nice, especially for the steam trucks.
I would like to keep the sprite sizes the same, but the cab could extend further back into the vehicle. See the attached image, the cab could take up the turquoise part and the cargo could take up the pink part.
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But if the cabin is not as wide as the box behind it, the result will look crap, see example:
It's just an example, quickly drawn from an express truck.
It's just an example, quickly drawn from an express truck.
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As you can see the box is showing out behind from the cabin, and it's look bad :( So, could it be an option of draw the small box/flatbed/anything behind the steamers?
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Yeah, it would definately be possible to use the small flatbed/box/etc. graphics behind the steamer graphics if that would work better. The size of the rear part of the truck is just a column in the .csv info about the vehicles!
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Another question: can I use non-company coloured parts (I mean some white stripes), or it's neccessary to have everything in 2cc?
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Something like the 2CC train set guidelines would be good; i.e. mainly the primary company colour, some secondary company colour, large details in shades of white/grey/black and small details (e.g. lights/numberplates) in other colours... It would also be nice if they could be slightly lighter than the sprites you have made previously.

*edit* Forgot to say that my coding tool is now fully functional except for articulated vehicles...
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Well, then I try to manage the drawings to these terms, but it would be hard to include both 1st and 2nd company colour on the cab, so I think the 2nd cc won't be used on my drawigs. And otherwise I draw lighter than that sprites, I don't know why I drew them so dark...
Some examples of what I mean about white zones:
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Yeah, that will work nicely!
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colossal404 has kindly said that he would do some revamping of the cab sprites, therefore the next challenge is:

Task 2: Truck "tails" and trailers

These are the base tail and trailer graphics which are assembled with different cabs to produce the various truck types for each generation. There are 8 truck types:
* Flatbed
* Bulk hopper
* Box/covered
* Armoured
* Refrigerated
* Mail
* Tanker
* Passenger
There are 5 size variants of each; 8 (full length for full length trailers), 6 (for normal trucks), 6T (for shorter trailers), 4 (for short trucks) and 4S (for less tall short trucks). I have attached an eg. of my revamped box/covered sprites.

I am pretty much set with one set of sprites for the flatbed, box, tanker and box tails, but it would be great to have some more graphical variants of each of these... Help with drawing nice passenger, mail, refrigerated and armoured sprites would be nice too!
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Zephyris wrote: * Passenger
Oh... The buses will be drawn this way too? :S
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colossal404 wrote:
Zephyris wrote: * Passenger
Oh... The buses will be drawn this way too? :S
At the moment yes, in the long run definitely not (though the early buses will probably be drawn this way). I really haven't decided yet, at the moment I am even considering splitting eGRVTS into separate bus, truck and tram sets!
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I'm coming with my questions again:
1. Are the express trucks will carry only goods, food, valuables/gold/diamond and mail?
2. If yes, are the size of these boxes will be the same?
3. If not what cargoes will be supported over these 4?
Looks like I'm the only one who interested in this set's upgrade :wink:
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