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Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 09:06
by andythenorth
2CC support...
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 12:16
by Zephyris
Oh so very beautiful, really great work!
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 12:52
by CommanderZ
*drools*
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 13:24
by Lord Aro
ditto

Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 13:26
by LSky
Looks awesome, can't wait for more ships. newships was a very good addition, but other vehicle sets are so far ahead, ships were left behind =(
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 14:54
by lawton27
Check out this topic:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=39188
these never got made, I think they would be a good addition to the set (if you can get permission).
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 18:28
by planetmaker
Those freight ships look awesome now, Andy!

Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 18:50
by colossal404
Nice work Andy!
Those ships getting lower when loaded?
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 23 Aug 2009 22:01
by andythenorth
The attached FISH grf will get you completed Coasters in three fetching sizes:
- Large (for about 1,200 tonnes of just about any cargo - good luck finding that much in one place!)
- Medium (for about 870 tonnes)
- Small (for a mere 540 tonnes - practically pocket-sized)
There are no graphics for loaded or loading states (yet). The offsets are not adjusted, they will look wrong when changing direction. I reckon the coaster sprites sucked down about 15 hours of pushing pixels so far, I'll do the rest...later
Everything else in the grf is still boxes
- fish.grf
- (82.74 KiB) Downloaded 163 times
cheers,
Andy
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 08:23
by andythenorth
Working on riverboats...(unfinished)

- river_boat_large.png (7.03 KiB) Viewed 4056 times
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 10:20
by pietjeklap
Very nice ships. I really like your style.
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 18:48
by Lord Aro
coasters images in buy menu could do with tweaking (if possible)
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 22:08
by andythenorth
Lord Aro wrote:coasters images in buy menu could do with tweaking (if possible)
Yep, I'll get to it. I'm planning to crop them - but how? If I just show the front or back, it won't easily show players which is bigger. Scaling them will look awful.
I'm thinking showing the front is consistent with the rest of OpenTTD. It's what I do with long vehicles in HEQS.
Or I could show the whole sprite and offset the text...maybe there *is* a valid use for the text offsets that I thought were crazy talk a while back.
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 27 Aug 2009 01:07
by colossal404
What about this?

- Normal and 66% size
- fish_1.PNG (6.65 KiB) Viewed 3686 times
I just resize the original image to 66% size. It's still oversized in lenght, but if you cut the nose of the ship, the size will be correct to scale, and still have a difference between the small, medium and large coasters.
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 27 Aug 2009 04:54
by planetmaker
They start to look really nice, Andy! Good work.
I know that you're not done with the alignment, but here's the z-(or y-)offset of the coasters in the build menu:

- ship_buildmenu.png (18.11 KiB) Viewed 3662 times
Something which also struck me, when I compared the ship sizes with the warft: if the large ships go for servicing, they'll visually seem to vanish out of thin air as they're longer than it.
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 28 Aug 2009 21:04
by andythenorth
Updated FISH grf attached. Changes:
- buy menu alignment. FISH will use a wide space to show ships, with all the text consistently in line. This uses string control 01 (X offset) which seems dirty and I'm uncomfortable with it, but it was easy to do and works.
- sprite offsets for all eight angles on all three Coasters.
- Large River Boat (uncompleted)
- fish.grf
- (91.94 KiB) Downloaded 140 times
cheers,
Andy

- FISH_menus_2.png (37.58 KiB) Viewed 3348 times
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 29 Aug 2009 00:32
by colossal404
Nice work Andy, keep it up!
But one little glitch: there is one pixel line in front of the ships in buy menu.
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 29 Aug 2009 07:13
by andythenorth
colossal404 wrote:But one little glitch: there is one pixel line in front of the ships in buy menu.

Should now be fixed.
- fish.grf
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Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 30 Aug 2009 12:02
by andythenorth
I've finished River Boats in three attractive sizes: Small, Medium and Large.
grf attached for your FISHING pleasure. Oh, and some capacities changed on Coasters, River Boats and Tow Boats (to balance the set better).
- fish.grf
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- Mmm...river boats. All that's missing are some vineyards.
- FISH_river_boats_preview.png (173.19 KiB) Viewed 2979 times
Re: Go fishing with the FISH ship set
Posted: 30 Aug 2009 12:15
by colossal404
Excellent work!
But I have some questions: Why are the ships have the same properties except the capacity? All of them were totally free and runs the same speed. As I remember You say, to modify properties is the easier part of grf making.
I don't want to hurt (?) You, it's just a question. Keep up the good work!
