[UNIV] ISR - Industrial Stations Renewal

[mph]

Feel free to use my fences if you wish.

[krtaylor]

Say, mph, are that Pan Am building and beautiful helicopter available anywhere, or are they just eye candy?

[mph]

Well I can't take any credit for the helicopter. Thats from PikkaBirds Aviators Aircraft Set.

The building I drew, but I haven't yet drawn the construction stages - which will take ages I think - so its not released. Also- It's too tall and doesn't always appear correctly. (The top gets cut off). The last reason is that I have coded it very simply, I would like to do some more with it (only 1 per city and only in big cities for example).

Finally, I am aiming to release a small set of buildings - but I feel like I need to get some of the other things I've been doing finished first and I haven't got a lot of time just at the moment.

Don't worry- I will release everything when Its done!

[mart3p]

>mph: nice fences, thanks for the offer to use them for ISR.

The fences shown in the screenshot I posted, are based on graphics by Zimmlock (with permission). Some work has already been done with Zimmlock’s fences to get the alignments correct. But I will also try yours to see how they look in the game. If it comes to a choice, I will post some screenshots to see which is preferred.

[Beardie]

I have to say i'm looking forward to this

[mart3p]

Here’s something else to look forward to.

I’ve been working on coding the animation of andythenorth’s large wheel loader. Here’s a mock-up of how it will look:

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[ISA]

when there is train aside of that tile it would look totally cool! Fantastic work guys!

[andythenorth]

when there is train aside of that tile it would look totally cool! Fantastic work guys!

Teaser: couple of CSX units take a load at the mine. On the the north side a local job drops a load from another pit for transfer. Heavy equipment keeps the stockpiles tidy.

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(Rusty Sidings by Dave Worley)
EDIT - mart3p tweaked the loader tiles to include coal as well as iron ore, so I've updated the screenshot.

[Ameecher]

Madness. Utter madness. Brilliant Madness but still madness!

[CommanderZ]

The trucks can use the ISR station roads???

[Gremnon]

I don't think so.
Though that would be very useful... and make for some interesting layouts.

[Raichase]

How deliciously over complicated! I love it

[mart3p]

I don't think so.
Though that would be very useful... and make for some interesting layouts.

Yes, it would be cool. There was actually some talk some time ago, about implementing this in TTDPatch. There is even an action 0 station property reserved for this purpose (property 19). Unfortunately this hasn't yet been implemented in either TTDPatch or OpenTTD.

In Andy's screenshot, the white trucks are real trucks using the real roads. The yellow trucks are ISR station eye candy, you will notice they are all on plain base tiles, not on roads.

[Gremnon]

Actually, it looks like one of the white trucks is using ISR's road entry tile, though that might just be me.

[Ameecher]

Actually, it looks like one of the white trucks is using ISR's road entry tile, though that might just be me.

That could be attributed to an incorrectly aligned sprite.

[athanasios]

Or a truck loading bay?

[Gremnon]

I don't think it's either tbh.
It's not a truck loading bay, I reckonise the non-track tile that's named Road Vehicle Entry.

I'm not so certain on the sprite alignment though... looking at the other trucks, it doesn't seemto be unusual, but I've never been much of an artist or any good at making newgrfs, so I don't know.

[andythenorth]

Actually, it looks like one of the white trucks is using ISR's road entry tile, though that might just be me.

That could be attributed to an incorrectly aligned sprite.

The truck is at the very end of the 'proper' road, and is about to turn around, it's just a big sprite so it overlaps the station tile. I've achieved the same effect in teaser screenshots with normal TT trucks, but it's more noticeable with the mining truck.

[andythenorth]

Madness. Utter madness. Brilliant Madness but still madness!

Sometimes I miss the old way. There's a nice simplicity about it

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[Beardie]

The truck is at the very end of the 'proper' road, and is about to turn around, it's just a big sprite so it overlaps the station tile. I've achieved the same effect in teaser screenshots with normal TT trucks, but it's more noticeable with the mining truck.

Are these trucks available, or part of a working set etc. and i love the screenshot by the way and the simplicity one,