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What do you mean by loading stages? That amount of wood scattered around station is proportional to actual cargo amount waiting at station?
Or some animated cranes?

MeusH wrote:What do you mean by loading stages? That amount of wood scattered around station is proportional to actual cargo amount waiting at station?

That would be the normal definition of "loading stages". The other is better known as "animation".

MeusH wrote:What do you mean by loading stages? That amount of wood scattered around station is proportional to actual cargo amount waiting at station?

Correct. Thats what I mean!

MeusH wrote:Wood loading and/or unloading station. What do you think about it?

looks nice but a bit shuttered .

MeusH wrote:Seems like I should put more into it... but more what?

Maybe some wooden spacing strips so that the logs don't touch the ground.

MeusH wrote:Also, where would you like to see company colour? Frankly I've got no idea right now where to draw it.

What about a small sign or flag in company color at the building.

Wood station is on my workbench. I'm having some troubles with cranes, because:
yellow (typical crane colour) is too bright and creates much contrast
grey blends with background
shape - I have to try more shapes until I reach something I like.

I hope I'll show you almost finished wood station soon.


And now, cheers to XeryusTC who's about to code maize loading station

Yes, I'm going to try to be your coder . I hope I can try to understand NFO and make a good station at the same time .

XeryusTC, try this one. You'll have 2 pcxs to play with
And now goodbye, I'll hop in after 20th January

I've completed the sheds, but I ran into a small error in your sprites. The dark sheds have animated pixels on their walls. It looks quite psychedelic but I don't think that you wanted that .

Sounds like you got the wrong palette. (WIN/DOS)

He he's used the fire cycle/water cycle pixels, I did that in the British Tram set when drawing the doors of the midland metro, when they were coded the tram drove along with it's doors flashing!

I thought of that one too, but when I used the other palette some of the platforms were screwed .

Edit: a quick palette swap made sure that it didn't matter, it is still animated.

Is the artist sure he didn't use action colors, such as the brown smoke cycle?

The problem is that sophisticated graphics utilities like PhotoShop mess things up; all great graphics artist have the same problem and they do not select animated colours by accident. The same non-animated colours turn into animated when saving the work.

What you need is PalConvert. Once you have placed the sprites in the .pcx file, run PalConvert over it, it will fix the flashing pixels. Ask DanMack, he can get you a copy.

Thank you very much, it worked .

(I got PalConvert from here)

OzTransLtd wrote:What you need is PalConvert. Once you have placed the sprites in the .pcx file, run PalConvert over it, it will fix the flashing pixels. Ask DanMack, he can get you a copy.

I assume that removes all action-color pixels, even if they're supposed to be there?

If Photoshop causes problems, then why do people insist on using it? I have never had problems with GIMP, and I've heard that there are patches/plugins/something that make it look like Photoshop.

MS Paint has never given me any troubles...
You don't need such an advanced tool as PhotoShop anyways...

If you must use Photoshop, use this hint:

Decode any GRF. Open obtained PCX in Photoshop, erase eveything in it and save it as blank.pcx. Later, when you want to draw something, open blank.pcx and work in it.

Also, there are several TTD palettes for Photoshop in Forums, altough it's not neceserry to use palette: just paste palette (for example, from Wiki) in blank.pcx and you'll allways have allowable colours.

Wile E. Coyote wrote: Also, there are several TTD palettes for Photoshop in Forums, altough it's not neceserry to use palette: just paste palette (for example, from Wiki) in blank.pcx and you'll allways have allowable colours.

This is what I do in photoshop. I've never had too many problems with it, and most errors were caused by sloppyness on my part. It does have some useful features that are absent in MSpaint. I highly recommend it.

Wile E. Coyote wrote:Decode any GRF. Open obtained PCX in Photoshop, erase eveything in it and save it as blank.pcx. Later, when you want to draw something, open blank.pcx and work in it.

I also did this after I got problems with TrueColor PCX files, but I only need to reorder and number (loads easier) them.

Oh, and I use Photoshop because I also do some other things with it and having another program only for moving sprites is kinda useless IMO.

Anyway, this is getting offtopic. So, characteristics are shown as a real copy of the screen.