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Posted: 11 Aug 2004 10:53
by BobXP
nice one

Posted: 11 Aug 2004 18:51
by Zimmlock
This building i named the Multimedia-Office, i have tryed to create something new, something what should look like hudge TVs and a moving news paper on the building, it a real experiment and i have captured the diffrent stadges you can see it in the screenshot. but to see the real thing i have added the sprite in a zip, as you all know now i can only make DOS exe and undo files so can someone or two with DOS have a look and just tell me your opinion.
Posted: 11 Aug 2004 19:37
by krtaylor
That's pretty cool!
You know, you can make an animated GIF, so as to be able to post here what it looks like in motion.
Posted: 12 Aug 2004 14:40
by Zimmlock
krtaylor wrote:That's pretty cool!
You know, you can make an animated GIF, so as to be able to post here what it looks like in motion.
Yeah,

i just forgot that possibility. But its harder to realize than you think. I have something here, the real thing looks much better its just for the idea

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 15:03
by GoneWacko
That's pretty nice
I would still recommend you to recolor the building...
Blueish might look good on that one...
Or maybe company blue so it gives it a random color all the time?

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 16:14
by krtaylor
GoneWacko wrote:
Or maybe company blue so it gives it a random color all the time?

That should actually be standard procedure on almost all buildings. Adds needed variety to the cities.
Posted: 12 Aug 2004 16:29
by Zimmlock
krtaylor wrote:GoneWacko wrote:
Or maybe company blue so it gives it a random color all the time?

That should actually be standard procedure on almost all buildings. Adds needed variety to the cities.
Have to do some experiments with that, can be nice, i used it only on the Modern-Office-Block, there it produces 3 diffrent colors so if all buildings have this i think its not nice the town ll look like a toy town, but for the next building perhaps...
I have finished the full look of the Multimedia-Office and start now with the various construction sites, below a few shots of this building in town.
Posted: 12 Aug 2004 18:04
by Jezulkim
That looks much more realistc than original ttd city great work!
That round red building looks cool too!
Posted: 12 Aug 2004 18:20
by Korenn
I was thinking,
can't you use a random action 2 to decide on a building's graphics? or, if not, patchman might be able to add it, so you can have several (random) version of one building, which results in far more possible buildings in a city than originally.
Posted: 12 Aug 2004 18:43
by Steve
You cannot. Company colours only work on sprites that have been hard-coded to allow them to work. I spoke to patchman about it whilst i was messing with the farms. I think you have to write some more action stuff for them, like you say.
Posted: 12 Aug 2004 19:31
by krtaylor
Randomizing buildings has been suggested, and there hasn't been a response yet. If a large number of good buildings had already been drawn, Patchman might include a patch to make them useable.
Posted: 13 Aug 2004 00:26
by duffman
I personally like scr1 the best (the dull coloured tower), and the green tower does seem to look out, but not that much either.

How many new buildings till this super-dooper pack comes out?
Posted: 13 Aug 2004 05:04
by Rob
The dull coloured tower is nothing more then a building state of the gold coloured tower.
Posted: 13 Aug 2004 08:36
by Zimmlock
krtaylor wrote:Randomizing buildings has been suggested, and there hasn't been a response yet. If a large number of good buildings had already been drawn, Patchman might include a patch to make them useable.
The company colors work only on building who had this on the original building to, the Modern-Office-Block has this. I used the roof of the factory (it changes color to) on the prison but it turns out to just stay bleuis so it works only if set somewhere else, i used so trucks to and they dont change color. I just draw buildings and can do a little changing in the NFO sheet and can make DOS.exe thats all. For all other activetys i have to call for help.
Anyway, i am happy to hear you all like more or less my creations and continue my work.

Posted: 13 Aug 2004 10:07
by Steve
I think you need to re-color the green one still. The windows are freaky, why does the colour change so much like that?
Posted: 13 Aug 2004 10:18
by Hyronymus
To prevent sunlight shining in windows are coated with metaloxides on some buildings. That sometimes results in freaky window colours lie copper or iron-coloured, mirroring windows. Perhaps a suggestion?
Posted: 14 Aug 2004 08:56
by Zimmlock
Its verry difficult to do the windows, the view we have on a city is a birds eye view, this means that the reflexion on the window are the reflections of the city, not the sky. Normaly we walk in the city and see the sky reflected on the windows. I have tryed to do a building with more bleuish windows but it looked verry weird.
Posted: 14 Aug 2004 13:10
by peter_k
WOW ! What a nice buildings ! Congratulations !
1. Where can i find streets from your screens ?
2. When you will finish all graph, can You link them to one GRF file ?
Good work !
Posted: 14 Aug 2004 13:37
by Steve
Posted: 14 Aug 2004 16:11
by Hyronymus
Thanks Steve

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Zimmlock: if they used copperoxide the windows have a copper-coloured reflexction. More exotic than dull blue

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