Stoney's Latin American Houses

[StoneyTT]

I toned down the green and orange houses, lightened up the windows a bit, added some more dirt. I think they are quite ok now.
The next task will be to create some middle-sized houses.

[NekoMaster]

Think its possible to have some slightly more civilized slums with pavement instead of dirt?

BTW Great job so far, It'd be nice to see this turn into a full Latin American style building set, then I can finally start playing as a Brazilian railroad in a more realistic world

[chuggles]

This is a great-looking set and as others have said it will be good to have a more realistic tropic map/explore the possibilities for openTTD in a tropic environment. And especially all the different angles are an achievement.

Some interesting Latin American buildings include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Niteroi, Brazil:



The Abasto Market in Buenos Aires:



The Iglesia de San Francisco in Quito, Ecuador:



This last would be interesting as maybe a long building - 3x1, say, as we don't see many of those.

Here's also a link to a large image of Buenos Aires which does a good job of showing different types of Latin American city centre buildings - you can see in the middle some 'Parisian' style apartment and office blocks probably dating from about 1880-1940s and then in the background big, shiny office buildings and rough and ready tenement blocks:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... a-_136.jpg

Having gained some free time recently I am looking at some tutorials with a view to drawing houses and buildings - I can't commit to anything yet and my efforts would be entry-level (with some graphic design studies five years ago). But if it looks like I'll be able to contribute any sprites I'll let this thread know.

[StoneyTT]

Thanks, chuggles!

The Abasto Market looks interesting and should be quite easy to draw.

This last would be interesting as maybe a long building - 3x1, say, as we don't see many of those.

Is it even possible? I thought only 1x1, 1x2, 2x1 and 2x2 are possible.

[chuggles]

Ah - I must have been thinking of modular stations. That's a shame.

I'm having some early-days success at drawing little grey boxes with holes in them for windows and doors, so I've got a feeling I might be able to get somewhere with perhaps drawing simple office towers. Should I post them to this thread if I make anything worthwhile?

[StoneyTT]

Sure, if they are latin american style, feel free to post them here.

[NekoMaster]

Perhaps the bigger more "special" buildings could be part of a latin-american landmark pack, that way if someone makes a Latin-American scenario, without cheats you can't demolish these cool looking and old landmarks

[chuggles]

Here then is an attempt at a Buenos Aires town house, probably suitable for between 1880 and 1950, 2x1. Feel free to do what you wish with it, although this one probably isn't up to scratch.

[andythenorth]

The palacio is nice work. I started tweaking it a bit (result attached). Mostly providing more shadow under the roof eaves and in the windows / columns. Also providing a better blend to the ground. Also tweaked some of the roof.

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EDIT: you didn't pick an easy starting point; complicated white buildings are hard to draw, as are curved and complex roof shapes. It's a good result from a hard subject.

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[StoneyTT]

Thanks for your improvements andy, I'll gladly take over your version.

you didn't pick an easy starting point;

Yes, but it was a good practice.

@chuggles: I think the scale of your building is a little bit too big.

[V453000 :)]

Hint, if you care too much about scale in openttd, you will either get in big problems, or not get very far

[FLHerne]

Perhaps, but that one's as big as the palace thing and three times the height

[kamnet]

I dunno, looking at a photo of the palace on Wikipedia, it looks to me like the building itself would be scaled to 2x2 in-game, with a 2x1 courtyard in front of the building.

[StoneyTT]

Since houses cannot be bigger than 2x2, I had to forego the courtyard.

[StoneyTT]

Some smaller town houses. Two are combined on one tile.

[NekoMaster]

OOoh nice :3 Keep up the good work

[V453000 :)]

I think you should try to incorporate a lot more of shadows or generally darker colours, the buildings in general look way overbrightented in total. (but keep the brightest pixels as well!)

[StoneyTT]

Thanks for the hint! I think I will darken the shady sides a bit (while leaving the light sides as they are).

[StoneyTT]

Work is in progress. Here comes a new little appetizer.

[TinyMusic]

Great stuff, and that screenshot can be made better with traffic jams! I can't wait for this set to be released!