OpenGFX - Graphics Base Set

[Timitry]

Really nice to see the Graphics Replacement Project continues, and with this speed, one could possibly dream about another christmas present

About the shopping mall: The entrances look kinda too small for me, maybe you could raise the whole building a bit?
And, since noone gave a comment about "This is my name"s signals: The signals facing the player have some disturbing white near the lights, and the pale they are on looks a bit too artificial. However, i think it is a good start! Note that we already have light signals, although i'm not saying that those couldn't be done better.

[Raumkraut]

Note that we already have light signals, although i'm not saying that those couldn't be done better.

I meant to reply about this earlier, but got distracted. >_>
T.I.M.N's lights do look more characterful than mine, but only seeing them individually I have two concerns:
1. They could look a little too large sat next to the railtracks - it would look odd if they dwarfed the trains themselves! (I suspect I'm wrong here though - I could be underestimating the size of the trains)
2. They could be too bright and noisy. That is; signals are everywhere - every three tiles of track by default - and these signals could draw too much attention to themselves, making them distracting and adding visual "noise" to the scene. IMO something so commonplace should be fairly nondescript and subtle.

Also, I think the down-left versions are a bit too much down and not enough left.

Oh, and don't forget that we also need presignal versions, and also toyland equivalents (traditionally with brighter poles) of each!

[Timitry]

Are the currently used signals from you?

I do like the current ones, i just think that they could be improved a bit. E.g., you can't see the color of the signal on the | facing north at all, which is sometimes needed.
And most of the signals are a bit too small to be seen properly... You often have to look very closely to see them!

But still, i do like them

[DJ Nekkid]

well, if u ask me are the current opengfx signals too small and bring to little "noise" to the game. The new ones posted in the last page might be bit 2 big, but why not try to make a grf and see how it is.

[buttercup]

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I prefer the originals (sorry This is my name).


On the subject of redrawing things:

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The rails always seemed a little too dark to me. The dirt/ballast/whatever is just masked off from the tile used for junctions as that was lighter than the others (sprite 1022 in trg1r).

What do people think?

[Zuu]

I think it is really hard to se the read/green status of the right ones which I gues are by "This is my name". The left ones are better as you can see if the lights are red or green without having to put a lot of effort into it.

[XeryusTC]

The lights by thisismyname are better to see behind catenary though, this always bugged me about the original signals and the 8bpp replacement signals. I like my signals a bit thicker.

The rails could use lighter balast indeed, it looks better although it needs proper redrawing and not just increasing brightness in photoshop

[This is my name]

Since I'm too lazy to repair my signals, could someone do it for me?

[Zephyris]

And the wagons adapted for maglev/monorail... It's done in a similar style to the originals just modifying the train wagons to not have wheels and have a yellow stripe.

[FooBar]

Simple yet effective. Very good work, Zeph!

[buttercup]

I have done the MonoLev wagons. While I was doing them I noticed that the water, fruit and rubber wagons didn't have their own sprites (they use the normal rail sprites), so I made a grf for them with Actions 0, 1 and 2 (monolevwagonsxtn.grf).

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Also, here are the five most recent buildings:

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[LoWang]

I have this problem after installing OpenGFX. Does it collied with some of those NewGRFs I have with it?

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[Pingaware]

I have this problem after installing OpenGFX. Does it collied with some of those NewGRFs I have with it?

No, you haven't got any conflicts. The black boxes just show where there are no replacement graphics yet.

[LoWang]

Are you kidding? So does it mean I should play the game with those black boxes? I have used some OpenGFX graphics before so why it cannot use the original graphics where there is no new one yet now

[CommanderZ]

Are you kidding? So does it mean I should play the game with those black boxes? I have used some OpenGFX graphics before so why it cannot use the original graphics where there is no new one yet now

OpenGFX free and can be used on its own, so you can play OTTD without having the original data files. This wouldn't be possible while using some of the original data.

[LoWang]

omg people could you be any less helpfull? I know what is the purpose of this project and I have read it on the OpenGFX website, but could you please just simply tell me how to play OpenTTD with OpenGFX graphics (at least some of it) + original data files so I don't have black boxes in every town because of some mising buildings as it was always possible before? Don't tell me it does not work that way now... Thanks.

[FooBar]

but could you please just simply tell me how to play OpenTTD with OpenGFX graphics (at least some of it) + original data files so I don't have black boxes in every town because of some mising buildings as it was always possible before?

Simple. You can't. At least not with the latest version currently available. If you don't want to play with black boxes, you should revert to all those partial replacement grfs (still available in this topic/at the wiki), but that doesn't get you all of OpenGFX and half of those partial replacement grfs don't work in the latest nightlys.

But I've learnt from a reliable source (i.e. me) that Santa has something in store which reduces the amount of black boxes, just be patient

[LoWang]

thanks I will look for it.

[Connum]

I have still not seen any colored/textured versions of the office blocks I created long time ago...

[LordAzamath]

original map generator do not generate maps with land (due to black templates)| Confirmed |filling the sprites with noise might work |
Will be looked into if problem persists in final release of OpenGFX, until then use TerraGenisis instead

Is it known which sprite is used there for the map generating? I tried to look into sprites.h, but didn't find anything "land generate map" related there which could help