Zimmlocks creations develoment thread

Villem · Post by **Villem** » 28 Aug 2004 08:51

Only building i figure needs remaking is the bloody factory -_-

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 28 Aug 2004 10:54

Zimmlock wrote:And the winner is...... D with 9 votes and E with 8. Ill keep all versions and see how this works with the random building thing, hope some one can explain this to me and /or give some help. If this works i maby have to make 6 versions of some more of the new structures.

The best thing will definitely be to include them all, although as there must be 2, 4, 8, 16, 32.... choices, you could give D and E "priority". Basically, whatever you draw will get included somehow.
Note that if you draw buildings in player-colour blue then they can be converted in GRFs to myriads of colours (well, 15 actually

).

I've encoded the prison in "newhouse" format. I'm just polishing it up with a few improvements (like being able to stop having four prisons in one town

) at the moment but I'll post it later if you want, Zimmlock. I'll encode anything else if you want me to.

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 28 Aug 2004 12:35

Oracle wrote:
Zimmlock wrote:And the winner is...... D with 9 votes and E with 8. Ill keep all versions and see how this works with the random building thing, hope some one can explain this to me and /or give some help. If this works i maby have to make 6 versions of some more of the new structures.
The best thing will definitely be to include them all, although as there must be 2, 4, 8, 16, 32.... choices, you could give D and E "priority". Basically, whatever you draw will get included somehow.
Note that if you draw buildings in player-colour blue then they can be converted in GRFs to myriads of colours (well, 15 actually ).

I've encoded the prison in "newhouse" format. I'm just polishing it up with a few improvements (like being able to stop having four prisons in one town ) at the moment but I'll post it later if you want, Zimmlock. I'll encode anything else if you want me to.

Thats great

But i have no idea how it works, ill put some where a grf with all new buildings and than its up to others to make a workable thing from it, we ll see.

I have made a new Cinema, never liked the old one. what do you nice people think of it

habell · Post by **habell** » 28 Aug 2004 15:30

Look great, as always. The animation isn't to loud as it was in the original.

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 28 Aug 2004 16:02

habell wrote:Look great, as always. The animation isn't to loud as it was in the original.

It looks like not to loud the animation, but in the game it is an ill make the word Cinema stop to blink, its verry disturbing when a town has 5 or more cinemas.

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 28 Aug 2004 16:17

Attached is the prison encoded as a "newhouse" GRF. This obviously requires Alpha 34 and newhouses on.
There are three options for the parameter:
newgrf/prison[w].grf means that the prison is just a normal 2x2 building. However, this means that you can get stupid arrangements like 5 of them in one town because there are no other new buildings converted at the moment.
newgrf/prison[w].grf 1 is the recommended option. This means that the prison counts as a stadium so there will only ever be one of them in a town (and if there is a prison there will be no stadium and vice versa too). I find that this is quite a good setup.
newgrf/prison[w].grf 2 makes the prison replace the normal football (soccer) stadium altogether, so incorporating having the parameter as 1.

I am sorry foif there are any bugs because I haven't done a lot of testing and it isn't easy either. (And it's a new feature.)

There is one thing to be careful of, though: don't click with the query tool on the easternmost tile because the game will crash. (I don't know why.)

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 28 Aug 2004 16:42

Hmm idea of build-up-sprites: Usually you see a sign saying "<company> is making blablabla due 2007"

YOu have added such a sign to the latest suburb flat thingie, but how about adding such a sign sooner? (In the only-a-foundation-was-created-so-far stage)

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 29 Aug 2004 08:36

GoneWacko wrote:Hmm idea of build-up-sprites: Usually you see a sign saying "<company> is making blablabla due 2007"

YOu have added such a sign to the latest suburb flat thingie, but how about adding such a sign sooner? (In the only-a-foundation-was-created-so-far stage)

What do you mean ???

Endre · Post by **Endre** » 29 Aug 2004 09:04

When a construction starts, there is a sign saying: "xyz is being constructed here, projected finishing: March 2005"
Or something like that. That's what he'd like to see in your graphics, IMHO.

GoneWacko · Post by **GoneWacko** » 29 Aug 2004 10:21

Yeah.

I think that adds some realism

But whatever. It was a stupid suggestion

AP · Post by AP » 29 Aug 2004 11:52

Hi!

Just to reply to your last building, zimmlock, I really like it. I even think that here the colouring fits very well. And the city in your city together with your black multimedia buildings looks fantastic.

Could you give me a hint where and when I will be able to get all these nice creations for a windows version?

Especially I am looking forwart to havin the black multimedias...

Have a nice day

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 29 Aug 2004 12:55

AP wrote:Hi!

Just to reply to your last building, zimmlock, I really like it. I even think that here the colouring fits very well. And the city in your city together with your black multimedia buildings looks fantastic.

Could you give me a hint where and when I will be able to get all these nice creations for a windows version?

Especially I am looking forwart to havin the black multimedias...

Have a nice day

Thx,

i dont know yet when first release ll be, i still have to do a few buildings in the city and the suburbs. There allso emerge new possibiletys since patch 34.
If i have the time and work all day i can produce 1 building a day (a building without construction site) Dont know if you ever made a sprite but it takes some time to do.
Just be patient

Colonel32 · Post by **Colonel32** » 29 Aug 2004 13:05

Hi Zimmmlock.

You got some nice graphics out there, that's for sure. Just thinking - how about some "new bildings" set (both DOS 'n Win versions) - like Andrex's Urban renewall?

One more thing - they could use a parameter to disable the round tower, can't help it, but it's iritating to me

habell · Post by **habell** » 29 Aug 2004 14:07

Zimmlock serveral of your buildings in a game.

RPharazon · Post by **RPharazon** » 29 Aug 2004 14:46

That looks awesome!

But to me, it was ruined because of the wacky streets, not letting building be built.

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 29 Aug 2004 15:21

Small block of flats as GRF:

The parameters this time are:
newgrf/smflats.grf - new 1x1 building (recommended)
newgrf/smflats.grf 1 - replaces old small block of flats (not recommended)

It appears a bit too often but I felt it appeared too little with the next possible setting. Tell me if you feel I should change it.

It won't appear until 1980 so don't get worried if you don't see it early on.

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 29 Aug 2004 17:06

Everything looks fine

I made a replacement for the fox theater, i made it in company colors but this doesnt work in my game so maby i have to recolor it. but just for the view...

Hyronymus · Post by **Hyronymus** » 29 Aug 2004 19:33

Pretty large for a theater IMHO. Shapes look fine though, what about a lower version?

Daan Timmer · Post by **Daan Timmer** » 29 Aug 2004 20:10

where is it ?

Zimmlock · Post by **Zimmlock** » 30 Aug 2004 10:26

Hyronymus wrote:Pretty large for a theater IMHO. Shapes look fine though, what about a lower version?

Yeah, you right, a little to height for a Theater.

I have changed, the color and made it lower, now it looks like an old theater building, nicely restored.
BTW the clockwork is broken it ll allways remain 1700. The local authoritys
has open a fund for the restoration of the mechanism.

DaaNtje wrote:where is it ?

Its here

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