OpenGFX - Graphics Base Set

[planetmaker]

I've done some work on the mail car, I'm not shure it may be similar to how it started again now (/ and \ views), I'll need some oppionons on that.

I like your wagons and I'm really looking forward to the other wagons in order to have a complete toyland set

[lawton27]

I've done some work on the mail car, I'm not shure it may be similar to how it started again now (/ and \ views), I'll need some oppionons on that.

I like your wagons and I'm really looking forward to the other wagons in order to have a complete toyland set

It gets tougher here as I have to do the peculiar Toyland things like bubble trucks and battery wagons, any ideas on how I can best represent them besides just copying the original stuff.

[Ammler]

Maybe making the batteries bigger so you have something like one per wagon, more details for it.

[FooBar]

Might be even possible to copy the batteries straight off the battery farm.

[lawton27]

Hmm, you don't suppose you could attach the battery farm graphics here or give me a link, I'm sure the original author won't mind if its for openGFX, also useful to me would be the openGFX present houses and the openGFX oil tanker (I hate tankers )

[planetmaker]

you find the graphics in the repository. Anything within the OpenGFX repository can, of course, be re-used for OpenGFX without any permission needed by anyone. http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/ope ... yFarm2.pcx

[lawton27]

ok, thanks, I don't have much spare time today but I'll be shure to work on it tommorow, however I will start now.

EDIT:
It may still need some tweaking but I have the battery car drawn to a level. Attached:

[bokkie]

Tried to do some pixel-tweaking in Paint on the font. Left is old, right is new. Some characters are a bit 'noisy' IMO in the current font. Don't know (yet ) how to change the font though, made this picture a few months ago but didn't get to pick it up again. Lot's of home improvement to do so little time in the next few months as well so I thought I'd share...

Tried it again in alpha 6 to see if it had already been changed (as requested) but the font hasn't been changed since. Removed some pixels on R, X, S, s. Tried to change the a but didn't really succeed. Added pixel on w.

EDIT: mmm doesn't quote the picture (which most of the time is good, but not this time). Added it manually

[planetmaker]

It may still need some tweaking but I have the battery car drawn to a level. Attached:

Ho, I somehow missed this posting. Nice to see some progress. It's my impression, though, that the batteries on these cars are way paler than the batteries which grow on the battery farm. Or is my impression wrong?

In any case, two thumbs up, keep up the good work

[lawton27]

It may still need some tweaking but I have the battery car drawn to a level. Attached:

Ho, I somehow missed this posting. Nice to see some progress. It's my impression, though, that the batteries on these cars are way paler than the batteries which grow on the battery farm. Or is my impression wrong?

In any case, two thumbs up, keep up the good work

They are the same, I took them straight from the battery farm.

[planetmaker]

Hm... okay, then my memory was bad. I guess I'll have to do yet another train wagons commit tonight Or maybe two or three?

[lawton27]

Here's one for cola, I don't like tankers much so I've based it off the opoenGFX oil tanker, changed it to match the toyland theme and added some stripes to represent the cola company's logo or something.

[planetmaker]

They look nice IMO, especially the company logo idea is great. But while coding them, I noticed, that the cola wagons have a loaded and an unloaded stage, showing whether liquids are carried or not.
EDIT: also it appears to be 30 pixels instead of the 28 the other wagons are.

[colossal404]

Hi!

I know, it's a topic dig, but I don't want to open a new topic for this question:
Do I need any permission to release a small bus set what is based on OpenGFX graphics?

[Ammler]

I know, it's a topic dig, but I don't want to open a new topic for this question:

I saw worse

Do I need any permission to release a small bus set what is based on OpenGFX graphics?

As OpenGFX has a license which allows derivative work, you don't need. Just credit it proper, if you like to give additional credits to the author of the sprites you used, check out the authoroverview page: http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/ope ... erview.csv

with search function and images: http://mz.openttdcoop.org/opengfx/autho ... esbyauthor

Greets
Ammler

[planetmaker]

Do I need any permission to release a small bus set what is based on OpenGFX graphics?

As OpenGFX has a license which allows derivative work, you don't need. Just credit it proper, if you like to give additional credits to the author of the sprites you used

You don't need permission - if you publish your bus set under the GPL. For any other license, you'll have to ask each contributor of OpenGFX for his/her approval, I guess

[colossal404]

Ok, thanks!

[Zuu]

You might have seen my work elsewhere in the OpenTTD community, but this is my first attempt on graphics. Hopefully it is not way too bad. [Edit: Actually now I remember that I did some graphics for the new main page at the wiki, but those got replaced by better images made by more skilled artists]

Since OpenGFX needs more graphics for toyland I decided to find some missing sprites that would be easy to replace. I have chosen the Fizzy drinks factory since I got a good idea on that one. Just have a big can of fizzy drink with some taps to smaller cans. Got my basic idea down on paper on 10-20 seconds.

Now the hard part started. Got to dig out the palette, grf decoder/encoder. etc. For the reference, the OpenTTD palette for Gimp can be found here: Gimp palettes The Palettes and coordinates page on ttdpatch wiki contains a good overview over where the action colors are located and their respective function.

My results so far:

fizzy drinks.png (23.03 KiB) Viewed 3565 times

fizzy stages.png (4.54 KiB) Viewed 3565 times

At the top of the big can there are some random pixels that use actions colors to make the drink a bit fizzy. The drinks coming out of the tap is a bit lighter and this is because that is the only brownness that exist as action colors, so that the stream from the tap gets animated.

After having drawn the stages and tried them out in-game I noticed that there is a minor issue. The tap outer part of the tap appears a few days before the part that is attached to the big can. But hey, it is called fizzy drinks and toyland right?

Another thing I found out was that the first building stage is 2 pixels narrower than the can, but I did not shrink the can, instead I made the first building stage just like a basic construction site.


Any comments or suggestions?

[Rubidium]

Another thing I found out was that the first building stage is 2 pixels narrower than the can, but I did not shrink the can, instead I made the first building stage just like a basic construction site.

You can make the sprite 2 pixels wider and fix the alignment; you're not forced to use the exact same dimensions as the original graphics.

[Zuu]

That would mean I could possible fix the tap issue by placing the entire tap on one of the sprites. Unless some issues with z-order appears.