CSStations Set

[Prebral]

As we discussed recently at forum.tycoonez.com (mostly Czech only), a railway station composes of both tracks/platforms and other facilities. There are already many types of tracks and platforms suitable for constructing railway stations, but not as much station facilities and bulidings. Michael Blunck's station buildings are great, but their placement between tracks is not typical for our geographic location. Station bulidings squeezed by the track and miniaturized (as in original TTD) also look strange. So we decided to create more stand-alone station buildings and other accessories to be placed onto sprites neighboring the track (actually replacing or being attached to existing tracks and forbidden for trains via coding). The entire CSStation set, however, will include some platforms too.
Some examples follow. Keep on mind, that the set is still being developed, so they are mostly mostly photoshop composites, not real screenshots - some layouts wait for being coded and there is still work waiting:

Modular station layout examples by mij:
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1944/d ... s010kt.png
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/7272/d ... s020gk.png
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/5196/cojehotovo0xh.png

Prague - Main station (Franz Joseph's/President Wilson's station). Finished 1909, when it replaced an older one. 2x2 modules, two variants of parking lots (typical and modern one). Modern hallway from 1997 is not included.


The same station as it would look like in game. Included platforms are NOT part of CSStations Set but of other various sets (MB, Silverline, Generic Stations).


Other stations:
(depending on year, color of platform marking, tables and other details will change...following examples are mixed)
1) "Klinec" - a small local 1x1 passenger station platform with shelter
2) "Srbsko" - larger country passenger station, up to 3 tracks
3) "Praha - Smichov" - city and larger town passenger/mail platform, some layout to be coded, there will probably also be a modern "reconstructed" major corridor version
4) "Cercany" - minor town platforms, passengers/mail. Layout needs to be coded.
5) "Pribram" - country/town station building (ochre-painted)
6) "Luzna" - country/town station building (clay limestone)
7) "Cakovice" - country/town/city outskirts station building
8) "Malacky" - Slovakian modernised country/town station
9) "Tomasek's quarry" - generic industrial station, maybe should have between-tracks variant because of the ramp. Ignore the "Klinec" in front of this one's photoshop example, it is just a glitch.
10) Ignore this - it is just an older version of Main Station, this station overview is recycled.


Some beta will be released sometimes to tune the code.

[Aegir]

Thats incredibly nice. You crazy Czech TTD'ers. What will you get up to next...

/me shakes his head, laughing and wanders off.

Great work guys, great work. I reckon the main station needs more shading and texturing, but the detail, WOW. Amazing stuff.

[Sanchimaru]

Hey! very impressive work! don't forget to keep us informed on releases of the Czeck sets, they are so nice!

[Wile E. Coyote]

Very nice!

[Purno]

OMG, that looks very awesome! Keep up the good work!

[lobster]

bizarre! great! i mean, where do all those brilliant station drawers keep popping up from? nowhere? i mean, come on, it looks awesome. indeed maybe a little shading here and there, but very, VERY fine!

[Death]

WOW! that's AMUSING! great work!
prebral

[Hyronymus]

Nice job guys, awesome grand station in the first post. Curious what the entire station set will contain but if it starts like this it's bound to be good.

[Prebral]

I have recently tried to make a modern "corridor" version of platforms. Transparent plastic is used on some parts of them, however if I use the "transparent" color, it does not turn transparent in the game and remains beige. I think my palette settings are correct - other "active" colors work. I have even tried to draw it in the main sprite file with colors picked directly from transparent station roofs, but it remains beige even then.
Is some coding required to tell the sprite it includes transparent color or is the problem somewhere else?

[krtaylor]

Hey, I like your caternary pylons!

[Prebral]

Hey, I like your caternary pylons!

Actually, they are not mine, just I play with them. It is CSDElTractionSet by Pedro Zawislak:
http://ttd.tycoonez.com/?id=42

[Pnaky]

Hey, I like your caternary pylons!

Actually, they are not mine, just I play with them. It is CSDElTractionSet by Pedro Zawislak:
http://ttd.tycoonez.com/?id=42

Prebral: No no... It's draw by me and Pedro are coded it...

[Korenn]

I get the feeling that the graphics posted here are considered 'done' ...

they still need a LOT of work.

[Prebral]

I get the feeling that the graphics posted here are considered 'done' ...

they still need a LOT of work.

Sure, they need (I have actually tuned them last week, but it is not finished yet...and there were also some sprite size problems caused by a defect template used to measure their size.). There will also probably be some unofficial beta to test them in game (photoshop compositions have their limits...).

[eis_os]

Transparent is not a special action color, TTD uses two sprite for the transparent effect, one drawn with transparent effect...

[mij]

Work on Accessories to station with for the first publication near to ends. Already in princeps will everything portrayal in all tetra direction (white places infer, what have left finish).
Resurvey What already is napoo:



... and one freight station "brewery yard":

[mij]

wooden warehouse

[That Guy]

GREAT!

i'm waiting for the release

oh by the way is there any chance i could get my hands on those roads and signals? hope i'm not being a bother. thanks

[Prebral]

2ThatGuy:

Roads:
http://ttd.tycoonez.com/?id=44

Signals:
http://ttd.tycoonez.com/?id=41

(just click on the desired file on the bottom of the page...it seems English section of the web is not fully operational yet)


Beta release of CSStations will come sometimes, but it still needs some work and not a line is coded yet (but we have coders fortunately). I will post a link here when it comes.
As for me, I have shaded and otherwise updated some of the buildings displayed above, but -as usually- one has also to do other things like making money and schoolwork.

[mij]

Sorry for English, translate TRANSLATOR.
Definitive version sprites modulus to station:
Parkoviště = Parking (3 version)
Místa k stání = Place to parking (2 version)
Zarážedlo v trávě = Buffer-stop in graminoids
Zarážedlo v dlažbě = Buffer-stop in paving
Zarážedlo v parku = Buffer-stop in park
Zarážedlo betonové = Buffer-stop concrete
Točna (Příjezdová komunikace) = Pole (access road)
Skladiště zděné = Warehouse brick
Skladiště dřevěné = Warehouse wooden
Rampa = Ramp
Nákladiště (Nákladový dvůr) = Load (freight yard)
Park = Park
Dlažba = Paving
Štěrk = Gravel
Rezavá kolej (neježděná) = Rusty track (not only)



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