Request for Extra Airport Graphics - completed.

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 31 Mar 2006 15:53

As some may have seen in my Three New Airports thread, and Yet Another Three Airports in the Dev forum, many many people want landing strips going both North/South as well as the current West/East.

Can one of you fine graphics gurus throw together a small .grf with 9 new sprites for me to use? Some are dead easy. (I can almost do them, but Im no graphic artist...)

I need:

Runway North/South; other direction of sprites 2645-2649 in trg1r (can probably do it by reflecting graphic)
Hangar; sprite 2655, in 3 remaining orientations. (N, E, W)
Tarmac: update tarmac with no fade in corner (leaves airport tarmac with black spots every tile corner)

And for the really adventurous:
If someone really want to go to town on these, I would love:
Helipad: plain tarmac with H in a circle (2 orientations)
Large airport windsock (4 sprite animation)
Taxiway lines: straight ahead, straight+left, straight+right, straight+left/right, left only, right only, left+right... for all 4 orientations (some may be not duplicated) etc... if Ive forgotten some, please add them (all ways crossroads and left/left right/right opposites come to mind)

Thanks

[edit] Decided to have a look myself. Seems to work OK.

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 31 Mar 2006 18:51

How about this?

I'll do the hangar, later. It's probably the most difficult one.

What do you mean with helipads? Standard helipad without the flashing lights? Or without that dark-grey tarmac circle?
What do you mean with large airport windsock? You mean "bigger windsock"?
Anything else?

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 31 Mar 2006 20:29

MeusH wrote:How about this?

I'll do the hangar, later. It's probably the most difficult one.

What do you mean with helipads? Standard helipad without the flashing lights? Or without that dark-grey tarmac circle?
What do you mean with large airport windsock? You mean "bigger windsock"?
Anything else?

LOL - as you can see from the piccy, Ive created a grf for these other angles.

The extras would be nice, because thats new graphics. A classic Helipad symbol: (large white H). Yes, a large windsock, with orange & white pattern. Fluttering a bit.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 31 Mar 2006 20:51

There aren't many orange colours, so an orange and white windsock might end up looking like a bright neon sign.

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 31 Mar 2006 21:06

richk67 wrote:LOL - as you can see from the piccy, Ive created a grf for these other angles.

Hmm... yeah, I knew it was something strange when I was posting the attachment...

richk67 wrote:The extras would be nice, because thats new graphics. A classic Helipad symbol: (large white H). Yes, a large windsock, with orange & white pattern. Fluttering a bit.

Born Acorn wrote:There aren't many orange colours, so an orange and white windsock might end up looking like a bright neon sign.

I second that. How about company colour + white pattern?

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 31 Mar 2006 21:26

MeusH wrote:
Born Acorn wrote:There aren't many orange colours, so an orange and white windsock might end up looking like a bright neon sign.
I second that. How about company colour + white pattern?

Nice idea. Ive sorted out the helipad, as you can see below.

Brianetta · Post by **Brianetta** » 01 Apr 2006 00:51

Are you sure that you want a windsock? bearing in mind that aeroplanes both take off and land into the wind, it'll just hammer home how weird the international airport is.

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 01 Apr 2006 03:21

richk67 wrote:(the colours are a bit off, but look ok in game)

Did you decode with -p 2?

RSpeed tycoonfreak · Post by **RSpeed tycoonfreak** » 02 Apr 2006 07:58

richk67 wrote:As some may have seen in my Three New Airports thread, and Yet Another Three Airports in the Dev forum, many many people want landing strips going both North/South as well as the current West/East.

Can one of you fine graphics gurus throw together a small .grf with 9 new sprites for me to use? Some are dead easy. (I can almost do them, but Im no graphic artist...)

I need:

Runway North/South; other direction of sprites 2645-2649 in trg1r (can probably do it by reflecting graphic)
Hangar; sprite 2655, in 3 remaining orientations. (N, E, W)
Tarmac: update tarmac with no fade in corner (leaves airport tarmac with black spots every tile corner)

And for the really adventurous:
If someone really want to go to town on these, I would love:
Helipad: plain tarmac with H in a circle (2 orientations)
Large airport windsock (4 sprite animation)
Taxiway lines: straight ahead, straight+left, straight+right, straight+left/right, left only, right only, left+right... for all 4 orientations (some may be not duplicated) etc... if Ive forgotten some, please add them (all ways crossroads and left/left right/right opposites come to mind)

Thanks

[edit] Decided to have a look myself. Seems to work OK.

It doesent work.
when I try to startup openttd it says: 'custom .grf has invalid format.'

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 02 Apr 2006 12:15

RSpeed tycoonfreak wrote:It doesent work.
when I try to startup openttd it says: 'custom .grf has invalid format.'

I think I said elsewhere (in the new airports thread) .... This is a .grf file, NOT a newgrf file, and CANNOT be loaded using newgrf. To use these, you have to install the patch that gives the new layout airports, and since I havent uploaded one, that may be difficult

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 02 Apr 2006 12:18

DaleStan wrote:
richk67 wrote:(the colours are a bit off, but look ok in game)
Did you decode with -p 2?

Nope. I just followed the instructions on the grfcodec site, and did a -d of trg1r.grf, edited the file, did a -e to make my grf.

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 02 Apr 2006 18:53

"grfcodec -d trg1.grf"? Note that trg1.grf has the DOS palette, and that GRFCodec assumes the DOS palette on decoding unless you explicitly instruct it otherwise with -p, or you specify one of the five trg?r.grf files.

Re-decode your grf with -p 2 and I think you'll see a marked improvement in the sprites.

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 02 Apr 2006 22:52

DaleStan wrote:"grfcodec -d trg1.grf"? Note that trg1.grf has the DOS palette, and that GRFCodec assumes the DOS palette on decoding unless you explicitly instruct it otherwise with -p, or you specify one of the five trg?r.grf files.

Re-decode your grf with -p 2 and I think you'll see a marked improvement in the sprites.

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous answer.

I decoded trg1r.grf. With the r. I'll try the -p 2 option just in case it is stupid software.

[edit] It did work with -p 2, so here is the pcx graphic. The depots suffer from the highlight being on the wrong side for all but the original (S) angle. But it is relatively minor.

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 03 Apr 2006 12:49

RichK67: I don't want to sound rude (but I do. sorry.) but I think my versions of tarmac (and terminal) look better than yours, because yours still have shaded corners. Mine do not.
Sorry for that post but... I just think it would look nicer in game...

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 03 Apr 2006 13:11

MeusH wrote:RichK67: I don't want to sound rude (but I do. sorry.) but I think my versions of tarmac (and terminal) look better than yours, because yours still have shaded corners. Mine do not.
Sorry for that post but... I just think it would look nicer in game...

Yeah, I think I agree with you. I will copy your graphic over mine. And I have no problems with "i think its better" statements, as long as there is a good reason... yup I hadnt totally removed the darker corners.

the master e · Post by **the master e** » 15 Apr 2006 09:48

wow, nice new airports. I like the size, with the big airports it hard to place them

Aracirion · Post by **Aracirion** » 24 Jun 2006 16:56

if I try to use this grf on mac (0.4.7) os x i get these two messages ... can anyone help me with that?

richk67 · Post by **richk67** » 24 Jun 2006 18:35

Aracirion wrote:if I try to use this grf on mac (0.4.7) os x i get these two messages ... can anyone help me with that?

As the post above (answering this same problem) states very clearly ... airports.grf is *not* a newgrf, and should only be loaded by compiling with the patch applied. (It is like the core openttd.grf - included in OTTD directly without use of newgrf.)

Aracirion · Post by **Aracirion** » 24 Jun 2006 18:39

oooh i'm sorry .. I dont compile stuff myself .... so ill have to go without it then? looks nice though .....

Steamboy · Post by **Steamboy** » 26 Jun 2006 12:41

Rich . I like many others appreciate the work that you have done on the new airports.

But as i would imagine most of us would like to use them in OTTD as a newgrf. Is this going to eventually happen?

Or . is it going to be incorporated in a later version of OTTD ie: 0.4.8 etc

Anyway keep up the good work

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