General freight car collection

[uzurpator]

Having an extensive collection of various sprites that cannot hope for a public release in some sort of a set I decided to release them... well for others if they see it fitting to use them.

For now it is a collection of boxcars and tankers. But if the response is good enough I'll scrape for other cars.

The terms of use:

Download, modify in a way you see fitting (for example add decals, or cop/paste to create new livery), include in the set you are working on. Don't forget to include me in the credits

[m3henry]

isnt that all the company colours?
very nice

[Snail]

Very, very, very nice.

Uzurpatror, that would come in REALLY handy for the FRSet. We would need to modify them a bit, but they would be great templates for us to work on.
I was really thinking about freight wagons in these days (we have been focusing on engines so far), and your sprites would really speed up our set's completion a lot.

The cars don't look very European at first glance, but France did have some US-imported rolling stock, and your artwork would represent it very well.

So, we'd be eager to use them as templates and do some slight changes here and there to make them fit with the rest of our rolling stock better. Of course you'd be rightly credited. Deal?

Oh, and if you have other cars you're willing to share, by all means... we're always interested!

[uzurpator]

Go ahead mate

[AndersI]

The cars don't look very European at first glance, but France did have some US-imported rolling stock, and your artwork would represent it very well.

Feel free to use my two Swedish cars too, if they can be of any use. They can be found in the 'Swedish [mini] trainset' thread.

@uzurpator: I'll happily borrow the tankers and try to make them a little more Swedish.

[Snail]

AndersI, your two cars could come in handy as well. They look even more suitable for our set, and will probably require less work to make them fit with the rest.
Thx very much, you will be credited as well.

Btw, I saw your good attempts with that little tank steamer... nice job! Can't wait to see more, I hope you appreciate how fun and rewarding it is to draw engines of that type.

[michael blunck]

BTW, in game you don´t need to have vehicles in all those colours since we do have a re-colouring feature. That´s just a waste of sprites.

regards
Michael

[DaleStan]

But that does require installing the colourmaps with an action A, which requires GRM to do safely.

On that subject, I know there's no chance of getting NewStations to use a GRM allocated sprite, but what are the chances of getting NewStations to reserve sprite 1213?

(Did I remember the sprite number correctly?)

[michael blunck]

[ re-colouring]

> But that does require installing the colourmaps [...]

Not necessarily. You may also use TTD´s built-in colourmaps.

> On that subject, I know there's no chance of getting NewStations to use a GRM allocated sprite, but what are the chances of getting NewStations to reserve sprite 1213?

It´s on my list. Originally, to replace 1213h by a GRM-allocated sprite, but due to too much work with that approach, I should simply reserve 1213h, in a first step.

Do you know what other sets are using those toyland sprites? AFAIR, it were some bridge-sets?

regards
Michael