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Similar to the fortress, kindly drawn by Oz late last year, this is Emley Moor Mast, it is a large transmitting tower near where i live in England. This could be a nice feature when eis_os completes newobjects.

Emley Moor Mast is one of europes largest transmitting towers that is still in operatian today, it transmits both terrestrial, and digital signals. It is in a location on the top of a hill, and is therefore, like Castle Hill (the fortress i mentioned earlier) Is visable for many miles away, it is estimated on a clear day it is viewable up to about 20 miles away.

The towers general history is pretty clear, It was originally built in 1956, and has been transmitting signals since some of the earliest beginnings of television. in 1964 it was replaced by a guyed tower. This tower later collapsed in a combination of icicles on the guy ropes, and heavy winds. THe tower was later rebuilt once more, and this is the structure that stands proud today.

I will attach images of the tower today at the end of the post.
I Am mainly asking if anyone could draw this for me, i have been learning coding, and i should be able to code it as a transmitter replacement myself. Indeed I hope i can code it myself.

Thanks for reading!

Images attached below.

and large res, so its a pretty big file.
Image 1 is the tower, seen in the distance
Image 2 is about the closest you can get to the tower, its of high quality, high res, and 2.5mb in size
Image 3 is Emley Moor Mast as seen from the village of Clayton West

Massive diggage!

I remembered this about two hours ago, and on an off I've been havin' a go.

Sneak preview! (Somewhat unfinished, needs detail, stuff on ground, dithering etc.)

texture?
its nice, but the pillar is too plain
there also seems to be a ring near the base in the picture

jonty-comp wrote:(Somewhat unfinished, needs detail, stuff on ground, dithering etc.)

Hey i can see that mast from my house!

Marshy wrote:Hey i can see that mast from my house!

Holy poop, so can I

(This proves the theory of it been seen miles away)

Jonty: Should look sweet when its gets its Texture

Coding this tower as a replacement for the transmission/communication tower doesn't seem very practical. One or two of them on a map may be appropriate, and in that sense I would indeed use it, however to have one of these at each large airport as well as on every hill the game decides to build one on would be a bit much.

This would be an ideal candidate for Oskar's newobjects.

Updaaaate!

The red lights are meant to flash, as an aircraft warning system. I was lucky enough to be going past this thing (Well, 10 miles away) in a Voyager at night, and I could just make out its outline with the big red lights down the side. In real life only the top ones flash I think, but on this one they all do at the moment. If you think that should be changed, let me know!

And yes, it looks a little silly at the airport.
NewObjects!

And yes, I'm still planning on putting something at the bottom, a fence as minimum and some buildings if I can fit them in.

jonty-comp wrote:Updaaaate!

The red lights are meant to flash, as an aircraft warning system. I was lucky enough to be going past this thing (Well, 10 miles away) in a Voyager at night
NewObjects!

The entire tower used to flash at one point i think, I think its currently just the top of it. I could be wrong. If I happen to go past it at night I will make note.

on a Lighter note, this would indeed look A LOT better as part of new objects. (So would that Fortress, come to think of it)

Captain Kirk wrote:

jonty-comp wrote:Updaaaate!

The red lights are meant to flash, as an aircraft warning system. I was lucky enough to be going past this thing (Well, 10 miles away) in a Voyager at night
NewObjects!

The entire tower used to flash at one point i think, I think its currently just the top of it. I could be wrong. If I happen to go past it at night I will make note.

on a Lighter note, this would indeed look A LOT better as part of new objects. (So would my that Fortress, come to think of it)

Your Fortress?

However, I have to agree that you guys should probably wait until New Objects is started on before you look at getting this coded.

WhiteHand wrote: Your Fortress?

Edited. Simply a wording error.

Really shouldn't have made such a big deal of it, was in a particularly grouchy mood at the time

Did this ever get coded? Not sure I'd want it at my airports, but I'd love to see it in the game.

PaulC wrote:Did this ever get coded? Not sure I'd want it at my airports, but I'd love to see it in the game.

As far as I know, it has not been coded yet.

WhiteHand wrote: ... wait until New Objects is started on before you look at getting this coded.

I think New Objects is done now. eis_os would know for sure. This would make an excellent candidate to test the feature.