Buoy graphics needed - asap

Celestar · **Joined:** Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:56 am **Posts:** 574

Hi people

we need a distinct graphics for a buoy in order to display it properly on canals (on both trunk and 0.5), and I rediscovered my non-existing aptitude for drawing. So if any of you artists would like to give it a go, it'd be most helpful.

Here's a real life example:

Thanks
Celestar[/img]

PikkaBird · PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:04 pm

Do you mean a buoy with no water tile around it?

Born Acorn · PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:06 pm

Before anyone suggests anything a lot bigger, remember it will also have a station sign.

skidd13 · PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:03 pm

I just got this idea, of splitting the one buoy into the normal green and red one. There is only one problem (no green flashlight availible).
Keep this just as suggestion.

The idea has to come out in the wash.

Sacro · PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:02 pm

Ooooh yes, i like the red/green idea

Mchl · PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:57 pm

Somehow I have the feeling it would take more sprites than one...
I like the idea. Have some questions though.

Would it be for canals only, or also for open waters?
And how would it look like in the situation below?

Don't understand me wrong. I'd really like to see two rows of red/green buoys (even if they're 4 pixels large) instead of current ones. There just some problems we have to think about.

skidd13 · PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:16 am

Mchl wrote:

Somehow I have the feeling it would take more sprites than one...

Not imperatively. The 1 sprite could be drawn with comany color and remaped in game, but that is not the good way. I thought about 2 sprites (one red, on green). They can be place by the code.

Mchl wrote:

Would it be for canals only, or also for open waters?

I thought abaout it too, but got to the point to say that ist not nessesary to code that. The ships would drive over it, like the situation is now. Except the code of ship movement would be adapted.

Mchl wrote:

There just some problems we have to think about.

Agreed, that's what I said before.

Celestar · **Joined:** Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:56 am **Posts:** 574

I just somehow noticed that the German translation of "buoy" is wrong ...

There will not be any changing of ship movement in 0.5 (it's hopefully stable now) so a kind of centered buoy would be helpful there

Celestar

skidd13 · PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:07 pm

Celestar wrote:

I just somehow noticed that the German translation of "buoy" is wrong ...

Nope, I just mentioned that there could be another solution than buoy's ON the water.

Celestar wrote:

... so a kind of centered buoy would be helpful there

Ok did some small work! Other color combinations are possible.
My favorite is the red/green combination.

Attachted also a grf to test them in game. Switch through with 1st grf-parameter.

Celestar · **Joined:** Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:56 am **Posts:** 574

"Tonne" is the correct German term for what we have here, not "Boje", but then again who cares?

I don't play the German version anyway.

Anyway, nice looking stuff

Celestar

skidd13 · PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:01 pm

I read a bit about the signaling with the bouy's. It seems that the correct color should be white with vertical red stripes. These bouy's mark the middle of rivers in a curve. But this is really hard to draw.

link to Wikipedia (DE)

michael blunck · **Joined:** Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 5247

Canals don´t need marks. (And they usually don´t have.)

regards
Michael

Mchl · PostPosted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:45 pm

Not in real life maybe, but they often do need them in OpenTTD.

michael blunck · **Joined:** Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:09 am **Posts:** 5247

And that´s where the well-known "buoy" steps in. No need for another fictitious object ...

regards
Michael

skidd13 · PostPosted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:52 am

michael blunck wrote:

And that´s where the well-known "buoy" steps in. No need for another fictitious object ...

I think the 2nd graphic is requested to differ the sea-buoy from the canal-buoy graphically. Same code diffrent graphics. Just for a better overview.

Rubidium · **Joined:** Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:15 pm **Posts:** 3815

Celestar was asking for a buoy graphic to replace the current buoy graphic for both the 'sea' and canals. This as the original buoy sprite is drawn with the water around it, making it impossible to draw the canal edges without overdrawing the buoy (the buoy's flag would be overdrawn by the canal edge).

As quick fix the buoy graphic that is used in the menu is used, but that one has a black border around it making it look strange. Therefor we asked for a new buoy sprite.

skidd13 · PostPosted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 7:51 am

Code:

SPR_BUOY                        = 4076, //XXX this sucks, because it displays wrong stuff on canals

The buoy sprite is still marked in the sourcecode. There a some proposals, what do you plan to do?

lepkka · PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:23 pm

I drawed this buoy for my set but never used it.
I think i made other drawings somewhere...

lepkka · PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:40 pm

lepkka wrote:

I drawed this buoy for my set but never used it.
I think i made other drawings somewhere...

athanasios · **Joined:** Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:09 am **Posts:** 3138

This one is very nice, but unsuitable for current tile size. It is taller than a ship! :mrgreen:

I suggest you keep it for when we will have 128x63 sized tiles or bigger.

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