[Help wanted] Need some arrows

[richk67]

Hi. I need some arrows for my NewGRF airports feature. They are to show the directions that an airport can be placed in.

What I would like would be an arrow for NE, NW, SE, SW, with those letters on in white. I would prefer if the arrows match the isometric view, rather than a simple 45 degrees.

Ive thrown a mockup together, but if you can improve on it, I would be really grateful.

(I only need the png - I will put it together into a .grf)

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[doghousedean]

ill have a go....

[daylight]

something like this? (could be any colour, white might not show up on snow?)

[richk67]

something like this? (could be any colour, white might not show up on snow?)

NICE!!! Could you make 2 versions? One with orangey/yellow arrows (the selected ones), and I like these white ones for not selected.

The arrows are for the Airport placement GUI that will soon allow placing an airport in any one of the 4 directions, so they wont appear on the map (although it is a really nice idea that it might appear on the map as well). Hence needing a selected arrow, and a not selected version. If a direction is not available, then it will appear as a greyed-out button using the gui controls.

Great work though!!

[REQUEST 2]
Incidentally, I will need mini-pics of the airport layouts to appear in the gui window (like when you have a newgrf station - you see the station part). Anyone fancy creating mini-pics (no more than 128pix wide by 80pix high) of the 11 airports? If you can leave them with company colours, that would be fantastic... if not, please use the Yellow company colour as it stands out best.

[daylight]

is this what you mean?

[richk67]

is this what you mean?

Close. Could you keep the letters white, and make the yellow arrow stronger.... maybe a black edge to it, or a drop shadow, or something to really make them stand out. Perhaps have the yellow a bit brighter too. (Sort of the same colour as the smileys one this page.)

[daylight]

mmm...looked funny with blacker edges. but how about this?

[richk67]

mmm...looked funny with blacker edges. but how about this?

Thats great. I'll .grf them tonite, and they'll be in the NewGRF_ports branch asap

Many many thanks.

[edit] Just noticed one thing... the bottom right arrow (NE) has the shadow on the wrong side I think. (Copy/Rotate/Flip )

[daylight]

no problem! glad i could help

[DaleStan]

I'm probably a little late, but there are already arrows like this in ttdpbase[w].grf, for the Locomotion GUI.

[richk67]

Last time I checked I was developing in OTTD Wasnt aware of the TTDPbase ones, and I prefer fresh ones without any arguing over licences

The graphics will go into the ottd_airports.grf as part of the OTTD gui (ie. not part of a newgrf - just plain core OTTD graphics). What gui TTDP wants to develop for NewGRFports support is totally up to you guys.

[richk67]

And here are the arrows in action... nearly. Well, Ok, they are just painted on the gui at the moment.

Once again, many thanks.

One .grf file. 2 airport directions. :) With the arrows too!

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[rav]

hmm, I miss something

[richk67]

And it doesnt have the right fences, nor the new angle tower, etc. Guess what... project isnt finished yet.

[Digitalfox]

Amazing richk67

[richk67]

Here is another update... now with preview image.

Up to 4 orientations, controlled by NewGRF layouts.

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[Ben_K]

Really awesome work Rich

[MeusH]

Cool, they're anti-aliased!
Do you like it?

[richk67]

Cool, they're anti-aliased!
Do you like it?

HUGS

[edit]Helistation - you need to screengrab from a latest nightly, or from 0.5.x. There is a bug where the Hs dont appear. Its been fixed, but yours is still showing it.

[edit edit]Do you want the job of creating these screenies for all 4 angles of airports once Ive coded them?

[glx]

@Meush: I think you should redo helistation with at least r10761 (the "H" should be white)