Matte´s First Drawing ^^

[^^atte]

Hey,
i decided to test to draw some TTD graphics, so this is what i came up with:

Its an bus that is used in my town.

Feedbacks?

Edit, i have posted an srceen how the bus looks.

[Samwise]

The sizes are way too big, try this tutorial for proper sizes: http://users.tt-forums.net/purno/PDT/re ... sizes.html

[Trond]

A good start! Try making the red line thinner?

[XeryusTC]

It could use some more shading, everything is the same flat color now.

[^^atte]

Thanks for all advises

XeryusTC, ye i will test that, its not fully done yet.

Trond, i cant make it anymore thin, but i agree ,

Darkmast49, hm i dont think i can make it smaller without lossing the detils, but its not that a tutorial about traín wagons?

[Ameecher]

Darkmast49, hm i dont think i can make it smaller without lossing the detils, but its not that a tutorial about traín wagons?

It is still relevant.

Even if you don't make it smaller your diagonal (/ and \) views are too long in comparison to your horizontal and vertical views. TTD uses an isometric style.

[Purno]

The sizes are way too big, try this tutorial for proper sizes: http://users.tt-forums.net/purno/PDT/re ... sizes.html

These sizes do not apply to road vehicles, AFAIK. Road vehicles can be bigger.

[^^atte]

Hm i have found a pretty good tutorial about how to make buses in TTD, so im gona start over agian... i post the resultalts in a day or so

[Samwise]

The sizes are way too big, try this tutorial for proper sizes: http://users.tt-forums.net/purno/PDT/re ... sizes.html

These sizes do not apply to road vehicles, AFAIK. Road vehicles can be bigger.

They can indeed, but that's still a nice comparison on how the sizes of the sprites would be compared to eachother.

[athanasios]

Check George's LV4s and his tutorial.

Mistake 1: I suppose you made an articulated vehicle. If yes, front car is missing back wheels!
Mistake 2: || views missmatch: lengths of each car in one | view are opposite from the other | view.
Mistake 3: In _ view front car is way longer than back one. || views do not follow the same proportion.

regards
athanasios

[Aegir]

No, the last thing we need is more sprites that are simply too big for the game and just don't work. Theres a rough scale to vehicles in TTD, the engine is designed to draw sprites of those dimensions. We should not encourage people to draw sprites in a way that will make them glitch in the game.

[Purno]

Original road vehicle sprites had the same sizes as the max sizes for train sprites mentioned in my tutorials. So, you gotta decide yourself you want to draw in this small, limited, scale, or in the bigger, buggy, scale.

[athanasios]

No, the last thing we need is more sprites that are simply too big...

1. Well, personal choice.
2. Georges' vehicles have a short version too.

But I didn't have in mind the scale. Just a guide/reference for drawing correctly (proportions, shades...).

regards
athanasios

[SuperTycoon]

Aside from the possible issues with sprite sizes then I think that's a very encouraging first attempt. My suggestion would be to remove the black lines surrounding each of the sides of the vehicle, instead allowing the different faces to be defined by the relative shading on each of them. But promising work, definitely.

[athanasios]

Who knows. Maybe Zimmlock will get a new rival!