Help with coding Depot Sprites to a Station
Posted: 12 Feb 2009 13:37
Hi all,
This is mostly for seeking help with coding some station tiles for a long term project to create special station tiles that can service trains (and maybe build them too) over at this thread at the OTTD forum https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=40577
The main thing at the moment however is just to have some working station tiles
I had previously asked for someone to do it for me there, but seen as I'm now keen to learn how to code a station, and as i cannot really find any comprehensive tutorials out there for station coding, i thought it best to post here and hopefully learn myself with assistance.
Now, i will be using the following sprites i developed from Snorbuckles work last year, which are as follows
And i currently have the following NFO based on the Bigger Depot GRF i have already created, i realise that except for the Action 1, GRF-ID, and sprite coordinates everything else is totally incorrect, including how the sprites should be aligned in a game-tile. So basically i'm coding the NFO from scratch, anyone who can provide code to create the NFO for compiling with GRFCodec, or point me to a tutorial, or tell me how to use GRF Maker correctly, i'd be exceptionally grateful 
I think i've already got the coordinates and sizes of each sprite accurate in the NFO, they are as follows...
Sprite 3 Coordinates 59 8 Size 11 16
Sprite 4 Coordinates 91 8 Size 38 50
Sprite 5 Coordinates 157 8 Size 11 16
Sprite 6 Coordinates 189 8 Size 37 48
Sprite 7 Coordinates 252 8 Size 38 49
Sprite 8 Coordinates 314 8 Size 37 49
Sprite 9 Coordinates 377 8 Size 45 64
Sprite 10 Coordinates 456 8 Size 45 64
First thing to point out is that sprite 5 must be placed on the left of sprites 6 and 10, and similarly sprite 3 must be placed on the right of sprites 4 and 9 to form the walls correctly. This is the same as they operate in mine and Snorbuckle's Bigger Depots GRF in the above thread
Sprites 4, 6, 7, and 8 are non-track "buffer" tiles
Sprites 9 and 10 are the station-track tiles
Many thanks
Jacob
The service-station will be constructed in-game like the following example when the grf is complete...
This is mostly for seeking help with coding some station tiles for a long term project to create special station tiles that can service trains (and maybe build them too) over at this thread at the OTTD forum https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=40577
The main thing at the moment however is just to have some working station tiles
I had previously asked for someone to do it for me there, but seen as I'm now keen to learn how to code a station, and as i cannot really find any comprehensive tutorials out there for station coding, i thought it best to post here and hopefully learn myself with assistance.
Now, i will be using the following sprites i developed from Snorbuckles work last year, which are as follows
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I think i've already got the coordinates and sizes of each sprite accurate in the NFO, they are as follows...
Sprite 3 Coordinates 59 8 Size 11 16
Sprite 4 Coordinates 91 8 Size 38 50
Sprite 5 Coordinates 157 8 Size 11 16
Sprite 6 Coordinates 189 8 Size 37 48
Sprite 7 Coordinates 252 8 Size 38 49
Sprite 8 Coordinates 314 8 Size 37 49
Sprite 9 Coordinates 377 8 Size 45 64
Sprite 10 Coordinates 456 8 Size 45 64
First thing to point out is that sprite 5 must be placed on the left of sprites 6 and 10, and similarly sprite 3 must be placed on the right of sprites 4 and 9 to form the walls correctly. This is the same as they operate in mine and Snorbuckle's Bigger Depots GRF in the above thread
Sprites 4, 6, 7, and 8 are non-track "buffer" tiles
Sprites 9 and 10 are the station-track tiles
Many thanks
Jacob
The service-station will be constructed in-game like the following example when the grf is complete...