[OTTD] Dutch Road Furniture

[FooBar]

Dutch Road Furniture 0.7.0
Dutch Road Furniture is an eyecandy object NewGRF that features road furniture which can be found alongside Dutch roads.

Downloads?
Get it from the ingame content download or the DevZone.

This NewGRF requires OpenTTD 1.2.0 or nightly r22723 (or newer).

What's new?
Check the changelog.

Problem?
If you find any problems with this NewGRF, please report them to the issue tracker or post in this topic.

Source?
This NewGRF is licensed GPLv2+ and you can get the source from the repository at the DevZone.

Screenshots?
Let's have a contest! Post your screenshots showing this set off in this topic. The best screenshot will be displayed here in the first post. There are more screenshots in the development topic.

Our current contest winner is Quast65. He's even made an add-grf, Highway End, shown in the screenshot!

[FooBar]

UK Signs Add-on

There is an add-on for this set available, providing UK style motorway signs. These signs are modified from the normal signs in the main set by Leanden.
Only in left hand drive version and with UK Roads support.

Download?
Get it from the ingame content download or the DevZone.

This NewGRF requires OpenTTD 1.2.0 or nightly r22723 (or newer).

[Leanden]

Nice to the fruits of our combined labour

Excellent coding my Foobar

[FooBar]

An add-on for this set has just been released: UK style motorway signs, on special request of Leanden. More details in the second post.

EDIT: also there's now a bugfix release of the main set, the standalone motorway signs were missing UK roads support

[Quast65]

Nice work!!

I've included a screenshot and a small thank you GRF, Highway End. See if you can spot them in the screenie

[Leanden]

Good job with the highway end, does that work with UK roads and normal roads?

EDIT: Removed my request, i believe we have a 3->2 lane tile in development, still good stuff though so sit in place until we have something within the GRF itself.

[Quast65]

I've drawn it to match the righthand drive version of UK roads. I'm not very good at drawing, so maybe its better if you guys redraw it. But I think it will be a nice add-on for V0.5.2

EDIT: Just read your edit, cool that you are also working on something like that!

[Leanden]

Te devzone currently shows this implementation, although currently uncoded, its just graphics:

[FooBar]

Nice screenshot, Quast65!
I'll add it to the first post, along with a link to your highway end grf.

Similar ends are indeed planned for the next version (which will be 0.6.0, not 0.5.2 ). What I have in mind is some sort of combination of what you have in your grf and what oberhuemer has drawn (in the screenshot Leanden posted). They will support variable length and will have the guardrail dive into the ground.
I already started work on end pieces for the shoulders.

For now your grf is a great addition. And of course people can keep using it next to my implementation if they like yours better! Did you upload it to the content download?

[Quast65]

Thnx! I've not uploaded my GRF to the content download, It's badly drawn and only supports righthanddrive UK roadset. But it works fine now until you guys are ready for a next release

By the way, just some ideas now there are Matrix boards, How about some tiles with roadworkers in them or a carcrash?

[jermboy27]

Add Dutch Yield signs, Please?

[FooBar]

Read my reply on that matter in the development topic.

[Leanden]

Quast, im liking your highway end signs, although ive noticed that there arent enough different orientations to cover every direction of slope.

[Quast65]

Thats correct, It's only for flat surfaces or a perfect slope to a tunnel (picture highwayend01).
But that is all I need for my highways. I only play on a Dutch scenario that is 95% flat. And to be honest even if you play rougher terrains, you want your highways as flat as possible to keep up the speed.
I wouldn't want highways where one side is on sealevel and the other below (picture highwayend02), I would terraform that to be flat.
One side through a mountain is no problem by the way (picture highwayend03)

[Leanden]

I was more thinking that my motorways are built in trenches, and at the end of one going from NE to SW, the last tile of the motorway goes up a hill, but i cant place a highway end there

[Quast65]

Ahh, I see!

Only answer I have is to go from 2 to 3 lanes (and viceversa) in the trench, but that doesn't look very nice, or build highways on slopes. They are not called HIGHways for nothing See picture below.

I don't think I will draw/encode a better solution for you, as it is no use to me and you guys are getting close to a better drawn way to make the 2 to 3 lanes transition.

ONTOPIC: Is it possible to draw/encode 2 extra activators? One with 3 green arrows (indicating 3rd lane is open) and one with 3 white circles (indicating end of speedlimit/close down of 3rd lane due to accident)

[Leanden]

Motorways in the UK tend to have enbankments built around them to contain the noise.

[FooBar]

They are not called HIGHways for nothing

Actually a highway can be anything. The US Route 66 for instance is in many places just a simple single carriageway with one lane in each direction, but still a highway. Much like our provincial roads.

But that's just semantics

Is it possible to draw/encode 2 extra activators? One with 3 green arrows (indicating 3rd lane is open) and one with 3 white circles (indicating end of speedlimit/close down of 3rd lane due to accident)

That's certainly possible. Three green arrows is easy, as that's just copy/paste. The "end of all by matrix signs indicated restrictions" one is slightly more work, as that involves with possible scale problems, but I'll try.

Motorways in the UK tend to have enbankments built around them to contain the noise.

In the Netherlands we generally don't have space for that, so we use other types of noise barriers. I plan to add some different versions of those to the set.

[Brantwan]

hey foobar im having troubles trying to get the dutch highway sign's its saying my version od ottd isnt compatable with it.
I got a screenie to show:

[Transportman]

hey foobar im having troubles trying to get the dutch highway sign's its saying my version od ottd isnt compatable with it.
I got a screenie to show:

This NewGRF requires OpenTTD 1.2.0 or nightly r22723 (or newer).

You have OpenTTD 1.1.4, which is older than 1.2.0 and r22723.