Breitspurbahn - newGRF (starting project)

[Pwestland]

I was searching the internet and found some fascinating information about nazi-german Breitspurbahn.

And no it has nothing to do with transporting jews in trains to workcamps. And gas.

Nazi german had a great plan of building breitspurbahn between the main cities in europe. But then with 3000mm track. (normal rail is about 1435mm)

more information:
English (shorter)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitspurbahn
Dutch
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitspurbahn

But there is a problem I need some templates to start spriting. I cant find them.
I need:
all type of rail tiles.

edit:
I want to add the bigger size rails including offcial planned Carriages.


I hope you will help me out.

[keoz]

That's quite a weird project ...

[Pwestland]

May i ask Keoz, what is strange about this project?

[Trond]

wow... that would be some giant trains ^^

[Pwestland]

Very big trains for very large cities.

[Eddi]

if you just put bigger sprites on vehicles, you'll get loads of problems with clipping (like under bridges and in tunnels)

[Purno]

And vehicle length might be an issue too.

This project is quite unique, but since Breitspurbahn never made it to reality, wouldn't you have a very limited amount of vehicles to include?

[Pwestland]

Purno i have seen long trains in newgrf, and there where 41 planed models for the locomotiv. If its needed we could design more trains.

[FLHerne]

Purno i have seen long trains in newgrf, and there where 41 planed models for the locomotiv. If its needed we could design more trains.

The width/height would be more of a problem - they'd look quite strange going into tunnels or under low bridges. But then double-deck buses have that issue already and no-one cares, so maybe it'll work anyway.

[Pwestland]

I was thinking that to Nice profile picture

[YNM]

Would an oversized vehicle sprite clips under a two-level higher bridge ? Of course none of us can fix for clipping when entering tunnels and catenaries (unless we can draw a larger one safely ?), but I guess we could make the tunnels literally extends far to the end of the tunnel tile ? Would it looks silly (because of locos and wagons disappearing before entering the tunnel) ?

For me, this sounds totally interesting : a very huge (oversized) fleet of trains, complete with oversized infrastructure...

For templates, you can look at mb's tutorial for drawing trains which contains templates, I think four 6/8 template or four 5/8 template from this chart would suffice (assuming that their dimension ratios are just the same as with standard trains)

EDIT : Here's the images...

[Pwestland]

yea the nazi planned to make the rail go from berlin to istanbul.
Making a realy big main railline was my main idee.

But your hyperlink doesnt work

[Eddi]

Would an oversized vehicle sprite clips under a two-level higher bridge ? Of course none of us can fix for clipping when entering tunnels and catenaries (unless we can draw a larger one safely ?), but I guess we could make the tunnels literally extends far to the end of the tunnel tile ? Would it looks silly (because of locos and wagons disappearing before entering the tunnel) ?

Maybe you can draw from this, it was primarily focused on longer vehicles, but wider/higher vehicles might work as well if you don't push it too far. all these points have meanwhile been implemented

[Pwestland]

that could be helpfull

[Pwestland]

EDIT : Here's the images...

ehm i cant see it

[YNM]

ehm i cant see it

Sounds peculiar... What browser do you use ? Do you use NoScript or something alike (I use it too - but it's still there for me) ? Or do you use another app, like Tapatalk or something ?

Or try seeing it when not logged in.

[kamnet]

The problem is that the image was a file uploaded here, but the file no longer exists.

[SkiddLow]

big train from WW2 for newGRF. So Weirdest

[YNM]

The problem is that the image was a file uploaded here, but the file no longer exists.

Well, I linked that from one of my PM's... I forgot the first source, it's a courtesy of michael blunck.

[Pwestland]

Is there a way that i can get it?