Small - Medium Sets

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 27 May 2004 18:21

We're (at least me) driving crazy in huge projects that take years, this may lead to a lack on ethusiasm on the long term, why not make small sets that can be finished pretty easily and them just stick them together.
Something such as
US steamers
US diesels
Us electrics
or by periods of 30 years, or something

Well, this is what i'm working on, Small diesels and car transporters.
But i'm thinking about

1 Passenger Express, together with full consist of 1st 2nd and 3rd class, dining rooms, even the loco they were designed for.
2 Emergency trains, well these should carry goods, but when full will have a big cran, some emergency stuff, blinking lights and the such.

As i said, just ideas, however these are my first sketches

Villem · Post by **Villem** » 27 May 2004 19:32

Nice, i like them and i like the idea.

Korenn · Post by **Korenn** » 27 May 2004 19:35

if this were suggested when all projects were at the 10% marker, yes I'd think it would be a good idea.

but now the us set is almost done and the other big sets are coming along nicely...

starting a set now, no matter how small (unless you mean single vehicles) will cost more time then finishing the 'big' projects.

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 27 May 2004 21:08

yes, and i'm working full time for the japan set (thanx for those grf, nice, very nice, i'll be changing cursors so they show Shinkanshens line, ok?)

But it was just an idea, and i wanted an excuse to post my diesels!!

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 27 May 2004 21:26

Awww, common, these little trains are booored in their grey universe, they need to get into ttdx and carry thousands of pixels of cargo around the 256*256 world

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 28 May 2004 07:47

Raven, I like this idea, but when I see your sprites, I only see _ views, and not / | and \ views. Did you make those too?

Zoom · Post by **Zoom** » 28 May 2004 13:43

I also am interested in it - are there any diagonal sprites?

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 28 May 2004 16:03

diagonal views are straightforward, but i have much much work to do
so i cannot start a project without data, these were just ideas

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 31 May 2004 15:34

The trouble with doing mini sets is that they aren't very practical - you can play trains with them and see them wander around the map, but you cannot really play a game because there aren't enough trains over the length of time of the whole game. There have been "singles" floating around for a while, and they are rarely seen for this reason. I honestly believe that, in order to get played with much at all, you have to have an entire, complete set of trains, covering all the operational requirements of the game from 1921 to 2010 at least.

Some of these singles might make sense combined with others into one complete set. Are they based on real trains, or did you just make them up? Some of them I recognize (the ICE and the Swiss loco, both of which MB has/will have in his sets) but others I dunno.

Korenn · Post by **Korenn** » 31 May 2004 16:31

Raven wrote:yes, and i'm working full time for the japan set (thanx for those grf, nice, very nice, i'll be changing cursors so they show Shinkanshens line, ok?)

But it was just an idea, and i wanted an excuse to post my diesels!!

whaaaa please don't!
I've already done that myself, and I'm still working on them

we don't want to do stuff double, since that is a waste of time...

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 31 May 2004 17:02

Huh? Please, both of you, post in the Japan thread a list of what you're currently working on. As far as I know, Raven is working on the steamers, and perhaps freight cars, and also the Odakyu "Romance" trains. Everything else is pretty much done, isn't it?

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 31 May 2004 21:06

I do't like enlarged TTD sprites, they look bloated and have blurage on them. The normal size, however, that looks better.

Villem · Post by **Villem** » 01 Jun 2004 12:53

What we need is maglev converted to normal road vehicle road, so that ya can add trucks with trailers, 2 part buses(i only use normal railways and electric, hardly road vehicles cause ya cant add trailers to them so they dont make quite enough cash, never maglev or monorail..i hate em with passion)

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 01 Jun 2004 12:57

Akalamanaia wrote:What we need is maglev converted to normal road vehicle road, so that ya can add trucks with trailers, 2 part buses(i only use normal railways and electric, hardly road vehicles cause ya cant add trailers to them so they dont make quite enough cash, never maglev or monorail..i hate em with passion)

The problem is that then road vehicles can't pass each other.

Saskia · Post by **Saskia** » 01 Jun 2004 13:20

And you would need to rip up the street's roads ... it would only be good for highways then.

Villem · Post by **Villem** » 01 Jun 2004 13:34

Purno wrote:
Akalamanaia wrote:What we need is maglev converted to normal road vehicle road, so that ya can add trucks with trailers, 2 part buses(i only use normal railways and electric, hardly road vehicles cause ya cant add trailers to them so they dont make quite enough cash, never maglev or monorail..i hate em with passion)
The problem is that then road vehicles can't pass each other.

thats why ya make highways or independent routes(cmon, ya just make signals light poles what change from red to yellow to green when trains can pass, just, that way ya can make road crossings etc.)

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 01 Jun 2004 13:36

I can't say I don't like the idea. I wouldn't need much new graphics because it can use existing ones. But you'll need someone to code it.

Szappy · Post by **Szappy** » 01 Jun 2004 13:39

Check these:

http://ttforums.owenrudge.net/viewtopic.php?t=5065
http://ttforums.owenrudge.net/viewtopic.php?t=5802
http://ttforums.owenrudge.net/viewtopic.php?t=5808
http://ttforums.owenrudge.net/viewtopic.php?t=6900

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 01 Jun 2004 15:11

Yes, that's already been done. Personally I think it's stupid, but if you want to use it, the files are available.

Purno · Post by **Purno** » 02 Jun 2004 06:33

Another small graphic idea:

Some time ago I drew a new railway fence. Wouldn't it be something to make a grf of it. I think that wouldn't be much work, so we can release it very soon.

What about that?

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