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Title: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on June 12, 2009, 05:08:33 PM
I was going to take part in a new extension pak focused on industries, but the project is halted yet, so I'm going you post here some advances. The pakset includes some green powerplants (wave power, geothermal, biomass and combined cicle) and some new chains (oilriggs, recycling chain, etc..) I hope I'm able to finish all I have in mind. The first preview is for the geothermal powerplant, that gets the energy from earth's heat to produce electricity.

(http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6167/10372840.th.png) (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVnq1Wr)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: ariarinen on June 12, 2009, 05:42:05 PM
So any fusion power under green powerplants?
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on June 12, 2009, 05:50:14 PM
Nope, physics constraints also exist in Simutrans world... :)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on July 02, 2009, 07:36:29 PM
The geothermal powerplant is finished and producing energy. It has winter version and four rotations. See it in action...

(http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/340/prevgeothermal.th.jpg) (http://img234.imageshack.us/i/prevgeothermal.jpg/)

It only appears in temperate,tundra,rocky and artic climates.

I'm now working on a new bigger oil platform and some other surprises..  ;D

PS: It's already included in pak64 since 102.2.1
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: Mac_#71 on July 05, 2009, 11:47:16 AM
with all due respect to the creator, but I think that the oil rig is not very nice, why not make something close to that of pak128? :-)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on July 05, 2009, 04:58:22 PM
That's my idea. The original one seem to be taken from a photograph, and imho doesn't fit as well as it should, and it's very small too. The one I'm developing is based on Exxon Mobile Oil Platform in the North Sea (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beryl_alpha_from_air.jpg), with the extraction tower separated from the processing plant.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on July 06, 2009, 08:57:24 PM
A WIP preview of the new oil rig (in pak128 scale)

(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/9196/80605889.png) (http://www.postimage.org/)

EDIT: Preview updated with the latest changes.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: Colin on July 07, 2009, 09:28:38 PM
WOW!! these oilrigs are terrific when can we see them incorporated into the game?
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on July 07, 2009, 09:37:43 PM
When I finish them... :D.... I must add the piping system at the auxiliary platform, and apply the textures too.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: Mac_#71 on July 17, 2009, 07:52:15 AM
Nice! ;)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: IgorEliezer on July 17, 2009, 08:53:47 AM
Well, this says all ::)

(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u302/IgorEliezer/Graphics/awesome.jpg)

Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: PlayTrans2009 on September 07, 2009, 06:29:51 AM
Is it done?
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 07, 2009, 06:58:42 AM
Not yet. I've some representation problems with the yellow structures (cranes, oil pump, towers) and I need to make some scale tests too. It's a complex project so you must be patient. It will be finished sooner o later.. :)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: PlayTrans2009 on September 07, 2009, 07:41:23 AM
Quote from: vilvoh on September 07, 2009, 06:58:42 AM
Not yet. I've some representation problems with the yellow structures (cranes, oil pump, towers) and I need to make some scale tests too. It's a complex project so you must be patient. It will be finished sooner o later.. :)

Oww I like your addons! I downloaded all of it!
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 19, 2009, 06:11:34 PM
These are the first scale tests of the north sea oil rig..

(http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3058/nsort.th.jpg) (http://img22.imageshack.us/i/nsort.jpg/)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 28, 2009, 08:51:56 PM
The oil rig is almost finished. Meanwhile, I have time to create this oil prospector ship. It's supposed to be an aquatic version of the oil pump/well (very common but with small production)

(http://www.postimage.org/TsKnnKr.png) (http://www.postimage.org/)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on October 12, 2009, 06:07:04 PM
The oil drilling ship is finished. It produces 45 units of oil as much.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on October 23, 2009, 03:24:56 PM
The last test before the release of the new North Sea Oil rig.. ;D

(http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/5783/northseaprerelease.th.jpg) (http://img2.imageshack.us/i/northseaprerelease.jpg/)

I just need to add some extra lights and the flame at the top of the extraction tower..
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: colonyan on October 23, 2009, 09:40:20 PM
This look very very neat!
And also for that depot.
Thankyou for sharing!
-colo
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: prissi on October 23, 2009, 10:20:06 PM
Personally I find the glowing derrick a little strange. For an oil rig I would expect a dull color and not somethign glowing in the dark ... Other than that a very nice one.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: colonyan on October 23, 2009, 11:13:15 PM
@prissi
I guess vilvoh used that colour to make some contrast with dark parts of the structure
to give it more life to it. My opinion is that it doesn't need to be all realistic, especially at
pak64 which is lower size. There is some room to play when its this small...
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on October 25, 2009, 11:53:28 AM
Colonyan is right. I just wanted to add some bright colors to such a dark building. In addition, I've planned another industry chain that will also have a rig, so I needed to distinguish one from the other and I though the color of the main structures was a good choice.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on November 23, 2009, 11:02:59 PM
Finally, here it is...the North Sea Oil rig.. it produces 200 units more than the current oil rig but it appears less frequently.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on December 16, 2009, 09:55:50 PM
I'm going to start a new industry chain called Recycling chain.

These are the recycling points (aka green points), the first element of the chain, that will be within the cities producing waste. There should be at least one in every city. I'll try to create 4 or 5 different models.
(http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/4438/recypoints1.png) (http://img97.imageshack.us/i/recypoints1.png/)

Then, the waste will be consumed by the biomass powerplant that will produce electricity, and the Recycling plant that will produce paper, plastic and steel in small amounts.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: skreyola on December 17, 2009, 01:24:30 AM
Vilvoh: awesome. Too bad there isn't coding to allow it to produce only those goods that are already being produced by primary factories on the map... but, then, I guess if you don't have a paper mill, you won't have anything that consumes paper, either...
But... what if the recycling plant comes first and then the printing press connects to the recycling plant, which isn't producing enough paper?
Hmm... that could end up being complicated.
However, in any case, I like the idea of recycling plants and collection points a lot, and I can't wait to see it in a pak(set). :) Good work on the image, too.
Will the waste they produce be the same as the waste produced by scrapyards? Does a new recyclables good need to be created?
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on December 17, 2009, 08:57:50 AM
I'm glad you like the chain. The initial idea is to create a combined industry chain that produces energy through a new powerplant and also goods that will be consumed by end consumers (the final elements of other industry chains if they exist)

Quote from: skreyola on December 17, 2009, 01:24:30 AM
But... what if the recycling plant comes first and then the printing press connects to the recycling plant, which isn't producing enough paper?

The idea is to have another element that produces paper when the paper mill is not available, but obviously the production level would be lower, more or less one tenth.

Quote from: skreyola on December 17, 2009, 01:24:30 AM
Will the waste they produce be the same as the waste produced by scrapyards? Does a new recyclables good need to be created?

As the waste already exist as good in Simutrans, I prefer to use it. Creating a new good is a hard task mainly because you have to make the balancing of the whole industry chain, so I prefer to take advantage of what's already done and tested. It's a matter of laziness but on the other hand, it's my first complete industry chain, thus I don't want to make something very complex..  :)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: skreyola on December 17, 2009, 07:55:24 PM
All of that is cool.
The potential 'problems' I mentioned could also be considered not as 'problems' but as an optional 'challenge'. Some of us enjoy challenges in our games. Others of us don't. I think that the way you're planning this is a good thing.
When setting the recovery amounts, different materials are more easily recoverable than others.
However, on the subject of power generation, I think you can't eat your cake and have it, too. I'm no expert, but my understanding is that recycling that generates power does not generate reusable materials. E.g., if you use waste paper to generate power by incinerating it (by the by, does the incinerator generate power, or just consume waste?), yu won't get recycled paper. So, you might want to think about that. It's my understanding that recycling anything requires a power input to go from waste => plastic/glass/aluminum/steel/paper. Now, if you're accepting as waste things that should go into compost, then yes, you can generate the power for it, but I don't know if you'll get any net production of electricity.
Someone wit more knowledge in this area, please correct/confirm this.


By the by, I think it would be cool if one of the recycling functions produced fertilizer, which would act on farms like electrification does on other industries. The chemical plants could also produce it. :) But that's a big project for another place and time. :)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: VS on December 17, 2009, 10:12:38 PM
Fertilizer -> good (and old) idea, impossible until some extensions to factory model :-(
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on December 17, 2009, 10:37:36 PM
This is a schema of the early idea:

(http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1549/cadenareciclado.th.jpg) (http://img35.imageshack.us/i/cadenareciclado.jpg/)

Note: RSU means waste

and I also develop the idea at this article (http://simutrans-escala-real.blogspot.com/2008/10/reciclar-es-muy-importante.html) from my blog about Simutrans (I'm sorry but it's in spanish)

So the industry chain would be as follows:

Recycling point>>>>>waste>>>> Biomass powerplant >>>>electricity
       |
       |_______>>>>>waste>>>>>>> Recycling plant >>>>>> paper/plastic/steel

As you can see in the graphic above, the original design includes the idea of metane generated by the biomass powerplant, but I'll leave it aside by now. Waste consists of several elements, some of them are organic and go to the powerplant in order to produce energy, and others are inorganic so they go to the recycling plant. imho, It's the most realistic approach I can achieve without adding more complexity to the chain.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on June 24, 2010, 06:44:10 PM
This is part of a new chain: E-minimarket

us (site down, do not visit) ]/image/show/k1RkAE3_t-/minimarket-prev.png](http:///thumbstore/4e/k1RkAE3_t-.minimarket_prev_thumb.png) (http://files.[%20simutrans%20[dot)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: VS on June 24, 2010, 06:55:19 PM
Nice... I wonder how it looks on grass, though...
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on June 29, 2010, 09:14:48 PM
While I finish the minimarket, I've also started the biomass industry chain by the end (powerplant and processing plant)

us (site down, do not visit) ]/image/show/UtSUYlu7ff/biomass-ic.png](http:///thumbstore/17/UtSUYlu7ff.biomass_ic_thumb.png) (http://files.[%20simutrans%20[dot)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on July 21, 2010, 06:35:14 PM
Preview of the biomass powerplant. I still have to add the details (windows, lights, etc...)

us (site down, do not visit) ]/image/show/-K2uuPu0f0/biomass-pwp-pre.jpg](http:///thumbstore/5a/-K2uuPu0f0.biomass_pwp_pre_thumb.jpg) (http://files.[%20simutrans%20[dot)

Btw, the recycling points are almost finished too. I only have to create the vehicles for transporting the waste, trucks and wagons.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 17, 2010, 05:40:39 PM
The new waste/biomass chain is at 75% finished . Some previews:
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: Colin on September 17, 2010, 11:46:58 PM
Wow!!! Vilvoh these are great, any chance of doing them for PAK128 as well?
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 18, 2010, 05:58:18 PM
Maybe the factories but not the vehicles.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: diegoviagens on September 18, 2010, 08:08:49 PM
I would suggest to the coffee industry,
this being that since the last century that moves
economy of various countries.

could happen as follows?

Coffee plantation> local Browning> bagged coffee>
market
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 18, 2010, 09:49:05 PM
Well, I have other industry chains in mind like wine, fruit juices, ice,  liquid gas, hardware tools and tobacco thus I take note of your suggestion... :)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: skreyola on September 19, 2010, 12:24:43 AM
Quote from: vilvoh on September 18, 2010, 09:49:05 PM
Well, I have other industry chains in mind like wine, fruit juices, ice,  liquid gas, hardware tools and tobacco thus I take note of your suggestion... :)
I have seen a fruit>wine>market chain in pak64 before. But I'm sure if you undertake to build a wine chain, it will be cool.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: Dwachs on September 19, 2010, 07:41:27 AM
There is one in pak.german.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 19, 2010, 10:54:40 AM
The original idea for all these food chains was to centralize the end part of the chain and have the same end consumer for all. Perhaps a mall center or a set of small and medium shops that consume all these products (juice, wine, tobacco, coffe, ice, etc..)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: skreyola on September 20, 2010, 07:25:06 AM
I wouldn't mind seeing a new Shopping Center end factory. The one in the old food chains pakset is huge on the map. I think it is too big. (and along with a new market, I wouldn't mind seeing the other factories. It could be a great improvement, and if not, then certainly interesting)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 20, 2010, 07:54:48 AM
The new shopping center I'm planning is a 3x3 building (minimark). I've to add some lights, parking and cars.

http://graphics.simutrans.com/albums/userpics/10026/minimk.png
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: skreyola on September 22, 2010, 01:49:28 AM
Looks good. Are you going to add marks for the parking spaces, or are they invisible from this distance?
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on September 22, 2010, 09:07:47 AM
That's the plan... :)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: skreyola on September 23, 2010, 04:04:48 PM
Good deal. I look forward to it.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: BigHorseLover on January 26, 2011, 08:35:07 AM
i would also like very much to see a new end market that all beverage and food products go to just like in the real world.The ones that exsist now only have a few products going to them and most of these dont make sense that they should be going to them.Like furniture going to a supermarket that should be going to a department store instead.




I would also like to see some new industry chains like a textile mill,glass factory,rubber plantation,rubber factory,vehicle parts factory,vehicle parts store,coffee farm to cannery,vegetable farm,nuts farm,fruits farm,produce farm,candy factory,coco bean farm,toy and game factory,tool and dye factory,paint factory,mineral ores mine,metal ores mine,metals factory,gems mine,department store,vehicle plant,aircraft plant,marine craft plant,heavy equipment plant.These are some of the industries that I would like to see.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: greenling on February 19, 2011, 07:03:06 PM
I hate be looking the photo from the minimk on and must be said it´s look be nice!

greenling
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: electroduck on February 27, 2011, 12:37:22 AM
I would suggest this industry chain
(http://www.electroduck.com/images/simutrans/nat_gas.png) (http://www.electroduck.com/images/simutrans/nat_gas.png)
New factories input and output things.
New producers output things.
Old items are existing factories.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on February 27, 2011, 12:22:55 PM
I like the idea although I usually try not to create complex chains, but what does the Natural Gas rig produce that can be consumed by the Paper and Concrete factories? I don't see the relationship.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: Combuijs on February 27, 2011, 02:49:53 PM
Quotebut what does the Natural Gas rig produce that can be consumed by the Paper and Concrete factories?

I guess it provides the energy to produce paper from wood. It's the same as for example with a steel factory. Iron ore itself is enough to produce steel, but you need energy in some way to transform it. In the steel factory case it is coal.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: DirrrtyDirk on February 27, 2011, 03:15:52 PM
IIRC, that's not entirely correct. The coal is needed to get the oxygen out of the iron ore by chemical reaction, not for power supply as such...
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: VS on February 27, 2011, 04:53:32 PM
For steel mills, either you burn the coal to melt your iron directly, or you have your own power plant. Plus, you process raw coal into coke.

For paper, you need... water?
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: electroduck on February 27, 2011, 07:50:37 PM
check this out:
http://www.electroduck.com/simutrans/NGasE.pdf (http://www.electroduck.com/simutrans/NGasE.pdf)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: greenling on March 05, 2011, 03:53:23 PM
Natural Gas cam to a Natuarl gas Cleaner!
From there cames to a Gasoline Station there be sells as Fulls for Cars,Trucks and Buses!
The useage in a Gas Power plant it enable!
Natural Gas can be use in a concrete factory to bake lightgasconcrete.

greenling
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: paco_m on March 05, 2011, 04:41:37 PM
Quote from: greenling on March 05, 2011, 03:53:23 PM
Natural Gas can be use in a concrete factory to bake lightgasconcrete.

This is a misunderstanding, what we call in german "Gasbeton" means autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) and has absolutely nothing to do with natural gas. Actually you add some aluminium particles to the cement which convert in the mixing process (adding water and other ingredients) into an hydrogen-gas. However this kind of gas is moreless like air (also a gas, chemically).
No natural gas is used in the AAC production.

Quote from: electroduck on February 27, 2011, 07:50:37 PM
check this out:
http://www.electroduck.com/simutrans/NGasE.pdf (http://www.electroduck.com/simutrans/NGasE.pdf)
This document is referring to natural gas as an energy for gas fired furnace (heating process).
Alternatively you can use coal or electricity to get the required temperature so natural gas can be an energy supply but is no raw material for the mentioned factories (paper, concrete).
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: electroduck on March 12, 2011, 05:16:02 PM
Quote from: VS on February 27, 2011, 04:53:32 PM
For paper, you need... water?
hey good idea...
(http://www.electroduck.com/images/simutrans/water_chain.png)
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: paco_m on March 12, 2011, 07:50:42 PM
Paper factories or water bottling plants are always situated close to the spring so you never have a transport from a well/pump to the factory (except pipelines, but we don't have pipes in simutrans ;) )
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: tuxianer1988 on May 30, 2011, 05:16:07 PM
Hey vilvoh,

it is still in development. I am very impressed by the graphics especially of the Bio Gas chain ! I would really look forward integrat this into my personal customized pak64.german ?

Thanks for your repley !

Greetz
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: vilvoh on May 30, 2011, 05:26:19 PM
I haven't started anything from the gas chain. I'm still gathering images for the models.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: Optimus Prime on August 16, 2013, 07:17:45 PM
Gr8 work on the powerplants and industries!
Congratulations!
Wonder. If someone could build a computer industry, consuming plastic, steel, wires etc., coz i went 2 get one from a source, but it was unavailable.
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: IgorEliezer on August 17, 2013, 01:54:32 AM
O.P., I just want to point out you've just replied a 2-year-old inactive topic. ^^'
Title: Re: Powerplants and new industry chains
Post by: Lauscher on June 10, 2017, 08:02:25 AM
Hello everyone, I work with Simutrans pak 128 v0.10.0 rev 8024 I try to test many addons that are not contained in it and put in the version. Often a bug comes and you have to delete the addon. What particularly bothers me is when downloadfile does not work and the links are not valid.
Here especially this link again (factory.North Sea Oil Rig.pak.zip) I could still call many other files or show here in the forum.
My question is where can I download these files or who sends me this by mail.
I would like to test them then a version of the whole file to provide.
My mail: hum.waurichen@googlemail.com

Lauscher = Uwe