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Title: Freight Extensions
Post by: Zeno on January 14, 2012, 08:18:18 PM
I've painted a station extension for wood cutting areas, for use as freight warehouse.
It can hold up to 1024 tons of goods. It can be downloaded at my site (http://zeno.simutrans.com), as usual.

Title: Re: WoodWorks Extension
Post by: greenling on January 14, 2012, 08:21:30 PM
Zeno
the addon looks good out.
Title: Re: WoodWorks Extension
Post by: Václav on January 14, 2012, 08:28:54 PM
It looks splendid. Only that empty border looks a little odd - mostly in contrast with currently used terrain. May it be that in winter version (if it is planned) it would look better.

I think that any fence around could be very useful - for breaking of strange effect of that empty border.
Title: Re: WoodWorks Extension
Post by: prissi on January 14, 2012, 10:18:19 PM
Maybe also some transparent pixel reaching into the mud to make it less abrupt. And a little lighter ground make help too.
Title: Re: WoodWorks Extension
Post by: VS on January 15, 2012, 11:28:17 AM
Mud border - what they said :) Apart from this, I think that the individual parts - machine, hut, logs - don't agree in scale. The hut, if it is a hut, is oversized, while the machine seems too small.
Title: Re: Freight extensions
Post by: Zeno on January 15, 2012, 05:01:33 PM
Made some changes, mostly scaled things and added a fence. Thanks for your tips, guys.

Edit: Added a container crane extension preview. I've decided I will not draw any road/lorry for loading, but I doubt what else can be added here. Maybe a fence? I guess a hut does nothing in such a facility, but maybe a "small" road container mover would do the job. Any suggestions? Filling it with more and more containers isn't very promising... :S
Title: Re: Freight Extensions
Post by: missingpiece on January 16, 2012, 03:33:37 PM
I was wondering : is the sun not positioned in the South ? So orthogonally off the bottom left edge. I read that on the French guys' tutorial (http://www.simutrans-france.fr.nf/doku.php?id=en:tutomakeobj2). Then the shadows in your pictures appear to be pointing too far East, that is the sun is too far West.
Title: Re: Freight Extensions
Post by: Zeno on January 22, 2012, 03:34:59 PM
No, I usually place the sun between south and southwest (I try to keep it as near as possible to south anyway). If I used an orthogonal sun placed at south, I would get a very odd render, too bright at south in contrast with a darker east view. That's the reason why the sun is usually pushed a bit towards west.