Animated stop graphics test August 20, 2010, 10:11:53 pm I've just made this animated graphic for a stop, to test how the moving graphics look like inside the game. It's a big steel crane over an empty loading platform. You can download it here, and beware when using it, as I used the empty platform icon, you will see two empty platform icons in the menu: just wait for the tooltip to appear and select the one with name SteelCraneStation.Please I would like to know your opinion guys, not for this station graphic but for generic animated graphics in stations/stops (I thought mostly in goods stops). Would you find them cool? Would you find them tiring because of gfx looping? Do you have other thoughts on it?Personally, I find them both cool but tiring after a while... I wonder -writing as I'm thinking- what would it look like having one animated tile in all goods stations. Maybe it could be better if the animation could be configured -example run 1 cycle and sleep 5 or 10- so it's not repeating all the time.I'm looking forward reading about your impressions on this! Quote Selected
Re: Animated stop graphics test Reply #1 – August 20, 2010, 10:15:37 pm I haven't downloaded it yet, but it already sparks an extension request: an option for "animate only while loading/unloading" - or rather, *start* an animation sequence if there's a loading/unloading event at that platform; at the end of the sequence, check to see if unloading/loading still ongoing, and loop again if so.Hopefully, this would:- loop animation while loading or unloading- for convois waiting for more goods/mail/p****, only spark the animation when actual loading happens. So I'll come back and download and test this in a bit, but it already sounds awesome. Quote Selected
Re: Animated stop graphics test Reply #2 – August 21, 2010, 03:24:56 am I love this station and I love the idea! It adds life to otherwise boring station platforms, a definite plus in my book. Personally I find monotonous stops without any visible activity to be more tiring than seeing the crane move back and forth, would be great with a container yard adjacent to it. I also like Issac's idea of having the animation activate when a train is stopped at the platform.. Quote Selected
Re: Animated stop graphics test Reply #3 – August 21, 2010, 08:51:23 pm Adding an animation only when the loading state of a stop changes (although inclusing p****engers and mail) is not very difficult. Quote Selected
Re: Animated stop graphics test Reply #4 – August 21, 2010, 10:09:20 pm How about this possibility - I'm thinking of bus stops:1. Empty station gets the standard graphic2. 1/4 full, 1/2 full, 3/4 full, and 100% full (or "overcrowded") gets their own imagesYou could totally paint p****engers waiting for a bus... or freight waiting for pickup Quote Selected
Re: Animated stop graphics test Reply #5 – August 22, 2010, 12:30:11 am Quote from: prissi – on August 21, 2010, 08:51:23 pmAdding an animation only when the loading state of a stop changes (although inclusing p****engers and mail) is not very difficult.That would be very interesting, and would help avoiding monotony in animationsQuote from: Isaac.Eiland-Hall – on August 21, 2010, 10:09:20 pmYou could totally paint p****engers waiting for a bus... or freight waiting for pickupThat's a ttd feature which I always liked Quote Selected
Re: Animated stop graphics test Reply #6 – August 22, 2010, 06:57:05 am Quote from: Isaac.Eiland-Hall – on August 21, 2010, 10:09:20 pmHow about this possibility - I'm thinking of bus stops:1. Empty station gets the standard graphic2. 1/4 full, 1/2 full, 3/4 full, and 100% full (or "overcrowded") gets their own imagesYou could totally paint p****engers waiting for a bus... or freight waiting for pickupYeah, we could. Quote Selected Last Edit: August 23, 2010, 08:57:57 am by STransMaker
Re: Animated stop graphics test Reply #7 – August 23, 2010, 07:57:12 am Quote from: prissi – on August 21, 2010, 08:51:23 pmAdding an animation only when the loading state of a stop changes (although inclusing p****engers and mail) is not very difficult.Maybe you could use the same system as vehicles, with empty and freight images. Quote Selected
Re: Animated stop graphics test Reply #8 – October 20, 2010, 07:51:49 pm Today I have tried to download it ... but no file. Quote Selected
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