planetmaker wrote:

I'm not sure which base graphics you refer to (TTD or OpenGFX (which version?) or both).

However, it's not really an OpenTTD bug:

a) The TTD base set handles the industries you mention indeed in a bad way, but that's a "feature" which is inherited from TTD. The ground sprites, of e.g. factory and steel mill just show the building cut to the tile borders; as no one can fix the TTD base set, that will stay; only other base sets can try to do better there, OpenGFX (as of version 0.3.4, see screenshots for comparison) addresses the issue of improperly cut sprites (somewhat) for all those industries you mention - with two exception: Surely it can still be improved but, but well any help and contributions here are warmely welcome :-). Coal mine will need a review for that and can be fixed, but not the iron ore mine, for a 2nd, nasty reason:

b) Further, from we inherited the way when and how a certain sprite must be used to show an industry, how the base graphics compose an item. This latter thing cannot be fixed for any base set; it unfortunatly dictates the repetitive use of certain ground tiles with base graphics in MANY occasions where it might not be seen as desirable. The iron ore mine only consists of ground sprites and simply has no building sprites, thus always has to show the same thing.

c) NewGRFs, of course, have all freedom and can handle everything properly.

We cannot (easily) change (a) as it might break existing NewGRFs. There might be a way around (a) without breaking NewGRFs, but that's very lengthy: you need to make sure that no NewGRF modifies the sprites used by the industry and neither one of the used industry tiles. And only in that case you could then introduce a new version of the related industry tiles which make proper use of ground and building sprites. But this check is not trivial.

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Jubilee wrote:

Sorry i didn't associate these issues with the graphics engine. I'm using OpenGFX 0.3.3.

As you can see i marked this issue as having a "Very low" severity, because i just noticed and considered them purely cosmetic bugs. Of course there's no point in putting too much effort on these, especially if they are complex to resolve. As i understand though, some improvements are made with OpenGFX, which is nice.

Thanks for all the info. I guess this issue may be closed...

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planetmaker closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Requested by user

Sprites are provided by the base sets, which will need to fix those issues. The graphics base set OpenGFX is external to OpenTTD but can be modified; patches, graphics, ... are warmly welcome.

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