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Here you have all the objects, with their buttons in the toolbar

NB:
Buttons are coded:

top left:
--> the object belongs to the U-SET

top right:
(St) --> Station, yellow
(Ct) --> Cover Tile, red
(Br) --> Bridge, green

bottom center:
name --> object name and style!

Yep! They're bridges! Only straight, for now, but when we'll have bridgest built tile-by-tile, they'll work as normal roads!

Even if you don't want to play with the underground, here's one idea:

(Please note, the screenshot has NOT been photoshop'd. Also, for those that play with the new slope tool capabilities -- I'm finding that digging 'natural' slopes helps to eliminate the rogue walls that are mis-drawn... )

- H-SET will be a set of bus and tram stops (and possibly some other related objects...) having a style which matches with U-SET, both classic and modern. It will be named after the "H" (standing for Halt) symbol which will replace the "U"... Do you prefer another letter for stops, instead?

- Bridges are intended to be *real* road bridges, for cars, busses and trucks...

- Park, city and land are available in *tram* menu since they are coded as monorails... However, like showed here, you can dig even canals under monorails... And there shouldn't be any graphical problems with that, since the climbing tile is replaced by a flat one...

- I know, I forgot a complete list of the objects... here you are!
cover tile land --> coded as monorails, in tram menu
cover tile city
cover tile park
bridge road --> coded as road bridges, working, in road menu
bridge city
classic station --> coded as stations, in both rail and tram menus
modern station
classic road exit --> coded as bus stops, in road menu
modern road exit

- let me know if you need/desire other objects to be added in next releases! And if you would like other styles, too!

Here is a simple scaled-down U-SET. The night view might not be fantastic, but this version is certainly playable.
I haven't tested the original 128-version (mostly because I'm too lazy to download the main 128-pak), but in the 64-pak version there seems to be a pillar missing on every frontmost cover tile. If that is a pure 64-pak problem, somebody should tell me how to correct it...

As soon as anybody else has tested this 64-version, I'll put it onto the addons page.

a 5?  Who did you give what?

But more importantly, did you test?

Unfortunately, it's not your fault
I had to remove the pillar to align the ground image to the very bottom of the tile... I had no choice

Thank you all for the positive feedbacks and for the very very good rating!
Keep on testing and reporting!

I would never had thought that my first attempt at Simutrans graphics (the tile with the greens on top) would live on

A house can be built on it, if it would be the bottom of the map array (planqudrat_t::gib_kartenboden()) and the subway some kind of tunnel. I.e. a real "ground cover tile" which hides the normal ground. However, this would need some coding, maybe a new type of ground. While not impossible, I suggest this as an extension after the next stable version. If it is easy, I might try it sooner.

the underground set is great but there's a 'drawing mistake' that spoils the fun a bit. To explain this further i posted a screenshot.

Yes of course I did, I'm like everone else in Simutrans, I try everything that is released, as soon as it's releaed. I'll try and comment a bit more when I've tried them for a bit longer. At the moment I'm using the covered stations extensively.

Edit: Sorry I missed the first line. I gave a 5 in the vote at the top of this page, which I assumed was for the Underground Covers etc.

Aren't you supposed to dig a trench for the lines, instead of getting these elevated cover tiles? Or did I minunderstand the whole concept?

I tested it in 88.01, as I thought 88.03 didn't support pak128 yet.

That's strange....the pillars can't hide behind the slope....I was using 88.04.1..
Also....ONLY park can be worked....both city and land can't...

If you use the station cover tile, the gound can cover the station. But not the monorail, that will not work. Likely will not work in newer versions too, since this is another concept or ordering the tiles.

Oh... When I build the station in the middle of track, it showed me "No Terminral station here", why?
How to fix it?

Errors like "No through station here" can occur for many reasons, it might be that you're trying to use the bus stop type "station" from the U-set for example, trying to build a bus stop on rail tracks will give this sort of error. Can you give more details of the exact situation that leads to the error message?

How to build the underground like this?

hi,


I wouldn't cosider this being a bug. Would you?

Nope.

It may *look* like ground-- but that's just graphics....

Just like the canals aren't open water...

Try downloading from the bit at the end of the message (at http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php/topic,1847.msg10135.html#msg10135).
For some reason (most likely an out of date link) the "U-SET.pak --> the complete pak" download doesn't work, however the "U_SET.pak (1262.58 KB - downloaded 322 times.)" one does (for me anyway).

nice, very nice.

the bridges built tile-by-tile feature will, when implemented, actually turn this froma  novalty into a killer.

at present the plain cover tiles are bordering on pointless, since nothing appears on them, you may as well leave them blank (and actually be able to see where the flipping trains actually are :-) ) with care the cover bridge works well (road over rail) the inability to route trams is annoying but parallel bridges handle that one.

only real annoyance is the stations all being terminals only. which given i can just use a normal bus stop on the bridge tile above isn't too bad.

hmm..

reckon i may have to have a go at a few bits for this myself...

i'll have a play with this.. i like the idea of underground trains, though they cost the earth. but with a time line switched on once the trams are at capacity, and busses would cause more problems than they solve due to traffic density i try to add a few u/g lines. problematic at the mo, but i can get some graphics sorted then when the tile-tile thingy works the graphics are ready to recompile.

btw. what needs doing with these ones? specifically to remove the bit about them only being a terminal station? (everything else works, i think)