Town name sets

G-Klav · Post by **G-Klav** » 14 May 2005 11:08

I may be stupid to post this right now, but as I can't connect to the TTD Patch site ATM (no response), would someone please be so kind and try to answer my question?

Is it possible to add new sets of town names without the TTD Translator program, using TTD Patch?
I'm thinking of a set of Russian town names (written in Cyrillic alphabet of course

)...

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 14 May 2005 12:49

Yes, you can, using Action F in a GRF file. It's not too difficult to code although it's not been heavily used so there might still be a few bugs with it.

G-Klav · Post by **G-Klav** » 14 May 2005 15:01

Hmm, can you show me an example?
Thanks for answering, BTW

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 14 May 2005 17:11

I'm not aware of any downloads right now, but in the meantime you can work on drawing the Crylic characters; TTD doesn't have crylic characters, so you'll have to replace the Latin-1 characters. How many cryllic characters are there?

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 14 May 2005 18:45

I think George is already using cyrillic characters, so they must be available somewhere.

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 14 May 2005 19:56

G-Klav wrote:Hmm, can you show me an example?
Thanks for answering, BTW

Well, I've attached two half-finished files. (Half-finished here means that I think that they should work but they haven't been rigorously tested.)
The US Set town names GRF hasn't been released officially up to now and shouldn't really be counted as working perfectly yet, but you can try it and see it in action, as well as decoding it.
The second file is my Action F creator Excel spreadsheet, which seems to work and has been used in making the first file, although I've just extracted this sheet from my big US spreadsheet so I hope it works properly. Credit for the hex-generating code goes to Owen. Stick your 70+ town names down the left hand side, press the button and it will generate the Action F at the bottom, which then needs to go into a GRF. However, it's no good for creating town names "properly", i.e. with multiple parts and so on - it will only do whole names.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 14 May 2005 20:03

The Japanset is trying to have a town-names file also, but as pointed out previously, that part of the Patch appears to be Not Ready for Prime Time.

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 14 May 2005 20:14

Have you tried it again? This problem should've been fixed since alpha 49.

Oracle · Post by **Oracle** » 14 May 2005 20:21

Just trying it out now, I seem to get duplicate town names in almost every game, despite this being impossible according to newgrf.txt. I think I've checked the code for repeated names, so it must be the patch.

George · Post by **George** » 14 May 2005 20:45

Patchman wrote:I think George is already using cyrillic characters, so they must be available somewhere.

They are for example in the translation of Artem Skrobov.
BTW, alpha 50 breaks the letter 'Ш'

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 14 May 2005 20:49

George wrote:BTW, alpha 50 breaks the letter 'Ш'

That must be because of adding the Ø and ø characters to the newspaper size font. However, it shouldn't overwrite those characters if they are present in trg1.grf. Do you have a link to the cyrillic character download so I can test this?

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 14 May 2005 21:06

Almost overlooked that one...

Oracle wrote:Just trying it out now, I seem to get duplicate town names in almost every game, despite this being impossible according to newgrf.txt. I think I've checked the code for repeated names, so it must be the patch.

Confirmed, it seems as if the town names are generated with another town name setting, because they are not sorted alphabetically either. I'll have to see what Csaba says about this.

G-Klav · Post by **G-Klav** » 14 May 2005 22:31

Oracle wrote:
G-Klav wrote:Hmm, can you show me an example?
Thanks for answering, BTW
Well, I've attached two half-finished files. (Half-finished here means that I think that they should work but they haven't been rigorously tested.)

Thank you!

I'm planning to include the cyrillic characters in a separate grf file, would that work?

Csaboka · Post by **Csaboka** » 14 May 2005 23:07

Patchman wrote:I'll have to see what Csaba says about this.

Strangely enough, it doesn't happen to me, neither with alpha 49 nor alpha 50... While testing, I've found another bug, though

If you select a town name style, start a new game, leave it and start another one, the names revert back to German.

I wish I had more time to work on the Patch, but these fixes have to wait...

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 14 May 2005 23:09

Csaboka wrote:While testing, I've found another bug, though If you select a town name style, start a new game, leave it and start another one, the names revert back to German.

That's not a new bug, it's been there since the first testing I did with the original US town names GRF.

Csaboka · Post by **Csaboka** » 14 May 2005 23:17

That's OK, but I thought I've fixed it since then. It seems it came back somehow...

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 14 May 2005 23:29

Oh, I see. I haven't started a new game since a50 came out, so I don't know if it's still there for me. Oracle made a new GRF but it's still having (other) problems. I figure by the time I finish the test game I'm on and start a new one, it'll be time enough for another similar test.

George · Post by **George** » 15 May 2005 03:50

Patchman wrote:
George wrote:BTW, alpha 50 breaks the letter 'Ш'
That must be because of adding the Ø and ø characters to the newspaper size font. However, it shouldn't overwrite those characters if they are present in trg1.grf. Do you have a link to the cyrillic character download so I can test this?

http://ttdrussia.net/ttd/section9.php
Win http://mix.web.ur.ru/ttdrus.zip
Dos http://mix.web.ur.ru/ttdrusd.zip

G-Klav · Post by **G-Klav** » 15 May 2005 18:53

I get an error message saying that the grf file isn't designed for TTDPatch.
How can I solve that?

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 15 May 2005 20:24

Get the lastest alpha: http://www.ttdpatch.net/src

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