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Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 11 Dec 2004 15:40

well I thought about that, but remembered the taxis are usually already waiting at a taxi rank.

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 11 Dec 2004 19:53

me too...
And there are no "waiting rooms" for taxis. You call for it and taxi is at the right place in 5 minutes... Or you chatch taxi on the street.

Stumo · Post by **Stumo** » 12 Dec 2004 01:29

I see your point, but at the moment it looks just like a strip of road, and it could easily get hidden behind other buildings or parts of the station.

I'm not sure. I'll put up an exe here using this graphic some time tomorrow. Just got back from a night out, I need sleep!

Atlantis · Post by **Atlantis** » 12 Dec 2004 12:04

Well taxi ranks do have a small office (where d'you think you ring to order one?

) so you could have one of them....

EDIT: Kinda like this. In England they're usually Portacabins, so that's what i done (NB: You'll have to do your own, cos i aint used TTD colours.)

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 13 Dec 2004 05:17

They have one office somewhere in the city and it is why all taxi man has CB-radio and they hear from their office "go to Tycoon Street 15 in 5 minutes!" and they go there...

So this building could be restaurant or small shop.

Stumo · Post by **Stumo** » 13 Dec 2004 14:04

Right. Here's the latest version, with graphics of my own invention. Diff is against 1047

Known bugs:
- No attempt made to do save/load
- The taxi rank doesn't change what a station accepts; however it does mean extra passengers come to the station.

I think everything else works, so it should now be useable. It is in the patches menu under "stations"

Swapping whether the patch is on or not during game play is likely to cause interesting behaviour if the Build Road window is showing.

If you build a taxi rank with the patch on, then turn the patch off the taxi rank keeps working - all that happens is you can't build new ones. Hopefully this is reasonable.

Don't forget to remove opntitle.dat

Now I'm sure there are bugs in this, find them for me!

MeusH · Post by **MeusH** » 14 Dec 2004 05:42

Any possiblity to code it into OTTD? Or it will be a patch all the time?

Stumo · Post by **Stumo** » 14 Dec 2004 08:31

That depends on the devs. I'd like them to, because it means I won't have to keep updating the code as the svn version changes

I guess the standard caveats apply: they have to be satisfied it's not buggy for starters. As I said, I haven't tried saveing/loading games and there's a couple of other things that probably need to be fixed before it goes in.

Have you had a chance to test it on a proper game? Did it make a difference? My few tests have suggested it makes some difference but not as much as I expected; possibly there's a bug in there somewhere...

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 14 Dec 2004 17:42

well, the graphics don't line up with the road properly, and they look a bit toylandy.

Bugwise, there aren't any Ive encountered, Apart from being able to build them on 'ghost stations' (when the station has gone, but the grey name is still present)

MeusH wrote: So this building could be restaurant or small shop.

Well, since they need to be built next to a passenger place anyway, we can assume there are any Restaurants or shops in the passenger terminal anyway, and since this is a station add-on thread anyway, we could rig it to actually build shops and food places next to it anyway! This Is the reason I didn't add any buildings anyway, and its hard to write taxi small enough and diagonal, to read. The player already knows they are for taxis anyway!

Stumo · Post by **Stumo** » 14 Dec 2004 17:49

I hadn't spotted that they didn't line up properly - which directions?

I'd use your graphics if you can come up with a good way of giving them some height and getting the player colour in.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 14 Dec 2004 17:51

I can simply recode the .nfo file so they don't need height, Ill also reline it in player colour.

Stumo · Post by **Stumo** » 14 Dec 2004 17:56

I'm not sure what you mean about recoding the nfo.

At the moment, the grf file contains one graphic for the taxi rank and another for the sign which is displayed on top - if you make that completely invisible to test your stuff, I'll remove the code for the sign once that's done.

Alternatively if you want a building that'll go invisible, send me a graphic and a screenshot of where you want it placed and I'll sort out the code.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 14 Dec 2004 17:57

well heres a simple rehash.

the walls can be made to be the invisible bits, so when/if there are taxis that move around at random, they wion't go on top of the wall upon entering

Stumo · Post by **Stumo** » 14 Dec 2004 18:01

Cheers; I'll code it in when I get the chance (not at home at the moment)

How are you finding the patch in general? No problems I hope?

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 14 Dec 2004 18:03

apart from the ghost stations thing, nothing as of yet

Stumo · Post by **Stumo** » 14 Dec 2004 18:06

Ghost stations?

Stumo · Post by **Stumo** » 14 Dec 2004 18:21

Note for myself so I don't forget (but feel free to comment): Celestar suggested
1) Taxi icon added to station name
2) An extra part of the station gui listing the improvements present.

I'd also like to add to 2) something that would show which squares the taxi rank was allowing to access the station; at the moment that's somewhat difficult, but is a long term plan.

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 14 Dec 2004 18:46

ghost stations as in when you delete a station, the name remains behind. You can still build it then

DeletedUser21 · Post by **DeletedUser21** » 14 Dec 2004 19:06

how do I install the patch???

Overwrite everything?

Born Acorn · Post by **Born Acorn** » 14 Dec 2004 19:28

taxi patch and openttd.exe in the openttd folder, grf in the data, english.lng in the lang folder

and delete opntitle.dat in the data folder

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