Need help with installing Python (for NMLC)

[Hyronymus]

I'm trying to install Python and all required libraries so I can try NMLC. Python seems to install fine but when I try to install the required image libary it says no installed version of Python is available.

I looked here but I don't get how to install PLY either (it doesn't have a Windows installer)! Can someone guide me through the setup in a more elaborate way?

BTW: PIL requires Python 2.6 at best. In formentioned link it says you can choose Python 2.0 - 2.7, is that correct then?

[Alberth]

I talked a user through the process some weeks ago, and made a ticket about it: http://dev.openttdcoop.org/issues/1760

In particular, the IRC log may be useful: http://irclogs.qmsk.net/channels/opentt ... 1289038976

Edit: (Since I don't use or own a Windows machine, not much I can do here.)

[Hyronymus]

I'll have a look there, thx .

[Hyronymus]

Sorry for the double post but I have installed the stuff. But now the command line. Where/how do you run that?

[Alberth]

Sorry for the double post but I have installed the stuff. But now the command line. Where/how do you run that?

I see no problems in this double post, it is a next step in the process.

You have to open a shell (in unix terms), commonly known as 'command' or 'cmd' or so in Windows land.
Simplest way is start->run...->type 'cmd' or 'command' or whatever Windows calls it these days.
It should give you a black(?) window with a "C:\>" like prompt.

Go to the right directory (with "cd" and/or "<drive-letter>:"), and type eg "python nmlc mynmlfile.nml"


Edit: It may be useful to add any new findings to the ticket (If you don't want to make an account there, I can do it for you).
The project is also interested in any manual additions.

[WWTBAM]

If you mean "python nmlc ..." Command Prompt. Atleast that's how I run olther python scripts I have.

[Hyronymus]

It says: python isn't recognised as an internal or external command, program or batch file.

Running command in cmd.exe from C:\Users\<myname>\Documents\OpenTTD\nml-r1118
Python is installed in C:\Python26 and ply installed in nml-r1118\ply (just the ply directory from the ply-3.3 directory that you download)

[WWTBAM]

Did you add the path to the python directory to your PATH? If you don't know how, Right click on (My) Computer and click Properties then the Advanced Tab then click Environment Variables and find the one called PATH. If you use Windows Vista or higher you will have to click Advanced system settings before the tabbed dialog appears.
Edit Adding Python to the PATH is mentioned in the IRC logs.

[Hyronymus]

As a system variable or user variable?

[WWTBAM]

Depends on weather you think it will be useful to any other users on your system or not.

[Hyronymus]

OK, didnt work though . Any particular name it should have, I went for Python with C:\Python26 as the path.

[Alberth]

python.exe should be in the directory that you add.

[Lakie]

From memory Python associates .py files on Windows.
If you copy "nmlc" and call it "nmlc.py" in the target directory, you can run it from the command line, not hugely clean though.
"nmlc.py -l <dir> <file>"

~ Lakie

[Hyronymus]

From memory Python associates .py files on Windows.
If you copy "nmlc" and call it "nmlc.py" in the target directory, you can run it from the command line, not hugely clean though.
"nmlc.py -l <dir> <file>"

~ Lakie

Thanks Lakie, that got me a lot further. Now it shouts "Default language file lang\english.lng doesn't exist" though.

[planetmaker]

Thanks Lakie, that got me a lot further. Now it shouts "Default language file lang\english.lng doesn't exist" though.

That's true. But that is part of your newgrf and it's up to you to provide it:
http://hg.openttdcoop.org/nml/raw-file/ ... uage-files
Have a look at existing NML projects on a verbose treatise how it sh/could look like.

[Hyronymus]

OK, I have a language file and it does something. I get no result in-game though, may I request a decompiled townname NML file so I can see how to build-up a town name list?

[planetmaker]

Well, did you check out or look at the other projects http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/townnames ?

[Alberth]

OK, I have a language file and it does something. I get no result in-game though, may I request a decompiled townname NML file so I can see how to build-up a town name list?

nmlc can also generate NFO output which may be useful for finding out what it does.

[Hyronymus]

Well, did you check out or look at the other projects http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/townnames ?

I did but all I can find is language files that don't contain town names (i.e. Ammler's Swiss Town Names).

[planetmaker]

Town names don't go into the language files.

You can check out the pre-processed sources of all town name projects on the bundles server which hosts the releases and nightlies; in the log folder there should always be the pre-processed nml and / or nfo respectively. E.g.
http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/belarusi ... ntowns.nml