Updated extra-large-maps patch, version 12 (for r23992)

[Starbud]

Anything that give larger maps.
Maybe enven irregular maps?

[Roest]

By popular demand... another update to current trunk.

Is there still any interest in this patch?

[Terkhen]

I meant interest from the developers, not by players.

[Wasila]

Looks like my new World Map has gone out the window

I'll definitely be looking to downloading this and using it once I have a look at Cindini.

[Moriarty]

I am currently playing with heightmap generation. I can make them pretty much any size, and many of them have to be scaled down even for 2048*2048, so should this patch come to trunk soonish (i.e. before I lose interest ), I can make maps of 8096*8096 (i.e. continental US, the world, europe etc etc).
So content for such maps can certainly be created.

[Wasila]

Well it looks like the devs are interested. Is it going into trunk?

[Roujin]

Well it looks like the devs are interested. Is it going into trunk?

Where do you take this information from?

Some time ago IIRC there were issues with vehicles crashing that were actually in totally different parts of the map (due to some calculation errors caused by raising the map limits..). Do these still exist? I'm pretty sure devs won't even consider this patch as long such bugs are not 100% eliminated.

[Terkhen]

Bilbo said the crash bug was corrected (for trains at least) and I never had any problems playing with the patch. Of course this doesn't mean that it has been thoroughly tested: with maps of this size is possible that the problem still exists and I just was lucky enough to not have it.

[Bilbo]

That bug was introduced by change to trunk few thousand revisions ago when fixing exploit where your trains could collide with opponent's train if places "just right" next to their tracks. Unfortunately, the code caused overflow if the distance was over 4096 squares. When I spotted the bug, I have modified the check to use 64bit variables. The affected file was src/train_cmd.cpp, you can check that part of the patch ...

Current version of patch does not suffer with "distant train crash" bug. Also, very old versions before that "exploit fix" does not suffer with that either :)

I looked on the code, but I have not noticed any other place where the X and Y coordinates of a vehicle are squared - mostly the "manhattan distance" is used instead, I think the code I had to fix used manhattan distance too before it was modified to avoid the exploit.

I don't know of any bugs in the patch currently - I tested the patch about 200 game years, but perhaps some wider testing could be done before putting the patch to stable versions.

The only thing I can guarantee, is if there are bugs, they will manifest only if larger-than-standard sizes are selected.

Perhaps best way would be to put the patch in trunk some rather long time before the release to get things properly tested by many people.

[NekoMaster]

Hey, is there any recent patched win32 bins available? BTW dont tell me to patch myself, my PC is so s*** it overheats watching you tube videos (WTF!)

[SmatZ]

NekoMaster, "slow computer" is not an excuse:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 32#p761732 :-p

btw, nice to see Bilbo is still replying in this thread

[NekoMaster]

NekoMaster, "slow computer" is not an excuse:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 32#p761732 :-p

Yes it IS! F*** How come no one ever beleives me! Theres nothing I can do about this peice of S**T, and its getting so bad that it over heats just watching a flash video or playing a flash game (like Pandemic II)

Why wont any one ever compile just a binary? What happened to nice people making precompiled binarys for others? Are you all such @$$ holes that you can do this one simple task?
I was asking nice before, in fact the dude (I forgot the name) on the other thread said that he would compile a Binary if anyone asked for it.

[DaleStan]

What happened to nice people making precompiled binarys for others? Are you all such @$$ holes that you can do this one simple task?

I was asking nice before,

What happened to accepting a "no" gracefully?

[Gremnon]

It was me, and I also said because of your attitude, not to ask me again. Slow computer isn't an excuse, if you have patience.

[Conditional Zenith]

NekoMaster: I think you will find people are more sympathetic if you aren't so demanding and stop calling people a***oles, s****eads, or bitches when they say no.

[Terkhen]

NekoMaster: I suppose your computer is also too slow for checking the previous page of this thread. That's a shame because I posted a compiled binary updated to r15327 there. With "polite" requests like yours, I wonder why I took the time to update the patch to trunk and post a compiled binary.

[Bilbo]

NekoMaster, "slow computer" is not an excuse:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php? ... 32#p761732 :-p

btw, nice to see Bilbo is still replying in this thread :)

Wjile I am not actively developing OpenTTD (I have lot of work elsewhere), I am still monitoring what is happening here... perhaps if current OTTD devs will be interested in the patch (or any of my other patches), I might update/improve it ...

[Eddi]

May i nominate a person for the *PLONK*-Awards 2009?

[planetmaker]

That nomination would get my vote

[Starbud]

What is a PLONK award?