How to use Adjacent stations/remote join.

Post by **WWTBAM** » 07 Nov 2006 05:26

How do I use the new Adjacent stations/remote join. I have iregular stations on and am trying to do it with a train station.

JGR · Post by **JGR** » 07 Nov 2006 07:19

You must hold the control key down when you click the spot where you want the station built.
A window will then appear which provides options as to how exactly it is built.
This feature is not fully tested, so if there any problems/bugs, please report them.

Post by **WWTBAM** » 07 Nov 2006 07:29

thanck you

Rob · Post by **Rob** » 07 Nov 2006 16:58

I have a problem with this, it doesn't work.

The problem seems to be that the building of the station works as designed, but passing trains don't seem to notice that they pass this station and thus the orders list isn't updated to the next station in the list.

In the image there is a waypoint station that I wanted to replace by another station (OTTD Gantry) which is connected to a dock. ( I already use all available station slots and I wanted to free up some so I could increase my network a bit.)
I replaced the waypoint station, Middelburg Halt with the other station but the passing oiltrain doesn't know it passed the station.

[edit] Update: rebuilding the station without actually touching the other station does work. [/edit]

JGR · Post by **JGR** » 07 Nov 2006 17:21

Rob: can you post a savegame with the problem in effect, as I could not reproduce this problem.
Thanks.

EDIT: Don't bother, I managed to reproduce it, and I will have a look at it.
Thanks for reporting the bug.

JGR

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 07 Nov 2006 18:44

I'm not sure how this patch works, but make sure to set the L2 of existing tiles correctly.

JGR · Post by **JGR** » 07 Nov 2006 18:55

The patch calls the action 5 function do actually build the station, of which only the check for station merging has been modified. As the correct station window comes up when you click on the station tiles, I'm fairly sure that they're fine.
Other tiles for the station being merged aren't touched, or even looked at.

The bug about trains passing through stations without registering it is possibly due to the way TTD checks the station tiles to see how long the station is and where it is etc. it might not like stations touching each other, trackwise, or something like that.
I haven't had time to check this yet.

Additionally I'll probably commit the extension of this to road vehicle stops in a few minutes, after I've finished compiling and testing it.

Post by **WWTBAM** » 09 Nov 2006 08:41

I just tested it with bus stops, and i put a terminus and a drive through with a tile in between, and put a new drive through in the middle as a new station, and it appeared with tram tracks and had the oil barrels.

Post by **Dave** » 09 Nov 2006 10:25

JGR wrote:The patch calls the action 5 function do actually build the station, of which only the check for station merging has been modified. As the correct station window comes up when you click on the station tiles, I'm fairly sure that they're fine.
Other tiles for the station being merged aren't touched, or even looked at.

The bug about trains passing through stations without registering it is possibly due to the way TTD checks the station tiles to see how long the station is and where it is etc. it might not like stations touching each other, trackwise, or something like that.
I haven't had time to check this yet.

Additionally I'll probably commit the extension of this to road vehicle stops in a few minutes, after I've finished compiling and testing it.

Hold on - does this mean you've created the holy grail of network builders in seperate platforms for stations? And waypoints next to each other so they don't take up boatloads of space?

I think I'm all for giving JGR a big kiss - but that might be a bit gay. So I won't. Cookies all round tho!

Aegir · Post by **Aegir** » 09 Nov 2006 12:02

JGR! You're a crazy b******! What are you going to come up with next???

Jeeze, every time I start to think that OpenTTD is getting to the point where it can start competing with TTDpatch for my next game, you bring out a new feature that keeps me hooked!

You're like a pimp keeping his herd hooked on crack!

But in all seriousness, well done with the patch, it's possibilities are positively mind boggling!

Zero · Post by **Zero** » 09 Nov 2006 14:38

How do I activate the switch?
I could not find anything in the manual and my experiments in TTDpatch.cfg didn't work either.

Sorry for such a nooby question.

Dropzone · Post by **Dropzone** » 09 Nov 2006 14:50

Add

Code: Select all

adjacentstation on

to your ttdpatch.cfg.

Zero · Post by **Zero** » 09 Nov 2006 17:24

Thank you, it works. Great feature!

wallyweb · Post by **wallyweb** » 09 Nov 2006 17:58

Which build of ttdpatch does it appear in?

The Irish · Post by **The Irish** » 09 Nov 2006 18:08

Moooaaaah, another great feature from our beloved patch team.

great stuff. I'm gonna test this out now.

Thank you very much.

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 09 Nov 2006 18:10

Wallyweb: r1178 or later.

wallyweb · Post by **wallyweb** » 09 Nov 2006 18:13

DaleStan wrote:Wallyweb: r1178 or later.

BetaWallyweb downloads latest Alpha. Thanks

JGR · Post by **JGR** » 09 Nov 2006 21:07

robotboy wrote:I just tested it with bus stops, and i put a terminus and a drive through with a tile in between, and put a new drive through in the middle as a new station, and it appeared with tram tracks and had the oil barrels.

This should be fixed in the next nightly, caused by a minor incompatability between the adjacent stations and drive-through stops code.

Thanks for spotting the bug.

EDIT

Rob wrote:The problem seems to be that the building of the station works as designed, but passing trains don't seem to notice that they pass this station and thus the orders list isn't updated to the next station in the list.

This is an oversight in the original code, only the last tile of a continuous series of station tiles is checked, I should be able to fix it soon.
In case anyone is interested the problem is in: Class5VehEnterLeave

Website · Post by **Lakie** » 09 Nov 2006 22:53

Just something I noticed;
The building of a road vehicle station, builds the road first and that road can be converted to one way system if the road already has that 'branch'.
I suggest doing the check then making the road, if possible?

~ Lakie

JGR · Post by **JGR** » 10 Nov 2006 21:42

Lakie wrote:Just something I noticed;
The building of a road vehicle station, builds the road first and that road can be converted to one way system if the road already has that 'branch'.
I suggest doing the check then making the road, if possible?

~ Lakie

Fixed in next nightly.

JGR wrote:
Rob wrote:The problem seems to be that the building of the station works as designed, but passing trains don't seem to notice that they pass this station and thus the orders list isn't updated to the next station in the list.
This is an oversight in the original code, only the last tile of a continuous series of station tiles is checked, I should be able to fix it soon.

This is also fixed in the next nightly.

JGR

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