French town names

[ElDwane]

If there is something that i've always found funny, its are the available french city/town names in the game (some of them are very little).
It's not a bad thing, since there is always big and small town, but with openttd, and the introduction of 2048x2048 maps, playing a random game became more difficult (it's also not a bad thing if you want to create long-distance railway, but the map will lack of populated area).

So I worked on a little patch which add around 150 new names (the city bigger than 50.000 inhabitants and/or the 50 biggest urban area). (It's seems it's the best way to increase the number of cities, since making a name generator is

Since it's the first time I made a patch, I hope I didn't make any mistakes.

PS: I know someone already done it (http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=29578) but the links doesn't seems to work anymore.

[cmoiromain]

Isn't this possible with the use of grfs? It would be a lot easier to use than a patch...

[DaleStan]

Yes, it is. And yes, it would be.

[ElDwane]

The fact is... i don't know how to make grf files... but I spend 3 hours yesterday trying to learn ^^
Maybe at the end of the week, I will succed...

[Ammler]

Maybe, you can use something from my Swiss development files, they are very unfinished, but maybe?

http://svn.openttdcoop.org/grfdev/swisstowns/

Greets
Ammler

[ElDwane]

Thanks, I will take a look ^^

[glx]

http://devs.openttd.org/~glx/townname/ shows the conversion of 2 OpenTTD townname generators.

[Alexboy]

I tried to build a NewGRF with ActionF based on Ammler's, I even harassed him on IRC (I would like to thank him for his patience), but I miserably failed. I'm afraid these hexadecimal strings will bury me alive.

If anyone is interested, you will find in attachment a text file including the 470 biggest cities in France, I even increased the appearance probability for the biggest cities (in respect to the NFO syntax)

GOOD LUCK

[Ammler]

I hacked a fast preview version:

http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=38178

[fanioz]

hay sir, I come from indonesia.
What is the license of file listed on http://svn.openttdcoop.org/grfdev/frenchtowns/ ?
May I re-use it to add Indonesia town?

thanks b4

[Ammler]

I just tried to formulate a license stuff for my works, they are too small for GPL, so I added something selfish

http://www.openttdcoop.org/wiki/User:Am ... RF_License

In fact use what you like as long as your work will be free and opensource too.

Greets
Ammler