OpenTTD 1.9.0-RC1 released

[peter1138]

OpenTTD 1.9.0-RC1 is now available, which means the 1.9 branch is now in feature freeze, so that’s your lot in features! Nothing particularly huge since beta3, but full changelog and download can be found in the usual places.

• Add: Various AI/GS functions for vehicle groups (#7225)
• Change: Synchronise introduction date and reliability randomness across vehicles with the same base introduction date (#7147)
• Change: Allow towns to build bridges over rails and one-way roads (#7291)

And a few minor bugfixes, including missing FreeType support on the Mac OS X build.

Please help with testing, any issues can be reported in the other usual place.

Enjoy!

[Fanndal]

I'm sorry, but I don't know what too download or how to install. I'm using Fedora linux. Please help.

[planetmaker]

I'm sorry, but I don't know what too download or how to install. I'm using Fedora linux. Please help.

There is no pre-build binary for fedora (which version? it matters!) so far. We have so far no docker build container for it.

You can relatively simply compile it yourself:

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git clone https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD
cd OpenTTD
git checkout 1.9.0-RC1
./configure
make

Building might fail out-of-box if you are missing some of the needed libraries. Install them via dnf, e.g.

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sudo dnf install libsdl-devel

I don't know by heart how exactly the packages are called (that differs from distro to distro), but it's easy to figure out by using

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dnf search zlib

for instance. Mind, that you need the development versions, usually indicated by -devel in the name. You find a list of needed libraries on our website https://www.openttd.org/development.html


Once successfully built, start the game:

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bin/openttd

[Fanndal]

This worked surprisingly well. Up & running Thanks man.

[leifbk]

You can relatively simply compile it yourself:

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git clone https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD
cd OpenTTD
git checkout 1.9.0-RC1
./configure
make

Just want to add:

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leif@balapapa ~/projects/openttd/tmp/OpenTTD $ make bundle

And, because my KDE openttd menu item always points to '/usr/local/games/openttd/openttd':

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balapapa ~ # cd /usr/local/games/
balapapa /usr/local/games # cp -r /home/leif/projects/openttd/tmp/OpenTTD/bundle openttd-1.9.0-RC1-bundle
balapapa /usr/local/games # rm openttd && ln -s openttd-1.9.0-RC1-bundle openttd
balapapa /usr/local/games # ls -l
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   24 mars   5 11:57 openttd -> openttd-1.9.0-RC1-bundle
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 feb.  25 10:30 openttd-1.9.0-beta3-bundle
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 mars   5 11:57 openttd-1.9.0-RC1-bundle

Up and running on my brand spanking new Linux 5.0.0 kernel:

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 _________________________________________ 
/ Linux balapapa 5.0.0-gentoo #1 SMP Tue  \
| Mar 5 10:50:12 CET 2019 x86_64 Intel(R) |
| Core(TM) i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz         |
\ GenuineIntel GNU/Linux                  /
 ----------------------------------------- 
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

[planetmaker]

And, because my KDE openttd menu item always points to '/usr/local/games/openttd/openttd':
(...)

That only makes sense when you already have (an older?) OpenTTD version installed - which is not necessary and install destination may vary from distro to distro.

If you absolutely feel that you need to install it, use

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sudo make install

Or skip that and - assuming it's anyway only your machine alone - simply hack it and create a symbolic link between your user-local binary to whereever your system expects one

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ln -s /path/to/my/ottd-dir/openttd /usr/local/games/openttd/openttd

or better extend your user binary search path to find it.

[leifbk]

And, because my KDE openttd menu item always points to '/usr/local/games/openttd/openttd':
(...)

That only makes sense when you already have (an older?) OpenTTD version installed

Yes, I've had it there for years.

- which is not necessary and install destination may vary from distro to distro.

Sure. I don't recall where Gentoo used to have it. I haven't used the distro version since about 1.4, it was always seriously outdated.

If you absolutely feel that you need to install it, use

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sudo make install

Not necessary, the bundle has it all. It appears to be quite equivalent to the old (discontinued) generic Linux binaries. I'm basically using the same installation method that I did then, which was to extract the tar file in /usr/local/games and update the symbolic link to point to the new executable.

Or skip that and - assuming it's anyway only your machine alone - simply hack it and create a symbolic link between your user-local binary to whereever your system expects one

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ln -s /path/to/my/ottd-dir/openttd /usr/local/games/openttd/openttd

Basically, that's what I do.

or better extend your user binary search path to find it.

I don't see any reason for that. It's sufficient to include the path in the command line.

[Brumi]

I know it's been mentioned before, but OpenGFX is still missing 4 sprites, both with version 0.5.2 and the latest nightly (which I believe to be v6917, getting it from http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/opengfx/ ... es/LATEST/).

[peter1138]

Note that OpenGFX is not maintained by the OpenTTD developers. You can report this issue to the OpenGFX (and any other 3rd-party baseset) maintainers.

For OpenGFX, this is here: https://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/opengfx/issues

[Brumi]

Good point, reported it now

I found it interesting that there was no such ticket yet, considering that the issue is quite visible on any fresh install...

[andythenorth]

Off-topic: OpenGFX is pretty much unmaintained at this point

Of the original contributors, only Planetmaker is really active at all. I don't think it's fair that any of us expect Planetmaker to take on all the maintenance burden alone.

NML is in a similar state.

Coop repos and build farm also are unmaintained, and need a plan for a better future.

OpenTTD dev is super healthy again now, but the wider ecosystem of stuff many of us depend on is pretty fragile.

TL;DR: there are some community / coop projects that need more community

If you have useful skills, these are easy projects to contribute to:

• OpenGFX needs maintained to keep up with OpenTTD features
• NML needs maintained to keep up with OpenTTD features
• To continue extending the newgrf spec, both OpenTTD and NML need more test cases, examples and reference grfs
• NML docs need maintained
• Coop repos and build farm need a long-term plan to migrate to commodity cloud services, instead of hand-maintained VMs on a specific physical server

Your community needs you

As always, the most productive way to get these things done is #openttd irc on freenode
https://wiki.openttd.org/Irc

[PikkaBird]

Various AI/GS functions for vehicle groups (#7225)

[andythenorth]

Various AI/GS functions for vehicle groups (#7225)

Best screenshot ever.

[kamnet]

I know it's been mentioned before, but OpenGFX is still missing 4 sprites, both with version 0.5.2 and the latest nightly (which I believe to be v6917, getting it from http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/opengfx/ ... es/LATEST/).

Can you (or anybody) provide more info on which four sprites are missing?

[peter1138]

It's the group livery icons which appear in the Colour Scheme window and the group vehicle lists. The OpenTTD sprites match and existing vehicle-group related sprites, and do not fit in with OpenGFX's style.

[andythenorth]

PSD file of the original badges I drew, there were two options.

I don't love these tbh, not my best work, but eh.

[planetmaker]

I know it's been mentioned before, but OpenGFX is still missing 4 sprites, both with version 0.5.2 and the latest nightly (which I believe to be v6917, getting it from http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/opengfx/ ... es/LATEST/).

Gwyd was so kind to provide the files for an update which I just committed. Find an update at the link you posted: http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/opengfx/ ... es/LATEST/
An updated release to bananas will follow.

[Brumi]

Something about that release seems off... If I download the nightly from the link you provided (which points to http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/opengfx/nightlies/v4184/, with opengfx-r1070.zip inside), it says that it's missing 36 sprites.

[leifbk]

Gwyd was so kind to provide the files for an update which I just committed. Find an update at the link you posted: http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/opengfx/ ... es/LATEST/
An updated release to bananas will follow.

I downloaded the zip file, extracted it and copied the files to ~/.openttd/data like the readme said (I had no data dir under .openttd, so I had to create it). After which OpenTTD wouldn't start. I tried from the command line, and got this error:

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error while loading shared libraries: libfluidsynth.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I checked my fluidsynth installation, and found that it was version 2.0.4. I masked it and downgraded to 1.1.11 (thanks, Gentoo!)

Now OpenTTD starts, but the 4 sprites are still missing.

I don't use sound in OpenTTD at all (got my own Jazz Jukebox, thank you, and the SFX is a nuisance), so do I really need Fluidsynth? And are the installation instructions correct in pointing me to a /data dir in .openttd?

[Kevo00]

I successfully got this going in OSX 10.12.6! Yay!