This is a set of American-style roads with appropriate road-markings which are intended to (but do not have to) be used with the trainset. The American stations, trains, roads, and signals are distributed in separate files for ease of usage.
The American Transition Set was developed by an international team of members
of the Transport Tycoon Forums (administered
by Owen Rudge) and includes some elements previously developed by others. If
you believe your work has been used and you are not properly credited, please
post your concern in the forum for immediate attention. Second-hand complaints will be disregarded; specific complaints with
evidence will be rectified as soon as possible.
If you wish to comment on the released set, please use the "US Set released [version x]" topic; if you want to contribute to development (note that this does not include feature requests) then use the "US Set Development Thread" topic.
The United States has a wide variety of geographical and climatic diversity. As a result, all of the environments in TTD (except Toyland) would be found somewhere in the United States. Thus, the US roads set is designed to be used in ALL three environments (temperate, arctic and sub-tropical).
The American Transition Roads Set is available in a DOS version ("usroads.grf") and a Windows version ("usroadsw.grf"). Simply copy the grf file into the "newgrf" directory under your TTD main directory and add the entry "newgrf/usroads[w].grf" (with the "w" if you are using the Windows version of TTD) to your "newgrf[w].cfg" file.
You´ll need TTDPatch version 2.0 rev 1 (or higher) to run this version.
Since you can only have one set of roads active in any one game, you should not list more than one road set in your "newgrf[w].cfg" file. If you do, whichever one is listed last will be the active one.
To enable the roads in an existing savegame, please use the "New Graphics Status" window available ingame to set the "flag" to green.
The US Roads Set will not cooperate well with any other road or bridge set.
If you have a new bridge listed above usroads[w].grf in newgrf[w].cfg then there will be graphical errors. If you would still like to use this bridge then please move its entry in newgrf[w].cfg below usroads[w].grf. You will obviously lose the US style roads on that bridge.
Alternatively, use parameter bit 0 to disable the changes to bridges if you wish to continue using your current bridges.
You may use parameter bit 0 to switch the bridge modifications off. This can be done by making your newgrf[w].cfg entry look like newgrf/usroads[w].grf 1
You need to set the following variables in your ttdpatch.cfg file:
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This set is licensed under the GNU Public Licence. As such, it may be freely
distributed and modified as long as it remains under this license.
If you wish to use any part of this set in another set, you may of course do
so, but we would be very grateful if you asked the artist concerned for permission,
which will probably be granted. However, the individual elements remain the
property of their respective artists, and they have the final word in this
regard.
The American Transition Roads Set for TTDPatch
Copyright
© 2005 by certain members of the Transport
Tycoon Forums (named below)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
If you wish to contact the developers, please use the TT-Forums to do so or email usset [at] tt-forums [dot] net and Oracle or another member of the team will answer you.
The American Transition Roads Set was developed collaboratively, by many people. If you believe that you have made a contribution to this set and did not receive proper credit, please inform us at the Forums so credit can be given. This set is entirely nonprofit, and permission is given to reproduce or redistribute it in its entirety according to the terms of the GNU Public Licence (full text included with the set).
Credit in this document is generally given by Forum usernames, except as requested otherwise. Forum usernames are those in use by the named people on http://www.tt-forums.net/ on Monday 20th December 2004.
This readme document was based on the style of that generated by Michael Blunck for his DBXL set but created independently.
Co-ordination and administration was handled by krtaylor.
Development hosting space was provided by Advanced
Systems & Software Technologies.
Temperate and Arctic road sprites were drawn by norfolksouthern37.
These were converted to the tropical climate and for bridges by Oracle.
All coding was carried out by Oracle.
Transport Tycoon Forums
US Set Development
thread (please do not post bugs here)
US Set Release thread (please do post bugs here)
usset [at] tt-forums [dot] net (please contact with queries if you cannot post in the forums)