Need help with .cfg file.

[jrgcool35]

I set my .cfg file and most of the stuff seems to work but I can't get 2 main things to work: bribe and pre-signals they are set to on but won't work any help would be appreciated since I am a n00b to this. I put in the code to make the game auto set the stuff here is what it says in the .cfg for those two:

Bribe: bribe on

Presignals: presignals on

Thank you for any help

[Greno Zee]

I might for a change try to be helpful and attempt to answer even though I haven't actually played for 4 months...

You can't bribe straight away. I think you must have a rating in the city and it has to be of certain size (hm, it's rather a guess)

The presignals don't get placed automaticaly. You have to choose either a presignal from the signal menu, either keep clicking on an existing signal with CTRL and the signal tool on, until it becomes a presignal. And to see it you need to have the graphics installed (not sure anymore whether it's in the base grf).

Hope this gets you started.

[Ameecher]

You can't bribe straight away. I think you must have a rating in the city and it has to be of certain size (hm, it's rather a guess)

Bribes have nothing to do with rating, if you needed a certain rating to bribe that would make the purpose of a bribe rather pointless. You need to have enough money to be able to bribe and this sum of money increases as you go up through the rating ranks. An initial bribe is in the £400k ballpark.

[jrgcool35]

You can't bribe straight away. I think you must have a rating in the city and it has to be of certain size (hm, it's rather a guess)

Bribes have nothing to do with rating, if you needed a certain rating to bribe that would make the purpose of a bribe rather pointless. You need to have enough money to be able to bribe and this sum of money increases as you go up through the rating ranks. An initial bribe is in the £400k ballpark.

EDIT: Ok I found out that I need to have at least some rating in the city to get the bribe option.

But when I try to build the pre-signals they come out as normal ones, I downloaded the extra graphics pack also and installed it it seems to be working correctly (unless there are airplane skins) when I hold CNTRL and try to build they still build normal signs how can I tell if the are pre-signals or not.

[Ameecher]

So the bribe option button won't be there until I have enough money?

Correct, it will appear when you are just short of the amount of money you need in the Local Authority section of the town information window.

[jrgcool35]

So the bribe option button won't be there until I have enough money?

Correct, it will appear when you are just short of the amount of money you need in the Local Authority section of the town information window.

I edited that post now how do I fix the pre-signals and how do I tell if its a pre-signal or not they look like the defualt TTD signals and I have installed the graphics-pack, I don't mind not having the tropics maps, but do these include airplane skins cause I have not seen any skins for them.

[Ameecher]

Hopefully this can page can help you: http://uwe.s2000.ws/ttdx/signal/index.php?lang=en

[jrgcool35]

Hopefully this can page can help you: http://uwe.s2000.ws/ttdx/signal/index.php?lang=en

Thanks that helped me a lot, also you have a site with skins those depot skins you have are there any errors with those that can cause trains to jam cause Ive seen that happen with airport skins.

[Ameecher]

I have had no reports of my depot graphics causing any problems whatsoever. I'd call that safe

[jrgcool35]

I have had no reports of my depot graphics causing any problems whatsoever. I'd call that safe

Do I need to change anything in the .cfg file for them to work? like in any .cfg file.

[Ameecher]

you need to download the .grf file to your newgrf file folder and then in your newgrf.cfg enter the line

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newgrf/dep2.1w.grf

or

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newgrf/dep2.0w.grf

depending on which version of the file you download.

[jrgcool35]

you need to download the .grf file to your newgrf file folder and then in your newgrf.cfg enter the line

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newgrf/dep2.1w.grf

or

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newgrf/dep2.0w.grf

depending on which version of the file you download.

it gves me a error messaage saying wrong GRF file or version etc error loading.

[Ameecher]

Sorry if this obvious but did you extract the .grf from the .zip from the website?

[jrgcool35]

Sorry if this obvious but did you extract the .grf from the .zip from the website?

yes I extracted the .grf from the website that I go to from clicking Ameecher's graphics picture. I will try again because my .zip is being dominated by rar

I did it again but from zip this time its the same problem. I have TTDPatch rev1 (thats what it says when I enter TTD).

[Ameecher]

Where are you saving the .grf to?

Your transport tycoon directory or your newgrf folder?

[jrgcool35]

Where are you saving the .grf to?

Your transport tycoon directory or your newgrf folder?

Directory:

D:\Transportation Tycoon\Transport Tycoon Deluxe\newgrf

(I have it saved in my D hard drive if thats a problem lol cause my C is full to the top)

I will try version 2.1 if that works.

Both don't work.

I have TTDPatch 2.0 rev 1 is that the problem?

I found a command line in my TTDPatch .cfg file that says:

loadallgraphics off

can I turn that on?

[DaleStan]

Version 2.1 has never existed, and will never exist. 2.0r1 is ancient. Get 2.5 beta 9 or the latest nightly.

[jrgcool35]

Version 2.1 has never existed, and will never exist. 2.0r1 is ancient. Get 2.5 beta 9 or the latest nightly.

Version 2.1 as in his graphics its version 2.1 and 2.0

[Ameecher]

Definitely go and get TTDPatch 2.5 beta 9.

[furdude6]

// `presignals' (-w) automatically sets up 'pre-signals' to improve station handling.
presignals on

// `newsignals' (-ZW) enables new graphics for signals.
newsignals on
those two lines help, the first one automatically sets up the lights to be what they need to be, and the second one enables the new graphic that has(hopefully) been downloaded..