In game palette swap

Mr. X · PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2019 7:42 pm

Alright, disclaimer: I'll have to admit, I screwed myself over. I know. But it gave me an idea. :idea:

I accidentally swapped a palette of a signal set, then created a scenario that I wanted to play. After hours of fidgeting I created a fun scenario that I wanted to try out. So I start the map in game mode and what do I see? Pink signals! :shock:

After some research into this issue, I switched back the palette for the signals NewGRF in the main menu but alas. The scenario I spend hours on creating is practically useless (well of course I can still play it but it diminishes the experience immensely. It's like the game it glitched while it's just a setting).

So the idea is to be able to swap the palette of NewGRF in game as well as outside.

Is such a thing possible? I understand that loading and unloading NewGRF's is as hard to implement as it gets but would a palette swap still be possible somehow?

acs121 · PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2019 9:01 pm

Maybe I misread your issue and you did this already, but you should open the console and type "set newgrf_developer_tools 1".
Then you can modify the palette of your GRF ingame, but only in single player, by opening the NewGRF parameters.

kamnet · PostPosted: Fri May 03, 2019 4:54 am

You should be able to re-open the scenario file in the scenario editor and make the modification there.

Mr. X · PostPosted: Fri May 03, 2019 9:41 am

acs121 wrote:

set newgrf_developer_tools 1

This is something I haven't tried yet. Will give it a spin! Thanks a lot!

kamnet wrote:

You should be able to re-open the scenario file in the scenario editor and make the modification there.

If you mean using the console command over there, then yes good idea! Then every time I play the scenario, it'll be correct again. :))

Eddi · **Joined:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:14 am **Posts:** 7350

acs121 wrote:

Maybe I misread your issue and you did this already, but you should open the console and type "set newgrf_developer_tools 1".
Then you can modify the palette of your GRF ingame, but only in single player, by opening the NewGRF parameters.

please stop spreading this. the correct command for this situation is "set scenario_developer 1"

acs121 · PostPosted: Fri May 03, 2019 7:41 pm

Eddi wrote:

acs121 wrote:

Maybe I misread your issue and you did this already, but you should open the console and type "set newgrf_developer_tools 1".
Then you can modify the palette of your GRF ingame, but only in single player, by opening the NewGRF parameters.

please stop spreading this. the correct command for this situation is "set scenario_developer 1"

"set newgrf_developer_tools 1" works too. I'm not bull****-spreading.

Eddi · **Joined:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:14 am **Posts:** 7350

no, but if someone says "help, i need some training in self-defense" you don't go "sure, here have this AK47"

Diesel Power · **Joined:** Sat Jun 18, 2016 7:05 pm **Posts:** 116

acs121 wrote:

Maybe I misread your issue and you did this already, but you should open the console and type "set newgrf_developer_tools 1".
Then you can modify the palette of your GRF ingame, but only in single player, by opening the NewGRF parameters.

Where would i find "the console"? The number of games I've had to restart after I realise I've screwed up a grf setting 10 years in!

acs121 · PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2019 6:17 pm

Hold your click on the Terrain Information Tool and you will see "Open/Close the console".

PikkaBird · PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2019 7:37 pm

acs121 wrote:

Hold your click on the Terrain Information Tool and you will see "Open/Close the console".

It can also be accessed in the conventional way by pressing ~ (or the key below Esc).

acs121 · PostPosted: Tue May 07, 2019 10:52 pm

Eddi wrote:

no, but if someone says "help, i need some training in self-defense" you don't go "sure, here have this AK47"

Well that's a bit extreme. As a comparison, having a gun for self-defense is illegal, except if you're from the police. While typing a normal command in the console is totally legal and not as dangerous. It depends on what you're changing - while removing a vehicle set can corrupt your savegame, removing a road set "the old way" that only replace graphics is inoffensive for your savegame.

Eddi · **Joined:** Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:14 am **Posts:** 7350

acs121 wrote:

Eddi wrote:

no, but if someone says "help, i need some training in self-defense" you don't go "sure, here have this AK47"

Well that's a bit extreme. As a comparison, having a gun for self-defense is illegal, except if you're from the police. While typing a normal command in the console is totally legal and not as dangerous. It depends on what you're changing - while removing a vehicle set can corrupt your savegame, removing a road set "the old way" that only replace graphics is inoffensive for your savegame.

i don't think you get what i was trying to say with the analogy...

all the things you're saying you can do with the setting "scenario_developer", the dangerous and the less dangerous ones. however, "newgrf_developer_tools" enables additional bad and even worse things that are not even relevant to the topic. and that's why it's a bad idea to tell people to use it.

planetmaker · PostPosted: Thu May 09, 2019 8:22 am

I split off the off-topic discussion...

On-topic: Eddi has a point. Use the appropriate tools. Not the big sledgehammer when you need a chisel. scenario_developer is the setting you need when you want to edit newgrfs in a savegame or scenario.

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