Station Add Ons

[DeletedUser21]

ok thnx,

i asked that because of the errors I got about wrong files and such.

[Born Acorn]

stumo, any progress?

[Stumo]

Have been doing other stuff recently. Current plans are
- Allow it to be part of the catchment area for what goods a station can recieve
- Fix any bugs I know of
- Tidy up and generalise the code so can do other similar stuff (e.g. post office accepts mail from a longer distance)
- Incorperate the new graphics

but I might not release anything new until the new year, sorry

[Sionide]

i can't get it working, be cool if it's added to main stream code though? *nudges Darkvater and the others*

[Stumo]

Sionide - what have you been trying?

As I said above there's no chance of it being added to the main stream until it's bug free at least. I'm chatting with the devs on IRC, I promise that once I think it's ready for the main branch I'll ask them to put it in, but before then it really shouldn't.

[Sionide]

cool

i tried putting all the files in the right places and i just get an error when i run openttd.. no worries though - i'll wait on it being added to the main svn

[Stumo]

Did you rememper to delete opntitle.dat from the data subdirectory?

[Stumo]

Here's the latest version.

I've moved the station addons into a seperate toolbar, with a new icon showing a postbox and a cup of tea, as I plan to implement a Post Office and a Station Restaurant as other station addons. If anyone can supply better icons I'd appreciate it!

Note the text for this toolbar is currently too short, but it'll be fine when there are a few more buttons on that toolbar.

I've fixed the ghost stations bug. At the moment I don't know of any other bugs.

I'm afraid I haven't got round to putting the new graphics in yet. I'm not 100% happy with Born Acorns suggestion - it's better than what I've got, but I think it still needs some improvement. Maybe a black/player coloured taxi parked in there? (If someone's designing this, please do the taxi seperately from the base)

The code's changed quite a lot - made more general to allow for other addons easily, and for the taxi rank distance to be dynamic.

In particular there's now a generic "TileMask" which can store arbitrary subsections of tiles. If one of the devs want to take Tilemask.c and Tilemask.h and put them into svn other people can use them for any other projects they're doing (e.g. use them to define an arbitrary hightlight).

Diff is against 1367

I'm prob not going to do much with this for the next couple of weeks-it should be stable to play with, and saveing/loading works (I think), so if anyone fancies trying it in a proper game, feedback would be appreciated. Keep an eye out for memory leaks - I'm pretty sure I've coded well, but the code I've added is more likely to introduce memory leaks than your average code.

[MeusH]

Is it possible to code this mod to OpenTTD after bigmaps project is finished?

[Stumo]

Hopefully before, but it won't happen until (a) we've got some better graphics, (b) we've got some extra addons (c) I've had a chance to test a network game

I had one extra idea for an addon - a 2x2 carpark, can only be added to stations/airports, increases radius by 2 in all directions.

[MeusH]

I like this idea! Of course, car park should cost a lot of money

[kamnet]

Yes, I have unearthed a corpsed. I am necromancering it. MUAHAHAHA.

Seriously, could a mod move this over to the Graphics Development or OpenTTD development forum? I would like to see if somebody would like to resurrect this patch properly.

[Chrill]

This is nothing beyond a suggestion for now I suppose. If someone would want to pick this up, I'd be happy to move this to the OpenTTD Development Forum

[kamnet]

This is nothing beyond a suggestion for now I suppose.

Other than the four patches that were already published, that is?

[Chrill]

Right. I should read first, comment later. Is that it?