FicTown Names (Latest Version: 3.7) - Available on BaNaNaS!
Posted: 09 Oct 2016 22:08
Skip this first part if you're only interested in playing with this NewGRF!
Okay, tl;dr that was the licensing issues.
Now that I'm done ranting, on to the actual NewGRF!
This NewGRF is available in the In-Game Content downloader (BaNaNaS / Fruit Store)!
Source code is available exclusively from this page, as BaNaNaS does not support uploading source code, though please feel free to mirror the source code and/or NewGRF as you wish.
FicTown Names
Towns from Works of Fiction
After seeing various Town Name NewGRFs that produced towns from specific franchises, as well as noting there was a "Song of Fire and Ice" map in BaNaNaS, I wondered how hard it would be to make a "Famous Town Names" GRF in the vein of SilverSurferZzZ's "Famous Cars" Road Vehicle set. Of course, since there is already a Famous Town Names NewGRF for real cities that are famous, I instead chose the name FicTown Names and set about trying to make it happen.
EDIT 20-08-2017: There are now three versions of FicTown Names, a legacy version, a basic version and a plus version! The two current versions are included in one zip file, see downloads for info!
What towns are in it? How many towns are there?
Currently there are quite a few places in the list, which is included in a text file with the download. I don't know the exact number, but using a 8192x8192 map will result in all names being used. Some are taken from series that I know and love, others from wikis of series I included for who-knows-why or from suggestions by community members, but most were taken from Wikipedia's lists of fictional cities and towns.
If you don't know how to develop a NewGRF, but want to suggest a fictional city, town, village or other settlement from a song, book or novel series, movie, TV show, video game, tabletop RPG, or any other work of fiction, please do! I'll try to add it in a timely manner.
There are only three conditions to suggesting towns:
1) It must be fictional. If it is a real place where fictional characters reside in or mention, it doesn't count. If a city is from the future and built on the ruins of, or renamed from, a real city (New New York, Neo Tokyo) it also does not count. Alternate reality versions of real cities are not an exception unless the name is different. (So Cape City and San Fransokyo are valid, but not any version of San Francisco from Sliders)
2) It must have or have had permanent habitation by sentient/sapient beings. No mountains, rivers, islands or other geographical features unless they are inhabited.
3) Please submit towns in alphabetical order! That means listing each work of fiction you suggest alphabetically, and listing the towns from a given work alphabetically. This is due to the long list of towns suggested by skyrish19 and their non-alphabetical listing, which made it harder to keep track of the code.
That should be everything. The NewGRF's test version and the source of said test version are both in a single zip file below. I've included instructions for the uninitiated, but for now only in Windows. I may include instructions for Mac OS X if there is enough demand.
Here's the downloads, and a link to my OneDrive for older versions. Unfortunately I cannot guarantee the future ensured hosting of old versions I have been forced to remove all pre-BaNaNaS versions from my OneDrive account to save space, but the latest version will be kept online as long as these forums are around, and all versions from 0.1.0a onward will remain on BaNaNaS into perpetuity.
FicTown+ Names
FicTown+ Names is a continuation of the basic project with a larger scope. It has had specific town names re-ordered in the code to the bottom for easy coding, and thus is not compatible with earlier versions (though running games might not mind; do so at your own risk of a corrupted save game!), and includes town names from original works, from fan material for roleplaying games posted online, and from "direct case" works. "Direct case" includes anything unpublished for any reason and anything by someone I know outside the OpenTTD community, which I got permission to use directly from the original creator(s). "Direct case" also includes anything made by myself (but still part of a fictional work unrelated to OpenTTD) regardless of whether it's accessible.
Basic Version
FicTown Names is the continuation of the basic project. It no longer included specific town names and thus is not compatible with FicTown Names 0.1.1a (though running games might not mind; do so at your own risk of a corrupted save game!), and will only include town names from original works not made by me or anyone I personally know. This means it does not include fanfiction, anything unpublished for any reason, or anything by someone I know outside the OpenTTD community.
OLD VERSIONS (INCLUDING LEGACY DOWNLOAD)
Credits
SimYouLater (Myself)
Chancel Aleph (for several town names)
Tsylatac (for several town names)
skyrish19 (for several town names)
Versions
To-do List
- World of Warcraft (This is going to be a doozy!)
Now that I'm done ranting, on to the actual NewGRF!
This NewGRF is available in the In-Game Content downloader (BaNaNaS / Fruit Store)!
Source code is available exclusively from this page, as BaNaNaS does not support uploading source code, though please feel free to mirror the source code and/or NewGRF as you wish.
FicTown Names
Towns from Works of Fiction
After seeing various Town Name NewGRFs that produced towns from specific franchises, as well as noting there was a "Song of Fire and Ice" map in BaNaNaS, I wondered how hard it would be to make a "Famous Town Names" GRF in the vein of SilverSurferZzZ's "Famous Cars" Road Vehicle set. Of course, since there is already a Famous Town Names NewGRF for real cities that are famous, I instead chose the name FicTown Names and set about trying to make it happen.
EDIT 20-08-2017: There are now three versions of FicTown Names, a legacy version, a basic version and a plus version! The two current versions are included in one zip file, see downloads for info!
What towns are in it? How many towns are there?
Currently there are quite a few places in the list, which is included in a text file with the download. I don't know the exact number, but using a 8192x8192 map will result in all names being used. Some are taken from series that I know and love, others from wikis of series I included for who-knows-why or from suggestions by community members, but most were taken from Wikipedia's lists of fictional cities and towns.
If you don't know how to develop a NewGRF, but want to suggest a fictional city, town, village or other settlement from a song, book or novel series, movie, TV show, video game, tabletop RPG, or any other work of fiction, please do! I'll try to add it in a timely manner.
There are only three conditions to suggesting towns:
1) It must be fictional. If it is a real place where fictional characters reside in or mention, it doesn't count. If a city is from the future and built on the ruins of, or renamed from, a real city (New New York, Neo Tokyo) it also does not count. Alternate reality versions of real cities are not an exception unless the name is different. (So Cape City and San Fransokyo are valid, but not any version of San Francisco from Sliders)
2) It must have or have had permanent habitation by sentient/sapient beings. No mountains, rivers, islands or other geographical features unless they are inhabited.
3) Please submit towns in alphabetical order! That means listing each work of fiction you suggest alphabetically, and listing the towns from a given work alphabetically. This is due to the long list of towns suggested by skyrish19 and their non-alphabetical listing, which made it harder to keep track of the code.
That should be everything. The NewGRF's test version and the source of said test version are both in a single zip file below. I've included instructions for the uninitiated, but for now only in Windows. I may include instructions for Mac OS X if there is enough demand.
Here's the downloads, and a link to my OneDrive for older versions. Unfortunately I cannot guarantee the future ensured hosting of old versions I have been forced to remove all pre-BaNaNaS versions from my OneDrive account to save space, but the latest version will be kept online as long as these forums are around, and all versions from 0.1.0a onward will remain on BaNaNaS into perpetuity.
FicTown+ Names
FicTown+ Names is a continuation of the basic project with a larger scope. It has had specific town names re-ordered in the code to the bottom for easy coding, and thus is not compatible with earlier versions (though running games might not mind; do so at your own risk of a corrupted save game!), and includes town names from original works, from fan material for roleplaying games posted online, and from "direct case" works. "Direct case" includes anything unpublished for any reason and anything by someone I know outside the OpenTTD community, which I got permission to use directly from the original creator(s). "Direct case" also includes anything made by myself (but still part of a fictional work unrelated to OpenTTD) regardless of whether it's accessible.
Basic Version
FicTown Names is the continuation of the basic project. It no longer included specific town names and thus is not compatible with FicTown Names 0.1.1a (though running games might not mind; do so at your own risk of a corrupted save game!), and will only include town names from original works not made by me or anyone I personally know. This means it does not include fanfiction, anything unpublished for any reason, or anything by someone I know outside the OpenTTD community.
OLD VERSIONS (INCLUDING LEGACY DOWNLOAD)
Credits
SimYouLater (Myself)
Chancel Aleph (for several town names)
Tsylatac (for several town names)
skyrish19 (for several town names)
Versions
To-do List
- World of Warcraft (This is going to be a doozy!)