Various NML related questions

[Andrew350]

Is it possible to define default track type in menu (not the first one)?
Let say I have 3 tracktype, Slow, Medium, Fast, they appear in menu in such order,
any means to force Medium to be first choice when track menu is opened?

No. Which rail type gets selected first depends on the user's settings, and NewGRF can't influence that.

[paritcl3s]

Am currently trying to make a town name .grf.
I'm fresh to the task and have never made an attempt at a graphics pack.
So far I've tried deriving an .nfo from the elder scrolls name .grf.
nmlc --nfo=<file>

It returned a copy

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// 2 * 98	 08 07 "JS" 0F 01 "The Elder Scrolls Town Names" 00
	 8A "Coded Together by Jan Skoch" 0D 93 "GNU "
	 "GPL v2" 0D 91 "Version # 2013.04.26" 00
    3 * 1630	 0F 00 01 90 00 08 01 "Alftand" 00 01 "Arkngthamz" 00 01 "Avanchnzel" 00
	 01 "Blackreach" 00 01 "Bthalft" 00 01 "Bthardamz" 00
	 01 "Fahlbtharz" 00 01 "Irkngthand" 00 01 "Kagrenzel" 00
	 01 "Kagrumez" 00 01 "Mzinchaleft" 00 01 "Mzulft" 00 01
	 "Nchardak" 00 01 "Nchuand-Zel" 00 01 "Raldbthar" 00

It goes on like that basically.

The --nml output states lang/english.lng doesn't exit so not sure where to turn. Is there any template to follow for folder hierarchy for proper compilation?

[2TallTyler]

Here’s a link to my town names repository. Each state is a separate NewGRF and NML project and there’s a makefile to compile them all using nmlc. Using NML is much easier than NFO.

https://github.com/2TallTyler/town_names

[Greyfur]

IHi guys,

is this because I am using old nmlc?

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H:\CSBusSet\!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>nmlc CSBusSetN4.5.5.nml
[Knmlc ERROR: nmlc: An internal error has occurred:
nmlc-version: v6379:afad0c76c40b from 2017-06-19
Error:    (IndexError) "pop from empty list".
Command:  ['nmlc', 'CSBusSetN4.5.5.nml']
Location: File "nml\actions\action4.py", line 170, in get_string_action4s 

[Eddi]

in any case, NML shouldn't be crashing with an "internal error" like that, but return a proper error message about what is actually wrong with your code, so you should probably update, and report it with the code that triggers it if the problem persists

the typical cause for this kind of error is that some kind of ID-pool ran out, which may be fixable by rearranging some code

[Greyfur]

I am getting the same with the newest stable windows one I could find.

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C:\NML>nmlc CSBusSetN4.5.5.nml
 nmlc ERROR: nmlc: An internal error has occurred:
nmlc-version: 0.5.0
Error:    (IndexError) "pop from empty list".
Command:  ['nmlc', 'CSBusSetN4.5.5.nml']
Location: File "nml\actions\action4.py", line 170, in get_string_action4s

the only difference is the text is now in red.

Are there any limits on how many vehicles, lines of code, switches, text lines in language file, etc there could be?

[Eddi]

there are many such limits, and nmlc usually outputs a statistics of how close you are to any of these limits. (if it doesn't crash, that is)

if it crashes with action4, you're probably running out of StringIDs (any string that's not a vehicle name, and there's like 1024 IDs available)

[Greyfur]

there are many such limits, and nmlc usually outputs a statistics of how close you are to any of these limits. (if it doesn't crash, that is)

if it crashes with action4, you're probably running out of StringIDs (any string that's not a vehicle name, and there's like 1024 IDs available)

Thank you!

I didn't know there was such a limit. I will most likely have to split my grf in two or three parts I guess. I plan to do a reduction of duplicates, but with how much I will still have to add, it would definitely not fit into a 1024 limit.