[NFO] How to make an "older" vehicle-set tramtype aware

[Quast65]

Hi all,

I am trying to make some changes to one of the older vehicle-sets, HEQS.
I would like to make it possible for the industrial non-electrical trams to drive on an un-electrified tramtrack.
At the moment that is not possible, they only drive on electrified tramtracks and can only be bought at the electrified tramdepots.

I have not much experience with vehicle coding, so asking here is probably a lot faster than me just fiddeling around

For as far as I understand it now, I think I need to add a Tramtype Translation Table, should that look like this:

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  1 * n      00 08 01 02 00 17 "RAIL" "ELRL"

And then I need to referr to that in the Action-0 of the tram, right?
But how exactly?
If I understand correctly, I need to add prop-05, but where and what should it look like?
Here I have an example of the Action-0 of a steamtram from HEQS:

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 4482 * 30	 00 01 \b10 01 D0
    0E FF // sprite ID
    0F \b00 // capacity
    10 FF // cargo type
    16 00 00 00 00 // Bit mask of cargo types available for refitting
    17 12 // Callback flags bit mask
    1A 00 // Refit cost, using 25% of the purchase price cost base
    1B 00 // Retire vehicle early, this many years before the end of phase 2
    1C 03 // Miscellaneous vehicle flags 01 = tram, 02 = use 2CC, 10 = allow autorefit
    1D FF FF // Refittable cargo classes
    1E 01 00 // Non-refittable cargo classes
# 18 "sprites/nfo/industrial_trams/dorstfeld_tram.pnfo" 2

 4483 * 35	 00 01 \b12 01 D0
    02 20 // reliability 
    03 \b23 // vehicle life 
    04 \b120 // class life 
    09 16 // running cost 
    0A 48 4C 00 00 // running cost base 
    11 12 // cost factor
    12 02 // sound effect
    13 \b6 // power in 10 hp
    14 \b44 // weight in 1/4 tons
    15 \b12 // speed in mph * 0.8
    18 50 // coefficient of TE
    1F \d683000 // Long format introduction date  
 4484 * 45	 04 01 7F 01 D0 "0-4-0 Dorstfeld Industrial Tram (Steam)" 00
 // extra info text shared with other steam trams
 4485 * 160	 04 01 81 01 B4 D1 "Can be refitted to haul:\8A"
  "\0D    20t in four wagons"
  "\0D    45t in nine wagons"
  "\0D    75t in fifteen wagons (may be slow uphill)\0D"
  "\98Running costs vary with capacity\0D"
                               00

What and where should I change/add the Action-0?

Are any other changes needed too? For example the Action-0's of the wagons too?

Thanks in advance!

[Eddi]

What and where should I change/add the Action-0?

first of all, you should make the change in the appropriate .pnfo file

the order of the action 0s does not matter. just increase the counters.

[Quast65]

Thank you for your reply.

Well, it was easier than I thought...

I just added

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 4989 * 14       00 08 01 02 00 17 "RAIL" "ELRL"

At the very end of the decoded NFO

Then for each Tram I wanted to change, I added

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05 00 

Into the appropriate Action-0
recoded and it works

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