[OTTD] Central European Towns - Release Thread

[super_dan]

Central European Towns - Release Thread

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Central European Towns (CET) is an OpenTTD full houses replacement set that adds house types and sprites in Central European (more or less: Austrian, German, Swiss) style to the game.
In addition, CET introduces three town types: Village, Town, and City. Each in-game town will progress through these stages, thereby changing its look and structure.

Contributors
Graphics by Chataigne, Fraenklie and super_dan (dant).
Code by super_dan (dant).

Thank you very much for the great work and collaboration so far!

Special thanks to Andythenorth for his templating tutorial which helped very much in organising the code.


Features

• Replacement sprites and new house types of Central European Style.

• Town Types: From rural villages to smalltowns to dense cities with road-aware block perimeter development - As towns grow in population, they will progress through these stages and change their appearance.

• Six historical eras for better simulation of changes in town structure and architectural history.

• Old towns and Historicist rings: When starting a game prior to 1920, towns will create an old town district and a ring of late 19th century Historicism-inspired houses.

• City parks: Park areas form in cities, limited only by the road network.

• Hotels and larger office buildings need station infrastructure or special buildings (e.g. cathedrals) for them to be built.

-- CHANGELOG --

Version 0.8.1 (2024-10-28)

• Fixed incorrect newgrf version number and version number in title.

Version 0.8.0 (2024-10-27)

• Includes parameters for adjusting maximum population for the town type transitions.

• Includes a parameter for disabling/enabling default OpenTTD houses.

• Includes to parameters to adjust old town generation and historistic rings to different play styles.

Version 0.7.0 (2023-07-14)

• Full replacement for all default OpenTTD houses.

• Fully playable but still lacks parameters and many sprites.

• CET currently is set to not allow for base set houses to occur.

Development Road Map

• Version 0.9.0: Add all sprites developed for the set in order to increase the variety and make towns look more diverse and interesting.

• Version 1.0: Bugfixed, full-feature version of the set.

Central European Towns is available via the in-game content and on BaNaNaS.

A more detailed description of the set and its features is available here. You can check out the changelog as well as the full code source on Github.

Please report any bugs or glitches in this thread. If you have suggestions for further development, please refer to the dev thread as this greatly helps me to keep an overview: viewtopic.php?t=89495

[temporal8]

Congratulations, it is a very good start, it looks very correct and beautiful, I have no doubt that we can expect a lot from this townset.

[moof]

Hi! It seems great, but... how can I use it? After downloading and implementing to the game, I don't have any new buildings both in the objects section and in the scenario editor. Also new towns are not different from previous ones. What am I doing wrong?

[kamnet]

Hi! It seems great, but... how can I use it? After downloading and implementing to the game, I don't have any new buildings both in the objects section and in the scenario editor. Also new towns are not different from previous ones. What am I doing wrong?

First you have to add it to your active NewGRFs. Second, you have to start a new game or a new Scenario Editor session. You cannot modify the graphics in an active game, save file or scenario without potentially corrupting the game, so that is disabled by default.

[moof]

First you have to add it to your active NewGRFs. Second, you have to start a new game or a new Scenario Editor session. You cannot modify the graphics in an active game, save file or scenario without potentially corrupting the game, so that is disabled by default.

I know I do look like a noob with just few posts here, but I'm playing one map for few years, constantly adding and deleting newgrfs from it. Currently have about 50-60 active grfs. So I know how to add newgrf to the active list, how to change settings (if possible) and so on; I have even experienced some crashes

However nothing is working with that particular newgrf. It does work with a new game, but not with the saved one - and this is the first case like this in my game.

[Argus]

It works for me, this is not a new game either.
They work for me in all climates, only the subarctic one still lacks the snowy version.
I guess you have to wait for the cities to develop, I also didn't have new buildings there immediately after adding them.
Errors that may be caused by adding graphics to an existing game should not be reported, and unfortunately this cannot be ruled out.
May conflict with other graphics. You never know.

[kamnet]

constantly adding and deleting newgrfs from it. Currently have about 50-60 active grfs.

Cool! If you're running multiple town NewGRFs (that's me too!) then it's very likely that depending on where you put it in the list, it's just being crowed out by the others. Try removing all but CETSS and that should force buildings to show up, or display default OpenTTD houses in which case as cities grow they'll get replaced.

[moof]

Ok, I see, it seems it's just impossible to build these buildings in the scenario editor. That's a pity for me, as I don't let my towns to grow - instead I build every tile manually.

Thank you, guys, for explanations I hope one day this set will be released in a possible-to-built-manually version

[Argus]

constantly adding and deleting newgrfs from it. Currently have about 50-60 active grfs.

Cool! If you're running multiple town NewGRFs (that's me too!) then it's very likely that depending on where you put it in the list, it's just being crowed out by the others. Try removing all but CETSS and that should force buildings to show up, or display default OpenTTD houses in which case as cities grow they'll get replaced.

Yes, that's another thing. The number of possible different buildings in the game seems to be limited. Once I use too many building sets, some won't even show up. Or they are simply overwritten by parts of others. Only a few buildings from some sets will appear in the scenario editor.

[Quast65]

Only a few buildings from some sets will appear in the scenario editor.

The magic number is 512 total
Hence why I really advise townset developers to also offer their beautiful graphics as an object set.

[fridaemon]

The magic number is 512 total

Is it in JGR's version too?

[Quast65]

Is it in JGR's version too?

I only use JGR, but the version I use is a bit older now.
May be good to doublecheck in his thread/discord if that is still the limit (or if it is possible to increase it)

[super_dan]

Ok, I see, it seems it's just impossible to build these buildings in the scenario editor. That's a pity for me, as I don't let my towns to grow - instead I build every tile manually.

Thank you, guys, for explanations I hope one day this set will be released in a possible-to-built-manually version

You should be able to make CET houses appear in the scenario editor. There should also be no limitations regarding other house sets. Only the standard houses are disabled (this is subject to change by the player via parameter with the upcoming version, though).

The set should also not have too many issues with the houses limit of 512 items. The variety comes via the animation control feature, meaning, not every single house you see is its own item.

If you want to build your cities up in the scenario editor, that's how I did it, too, while testing. However, please note the following: if you create a new town with, let's say 500ish population, only the village houses will show up. If you expand that town, it will at some point get into the "town" and "city" phases. But the centre needs to be demolished a few times for the block perimeter houses to be built there in the process.

[super_dan]

Only a few buildings from some sets will appear in the scenario editor.

The magic number is 512 total
Hence why I really advise townset developers to also offer their beautiful graphics as an object set.

Don't spoil the surprise

As mentioned in the dev thread, I will make an object set. Work is already in progress. As soon as I have finished parameters for this set, I will finish it up.

[Quast65]

Awesome!

[gravelpit]

is it newgrf download or something else?

[super_dan]

You can download the set via the in-game content download. Just search for CET or Central European Towns.

[super_dan]

Version 0.8.0 was just released.

Features of this version include:

• Two parameters to adjust the maximum population for town type transition (village > town, town > city)

• Parameter to disable/enable default OpenTTD houses

• Parameter to adjust the end year of the first historical era, controlling when old town districts stop being built

• Parameter to disable/enable the protection of the historistic (late 19th century-style) block perimeter houses in cities after 1920

Please report any bugs or glitches below.

[Argus]

It still reports as version 0.7. It can only be recognized by the file name.

[super_dan]

It's the small things in life...

Forgot to update the 'custom tags' file. I fixed it and released an updated version (0.8.1). Though not a game breaker, it might have confused players.

Thanks for pointing that out!