How to select a unique grfid?

[ebla71]

Couldn't find any answer to the following question:

How do you select a unique grifid that has not been assigned to any other NewGRF so far?!?

And if there is no suggested procedure - is there at least a list of already used grfid's somewhere?

[skc]

First place I would look is on BaNaNas.

[ebla71]

First place I would look is on BaNaNas.

Thank you very much - yes, in the NewGRF list the first column indeed gives the ID.

Still, some more rational approach to ID assignment would be nice ...

[Quast65]

Its Hexadecimal conversion:
https://www.eso.org/~ndelmott/ascii.html
A lot of people tend to use the first 2 numbers to personalize their ID's.
For example a lot of GarryG's IDs start with 4747, which is GG

[ebla71]

Its Hexadecimal conversion:
A lot of people tend to use the first 2 numbers to personalize their ID's.
For example a lot of GarryG's IDs start with 4747, which is GG

Yes, I already understood that.

Maybe I'm just thinking too much about it and the "namespace" is large enough to make collisions highly unlikely.

Will try to avoid the initials of the most prolific NewGRF and graphics authors, though

[Quast65]

Yeah, its just too bad you cant sort the GRF list out on BaNaNas running from low ID to high. That would make it easier to choose a range.

[Brickblock1]

Yeah, its just too bad you cant sort the GRF list out on BaNaNas running from low ID to high. That would make it easier to choose a range.

You actually can just not on the site.
this page works however

[Quast65]

You actually can just not on the site.

Cheers, I think that is very handy for new developers to find a suitable range!