Creating new town names

GurraJG · Post by **GurraJG** » 05 Oct 2004 15:03

Hello,

I'm interested in creating some town names... but I don't know how I would go about doing this. I would very much appreciate it if someone could help!

Gurra

PennCentral · Post by **PennCentral** » 05 Oct 2004 15:36

Actually, we would all be interested in the answer to this question....

ReFa · Post by **ReFa** » 05 Oct 2004 16:01

GurraJG wrote:Hello,

I'm interested in creating some town names... but I don't know how I would go about doing this. I would very much appreciate it if someone could help!

Gurra

1. Get locotool
2. Extract any *TOWNNAM.DAT with locotool
3. Rename the new *TOWNNAM.XML to a non-excisting *TOWNNAM.XML
4. Edit the new *TOWNNAM.XML
5. Change the name in the upper-part of the XML in the name you've
just given to the XML file
6. When the XML is editted into what you want: Save it!
7. Drag the saved XML into Locotool.exe
8. Copy the newly created *TOWNNAM.DAT (with the name jou gave to the XML) into the Objdata-map.
9. Start Locomotion, go to scenarioeditor and see if it works.
10. If it doesn't work, tell me

ReFa
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GurraJG · Post by **GurraJG** » 05 Oct 2004 16:19

Thanks...

But it didn't work. I followed the instructions and did everything. When I then opened up the scenario editor, I could choose the town name style, but when I pressed forward to the landscape editor, I got an access error! The only thing I did "wrond" is that I olny created 10 town names. Maybe there is a minimum...

Gurra

PS.
What is the difference between type "0", type "1" and type "2"??

ReFa · Post by **ReFa** » 05 Oct 2004 16:34

GurraJG wrote:Thanks...

But it didn't work. I followed the instructions and did everything. When I then opened up the scenario editor, I could choose the town name style, but when I pressed forward to the landscape editor, I got an access error! The only thing I did "wrond" is that I olny created 10 town names. Maybe there is a minimum...

Maybe there is a minimum, I don't know.
Maybe something else is wrong.
You can mail me your Town-dat or XML file, so I can have
a look at it somewhere this evening.

GurraJG wrote:PS.
What is the difference between type "0", type "1" and type "2"??

I haven't discovered that yet. I have plans to try out that things later this week.

ReFa
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GurraJG · Post by **GurraJG** » 05 Oct 2004 17:24

ReFa wrote:Maybe there is a minimum, I don't know.
Maybe something else is wrong.
You can mail me your Town-dat or XML file, so I can have
a look at it somewhere this evening.
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Right, I mailed you. Thanks for the help!

Davie_UCF · Post by **Davie_UCF** » 05 Oct 2004 17:39

Hmmm I wanted to try this but i can't find a file called TWNAM.DAT :\

Davie

DarkMatter · Post by **DarkMatter** » 05 Oct 2004 23:34

That's because he didn'a post the names quite right. The filenames should look like "*TOWNNAM.DAT".

ReFa · Post by **ReFa** » 06 Oct 2004 14:12

DarkMatter wrote:That's because he didn'a post the names quite right. The filenames should look like "*TOWNNAM.DAT".

Thanks, i've changed it

ReFa · Post by **ReFa** » 06 Oct 2004 14:19

GurraJG wrote:Thanks...

But it didn't work. I followed the instructions and did everything. When I then opened up the scenario editor, I could choose the town name style, but when I pressed forward to the landscape editor, I got an access error! The only thing I did "wrond" is that I olny created 10 town names. Maybe there is a minimum...

I've looked at the file you sent me and found why yout get that error.
Just above the townnames there is the following line:

<stringtable id="1" num="86">

You have to change the number "86" in the number of townnames
that you have made. In your test-file that number must be "11"
and the complete line will look like this:

<stringtable id="1" num="11">

Good luck!

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 06 Oct 2004 22:48

So, that's simple one-piece names. What about generators?

Olli · Post by **Olli** » 07 Oct 2004 15:35

This realyl helps finding names of large cities sorted by country and urban population:
http://www.citymayors.com/features/largest_cities.html

ReFa · Post by **ReFa** » 07 Oct 2004 18:52

ChrisCF wrote:So, that's simple one-piece names. What about generators?

What kind of generator do you want?

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 07 Oct 2004 21:52

One that will generate random prime numbers between 1 and infinity.

Does the topic title "Creating new town names" help you decide what kind of generators I'm looking at?

ReFa · Post by **ReFa** » 07 Oct 2004 22:13

ChrisCF wrote:One that will generate random prime numbers between 1 and infinity.

I don't think anyone is waiting for the townnames "3", "17", "10169" or "104729"

ChrisCF wrote:Does the topic title "Creating new town names" help you decide what kind of generators I'm looking at?

Yes, I understand, but there are many possibillities:
-Do you want a generator for names in a specific language?
-Do you want names of 2, 3 or more random parts?
-Do you want the generator to generate the names with real excisting parts or do you want it more like the "Silly Town names"?
-etc etc etc

ChrisCF · Post by **ChrisCF** » 07 Oct 2004 23:18

I'm trying to figure out how to generate a generator for town names what will use different parts to generate more than 256 names. Does that generate a good generation of my post? Actually coming up with the bits that will go in there isn't a problem.

GurraJG · Post by **GurraJG** » 08 Oct 2004 13:45

Olli wrote:This realyl helps finding names of large cities sorted by country and urban population:
http://www.citymayors.com/features/largest_cities.html

Hey, thanks for the link!

ReFa · Post by **ReFa** » 08 Oct 2004 19:52

ChrisCF wrote:I'm trying to figure out how to generate a generator for town names what will use different parts to generate more than 256 names. Does that generate a good generation of my post? Actually coming up with the bits that will go in there isn't a problem.

When you look at my Dutch Style town names, there are >1700 possible townnames in it.

PennCentral · Post by **PennCentral** » 08 Oct 2004 20:53

I think a simple little proggie that would allow you to rename towns that are already on a map would be quite usefull.

Overlord1191 · Post by **Overlord1191** » 09 Oct 2004 05:32

Olli wrote:This realyl helps finding names of large cities sorted by country and urban population:
http://www.citymayors.com/features/largest_cities.html

Considering that the population grows about 150% a year you better only use the names of cities with 1 million or more!

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