Trains and Traincars

[blane]

Hi,

I played a bit with the newgrfs and also read a lot in the forum. Am I correct that there is currently no graphic replacemet for the trains and traincars that work with openttd?

I tried the german DB set (dbsetxlw.grf), it loads up all right but the trains seem to be wrong in class and speed. Also the game crashes after a while.

I am asking this, because I am kind of bored with the traincars -- they look the same all over the game no matter what type of train I am using. And the Lev4 Chimera looks really strange with the standard passenger wagons

[Death]

The DBSetXL works on some computers A.F.A.I.K.

[jvassie]

Works like a dream over here!

Which version of OpenTTD are you using? If you havent already i suggest you go and grab yourself a copy of the latest nightly from http://www.openttd.com.

James

[thgergo]

I think you need this
Its hackykid`s work, i fouded it on north american set topic...
It works very good with north american renewal set and UK renewal set
It should work with DBsetxl...

[blane]

I'm using nightly r2949 (and openttd.com/org is still down for me, as it was for days).

I tried the dbset with my current game from 2050 and it crashed shortly after checking the trains for a while. it was something like "bp height insertion failed" -- sorry have no log, but i will recheck.

from what i have seen, it is normal that the ICE3 is magnev and top speed 260? within the normal railtrains there was only the bp electric available.

edit: thx, i will give the stuff a try

btw: where do i get the north american renewal set?

[blane]

The stuff contains an openttd.exe -- can't use that since i'm running linux. working with dbsetw/dbsetxlw still produces same result:

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openttd: gfx.c:1395: GfxMainBlitter: Assertion `bp.height > 0' failed.
/usr/games/openttd: line 4:  1301 Aborted                 ./openttd

[blane]

more info

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[/usr/share/games/openttd] openttd
dbg: [dbsetxl.grf][Error] ParamSet: Unknown operation 8, skipping.
dbg: [dbsetxl.grf][Error] VehicleMapSpriteGroup/4584: Invalid special sprite length 6 (expected 7)!
dbg: [dbsetxl.grf][Error] ParamSet: Unknown operation 8, skipping.

Hmm, what combination of newgrfs should i have?

[jklamo]

Wait for DNS to be fixed and download latest SVN. New GRF support was improved in last weeks SVNs. I am running r3022 and new GRF works better now. Currently i have runnig 7 new GRF with no problem..

[blane]

Thanks, will try.

I messed around with different grfs and the dbsetxlw.grf seems to work now. however, there is no monorail available, and magnev (transrapid) can only transport passengers and mail, is this correct?

[pshemko]

Yes, that's correct. DBXLset uses almost all possible ID for normal-rail locos and carriges, so there is no much left for anything else.

[MeusH]

however, there is no monorail available, and magnev (transrapid) can only transport passengers and mail, is this correct?

Yes, that's right:
The patch guys use electrified railway instead of monorail
The DBSetXL creators decided it would be more realistic if there are limited cargoes for the maglev

[blane]

Ah, thanks, just making sure

Hm, electrified railway ... I have the newgrf but is it necessary to actually upgrade the tracks to make that work? From what I have seen, The electrified trains can be build immediately?

Sorry for all the newbish questions but you guys are always so helpful, it's tempting to go on

So I just hope openttd will be fixed soon so I can get the latest nightly (=

[DaleStan]

Electrified rails not worky.

There are a few patches on SourceForge, but they're ancient, and the Devs are planning to implement electrified rails entirely differently.

[blane]

With current nightly (r3029) I still get an error when using dbsetxlw.grf:

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[~] openttd 
dbg: [dbsetxlw.grf][Error] VehicleMapSpriteGroup/4900: Invalid special sprite length 6 (expected 7)!
dbg: [dbsetxlw.grf][Error] VehicleMapSpriteGroup/4900: Invalid special sprite length 6 (expected 7)!

Apart from that the newgrf seems to load and work fine though...

[bobingabout]

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[Born Acorn]

Electrified rails not worky.

There are a few patches on SourceForge, but they're ancient, and the Devs are planning to implement electrified rails entirely differently.

Last time I spoke to Celestar he was a few days from finishing it , but haven't seen him since.

[lucaspiller]

As far as I know, the code is there for them to work, but the graphics haven't been done yet.

[peter1138]

Blane, that line is for generic callback results, which OpenTTD doesn't support yet. Currently this is only used by the AI, but there are other features planned.

I have code in the works for supporting generic callbacks.

So to summarise, at the moment it only affects the AI, so you can probably ignore it.