Help Me

[Hamish McTycoon]

Ok, I can't figure out how to install new graphics for OpenTTD. I'm loving the whole Open thing though. After having played the original TT, TTD, Locomotion, TTDpatch I think Open really is quite impressive. But I would like some new graphics! I've followed the instructions exactly, adding the extra lines, putting the grf file(s) in /data and when I try to open the game it comes up with an error message saying "NewGRF file missing: ..."

Anyone help? Please? I've been trying it with grf files that are on the Wiki list of ones compatable with OpenTTD, so I don't understand what's going on.

Help would be very much appreciated. As I'm sure you can tell, my understanding of computers is somewhat limited...

[Darkvater]

What did you exactly write?

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[newgrf]
dbsetxlw.grf

The above in your openttd.cfg will look for dbsetxlw.grf in the data/ directory for example. If you put something like data/dbsetxlw.grf it will look in data/data.

[Hamish McTycoon]

I've got the new graphic files in a folder in data called newgrf

At the bottom of openttd it says:

[newgrf]
newgrf/pb_hovs_bus.grf
newgrf/pb_hovs_bus_d.grf
newgrf/newstatsw.grf

...

And I still get the error message "NewGRF file missing: ..."

Maybe I'm just doomed to never have new graphics...

[DaleStan]

And what directory are the grf files in?

[MeusH]

After seeing code "newgrf/pb_hovs_bus.grf", game will look for data/newgrf/pb_hovs_bus.grf

[PikkaBird]

newgrf/pb_hovs_bus.grf
newgrf/pb_hovs_bus_d.grf

Also, you probably don't need both the windows and DOS version of the grf.

[Hamish McTycoon]

Sorted!

I realised there were three dots at the end of the document "..." and the game was trying to load that as a newgrf, obviously finding nothing, hence the error message.

Working now! Yeeehaaa! Well, thanks for all the help, and keep up with the GREAT OpenTTD graphics work.