New town names

BuzzBoke · Post by **BuzzBoke** » 21 Jul 2006 15:08

I'm from Spain, and saw in the last beta that exist a new option to create customiced town names, i'd like to make a list from my country city names, and I don't know how to do it, and if it's possible add this list to next patchs.

Sorry, but my english is very poor, and thanks a lot for this great work.

Post by **Dave** » 21 Jul 2006 15:38

I'm pretty certain there are some Spanish town names in the Spanish GRF. Look at the Spanish Set's thread and see what you get.

You'll find it in graphics.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 21 Jul 2006 19:42

You'll also find the Spain set working website here:

http://www.as-st.com/ttd/renfetech/

There is no public site, because the set is still under construction. The town names ought to work, though.

impe20 · Post by **impe20** » 22 Jul 2006 00:49

I would also like to add names from my country(Iam from the Philippines by the way) Is there any tutorials for this. I also read in the manual that you could add new sounds using GRFs. Is it just sound effects for the graphics or entirely new musics? Thanks.

krtaylor · Post by **krtaylor** » 22 Jul 2006 00:59

You can add new MP3 or MIDI music.

You can also add new sound effects for the graphics.

And you can code new lists of town names.

The last two, however, involve GRF encoding, which is quite complex. You'd want to start with a look at the Patch website Wiki, which is on ttdpatch.net.

Post by **Dave** » 22 Jul 2006 01:02

The more I read about Custom Town Names the more my eyes just die.

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 22 Jul 2006 01:13

Oh? So I'm not the only one who thinks Action F is insane?

That makes me feel better.

Post by **Dave** » 22 Jul 2006 01:42

Yeah, but the difference is that code in general makes me look like a 4 year old sitting a GCSE Maths exam...

Action F? Wasn't that the song from Beverly Hills Cop?

Post by **WWTBAM** » 22 Jul 2006 01:53

its an nfo action.

DaleStan · Post by **DaleStan** » 22 Jul 2006 03:53

Specifically, it's the action that controls new town names.

Post by **PikkaBird** » 22 Jul 2006 06:13

DaleStan wrote:Oh? So I'm not the only one who thinks Action F is insane?

That makes me feel better.

I found it relatively straightforward when doing the town names for Pineapple...

Post by **Dave** » 22 Jul 2006 10:11

Dave Worley wrote:Yeah, but the difference is that code in general makes me look like a 4 year old sitting a GCSE Maths exam...

Action F? Wasn't that the song from Beverly Hills Cop?

I think you missed the joke... Or maybe it wasn't funny

Heh.

Davus Antonius · Post by **Davus Antonius** » 23 Jul 2006 19:02

Does this option allow for random combinations or just radomly chooses from a list?

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 23 Jul 2006 19:20

Either or both, depending on how you code the .grf.

Davus Antonius · Post by **Davus Antonius** » 23 Jul 2006 20:13

Oooo goody!

Finally I can do some decent town names for George's Mars setting without resorting to TTD Alter. Now if there was just some way to alter the industries to make the products and ingredients more in line with a space/ futureistc type economy.

Post by **Dave** » 23 Jul 2006 20:19

Well surely you can change those... Pikka changed "Goods" to "Stuff" for me as a joke - it couldn't have taken him that long either.

Davus Antonius · Post by **Davus Antonius** » 23 Jul 2006 20:39

Hmm... so you can change the industry text via grf's? If so I'll have to look up that as well.

Post by **Dave** » 23 Jul 2006 21:03

Well... I think that's what he did.

Post by **PikkaBird** » 24 Jul 2006 03:07

Changing the inbuilt texts is very easy, via action 4.

http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php?page=Action4
http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php?page=TextIDs

Davus Antonius · Post by **Davus Antonius** » 24 Jul 2006 06:27

Ok... been reading up on Action F and I'm confused as to how the overall layout of the .nfo file would be. Where would I define how I want TTDPatch to chose the names? I know I want just 2 part names and I've the actual text for the names, but how to put it all together is still confusing me. I'd appreciate some help so I have some idea of what to do.

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