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himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 07 May 2007 01:00

I read in the Japanese wiki that FT can have issues with being installed in a path containing spaces. Could you try moving the FT directory away from the desktop and put it directly under C:\ and try again?

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » 07 May 2007 11:08

And make sure you have at least .NET v2 installed.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 07 May 2007 11:59

Unfortunately moving it to C:\FreeTrain did not helped

got all updates: .NET Framework from 1.1, thgrough 2.0 to .NET Framework 3.0

athanasios · Post by **athanasios** » 08 May 2007 01:38

Why not make a new section on this forum? This thread doesn't fit here.
Hope OpenTTD artists will not mind using their artwork. Current artwork is awfull: reminds 16 color 'ancient' games.
What will be the size of tiles? 64, 128, 256 or something else, because current is only suitable for 320x240 displays

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 08 May 2007 03:24

SHADOW-XIII wrote:Unfortunately moving it to C:\FreeTrain did not helped

got all updates: .NET Framework from 1.1, thgrough 2.0 to .NET Framework 3.0

What if you remove the 'jp.co.tripod.chiname.financial.stockmarket' plugin from the plugins folder?

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 08 May 2007 03:44

athanasios wrote:Why not make a new section on this forum? This thread doesn't fit here.
Hope OpenTTD artists will not mind using their artwork. Current artwork is awfull: reminds 16 color 'ancient' games.
What will be the size of tiles? 64, 128, 256 or something else, because current is only suitable for 320x240 displays

The smaller tilesize gives better overview. And calling the graphics "awful" is an overstatement. They mightn't be as detailed as TTD's, but have a different charm. Have you looked at some of the recent work by the Japanese FT community? Some examples:

Sapporo Station

Airport terminal

Condos

Shinjuku Mitsui Building

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » 08 May 2007 11:19

Must say I agree with Daniel. The graphics are different to TTD, but have their own style. You end up with detailed varied cityscapes in FreeTrain that are not even close to possible in TTD, with it's rather limited set of buildings and construction restraints.

Aegir · Post by **Aegir** » 08 May 2007 12:06

Larger tiles is silly in my oppinion. If anything tile size should be smaller than TTD, yet graphics retain the same scale as TTD.

I'm pondering porting much of the Japanset for TTD to Freetrain based allong that scheme given the time.

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 08 May 2007 14:49

One of the defining aspects of FreeTrain IMHO is its lack of restraints. There are indeed some economical factors, but they are never limiting. The main focus of the game is to build a nice-looking little world where your trains can zoom around, sort of like a digital model railway. It's in many ways the quintessential sandbox game.

athanasios · Post by **athanasios** » 09 May 2007 03:48

Station and Terminal are OK. Others don't appeal to me. You may say about its style ... Sorry matter of personal taste. (Neither do I like original Simutrans graphics. 128 are OK.) I think their scale that is smaller than TTD causes the problem (if my eyes are correct?) I believe graphics are very small for our days. Back then they were OK.

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 09 May 2007 06:21

SHADOW-XIII: Are you trying to run FT as admin or as guest/unprivileged user? It seems FT won't work unless you have admin privileges on the system. We're currently working on this issue.

CmdKewin · Post by **CmdKewin** » 09 May 2007 07:47

Aegir wrote:I'm pondering porting much of the Japanset for TTD to Freetrain based allong that scheme given the time.

Well... Since it's a Japanese game, there are already Japanese trains aplenty. I'm not saying they could be improved:they are good but there's always room for that. Surely it's nothing as hard as any TTDP grf trainset

And regarding scale, it's really a matter of taste. You can't surely pretend that neither TTDP nor FreeTrain are "realistic" scale wise, but then, we never really cared, did we?

That's a 40 stories high-rise, and a 5 train consist.

Same thing in TTDP

Judge yourself. I like both.

Post by **peter1138** » 09 May 2007 08:21

I think I prefer FreeTrain's

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 09 May 2007 17:12

himasaram wrote:SHADOW-XIII: Are you trying to run FT as admin or as guest/unprivileged user? It seems FT won't work unless you have admin privileges on the system. We're currently working on this issue.

the one I tested was admin account but if it's matters: system langugae is Polish

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 10 May 2007 07:04

SHADOW-XIII wrote:
himasaram wrote:SHADOW-XIII: Are you trying to run FT as admin or as guest/unprivileged user? It seems FT won't work unless you have admin privileges on the system. We're currently working on this issue.
the one I tested was admin account but if it's matters: system langugae is Polish

Will the game start if you simply delete the stockmarket plugin?

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 10 May 2007 08:40

hopefully I'll test it this weekend and let you know

EDIT: it works - so it was stockmarket plugin problem

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 15 May 2007 03:43

Glad to hear you got it running in the end, SHADOW!

It was suggested on the FreeTrain dev mailing list that your copy of the plugin might somehow have gotten corrupted. Could you try downloading the package again and replace the failing stockmarket plugin with a fresh copy?

BTW, bug reports are in the future preferably reported in our own bug report forum. Reports in this off-topic forum might get lost in all the noise!

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 22 May 2007 03:59

Bumping this thread to announce a new FreeTrain release! The changes include:

* Convert structure plugins to the latest format, which means that they show up in the 'structure type tree' that previously was empty. This makes it much more convenient to construct buildings!
* Merge the two main window toolbars and add an icon for the timer button.
* Fix crashes when using an empty build dialog.
* Other minor fixes...

Download clicky.

himasaram · Post by **himasaram** » 05 Jun 2007 12:48

Bumping for another release.

A serious bug that broke the train trading dialog fixed, along with many tweaks and updates.

Please try it out and let us know what you think!

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