Graphics sets inter-compatibility

[Coxx]

My thought is for an "open" set (no relation to OTTD although it could work there too) where the player would be able to access a method to select from a large variety of engines to use in his game. ... but imagine if one could combine elements of each of those as well as from some of the national/regional sets.

Oh yes, just like in Southern America.

http://mitglied.lycos.de/schienenbus/welt/weltweit.html

[Bilbo]

There are "Large" scenarios, like the one at http://wiki.openttd.org/images/9/92/Car ... rioBig.png representing whole europe. In it, it may make sense mixing various european railsets if you desire for it ... (using german trains on german territory, czech trains on czech territory, etc ...

My thought is for an "open" set [...]

IMO, that´s not a good idea and only makes sense for a couple of combinations. E.g., mixing US and canadian stock seems to make sense from a realistic POV, OTOH, they´re using almost the same (diesel) engines, so, again, what´s the point?

[wallyweb]

Engine/wagon compatibility would be my major concern and this might be one of the challenges to using this concept. The player would be able to make the mess of his choosing, and I imagine that some of them would be quite amusing indeed.

I was once reported a "bug in the DB Set" which turned out to be not a bug in the DB set itself but due to the introduction of a "foreign" BR101 from a different .grf which somebody used together with the DB Set. The whole bug hunt lasted more than two weeks (on the german tt-forums) and used up a considerable amount of time on my side.

Well, since then Patch developers introduced that nice feature of GRM, which would handle those "inter-compatibility problems".

Yes ... bug reporting would be the killer. There would in all probability be bugs and of course with equipment proven to be bug free in its original presentation, the author could not, should not and would not be responsible but some poor soul would not understand this. Unless a coder would be willing to take responsibility for maintaining a "general" set, including handling all bug reports, my suggestion must die.

[m3henry]

Perhaps the administrator named SROTU (orudge) could find a way to add the section to the tree displayed at the top of the thread

I'd be willing to bet that phpBB 3 will do that. And it'll be here eventually. Maybe even this decade.

Always the optimist, aren't we?

the trainz classics forum does that, but II'm not sure if its taking the phpbb3 pills yet.

[PikkaBird]

the trainz classics forum does that, but II'm not sure if its taking the phpbb3 pills yet.

Auran uses vBulletin iirc.

[m3henry]

the trainz classics forum does that, but II'm not sure if its taking the phpbb3 pills yet.

Auran uses vBulletin iirc.

oh, I didnt know vbulletin wasn't phbb

[orudge]

Point taken. Actually this could explain why there are many posts in wrong sections. Perhaps the administrator named SROTU (orudge) could find a way to add the section to the tree displayed at the top of the thread, as in:
Transport Tycoon Forums Forum Index -> TTDPatch -> Graphics

phpBB3 does exactly that - "Board index ‹ TTDPatch ‹ Graphics".

[wallyweb]

Point taken. Actually this could explain why there are many posts in wrong sections. Perhaps the administrator named SROTU (orudge) could find a way to add the section to the tree displayed at the top of the thread, as in:
Transport Tycoon Forums Forum Index -> TTDPatch -> Graphics

phpBB3 does exactly that - "Board index ‹ TTDPatch ‹ Graphics".

/me prostrates himself before the throne
O SROTU O SROTU
Thank you for granting me this audience and thank you for enlightening us.
We are all looking forward to the coming of pHpBB3

[m3henry]

a simple way to help might be that the colour band (currently saying 'Post a Reply') is a different TTD company colour for each section, so after a while, when people get used to it, they can use it as a quick refernce as to which section they are posting/browsing