Custom Currencies

gmyx · Post by **gmyx** » 26 May 2003 20:45

How do I use the custom currency? I want a fitictious currency of about 1.6 to 1 (pound i beleive is the base). and show up a F$.

Please and Thank you.

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 26 May 2003 21:13

put in switch 1600
and in ttpttxt.txt put currency sign

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 26 May 2003 21:17

Shouldn't you run mkpttxt first !
And tell him with what file to edit that ttdpttxt file, it looks weird in notepad

gmyx · Post by **gmyx** » 26 May 2003 23:10

I know where to change the multyplier but it's the currency sign I don't know how to do. I've seen in the alpha progress to add a line to the .txt file. But the line is cryptic, doesn't make sence to me.

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 27 May 2003 01:26

In your specific case, you would use

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curr_CUS_sym="F$\001600\00"

You may put a space before or after the symbol, and use morecurrencies 1 or 2 to choose which side of the value the symbol gets added.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 27 May 2003 05:41

And where do you add this ?

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 27 May 2003 05:56

spaceman-spiff wrote:And where do you add this ?

ttdpttxt.txt of course

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 27 May 2003 06:35

I'm glad you said 'off-course'

So, where do I put it in this readable textfile ?

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 27 May 2003 09:21

your file is broken

use this:

gmyx · Post by **gmyx** » 27 May 2003 20:19

I still can't get the custom currency to work. I've included both the ttdpttxt.txt file and ttdpatch.cfg. in the game options I select the "Fake (F$)" currency and then, intemperate, create random new game. the currncy reverts back to pound.

Also the comment in the config file is misleading for morecurrencies.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 27 May 2003 20:23

According to the instructions, you have to run mkpttxt once more

How to use it:

Download and unzip it into your TTD directory
Run it, and it will generate "ttdpttxt.txt" and "ttdpttxt.dat".
Edit "ttdpttxt.txt" according to the instructions in its header
Run "mkpttxt.exe" again to update "ttdpttxt.dat"
That's it!

gmyx · Post by **gmyx** » 27 May 2003 20:50

I did that several times. It still won't work. I've even turn on the euro. Do I still need to run that euro exe file for this to work?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » 28 May 2003 04:59

Yes you do! This puts the graphical display of the eurosign in the grf file of ttd.

cmd_srui · Post by **cmd_srui** » 29 May 2003 00:47

what is that file you are talking about?
that euro.exe?

I have altered my ttdpttxt.txt to look like this:

curr_HUF="Escudos (Pte)\00"
curr_CUS="Custom currency (CUS)\00"
curr_CUS_sym=="$\200482\00"

to create the portuguese coin. One Euro equivelent to 200,482 escudos (PTE). But I am not able to make it work....

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 29 May 2003 17:25

cmd_srui wrote:curr_HUF="Escudos (Pte)\00"
curr_CUS="Custom currency (CUS)\00"
curr_CUS_sym=="$\200482\00"

You have several mistakes there. First, HUF is the Hungarian Forint, not the custom currency, so you've changed the wrong line. Then, your last line has two equal signs instead of one, and the syntax of the entry is wrong. It should be, I think

curr_HUF="Forinth (Ft)\00"
curr_CUS="Escudos (Pte)\00"
curr_CUS_sym=" Pte\00482\00"

I've coloured in red the codes that have to remain unmodified (you had \200 instead of \00). Before the first one you have the currency symbol, and between the first and second you have the exchange rate for 1000 pounds.

Note that you also need to set "morecurrencies on" or these lines will be ignored.

cmd_srui · Post by **cmd_srui** » 29 May 2003 23:23

Patchman wrote: and between the first and second you have the exchange rate for 1000 pounds.

that's the exchange rate between my custom currency and 1000 pounds right?
I assume the rate between pounds and euros have already been introduced. What rate was introduced btw? I mean... the rate of what date? I supose if I put the rate of that same date... it will be more realistic no?

is there also a away to modify the inflation rate?

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 30 May 2003 05:15

cmd_srui wrote:is there also a away to modify the inflation rate?

no

.... I suggested it few weeks ago ..... to make:
inflation X Y
(where X,Y are numbers from 0 to 100 ... and TTD would get random number from X to Y , and that number would be a inflation rate in one year)

but I did not get any replies about that

Irishman · Post by **Irishman** » 31 May 2003 20:42

Where can I get this file? Please help!

SHADOW-XIII · Post by **SHADOW-XIII** » 31 May 2003 20:44

ttdpttxt.txt will be created when you run mkpttxt.exe (which is in every latest(w).zip)

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 31 May 2003 21:30

If you look in his subject (euro.exe ?), you might see he wants to know where this euro.exe file is !

You can find it here:
http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/
http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/euro.zip

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