Patch: save company info

[Antdovu]

This patch lets you save and load company info (president/company name, face, company colours).
For those who didn't know: you can set different colours for a lot of stuff. You can make all your planes one colour and trains another colour etc.

version 2: data now saved into openttd.cfg
version 3: updated to trunk (revision 16200)

[PhilSophus]

This patch lets you save and load company info (president/company name, face, company colours).

Very useful indeed. I will certainly use it. More often than not I reuse these settings (most times I use a new company name, but still this patch saves a lot of work).

* Give up using STL if that is a problem.

What do you use of the STL? For some STL containers like vector there are replacements in the OpenTTD source code. In a few places set and map are already used, so in general it doesn't seem to be a problem.

* Adopt a file format similar to current saved games.

IMHO, the company info should just go into the normal config file. If you want to have the possibility for multiple company infos I suggest you do it in a similar way as the NewGRF presets (for every NewGRF preset a separate config section called [preset-preset_name] is used).

I didn't look at the code, yet, but will do at a later time. This is certainly a feature I would love to see in trunk.

Keep up your great work!

[Terkhen]

This is a feature I was missing. I'm going to try it!

[supermatt]

Excellent patch! I agree with PhilSophus that the save should go into the config file in the same way you save your favorite face.

[Antdovu]

Updated the patch to save all data to openttd.cfg

[2007Alain2007]

can you update this please to R15496 i think there is some probles with the new AI and this patch

[CommanderZ]

Looks good, I always use the same colour scheme and manager face. The company name is different in each game because of savegames.

EDIT: Eh, it is year old

[Conditional Zenith]

can you update this please to R15496 i think there is some probles with the new AI and this patch

Being specific would help.

[2007Alain2007]

on theres files if i send you a picture for now will you be able to work it out from there

[Eddi]

seriously, that is a type of error that you have to learn to deal with by yourself.

from the looks of it, you could get away with just using both code blocks behind each other

[2007Alain2007]

like moveing the lines about or dose this miss up patchs

[Eddi]

step 1: find out where these values are used
step 2: find out what the code actually does, and what these values represent
step 3: find out what might break if you add something
step 4: do your modification and test it

[Conditional Zenith]

like moveing the lines about or dose this miss up patchs

This is why you need to understand C++ before you can make a patchpack.

[2007Alain2007]

lol i am still waiting for my book to be in the libury so i can read up on it and my manger at work says hes got some text books that might help me

[dihedral]

there are books online! and this is more basic programming stuff than specific to c/c++

[Antdovu]

Updated to trunk for now (revision 16200)

[ever]

The correct solution would be to get player profiles in before the game begins. Now a Patch that could do that, that'd be genius.

[dihedral]

could also avoid the amount of people named 'Player' too

[Timmaexx]

I think you really hate 'Player'!
First your Change_Player_Name Script and then you Player's_will_be_kicked Script!

[Bilbo]

Well, if you have 3 people, all of them named "Player", it is hard to tell who is who....

Maybe some feature in core OpenTTD that will remind players to change their name if it is "Player" before they connect to any multiplayer server would help to reduce such cases.

When I made new installation of openttd on new computer, I forgot to change my name too (but you can change it on server with a console command :), so such reminder could be useful ....