In game content downloads

[Roujin]

So... How about that ingame change base graphics feature?

heh.
I lol'd.

[PikkaBird]

I've gone bananas.

UKRS and av8 uploaded, more to follow.

[Maninthebox]

I'm having trouble uploading my AI (OtviAI). It's the same tarball as in the forum post with the only difference that the tarball I'm trying to upload does not contain the license. I tried renaming README to readme.txt per instructions on readme in the wiki, repacking the whole thing, but it keeps complaining there's no "into.nut and main.nut in the first non-empty directory". I even tried renaming it to into.nut Any clues on how to solve this?

[Rubidium]

Are you sure it still contains the OtviAI directory within the tar?

[TrueBrain]

Problem should be fixed now Paths of tars are annoying to handle

[Sid]

Is the failure reproducable? And what files are there in your <my documents>/OpenTTD/content_download/data directory?

Yes it is! I've justed reinstalled OpenTTD and the error still occurs.

And these files are in my data-directory:

• OpenGFX.Alpha_4.1.tar.gz
• OpenGFX.Alpha_4.1.tar

I can open both, but the *.tar seems to be empty. In the *.tar.gz there are some .grf files.

[FooBar]

Little request for the web interface:
At the time I wanted to upload my first content to the system, I had to accept some terms. Once accepted, the text of the terms is nowhere to be found. Could a link to the terms be added to the bottom of the page like where the links to the privacy policy etc. are?

[Gremnon]

I like the content download, useful for finding updates fro grfs I have... but, every time I go in at the moment, the four AI library files at the end are always checked as if I don't have them. Downloading them turns them green, but closing the content download and re-opening... re-checks them for downloding.

[Yexo]

I like the content download, useful for finding updates fro grfs I have... but, every time I go in at the moment, the four AI library files at the end are always checked as if I don't have them. Downloading them turns them green, but closing the content download and re-opening... re-checks them for downloding.

Most likely you have those libraries at another location somewhere on your filesystem, with the same version but a different md5 sum. Just delete those and redownload once more (if necessary).

[Gremnon]

Yep, I thought that too... and still get it tell me I don't have them.

[Rubidium]

Yep, I thought that too... and still get it tell me I don't have them.

Then you haven't removed the old libraries/AIs, but the one that the content system downloaded.

[Gremnon]

Hm.... that's odd, since there was only one possible choice of which ones to delete in the first place.

[Zuu]

Hm.... that's odd, since there was only one possible choice of which ones to delete in the first place.

You have these two options:
1) OpenTTD/ai/*
2) OpenTTD/content_download/ai/*

And it is the ones of 1) that existed before content download was added, and should be removed. I had that issue with the road library laying around, and had to remove them in OpenTTD/ai/* before the content system was able to grab the correct version from the content server.


In addition OpenTTD can be both the directory which you installed OpenTTD to and the OpenTTD directory in my documents or ~/.openttd on Linux. (Mac: I don't know, but would guess ~/.openttd)

[Gremnon]

Ah.... that explains why... I didn't realise it was downloaded to the documents OpenTTD folder, I thought it was the main one.

[Maninthebox]

Problem should be fixed now Paths of tars are annoying to handle

Good; worked now Uploaded it is. Thanks!

[Swansea Stu]

Fantastic feature, well done. The only negative I have for it is that a lot of the grf files do not have any description. All they have is a url for their site/wiki which isn't clickable. It would be nice if uploaders had to add a description to their files. Maybe the uploaders could be politely asked to add a description.

[planetmaker]

In addition OpenTTD can be both the directory which you installed OpenTTD to and the OpenTTD directory in my documents or ~/.openttd on Linux. (Mac: I don't know, but would guess ~/.openttd)

Just for completeness' sake: it's ~/Documents/OpenTTD for a Mac

[Roujin]

Fantastic feature, well done. The only negative I have for it is that a lot of the grf files do not have any description. All they have is a url for their site/wiki which isn't clickable. It would be nice if uploaders had to add a description to their files. Maybe the uploaders could be politely asked to add a description.

I just looked through the list, and only the ECS vectors and the 2cc trainset have no description. Why don't you yourself just politely ask the responsible persons - in the threads "ECS implementation by George" and the "The 2cc set: The Trains of the world in 2cc", respectively. They are found in the TTDPatch->Graphics section of the forums.

[FooBar]

Is it normal behavior that r15177 crashes if it cannot connect to the content server, where r15130 just displays an error message after thinking for a while?

r15177 displays an empty content download window and decides to crash after a while.
r15130 freezes after trying to open the download window but instead of crashing, it does come to it's senses after a while and issues an error message. It does not show the download window.
Both on win32/vista.

Behaviour is reproducable. Crash log and dump can be provided if necessary.

[CommanderZ]

Is it normal behavior that r15177 crashes if it cannot connect to the content server, where r15130 just displays an error message after thinking for a while?

r15177 displays an empty content download window and decides to crash after a while.
r15130 freezes after trying to open the download window but instead of crashing, it does come to it's senses after a while and issues an error message. It does not show the download window.
Both on win32/vista.

Behaviour is reproducable. Crash log and dump can be provided if necessary.

I was just posting this to FLySpray, but it is obviously down.

It hapens here too - I am behind proxy, so I don't expect it to work, but such crash is not pretty.