You can have 65535 types of vehicles to choose since r12924!

[Roujin]

Hello BlackKrystal,

this feature is not available in a stable version yet. It was introduced after the 0.6 branch was split off and thus will not show up in any 0.6.x stable releases. It will be in the upcoming 0.7 branch, and if you want to play with the feature before, you have to download a nightly version. Any later than r12924 that is, but I'd just recommend the latest. You can fetch the latest nightly version for your system of choice from http://www.openttd.org

Have fun and happy holidays

PS: the so-called "patch settings" is a blue-yellow colored options window with six tabs, available from the main menu and from ingame; in the nightly versions (and thus also starting with 0.7) they have been renamed to "advanced settings".
You also should have a config-file after you started openttd at least once. It's called openttd.cfg and most probably located somewhere in a "openttd" subfolder of your personal dir. But you normally don't need it as you can set up most you'll need ingame.

[BlackKrystal]

Thanks for the response

I wont use nightly anymore, i still remember the windows crash that happened when i played with a nightly, near to O.5.X stable...

Well, i'll wait for the 0.7.X releases ! I hope them for 1st semester 2009...

So, Merry Christmas and Good Fun Holidays !

Edit : So, maybe i'll try on my Mandriva...

[Rubidium]

The bug is that you don't have a version of OpenTTD that supports it; you need a (fairly) recent nightly as the stables from before the feature got implemented.

The location of openttd.cfg is as specified in readme.txt

Patches can be set in-game using the "patch options" window.

[LordAzamath]

Thanks for the response
I wont use nightly anymore, i still remember the windows crash that happened when i played with a nightly, near to O.5.X stable...

The nightlys get updated daily (the latest committed updates are there.. usually about 2-3 per day) so I guess that the bug which was near 0.5.x stable is now fixed Plus you get very many new things (like YAPP) in trunk
For reference, 0.5.3 was released in September 2007 and since then there have been about 2 -3 updates per day So I guess your nightly experience has not been very nearby

[BlackKrystal]

I tested regularly the nightly since the 0.4.0 stable. And this bug (that i never saw back since this crash) is appeared in july 2007. From this date, i don't use nightly. Only stable.

And about patch options, it's not "Patch option" which has been renamed "Advanced Settings" in the nightly, but the contrary : it's called "Advanced Settings" in stable (using French version, i translate from "Configuration Avancée" [In french in the game])

But i didn"t know that the nigthly is udapted 2-3 per day ! I downloaded the nightly once per week...

[LordAzamath]

Well.. nightly is compiled every day from trunk but trunk is updated 2-3 times per day to be precise

[FooBar]

And about patch options, it's not "Patch option" which has been renamed "Advanced Settings" in the nightly, but the contrary : it's called "Advanced Settings" in stable (using French version, i translate from "Configuration Avancée" [In french in the game])

Translating back to English doesn't necessarily yield the original English string.

I'm reasonably sure that it (in English) has been renamed from "Configure Patches" to "Advanced Settings". In fact I just downloaded 0.6.3 to check and it reads "Configure Patches" in there.

But anyways, you really shouldn't be too afraid of those nightlies. They're usually even more stable than the "stable" release, because possible bugs in the stable are fixed in the nightlies long before a new nightly is released. And a nightly also doesn't break your computer system. A nightly might not run or might crash. But it doesn't do something to your computer that can't be solved with a reboot.
I'm using the nightlies for years now and it happened once to me that the game refused to start. The solution in such rare occasions is either to revert to the previous nightly or to wait maximum 24 hours till the next.

[BlackKrystal]

So, in this case, i don't understand why this crash gave permanent BSOD to my computer... But, at the same time, my XP were totally ... how to say... already unstable ! [Thx to unstable updates from Kro$oft].

Well, I'm on my way to DL the last nightly and playing fun with this new option \o/

[avdg]

if you can have so many verhicles...

I want a new buy verhicle interface

[Zuu]

Noticed that this original engines GRF is not on BaNaNaS. Perhaps it should go there?

Edit: for the sake of credits for the discovery, I shall not take the full credits for noticing it since a user "Dred_furst" on IRC asked for the functionality this GRF provides.

[frosch]

As I also already said on IRC
"Old wagons, new cargos" provides the same vehicles, and might even be more useful.

Edit: Correction: "Old wagons, new cargos" only adds trains.