Alpine Climate GRF

[hYpe_]

Hello,

did anyone manage to get the Alpineclimate to work with 1.0 beta?
If I activate it, there are no food factories anymore and the industries are messed up.
I really like the automatic changing of snow height.



Regards

[Hyronymus]

Please be more clear:
- beta 1 of what
- what version of OpenTTD are you running
- do you have other grf's

[planetmaker]

Alpine climate currently doesn't work well with OpenGFX (or call it vice versa) and certain buildings have faulty graphics. The missing food factories is by design of the Alpine climate newgrf.

Despite my guess, Hyronimus is right, it helps to specify versions better

EDIT: as you spam the whole forums in various threads with your desires for specially taylored newgrfs to your specific needs: Alpine climate is also an industry newgrf, so changed industries are a feature. It's only a replacement for arctic, there's no snow in temperate in OpenTTD.

Writing a newgrf which replaces the ground sprites in arctic by the temperate ones is possible. You can do it, it's not even overly complicated. Have a look at actionA in the NewGRF wiki http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php?page=ActionA You can get my snowline mod (snow line=1 always) newgrf from bananas or I provide the source upon request (no public repo as of now), if you want to implement varying snow line height with a few small changes.

[hYpe_]

Hello,

thank you for your reply.
It wasn't my intention to spam the whole forums, sorry for that.
Sometimes I'm a bit chaotic

/edit:

Just found out that the Canadian Stations Set supports variable snow heights.
So with Grass Conversion + Smooth snow transition + Canadian Stations you can have automatically varied snow heights with green grass in arctic climate.
Now I'm very happy

[SwissFan91]

This is probably not the place to ask this question, but does anyone know of a way that you can keep rocks around when using a variable snow line such as this GRF? I mean, once the snow goes over the rock, and then retreats the rock has gone. Any ideas?

[hYpe_]

Good question, I'd like to see "real" mountains, too.
Not just snowy tops.

[Yexo]

This is probably not the place to ask this question, but does anyone know of a way that you can keep rocks around when using a variable snow line such as this GRF? I mean, once the snow goes over the rock, and then retreats the rock has gone. Any ideas?

It's indeed not the place to ask for it, but it was a nice idea. Just update OpenTTD to at least r18719 and it'll work.

[SwissFan91]

I may as well keep thi in here, and if a moderator sees fit they can move it to the relevant topic. The changes are fantastic, although I have come across a bug. Random squares will sometimes lose their snow, and take time to cover up again. These squares are not ones that are covered by rock in the summer.

[planetmaker]

I may as well keep thi in here, and if a moderator sees fit they can move it to the relevant topic. The changes are fantastic, although I have come across a bug. Random squares will sometimes lose their snow, and take time to cover up again. These squares are not ones that are covered by rock in the summer.

One way I can imagine this happen (I actually saw it when I wrote my variable snowline newgrf) is with a variable snow line which is set to very high for just a day or so and then back to normal. The landscape will start to adopt to the high snow line, but the day is past so quickly, that only a few tiles could start to have their snow melted - and then the snow line dropped again. And those tiles snow again only when they're re-visited by the tile loop.

Please supply a savegame and possibly the newgrf used to modify the snowline (if it's not on bananas or in the #openttdcoop grf pack, a link to it suffices, too)

[SwissFan91]

PM'd.

[Yexo]

PM'd.

I'd like to take a look at the problem, but that's not going to work if you pm someone else with the links to those files. Can you link them here so everyone can see?

[luk3Z]

I may as well keep thi in here, and if a moderator sees fit they can move it to the relevant topic. The changes are fantastic, although I have come across a bug. Random squares will sometimes lose their snow, and take time to cover up again. These squares are not ones that are covered by rock in the summer.

I also noticed this in the latest trunk r18724 but in the previous trunk (r18698) all working fine for me (or maybe I don't spot this problem).

[Yexo]

Can anyone who experiences this problem please make a savegame from just before the snow tiles are converted to grass? Best would be "load savegame, wait like 10 days, tiles become grass when they shouldn't". That way I should be able to reproduce the problem easily and then fixing it will take a lot less time.

[Yexo]

Fixed in r18738. Thanks jake.grimshaw for a savegame. r18738 is after beta2, so beta2 still contains the bug. Please don't report it, it'll be fixed in the next beta.