[UNIV] Swedish Rails Set 0.8.1

[Bob_Mackenzie]

I think Ive found a minor graphics bug. Look at the bottom track of the complex junction

[FooBar]

The underlay (ballast) is misaligned; sticking out of it's tile.

[planetmaker]

Thanks for the report. It should be fixed in the next nightly version and the upcoming release

[planetmaker]

And yet another update with yet another few feature

Most notably: level crossings don't change their appearance all at once, but over 15 years or the possibility to build them can be completely de-activated via parameter 5 (OpenTTD > r20049), bridges now always make use of Swedish rails and (partially) support snow. Finally we have also some TTDPatch support - but it will remain unusable unless TTDPatch fixes this bug. Also we have some variation in the fences, so that they don't look as uniform as they usually do.

- Feature: [OTTD] Modern versions of level crossings with a 15 year phase-out of the old style, starting
date configurable via parameter
- Feature: [OTTD] Use overlay tracks on bridges, allowing there snowy tracks in some cases, too
- Feature: [OTTD] Use a 15 year long phase-out period for the old depots, if the build date is not
available (OpenTTD < r20003)
- Feature: [TTDP] TTD (default) style level crossings
- Feature: [TTDP] TTRS style level crossings
- Feature: [OTTD] Allow to disable level crossings via parameter 5 (OpenTTD > r20049)
- Feature: [OTTD] Add some variety to the default fences
- Change: 1st parameter represents compatibility in general
- Change: [OTTD] Use the default railtype IDs for RAIL and ELRL
- Change: [Makefile] Don't ship tars within a zip file
- Change: Modern rail crossings in a red-yellow theme
- Change: Flashing red lights at closed level crossings
- Change: Rework fences parameter
- Fix: [Makefile] Regex for bundle_zip was looking for ?grf instead of .grf
- Fix: [Makefile] Also don't put extended attributes in the release tars
- Fix: [OTTD] Alignment of a few undlerlay sprites
- Doc: Add a section on compatibility with other NewGRFs

Enjoy and post some comments and critics. Nice screenshots will also help to get this set finished (faster)

The current release version can be found on both, BaNaNaS and the DevZone. See the readme for parameters and further instructions and how to obtain the source code.

[Haiya-Dragon]

Applied the update to a running game. Here's one of the more notable stations in the game:

[planetmaker]

Another update to Swedish Rails.

Two very important changes:
- It now supports the parameter GUI as found in recent nightlies of OpenTTD, making it easy to configure it to your needs, especially with respect to the display of fences, level crossings and depots; this required to change the meaning of a few parameter values, but as far as I could establish none which break backward-compatibility.
- It now works on TTDPatch
Also a number of graphical glitches were fixed as well as the scrubs growing between the fences have some more variation.

The full changelog:

- Feature: [OTTD] Support for in-game description of parameters
- Feature: [OTTD] Swedish, Dutch, German, Spanish translations
- Feature: An additional variation of rail fences with scrubs

- Change: [OTTD] Provide default graphics group in order to not fail on possible future callbacks
- Change: Parameters concerning display of fences (parameter 3) and use of level crossings
(parameter 5) changed slightly their meaning. See readme.txt for details.
- Change: [Makefile] The name of the NML compiler changed
- Change: [Makefile] Move NML - specific parts to its own file
- Change: [Makefile] Install into a configurable directory
- Change: [Makefile] Some unix2dos don't know how to be quiet. Let them babble but not complain
- Change: [Makefile] Instroduce DOCDIR which allows separate installation of docs
- Change: [Makefile] Introduce Makefile.dist for storing changes needed for source tarballs
- Change: [Makefile] Use a more unique filename for the deps

- Fix: [TTDP] Wrong parameter size caused Swedish Rails to be disabled
- Fix: Use the Swedish order of colours for level crossings
- Fix: Uphill overlay track was one pixel too wide
- Fix: White pixels crept in in TTDP compatibility mode
- Fix: GRFID was reported wrongly in documentation
- Fix: [Makefile] Clean cleaned too much

- Doc: Mention bug with non-snowy tracks on tiles with foundations around the snow line
- Doc: A few phony targets were not documented
- Doc: Compatibility with other railtype newgrfs

Enjoy
The current release version can be found on both, BaNaNaS and the DevZone. See the readme for parameters and further instructions and how to obtain the source code.

[Irwe]

Another update to Swedish Rails.

Great! Updates on sprites will come in more and more now (I have been a little bit absent for a while).

Applied the update to a running game. Here's one of the more notable stations in the game:

I just have to say that it looks amazing
I know it's the wrong place to talk about Swedish houses but that town has some nice suburbans!

[Davidoff]

Rails ade Depots look really good!

Planetmaker, I am curios on what station set is visible in your screenshots?

[planetmaker]

Rails ade Depots look really good!

Planetmaker, I am curios on what station set is visible in your screenshots?

Thanks The stations will be the default OpenGFX stations (you mean those like in http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?p=885176#p885176 right?)

[slaca]

hi, i like this grf so much, but i found some bugs. I play with newest nightly, and tried all kind of fences parameters:

scrubs with cc - works fine
scrubs without cc - no scrubs and there are cc fences
plain without cc - good
normal - good
none at all - good
bushes with cc- like scrub with cc
bushes without cc - no bushes, and it is cc
plain without cc - good, but it was already

pls, try to fix them, and sorry for my english

[planetmaker]

hi, i like this grf so much, but i found some bugs. I play with newest nightly, and tried all kind of fences parameters:

scrubs with cc - works fine
scrubs without cc - no scrubs and there are cc fences
plain without cc - good
normal - good
none at all - good
bushes with cc- like scrub with cc
bushes without cc - no bushes, and it is cc
plain without cc - good, but it was already

pls, try to fix them, and sorry for my english

Thanks for the report and glad that you like it

The bug in this case is the text being displayed - and it should have been fixed in the latest nightlies (r181 or later); which version exactly do you use? 0.6.0 still has that bug.

The confusion between bushes and scrubs... it's not unambigeously translated from my native language and I first used 'bushes' but later decided that 'scrubs' was the better word given the looks - and missed a few places where I used it. Maybe you can try a current nightly and see whether it there works as expected

That said, it's easy to add another version of fences provided I get the graphics

PS: your English is fine

[slaca]

i used 0.6.0, but i've just tried r181, and now everything is fine, but what does "replace default" mean?
it seems to be same as without that

[planetmaker]

i used 0.6.0, but i've just tried r181, and now everything is fine, but what does "replace default" mean?
it seems to be same as without that

It makes no difference for SwedishRails. It makes a difference for other rails. Assuming you have no other railtypes newgrf installed, look at the fences of, say, monorail or maglev, if you chose an option which (also) says 'replace default'. They'll then have the same fences as SwedishRails supplies.

[Kogut]

Is it possible to reuse graphics of that great tracks in NuTracks? ( http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=47347 )

[planetmaker]

Is it possible to reuse graphics of that great tracks in NuTracks? ( http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=47347 )

Of course. To my knowledge both sets use the same license, GPL v2, as such there's no problem as long as it's followed.

The only thing which makes a simple copy&paste operation difficult is that both sets are written in different programming languages. Another solution would be that we add some parameters to SwedishRails and NuTracks so that they can work along eachother and possibly offer to replace one track or another in Nutracks.

[supermop]

Another solution would be that we add some parameters to SwedishRails and NuTracks so that they can work along eachother and possibly offer to replace one track or another in Nutracks.

I really like this idea. Rather that reinventing the classes of rail types available in each grf, it would be great if various aesthetic oriented grf's could function as a graphics module to grfs like Nutracks. If the method is planned out carefully, perhaps we could have an informal standard for setting up rail type behavior grfs and rail type graphics grfs, allowing players to choose a combination of their preferred speed limits and graphics.

Best,

[Kogut]

Is it possible to improve snow behaviour on partial snow level?

[Kimby]

Very nice looking graphics. It's also sobering to see what amount of issues come from introducing 1 new set of rail graphics.

[alxfa]

Is it only I who have a problem with the blue engine, which is just transparent in the game?

[planetmaker]

Is it possible to improve snow behaviour on partial snow level?

That is only possibly by means of changing the code within OpenTTD. I could in principle check the tileheight against the snow level and apply different degrees of snow depending on that. But as long as the ground tile itself is either snowy or not, there's not much point to that IMHO.

Is it only I who have a problem with the blue engine, which is just transparent in the game?

And that has to do with this set exactly what?
EDIT: Oh, you probably mean the Swedish Trains. See their thread