Signal Tutorial for OpenTTD
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Signal Tutorial for OpenTTD
Hey there!
About a year ago, I was quite confused by all the new and old signals in OpenTTD. So I started to look for a nice and clean tutorial/explanation on it, but couldn't manage to find one. The best source around seemed to be the OpenTTD wiki. Because of this, I started to write a Tutorial for myself. When I was finished, I realised that it was quite useful, so I published it on my website.
Today, I found the time to have a look at my website stats and was quite amazed that the tutorial has genereated much more traffic than I assumed. It seems that a lot of people think this is a useful article. Since I got a little time on my hand, I tried to translate it into english, so more people can make use of it.
I just finished the translation - but I'm not sure whether my english is correct troughout the whole article. Especially when it comes to some technical terms, for example "signal block", I'm wondering if I used the right ones. So: If someone finds any mistakes - just point them out. I'd like to get that clean. :)
Here you go: http://kokolokus.de/?s=blog&v=6
Of course, any other suggestions and comments are welcome.
Thanks! :)
About a year ago, I was quite confused by all the new and old signals in OpenTTD. So I started to look for a nice and clean tutorial/explanation on it, but couldn't manage to find one. The best source around seemed to be the OpenTTD wiki. Because of this, I started to write a Tutorial for myself. When I was finished, I realised that it was quite useful, so I published it on my website.
Today, I found the time to have a look at my website stats and was quite amazed that the tutorial has genereated much more traffic than I assumed. It seems that a lot of people think this is a useful article. Since I got a little time on my hand, I tried to translate it into english, so more people can make use of it.
I just finished the translation - but I'm not sure whether my english is correct troughout the whole article. Especially when it comes to some technical terms, for example "signal block", I'm wondering if I used the right ones. So: If someone finds any mistakes - just point them out. I'd like to get that clean. :)
Here you go: http://kokolokus.de/?s=blog&v=6
Of course, any other suggestions and comments are welcome.
Thanks! :)
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Perhaps you should take a crack at editing the wiki as well?
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Please do!kamnet wrote:Perhaps you should take a crack at editing the wiki as well?
Well done, looks pretty awesome
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It is more than just looking cool
It's a very well done and comprehensive tutorial.
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It's a very well done and comprehensive tutorial.
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Re: Signal Tutorial for OpenTTD
I was enlightened by this tutorial. Excellent work, sir!
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Re: Signal Tutorial for OpenTTD
i added a link to your page on the wiki (here) but by all means edit the page itself
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Re: Signal Tutorial for OpenTTD
That's a very nice tutorial. Since you were unsure about language, I do have one comment though (although I'm also not a native speaker, so this may not be the only lapsus to be found). There is a severe case of denglish, in that you refer to trains as "he", "his", "him", etc. You don't do that in English - "it", "its" and "it" respectively would be a lot better!
Re: Signal Tutorial for OpenTTD
Thanks for your compliments! It's great to hear you like it. :)
Also, it's great that the translation seems to be good enough to really help people at understanding signals.
Special thanks to TERdON for pointing out one deficite. I'll try to fix that next week!
Regarding the wiki: that's a nice explanation itself (while still being different), isn't it? If I'd alter that, it would probably be very similar to my tutorial in the end. Or is that what you'd suggest?
So long! :)
Also, it's great that the translation seems to be good enough to really help people at understanding signals.
Special thanks to TERdON for pointing out one deficite. I'll try to fix that next week!
Regarding the wiki: that's a nice explanation itself (while still being different), isn't it? If I'd alter that, it would probably be very similar to my tutorial in the end. Or is that what you'd suggest?
So long! :)
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Re: Signal Tutorial for OpenTTD
Awesome tutorial. I was struggling with the signals for a long time already, but your tutorial made them clear.
Re: Signal Tutorial for OpenTTD
FYI: I just found the time to update the article according to the advices by Tyr Antilles an 3iff - thanks to both of you. I hope the language is fine now. :)
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