Changing newgrfs ingame

[jian]

Where do I save the file newgrf_add_remove.diff? I don´t know informatics

[Eddi]

you don't. it's completely unnecessary.

[jian]

I want add new grf's in the game but I can not be the mechanism for doing.

[FooBar]

There's a sticky in the OpenTTD General subforum which has information on why this was changed and information on what to do to get the old behaviour back. Here's a link: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=53881

The diff you referred to involves recompiling OpenTTD. If you've never done that, it will cost a lot of time to set everything up to do so.

[jian]

Someone can explain me once directly and no refer me to other forums I have to do to add new grf's. I´m tired Please

[FooBar]

EDIT: see the NewGRF FAQ in the manual.
Note that this will void your warranty.

But honestly, if you can't be bothered a little effort to find it yourself, why should we be bothered to explain it to you?

[sootynz]

"But honestly, if you can't be bothered a little effort to find it yourself, why should we be bothered to explain it to you?"

Foobar - because, honestly, it shouldnt take " a little effort". I tried looking and couldnt find it - its not exactly obvious or easy to find, unless you are fully familiar with the inside workings of the development. I thought Openttd had done away with the need to use a text editor to edit the cfg file - one of the major advances I'd always appreciated.

But thank you very much for taking the time to explain how. You have saved me a lot of grief. I like to think that my contribution to the openttd community are "realistic" scenarios and I am in the final stages of another one. I only do a little at a time, had started it before v 1.1.1 was released, and suddenly found that I couldnt assign grf's to it. Now at least that problem is solved.

Even so, the ability to over-ride the default of not changing grf's after the scenario editor has started or at the beginning of a new game should be a more obvious facility, not requiring editing the cfg. How about in the advanced settings, or game options, or where-ever you think might be best. There are legitimate, over-whelming reasons why a user can want to change grfs and in situations where doing so will not cause problems.

[FooBar]

I had another look at the topic I linked and it indeed seems harder to find the solution than I thought. So I would like to express my apologies for the "effort" comment I made previously. I now seriously wonder why that particular topic was stickied...

[THE_JUDGE]

Open the openttd.cfg file in a plain text editor, find the scenario_developer setting and set it to true. Save the changes while OpenTTD is not running.
Note that this will void your warranty.

Tnx for that little inside, i did change it and was able to change INGAME my grf files and add evan the new ones.
And that warranty what warranty its OPEN-TTD

[FooBar]

Warranty as in "right to complain when it's not working".

[THE_JUDGE]

Warranty as in "right to complain when it's not working".

Well, if something does'n work after i changed, i don't complain, i search wich one of the grf f*** up, remove it and replace it with a different grf that will work
If i was able to change the max grf number..... well, can't ask for evrything.. can i?

[Alberth]

Removal of a newgrf is one of the best ways to really mess up a savegame

[THE_JUDGE]

Removal of a newgrf is one of the best ways to really mess up a savegame

Gues that depends what grf u remove, sofar i never had issus with messed up game saves. But then again, i load my game and change after my grf.
Tnx to Foobar little typ how to change that grf add - remove issu i am able now to test better certain grf on the scenarios i build, so i can test out what fits best to my scenarios.

Say Foobar, is there some way to change the scenario nature? Mean, i build a scenario in temperat enviroment, but like to change it in to snow or dessert WITHOUT rebuilding the hole scenario... .

[FooBar]

There's a cheat to change the climate.

[THE_JUDGE]

There's a cheat to change the climate.

Can u tell me where to find this cheat u talking about or how to do it? Mutch apreciatet.

[Transportman]

Removal of a newgrf is one of the best ways to really mess up a savegame

Gues that depends what grf u remove, sofar i never had issus with messed up game saves. But then again, i load my game and change after my grf.
Tnx to Foobar little typ how to change that grf add - remove issu i am able now to test better certain grf on the scenarios i build, so i can test out what fits best to my scenarios.

Say Foobar, is there some way to change the scenario nature? Mean, i build a scenario in temperat enviroment, but like to change it in to snow or dessert WITHOUT rebuilding the hole scenario... .

You didn't have issues, but I did have them (trains without power because I changed catenary/track GRF, invalid track reservations for all trains because I changed the signals with a GRF), so it only is a matter of time before things go wrong.

On the climate thing: Ctrl+C brings the cheat menu up, but I don't know that works for the scenario editor. You can always save the heightmap and load it in a different climate, but that doesn't take your towns and water to the new scenario (but it is cleaner that cheating the climate).

[THE_JUDGE]

On the climate thing: Ctrl+C brings the cheat menu up, but I don't know that works for the scenario editor. You can always save the heightmap and load it in a different climate, but that doesn't take your towns and water to the new scenario (but it is cleaner that cheating the climate).

Well i tryt ingame the ctrl+c.. but nothing apears or what so ever.... About cheat menu ... did'n know there was a cheat menu....

[Alberth]

It's ctrl+alt+c, and you can find all about it at the wiki: http://wiki.openttd.org/Cheat

[THE_JUDGE]

It's ctrl+alt+c, and you can find all about it at the wiki: http://wiki.openttd.org/Cheat

Tnx for the info

[Transportman]

Sorry for the wrong key combo, haven't played for quite some time. I knew that CTRL and C were the keys, forgot ALT also was one.