Disabling/enabling separate vehicles

[Prebral]

I am not sure, how this could be done and if it is even possible...however, as sets I use grow in ID usage, this may be handy:

The idea is, that except for enabling and disabling separate sets, the player would be allowed to disable/enable separate IDs in loaded sets via some simple GUI or not-so-simple cfg file. I often want to use some sets (for example CSDSet for locomotives, DBSetXL for wagons and Serbian narrow gauge set for narrow gauge) together, but simply arranging these in a specified order in newgrf.cfg is not enough - some vehicles are more important than the other ones but may be blocked by set with overall greater priority. Also, if I override a an engine set with a wagon set which has not all properties declared, a wagon may gain strange abilities like powered wagons or running cost from the earlier set.

The thing I have in mind should work somehow like this:
1) pre-load new grf
2) check ID usage list/allow user to mark IDs to use for each set
3) load new grf and where ID is not used, ignore this ID for this set

[The Person]

I like this idea too. But please don't make it too complicated if it gets added. A simple cfg file with this syntax should do it:

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id1 = set1.grf
id2 = set2.grf
id3 = set3grf
id4...

[Patchman]

The GRF Resource Management allows all of this to happen automatically, in principle, so that a GRF can only activate those vehicle IDs that aren't used yet.

As for the manual selection, it can possibly be done via grf parameters I guess.

[The Person]

The GRF Resource Management allows all of this to happen automatically, in principle, so that a GRF can only activate those vehicle IDs that aren't used yet.

As for the manual selection, it can possibly be done via grf parameters I guess.

Could you tell me more about this GRF Resource Management (or give me a link)?

[Patchman]

http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php ... Management

[The Person]

I was hoping for something which did not involve coding the grf files, but thanks anyway.

I gotta stop procrastinating and learn to code some day...