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French town names

Posted: 23 Jun 2008 11:21
by ElDwane
If there is something that i've always found funny, its are the available french city/town names in the game (some of them are very little).
It's not a bad thing, since there is always big and small town, but with openttd, and the introduction of 2048x2048 maps, playing a random game became more difficult (it's also not a bad thing if you want to create long-distance railway, but the map will lack of populated area).

So I worked on a little patch which add around 150 new names (the city bigger than 50.000 inhabitants and/or the 50 biggest urban area). (It's seems it's the best way to increase the number of cities, since making a name generator is

Since it's the first time I made a patch, I hope I didn't make any mistakes.

PS: I know someone already done it (http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=29578) but the links doesn't seems to work anymore.

Re: French town names

Posted: 23 Jun 2008 14:00
by cmoiromain
Isn't this possible with the use of grfs? It would be a lot easier to use than a patch...

Re: French town names

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 03:22
by DaleStan
Yes, it is. And yes, it would be.

Re: French town names

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 12:33
by ElDwane
The fact is... i don't know how to make grf files... but I spend 3 hours yesterday trying to learn ^^
Maybe at the end of the week, I will succed... :roll:

Re: French town names

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 16:13
by Ammler
Maybe, you can use something from my Swiss development files, they are very unfinished, but maybe? :-)

http://svn.openttdcoop.org/grfdev/swisstowns/

Greets
Ammler

Re: French town names

Posted: 24 Jun 2008 16:50
by ElDwane
Thanks, I will take a look ^^

Re: French town names

Posted: 25 Jun 2008 14:12
by glx
http://devs.openttd.org/~glx/townname/ shows the conversion of 2 OpenTTD townname generators.

Re: French town names

Posted: 25 Jun 2008 23:00
by Alexboy
I tried to build a NewGRF with ActionF based on Ammler's, I even harassed him on IRC (I would like to thank him for his patience), but I miserably failed. I'm afraid these hexadecimal strings will bury me alive.

If anyone is interested, you will find in attachment a text file including the 470 biggest cities in France, I even increased the appearance probability for the biggest cities (in respect to the NFO syntax)

GOOD LUCK :P

Re: French town names

Posted: 26 Jun 2008 13:21
by Ammler

Re: French town names

Posted: 20 Dec 2008 06:12
by fanioz
hay sir, I come from indonesia.
What is the license of file listed on http://svn.openttdcoop.org/grfdev/frenchtowns/ ?
May I re-use it to add Indonesia town?

thanks b4
:bow:

Re: French town names

Posted: 29 Dec 2008 15:19
by Ammler
I just tried to formulate a license stuff for my works, they are too small for GPL, so I added something selfish ;-)

http://www.openttdcoop.org/wiki/User:Am ... RF_License

In fact use what you like as long as your work will be free and opensource too. :-)

Greets
Ammler