TTD Config Editor Program

CombatGold1 · Post by **CombatGold1** » 20 Oct 2002 23:10

This configuration editor program that Spaceman-Spiff gave me a link for is brilliant! Very handy for computer beginners and lazy people.

Look at this screenshot I took. Thanks for the program Spaceman-Spiff, saves me much time.

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spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 21 Oct 2002 04:39

yep, but i don´t use it myself

it´s patch 1.8, i´m with the 1.9
Anyway, i think the text in the config file explains the switches very good
that´s why i am using notepad

Just when Owen gets his all-containing utility on the road, then i will use it !

anaconda · Post by **anaconda** » 21 Oct 2002 06:00

The problem with this program, is that it generates a pretty messy config file, with no descriptions or whatever. (For us that likes to hack the values a bit).

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 21 Oct 2002 06:18

yes forgot about that one, now you have an explanation in the cfg file (in your language !)
with the configurator all that is lost

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 31 Oct 2002 21:42

New version 1.2 for Patch 1.9 is out. Check Josef's site for link.
Jan

CombatGold1 · Post by **CombatGold1** » 31 Oct 2002 22:28

Not bad. Not bad at all.

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 01 Nov 2002 07:25

I tried this one out when Josef mailed it on the mailing list
then i mailed my questions and nobody replied on it

This is what i sent:

I tried the configurator

I have a few problems when using it, perhaps i'm doing something wrong

first i created my ttdpatch.cfg file with the config.program
then i played the game with option -W ttdpatch.cfg
then i had a look at the switchsettings

1. multihead 1 , so 1 percent isn't that much, can't we change this in the
config.program as a percentage?
2. extpresignals off, so i can't use ctrl key, shouldn't this be an option
too ?
3. cheatscost off, this is an important one ! Or has this another name, i
found signcheats=1 in the config.program
4. cdpath, can't find this one in the config.program
5. Can't the config.program put the switches in the same order as the -W
option does ? This would help while looking for problems

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 01 Nov 2002 07:26

Jan wrote:New version 1.2 for Patch 1.9 is out. Check Josef's site for link.
Jan

hello Jan, how's it going in the USA

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 01 Nov 2002 17:46

Everything OK. Just the da#m game crashing under XP to often. Still very unstable. Just got new HD and installed Win98 on it. Maybe this will help. Have to try over the weekend.
BTW, is anybody talking about some decent graphics editor, as we discused on old forum? I was just guest there, Zuchla. I didn't ment Josef will do the editor, just to incorporate the loading and usage of new tile sets, or how you call them, squares?
Did you ever try Trains and Trucks Tycoon? I thing the guy, Peter Dobrovka did very good job, pitty they screwed him up so badly. If he will do the version 2 as he promised, this could be the new transport tycoon. Beside those bugs, the game is still very enjoyable. As I red on German forum, he already working on fixing the bugs in the old one, he added level crossing, improved signals, new graphics etc. Maybe is still hope for new version. Maybe Chris will finaly wake up and develop his version #2. He got now enough money from RCT, so here is some hope.
Jan

spaceman-spiff · Post by **spaceman-spiff** » 02 Nov 2002 04:32

Jan wrote:Everything OK.

great

Jan wrote:Just the da#m game crashing under XP to often. Still very unstable. Just got new HD and installed Win98 on it. Maybe this will help. Have to try over the weekend.

you are right, as Josef or Marcin are developing the patch under win98, it should be more stable, by installing XP and 98 on your (huge) HD

Jan wrote:BTW, is anybody talking about some decent graphics editor, as we discused on old forum?

we all would love that, but the way TTD was written , the age of the sourcecode, it's just to difficult to incorporate it. i think introducing new ships and transport vehicles is the very max they can do. we just have to wait for TT2

Jan wrote:Did you ever try Trains and Trucks Tycoon?

no, i haven't even tried the demo of it (if there is one)

Jan wrote:Maybe Chris will finaly wake up and develop his version #2. he got now enough money from RCT, so here is some hope.

i hear he's finished RCT2 , so what else could he do next

we can only hope

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 02 Nov 2002 06:05

You are right. The new HD is huge. 120 GB!

The T&TT demo is somewhere on the internet. That gave me the urge to buy the full game. And because never came out here in US, I had to order my copy from UK. But I'm glad I did it.

Pitty, Josef is such a good programer and can't aford a copy of XP or Win 2000. Maybe I will send him one.

TTDLX is mostly writen in assembly language. That and the genius behind this, making the game so stable and fast. Never ment to be run on XP! Didn't exist, same goes for Win 2000. Also, the assembly language is the hardest to master.
BTW, if you can put a new ships to the game than is posible to introduce a lot more! One time was on the web new tileset. Anybody know about it?

We desperately need an editor.

Jan

Post by **orudge** » 02 Nov 2002 09:46

Well, I don't have the time to write a graphics editor, but it'd be perfectly possible, if a bit difficult. First, you'd need to go and get the GRFCodec source code and incorporate the GRF reading/writing code into your program. Then you'd have to write some sort of sprite index listing thing, and then you'd have to write an actual editor.

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 02 Nov 2002 14:09

You are right. This is not an easy task. But you agree, it could be done. Pitty, you do not have enough time. Maybe you should make a sticky post for searching for some new programer. I remember some guys on your old forum talk about possible programing and changing grapfics. Hopefully, Chris will beat us to the finishing line.
Jan

Omnislash · Post by **Omnislash** » 04 Nov 2002 13:40

Jan wrote:Pitty, Josef is such a good programer and can't aford a copy of XP or Win 2000. Maybe I will send him one.

Wha!!

If you have money like that to spend around like that!!. Wish I did.

I am going to be learning programming soon. As I have to do a course about it at college. So maybe then I will know enough to help with the editor. But I don't complete the course for another 2 years so we'll have too see. I want to learn programming but I don't have the time with all the work I have currently which is a shame.

I'm downloading the demo of T&TT now!

Post by **orudge** » 04 Nov 2002 15:26

Well, I could send him a copy quite easily - I've got my trusty CD burner here.

I may be able to do some work on a graphics editor at some point in the future. Right now though I am a bit busy.

CombatGold1 · Post by **CombatGold1** » 04 Nov 2002 17:48

Thats what they all say.

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 04 Nov 2002 17:50

Omnislash wrote:

If you have money like that to spend around like that!!. Wish I did

This will be no problem, because I own woodworking company. But, when the f@$%rs bomb us, the economy here is so bad, that I do not have work for more than year. I do have copy of Win 2000 laying somewhere, but this one is registered already and he needs a legal copy for upgrading etc.

I'm downloading the demo of T&TT now!

I think this is the closest to TTD than anything else. Pitty, that he couldn't finished as he planned. But, work on version 2 already in progress, so still hope here for real 3D TTD. With boats and airplanes. BTW, they was cut out by the idiotic VX company.

Owen wrote:

I may be able to do some work on a graphics editor at some point in the future

That will be nice. I spent couple hours at night, but no pcx produced. Your program will make a specified folder, but empty. Same with DOS version. No matter what I did, no picture. Reread Josef instruction so many times, still no progress. Maybe somebody can try to open the file and send to me? Or post somewhere, so I can download it? That be helpfull. Looks like I'm doing something very wrong.

Jan

Post by **orudge** » 04 Nov 2002 21:31

The following commands should work:

md sprites
grfcodec -d -w 800 -h 600 whatever.grf sprites

You should then find some PCX files in sprites.

Jan · Post by **Jan** » 05 Nov 2002 00:52

I already did it! Thanks for the help. What I did wrong was the filename! I did spell it incorrectly. Switched 2 letters. Me...., you know what.
Jan

Patchman · Post by **Patchman** » 05 Nov 2002 06:38

orudge wrote:Well, I could send him a copy quite easily - I've got my trusty CD burner here.

Hehe... well I'm going to say no thanks

. I want the TTDPatch development to be 100% legit.

Anyway, I would also need a new computer to run XP on, as well as a new licence for Soft/ICE which would be another $1000 or so. Unless I start charging for the patch, and people pay maybe $20 for it, I'm not going to be able to afford that.

Besides, I'm not going to have much time in the coming months (writing my PhD thesis), so even if I did have the money and the computer and XP and Soft/ICE, I might still not be able to work on it... and even if I did, I don't know whether it can be made more stable at all.

So, don't hold your breath.

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