City Name Set?

[FailedTycoon]

Hi,

Have been playing OTTD for a few months now and I was wondering how to put together a City Name Set (eg. http://grfcrawler.tt-forums.net/index.p ... town+names. Is it basically just a text file listing all the names? I have searched both this forum and TTD wiki but can't find anything about this..

Thanks in advance,
FT

[planetmaker]

It's unfortunately not quite as simple, it's a newgrf file: http://wiki.ttdpatch.net/tiki-index.php?page=ActionF
But town names should be one of the easier newgrf tasks, so I am told.

[FailedTycoon]

Thanks for the quick reply.
As I have not done any (TTD) coding before, are there any tutorials on how to put a City Name Set together?

[planetmaker]

At the location of the link I quoted is a short newgrf tutorial. It doesn't handle town names, but the way these things work. Also the necessary tools are linked there. You might get an existing town name grf, decode that and put your names into it. Make sure the license allows so.

[Benny]

I've heard that you should never decode a grf file because it gets screwed up.

[DaleStan]

You heard incorrectly. Or incompletely, at least.

You should not decode GRFs for which you already have the PCX and NFO, unless you know what the result will be, and that the result will be what you want.

[Benny]

Oh, ok.

[FailedTycoon]

Thanks. I will have look at all the info and hopefully create a grf file of some kind

[caveatemptor]

Interesting; I don't know anything about coding but I wouldn't mind making an Irish name set or at least giving it a try.