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Article #27660higherbridges on
From: Demon
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 01:53
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 01:53
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how deos it work, i still cant get bridges higher then 1 block "Josef Drexler" <nospam0504@joesbox.cjb.net> wrote in message news:MPG.1b08dd6261810cf2989e87@server.our.house... > > Hi all, > > Here's the latest alpha version: http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/ > > Because of changes in the internal graphics format, you have to download > the new station and canals graphics again, the old files will no longer > work in alpha 26. Just go to http://server/yoda- > pages/Homepage/ttdpatch/newgrf.html#201 and get them there. > > Thanks to Oskar's diligence, it's now possible to build bridges that are > more than one height level above the ground, something that used to be > firmly planted in the "impossible to do" category. Well, it's only > impossible until somebody does it.... To use this feature, set > "higherbridges on" (-Yh), and just build the bridges as usual. Note that > it's still not possible to have crossing bridges, bridges over diagonal > track, or anything else that used to be impossible. But they can be > higher now, finally. > > A new contributor to TTDPatch, Marijn (not to be confused with Marcin), > has improved the "moreindustries" switch. It now allows you to fund > prospecting of primary industries such as coal mines. This is very > expensive, and with no guarantee of success, in fact, the more industries > of that type are already on the map, the less likely the prospecting is > to succeed. Just open the "Fund Industry" window, and click on a primary > industry to fund prospecting. > > For my part, I've fixed a host of bugs that were present in alpha 25, in > particular those related to the new station graphics. Now they no longer > need "signalsontrafficside on", and neither does the waypoint selection > in the rail station window apply to other station types. So it's now > safe to leave it set to waypoints. > > Also, the gamespeed feature now works in the DOS version as well, using > the same "q", "w" and "e" keys as the Windows version. Finally, if you > have "morehotkeys on", the space bar will now cancel news messages in > summary mode as well (that is those scrolling blue messages in the status > bar). > > And that's it for today. Have fun with the new features! > > Josef. > > > All changes in 2.0.1 alpha 26: > - make gamespeed hotkeys work in DOS too > - by Marijn: "moreindustries" now allows funding the prospecting of > new primary industries, with less chance of success the more > industries of that type there are > - by Oskar: "higherbridges" or -Yh allows building bridges more than > one height level high > - fixed bug with station waypoint selection being applied to other > station types as well > - fixed bug requiring signalsontrafficside on for new station > graphics to work > - fixed bug with removing electrified track from under bridge and > pylons not being removed as well > - changed meaning of station var 40, and introduced new var 41 which > gives separate tile information for all individually built > sections > - changed definition of station prop 09 to allow defining variable > number of tiles > - added callback 14 for stations to display other tile types > - by Oskar: changed canals to use action 1/2/3 system > - fixed bug with showing wrong error sprite in grf status window > - allow forcing a .grf to activate > - with "morehotkeys on", space bar now cancels summary news messages > as well > - fixed inverted meaning of miscmods bit 10 (value 1024), without it > now vehicle names will really be used in news messages; set the > bit to disable this > - change freighttrains to show "20 tons of coal (x5)" instead of > multiplied amount > > -- > Josef Drexler | http://publish.uwo.ca/~jdrexler/ > ---------------------------------+--------------------------------------- > Please help Conserve Gravity | Email address is *valid*. > Carry a helium balloon. | Don't remove the "nospam" part.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!border2.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feed2.news.rcn.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: "Demon" <mail@ishalom.net> Newsgroups: alt.games.microprose.transport-tyc Subject: higherbridges on Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 02:53:24 +0100 Lines: 84 Message-ID: <c7pbmr$d03$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> References: <MPG.1b08dd6261810cf2989e87@server.our.house> NNTP-Posting-Host: ishalom.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1084240411 13315 80.177.25.182 (11 May 2004 01:53:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 01:53:31 +0000 (UTC) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit