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higherbridges on

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From: Demon
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
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>
> 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/
> ---------------------------------+---------------------------------------
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Subject: higherbridges on
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