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>> After a long hiatus, I'm about to resume work on the BR Set [...]
>
>Good news, Ronnie!

Looks like even better news, as it seems lots of artists have joined the
team in my absence - just no one has put all their work together in a .GRF
yet! (In steps me...)

>Many things, but nothing really fundamental.
>
>(check http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/ for recent changes)

/me goes all glazed eyed again.

So a pseudo sprite is...?

>> About six months ago, I had an email pointing out that the
>> BR Set is not compatible with the new industries.
>
>??? There are no "new industries" in TTD/patch, AFAIK.

Rather, "more industries". The paper wagon over-rid my "Mk.2" carriage.
Annoying, as the set pretty much relies on it! :)

>Seriously, there aren´t too many things which have been changed, except the
>diverse "callbacks" introduced for powered wagons, wagon length, load
amount,
>refitted capacities and articulated engines. These are the most advanced
>features at the time being.

These are the things making me glazed eyed at the moment! I'm trying to get
my head around "callback.grf" at the moment.

>I could imagine that it´d be useful to include callbacks for powered wagons
to
>design better DMUs and EMUs and to use callbacks for articulated engines to
have
>tenders at steamers by default for the BR set.

Definitely. I may, as I hinted at early, find it to be an idea to make
correct unit operation mandatory via the articulated engines callback, too.
I'll see what the jury says on that. Otherwise, the set might have to come
with a large manual...

Also, is it possible to use callbacks to change the capacity / weight /
price of a wagon? If it does, it'd be a neat trick to save veh-ids, needing
eg. only one mail van to exist, that changes to whatever is required when
put behind a corresponding engine.

Ronnie
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