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Article #28159Re: DB Set version 0.8 released
From: Daan
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:38
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:38
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Boudewijn Dijkstra wrote: > "Josef Drexler" <nospam1204@joesbox.cjb.net> schreef in bericht > news:MPG.1c2e851e357afc76989ec5@server.our.house... > >>[Posted on behalf of Michael Blunck] >>In due time for Christmas the DB Set XL?s version 0.8 is out! > > > Great work! Creating electrified railway services is now truly an investment. > Building the ET-87 required some fiddling with the cars marked MORE and STOP, > but I finally figured it out alright. > > There is one problem though, because in temperate climate and with this > newgrf.cfg (all latest versions): > > newgrf/elrailsw.grf > newgrf/signalsw.grf > newgrf/trkfoundw.grf > newgrf/canalsw.grf > newgrf/newshipsw.grf > newgrf/newstatsw.grf > newgrf/arcticsetw.grf > newgrf/dbsetw.grf > newgrf/tempsetw.grf > newgrf/cargosetw.grf > newgrf/dbsetxlw.grf > newgrf/tropicstw.grf > newgrf/LongBusesw.grf > newgrf/McTrucksw.grf > newgrf/ScaniaTrucksw.grf > newgrf/VolvoTrucksw.grf > newgrf/SpitzerTrucksw.grf > newgrf/NavistarTrucksw.grf > > I get an error message that NavistarTrucksw cannot be loaded due to too many > sprites. The DB set XL readme advises to include dbsetw and tempsetw in its > examples. That worked fine, until I added the long road vehicle grfs. When I > exclude dbsetw, dbsetxlw gives a warning that it's deactivating tempsetw, but > when I activate tempsetw manually after the warning, they are both OK (green). > > Because dbset(xl)w says it deactivates tempsetw, I excluded that one to > attempt to prevent any warnings and loading errors. That failed of course, > because tempsetw was never loaded in the first place. So I excluded dbsetw > too; that worked. But now I am worried that something from dbsetw will be > missing, although I couldn't prove that yet. > > You can disable the dbsetw safely, but rumours go that there atemtions to get a higher sprite limit. So for now you can disable the dbsetw.grf and if everything works you can re-enable it in the future Daan
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:38:01 +0100 From: Daan <D.krantz@hccnet.nl> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.games.microprose.transport-tyc Subject: Re: DB Set version 0.8 released References: <MPG.1c2e851e357afc76989ec5@server.our.house> <cq6l6j$ml7$1@joesbox.cjb.net> In-Reply-To: <cq6l6j$ml7$1@joesbox.cjb.net> Lines: 52 Message-ID: <41c6e3c7$0$44068$5fc3050@dreader2.news.tiscali.nl> Organization: Tiscali bv NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Dec 2004 15:37:59 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.168.58.221 X-Trace: 1103553479 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 44068 82.168.58.221:1935 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit