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Re: DB Set version 0.8 released

#28159
From: Daan
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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