Dutch Trainset 2.0.0-alpha6 =================================== Dutch Trains for OpenTTD ---------- 0 Contents ---------- 1 About 2 General information 2.1 Requirements 2.2 Installation 2.3 Parameter settings 2.4 Usage 3 Known issues 4 Background information 5 Frequently Asked Questions 6 Credits 7 Contact information 7.1 Bug reports 7.2 Other problems 7.3 General enquiries 8 License 9 Obtaining the source ------- 1 About ------- Dutch Trains for OpenTTD. It all starts with Arend in 1839 and continues to the V250 Albatross and beyond. The set gives you the steam engines, diesel and electric engines, diesel and electric multiple units and metros that once were or still are common in the Netherlands. With many liveries to choose from. Dutch Trainset 2.0.0-alpha6 MD5Hash: c8b6d6c5965f610c3c15a3162c8da26e dutchtrains.grf Version: 630 GRF ID: FBFB0601 --------------------- 2 General information --------------------- 2.1 Requirements ---------------- - OpenTTD 1.2.0-RC1 or nightly r23971, or higher. - Not compatible with TTDPatch 2.2 Installation ---------------- OpenTTD: see http://wiki.openttd.org/NewGRF This NewGRF is available from the ingame Online Content 2.3 Parameter settings ---------------------- There are four parameter settings available. 1: Translates the vehicle nicknames to your own language, or English if we don't have a translation for your language. 2: Allows to keep the default TTD rail/monorail/maglev vehicles, if they're not already disabled by a different NewGRF. 3: Increase or decrease vehicle purchase costs. 4: Increase or decrease vehicle running costs. Set the parameters before starting a new game. Once started they cannot be changed any longer. Useful details if you need to set the parameters manually in the configuration file: 1st parameter: Translate vehicle nicknames 0: Show Dutch nicknames 1: Show localized/English nicknames 2nd parameter: Keep default TTD vehicles 0: none (default) 1: rail only 2: monorail only 3: rail and monorail 4: maglev only 5: rail and maglev 6: monorail and maglev 7: all 3rd parameter: Purchase cost multiplier 0: divide by 16 1: divide by 8 2: divide by 4 3: divide by 2 4: normal purchase costs 5: multiply by 2 6: multiply by 4 7: multiply by 8 8: multiply by 16 4th parameter: Running cost multiplier 0: divide by 16 1: divide by 8 2: divide by 4 3: divide by 2 4: normal purchase costs 5: multiply by 2 6: multiply by 4 7: multiply by 8 8: multiply by 16 2.4 Usage --------- Starting date Because our selection of steam trains isn't complete yet, the earliest you can start is 1863. From that year there will always be at least one train available. If you want to start at the dawn of Dutch railroading, you can start as early as 1839 with Arend, but be advised that there will be no trains available between 1857 and 1863, a gap that will be filled in future releases. Metro vehicles Metro vehicles are only available if you have loaded a metro track NewGRF. The train set has been tested to work with the Metro Track Set, the UK Railway Set tracks and NuTracks. If you want to use it with NuTracks, make sure to set the NuTracks track parameter to either metro or third rail, and make sure to load this set after NuTracks in the NewGRF configuration. Multiple units Multiple units are purchased as a single complete unit. If MUs are available in multiple lengths, you choose the length directy from the purchase menu by selecting the appropriate train to purchase. You cannot change the length of a MU once purchased, in that case you have to sell the train and buy an new one, or use autoreplace. Many of the older multiple units have a baggage compartment. This compartment can be refitted to carry mail or any express cargo. By default, the baggage compartment will carry either passengers or nothing at all. Livery refits The set comes with a comprehensive livery refit system. If a vehicle has multiple liveries available, you can refit it in the depot to select a different livery. At any one time, all liveries are available for refit, even if this is not historically accurate (it is up to you to play realistic or not). For realistic play, most vehicles are equipped with a "year-dependent livery" option. This is selected by default upon vehicle purchase, and what this does is give you the livery that was common at the current (game) year. Sometimes even randomized, if multiple liveries were common at the same time. If a new livery is introduced as the years pass, the vehicles will be automatically repainted when visiting a depot. If you rather have your vehicles always keep the livery they got when you purchased the vehicle, then you can achieve this by refitting to the "construction year livery". This can also be done later on in case you forgot, the livery will then revert to the one the train had upon purchase. A couple of modern engines don't have these options, but instead come with a "random livery" refit option. In this case the game will pick a random livery from the available liveries for each vehicle. And of course all liveries are listed separately, selecting a specific livery will make the vehicle always keep this livery. When livery-refitting, it's best to do this for each vehicle part individually. Refitting a complete train at once may not always give the expected result, but you can always try and then refit each part individually if you didn't get what you wanted. Note: all livery refits are marked as "Passengers" in the vehicle refit window. This is also the case for engines that don't actually have a capacity, due to game limitations. Even though it says passengers, these engines will not hold anything after refitting. -------------- 3 Known issues -------------- Additional steam engines The selection of steam engines is currently incomplete, not allowing you to start in 1839. (#3952) Cargo wagon properties Cargo wagon properties like capacity, speed, weight etc. are currently suboptimal and need to be reviewed (#3953) ------------------------ 4 Background information ------------------------ We aim to provide nearly every train that ever ran on Dutch tracks for any significant amount of time. This includes foreign trains that often visit our country, but of course the very first train that roamed our tracks, the very new models, and everything inbetween. The vehicle properties are kept as real as possible. So you get real horsepowers, real weights, real maximum speeds and real capacities. For trains this is the seated capacity, for metros we also allow standees. We hope that this makes the trains feel as real as possible. ---------------------------- 5 Frequently Asked Questions ---------------------------- Q: Why is the livery refit of a second MU not possible? A: This is a technical limitation that currently cannot be solved. It is not possible to provide both the livery refit and the baggage compartment refit for MUs other than the first in the chain. Q: Why do some MUs with a baggage compartment increase capacity when refitted to passengers, while others don't? A: In real life, some MUs came in multiple variants, with and without baggage compartment. In this case, when refitted to passengers, you will automatically get the version without the baggage compartment. In other cases, the baggage compartment was later rebuilt as passenger compartment. If this is the case, then at some point the vehicle capacity will increase when refitted to passengers. The last case is that the baggage compartment was never used to carry passengers. In this case, the compartment will remain empty when refitted to passengers. Q: Why are some wagon types not available? A: Some specialized wagons, like the VAM compost wagon, the cartransporter and the superheavy flatcar are only able to carry specialized cargoes. These cargoes are not available without an industry NewGRF, and these wagons are not available if the cargoes they carry are not available. Q: Can I use Autorefit? A: Yes. --------- 6 Credits --------- Graphics (see individual graphic files in the source for details): - Bastiaan (Bastiaan Luytjes) - DanMacK (Dan MacKellar) - FooBar (Jasper Vries) - Hyronymus (Jeroen Otto) - Purno (Mark Leppen) - Snail (Jacopo Coletto) - STT Transport - Voyager One - Wile E. Coyote Templating of graphics: - Mahoo76 - Supercheese - Transportman Code: - FooBar (Jasper Vries) Translations: - Dutch: FooBar (Jasper Vries) - English: FooBar (Jasper Vries) Makefile system: - planetmaker (Ingo von Borstel) Special thanks to the developers of the first Dutch Trainset and everyone who supported us during development of this new version. --------------------- 7 Contact information --------------------- 7.1 Bug reports --------------- Please report any bugs you find at bug tracker: http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/dutchtrains/issues or forum topic: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=59353 Always included a detailed description of the bug, preferrably with screenshot and savegame. Also state the exact game version you're using, as well as the version of this NewGRF. If you have a savegame that includes NewGRFs not available on OpenTTD's Online Content, then please try to reproduce the bug in a new game which has all NewGRFs easily accessible. If you're using a patched version of the game, please try to reproduce the bug on an official game build. If you can't reproduce the bug, then don't report it here but in the forum topic of the patch(pack) instead. 7.2 Other problems ------------------ If you have any problems using this NewGRF that are not covered in the Frequently Asked Questions above, then you can ask your questions in the forum topic: http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=59353 7.3 General enquiries --------------------- If you have any queries that cannot be asked in the forum topic, then contact FooBar via Private Message at www.tt-forums.net or send an email to foobar at jaspervries.nl. --------- 8 License --------- Dutch Trainset - Dutch Trains for OpenTTD Copyright (C) 2003-2012 Dutch Trainset Team This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. ---------------------- 9 Obtaining the source ---------------------- The source code can be obtained from the #openttdcoop DevZone via source browser: http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/dutchtrains/repository or via mercurial checkout: hg clone http://hg.openttdcoop.org/dutchtrains or via a source bundle download (releases only): http://bundles.openttdcoop.org/dutchtrains/ How to build from source and the requirements for that are included with the source in the file /docs/building_from_source.txt.