Dutch Tram Set v6896 (b624825eff7f) ----------------------------------- Contents: 1 About 2 Requirements 3 Installation 3.1 Parameter settings 3.2 Upgrading from RC1 4 Usage 4.1 List of vehicles 5 Credits 6 License 7 Obtaining the source ------- 1 About ------- The Dutch Tram Set is New Graphics Set which adds a great number of both historical and current Dutch trams to OpenTTD. Dutch Tram Set v6896 (b624825eff7f) MD5Hash: {{GRF_MD5}} Version: 6896 GRF ID: The Dutch Tram Set attempts to give an historical overview of Dutch trams while ensuring quality gameplay. It works well with OpenTTD's realistic road vehicle acceleration and for that purpose includes as much actual vehicle properties as possible. Vehicle capacity is optimized for gameplay (higher than actual seated capacity, but lower than seated+standee capacity) and based on actual vehicle length to maintain historic differences between vehicles. By default, the vehicles can carry passengers only, but a parameter option allows refitting to all cargo types. Vehicles are drawn to their historic liveries. Some vehicles even come in multiple liveries. A parameter option allows to change all liveries to company colours (2CC), aimed at multiplayer games. Vehicle prices are balanced against the default TTD buses. Tram purchase is more expensive than bus purchase, but tram running costs are lower than bus running costs to compensate for the higher initial investment costs. Vehicles in the Dutch Tram Set are furthermore balanced between themselves. Purchase costs depend on vehicle weight (material cost), power (engine cost) and length (furniture cost). Running costs depend on capacity (cleaning cost), speed (maintenance cost) and power (electricity consumption). -------------- 2 Requirements -------------- You need at least OpenTTD 1.2.0 or nightly r23166 to be able to use the Dutch Tram Set. A recent version of OpenTTD can be obtained from http://www.openttd.org/ If you play TTDPatch, you can get Dutch Tram Set Release Candidate 1 from http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=45456 That version is optimized to work within the limitations of TTDPatch. It comes with its own readme.txt with instructions on installation and configuration. -------------- 3 Installation -------------- By far the easiest way to install is to aquire the Dutch Tram Set via the ingame Content Download feature. How to do this is explained at http://wiki.openttd.org/Online_content. If you somehow cannot use the Content Download feature, you need to copy the Dutch Tram Set grf-file to the OpenTTD data directory. The OpenTTD readme explains where you can find this directory. The final step is to activate the Dutch Tram Set. This is done via the NewGRF Settings window, which is explained here: http://wiki.openttd.org/NewGRF. Now you can use the Dutch Tram Set in your new games. 3.1 Parameter Settings ---------------------- The Dutch Tram Set comes with two parameter settings. These can be easily configured ingame, but if you for some reason want to edit the configuration file manually the following details will be of use: 1st parameter: Set vehicle liveries 0: Real liveries (default) 1: Company colours 2nd parameter: Set vehicle refit options 0: Passengers only (default) 1: Town cargo types (passenger, mail and express cargo classes only) 2: All cargo types 3.2 Upgrading from RC1 ---------------------- The Dutch Tram Set 2.0.0 should be compatible with the earlier RC1. You can upgrade all your games at once by removing the Dutch Tram Set RC1 from OpenTTD's data directory or content_download/data directory. Make sure you have the new version downloaded and installed before you do so though. When loading an existing savegame, OpenTTD will now automatically select the new version as compatible version. However, if you really want to play safe, just keep both versions and only use the new version in new games. A known issue with upgrading existing savegames is that articulated vehicles will look as if they have fallen apart. While this looks weird, it should not give further problems. Once the vehicle has visited a depot it should look normal again. ------- 4 Usage ------- Make sure the Dutch Tram Set is activated in the NewGRF Settings and that you have started a new game. The first tram will be available starting from around 1905 (the game randomizes this, so it can be a little earlier or a little later). You can access the tramway construction tools by holding the road construction button in the main toolbar and selecting tramway construction from the drop-down menu. Be aware that you can only purchase trams inside a tram depot and that trams will only run on tram tracks, not on rail tracks nor roads. 4.1 List of vehicles -------------------- Intr | Vehicle Name -----|---------------------------- 1905 | HTM 21-168 'Little Fords' 1908 | RET 127-151 'Threewindows' 1913 | RET 152-201 'Parkwagons' 1929 | GETA 70-75 1929 | HTM 821-830 1929 | HTM 821-830 + 751-781 1940 | NBM 50 + 3 trailers 1948 | GVB 491-550 'Threeaxles' 1948 | GVB 491-550 + 951-1000 'Threeaxles' 1948 | HTM 201-216 'Swiss' 1948 | HTM 201-216 + 751-781 'Swiss' 1957 | RET 231-244 'Schindlers' 1964 | RET 351-386 'Düwags' 1971 | HTM 1301-1340 'PCCs' 1971 | HTM 1301-1340 + 2101-2130 'PCCs' 1974 | GVB 725-779 (8G) 'Airwagons' 1981 | HTM 3001-3147 'GTL8' 1983 | Connexxion 5001 1990 | GVB 817-841 (12G) 'Stairwagons' 2002 | GVB 2001-2151 'Combino' 2003 | RET 2001-2060 'Citadis' 2006 | HTM 4001-4072 'Citadis' 2012 | Future 2001 'Flexity Outlook' 2022 | Future 4001 'Rendallyne' 2032 | Future 6001 'SlrTrm' --------- 6 Credits --------- The Dutch Tram Set is created by: * Rendall * FooBar Code: ----- * FooBar Graphics: --------- * Rendall (all vehicles but the ones below) * FooBar (GVB 725-779 (8G) 'Luchtwagens', GVB 2001-2151 'Combino', RET 2001-2060 'Citadis', HTM 4001-4072 'Citadis') * Bastiaan (Connexxion 5001-5027) * Ameecher (initial drawings Flexity Outlook) * Purno (pantographs) Makefile system: ---------------- * Ingo von Borstel (planetmaker) Special Thanks to: ------------------ * Translators * NML developers * Everybody who helped during development of RC1 * Over 136836 people who downloaded RC1 * #openttdcoop DevZone for providing the repository, bug tracker, nightly builds and much more! --------- 5 License --------- Dutch Tram Set - Trams of The Netherlands for OpenTTD Copyright (C) 2007, 2008, 2011, 2014 Rendall, FooBar and others 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. ---------------------- 7 Obtaining the source ---------------------- The source code can be obtained from the #openttdcoop DevZone at http://dev.openttdcoop.org/projects/dutchtramset or via mercurial checkout hg clone http://hg.openttdcoop.org/dutchtramset How to build from source and the requirements for that are included with the source in the file /docs/building_from_source.txt.