Alpha: 2.0.1 alpha 26 - Higher bridges, Prospecting

Hi all,

Here's the latest alpha version: http://www.ttdpatch.net/src/

Because of changes in the internal graphics format, you have to download 
the new station and canals graphics again, the old files will no longer 
work in alpha 26.  Just go to 
http://server/yoda-pages/Homepage/ttdpatch/newgrf.html#201 and get them there.

Thanks to Oskar's diligence, it's now possible to build bridges that are 
more than one height level above the ground, something that used to be 
firmly planted in the "impossible to do" category.  Well, it's only 
impossible until somebody does it....  To use this feature, set 
"higherbridges on" (-Yh), and just build the bridges as usual.  Note that 
it's still not possible to have crossing bridges, bridges over diagonal 
track, or anything else that used to be impossible.  But they can be higher 
now, finally.

A new contributor to TTDPatch, Marijn (not to be confused with Marcin), has 
improved the "moreindustries" switch.  It now allows you to fund 
prospecting of primary industries such as coal mines.  This is very 
expensive, and with no guarantee of success, in fact, the more industries 
of that type are already on the map, the less likely the prospecting is to 
succeed.  Just open the "Fund Industry" window, and click on a primary 
industry to fund prospecting.

For my part, I've fixed a host of bugs that were present in alpha 25, in 
particular those related to the new station graphics.  Now they no longer 
need "signalsontrafficside on", and neither does the waypoint selection in 
the rail station window apply to other station types.  So it's now safe to 
leave it set to waypoints.

Also, the gamespeed feature now works in the DOS version as well, using the 
same "q", "w" and "e" keys as the Windows version.  Finally, if you have 
"morehotkeys on", the space bar will now cancel news messages in summary 
mode as well (that is those scrolling blue messages in the status bar).

And that's it for today.  Have fun with the new features!

Josef.


All changes in 2.0.1 alpha 26:
- make gamespeed hotkeys work in DOS too
- by Marijn: "moreindustries" now allows funding the prospecting of
   new primary industries, with less chance of success the more
   industries of that type there are
- by Oskar: "higherbridges" or -Yh allows building bridges more than
   one height level high
- fixed bug with station waypoint selection being applied to other
   station types as well
- fixed bug requiring signalsontrafficside on for new station
   graphics to work
- fixed bug with removing electrified track from under bridge and
   pylons not being removed as well
- changed meaning of station var 40, and introduced new var 41 which
   gives separate tile information for all individually built
   sections
- changed definition of station prop 09 to allow defining variable
   number of tiles
- added callback 14 for stations to display other tile types
- by Oskar: changed canals to use action 1/2/3 system
- fixed bug with showing wrong error sprite in grf status window
- allow forcing a .grf to activate
- with "morehotkeys on", space bar now cancels summary news messages
   as well
- fixed inverted meaning of miscmods bit 10 (value 1024), without it
   now vehicle names will really be used in news messages; set the
   bit to disable this
- change freighttrains to show "20 tons of coal (x5)" instead of
   multiplied amount
-- 
Josef Drexler ([email protected])
http://publish.uwo.ca/~jdrexler/

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