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Release version: 0.3.6 |
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Table of Contents: |
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1.0) About |
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2.0) Contacting |
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* 2.1 Reporting Bugs |
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3.0) Supported Platforms |
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4.0) Running OpenTTD |
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5.0) OpenTTD features |
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6.0) Configuration File |
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7.0) Compiling |
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8.0) Translating |
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* 8.1 Guidelines |
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* 8.2 Translation |
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* 8.3 Previewing |
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X.X) Credits |
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1.0) About: |
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OpenTTD is a clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, a popular game originally |
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written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely |
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as possible while extending it with new features. |
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2.0) Contacting: |
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The easiest way to contact the OpenTTD team is by submitting bug reports or |
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posting comments in our forums. You can also chat with us on IRC (#openttd |
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on irc.freenode.net). |
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The OpenTTD homepage is http://www.openttd.org/. |
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You can find a forum for OpenTTD at |
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http://www.tt-forums.net/index.php?c=20 |
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2.1) Reporting Bugs: |
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To report a bug, please create a SourceForge account and follow the bugs |
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link from our homepage. Please make sure the bug is reproducible and |
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still occurs in the latest daily build or the current SVN version. Also |
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please look through the existing bug reports briefly to see whether the bug |
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is not already known. |
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The SourceForge project page URL is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openttd/ |
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Click on "Bugs" to see the bug tracker. |
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Please include the following information in your bug report: |
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- OpenTTD version (PLEASE test the latest SVN/daily build) |
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- Bug details, including instructions how to reproduce it |
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- Platform and compiler (Win32, Linux, FreeBSD, ...) |
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- Attach a save game or a screenshot if possible |
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- If this bug only occurred recently please note the last |
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version without the bug and the first version including |
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the bug. That way we can fix it quicker by looking at the |
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changes made. |
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3.0) Supported Platforms: |
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OpenTTD has been ported to several platforms and operating systems. It shouldn't |
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be very difficult to port it to a new platform. The currently working platforms |
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Windows - Win32 GDI (faster) or SDL |
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Linux - SDL |
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FreeBSD - SDL |
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MacOS - SDL |
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BeOS - SDL |
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MorphOS - SDL |
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4.0) Running OpenTTD: |
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Before you run OpenTTD, you need to put the game's datafiles into the data/ |
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subdirectory. You need the following files from the original version |
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of TTD as OpenTTD makes use of the original TTD artwork. |
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List of the required files: |
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sample.cat |
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trg1r.grf |
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trgcr.grf |
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(Alternatively you can use the TTD GRF files from the DOS version: TRG1.GRF, |
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TRGC.GRF, TRGH.GRF, TRGI.GRF, TRGT.GRF. A few minor graphical glitches with |
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the DOS graphics remain. E.g. the autorail button in the rail toolbar doesn't |
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look as nice as with the Windows graphics.) |
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If you want music you need to copy the gm/ folder from Windows TTD into your |
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OpenTTD folder, not your data folder. |
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You can change the data path (which contains savegames as well) in Makefile.config |
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5.0) OpenTTD features: |
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OpenTTD has a lot of features going beyond the original TTD emulation. |
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Currently there is unfortunately no comprehensive list of features. You could |
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check the features list on the web, and some optional features can be |
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controlled through the Configure patches dialog. We also implement some |
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features known from TTDPatch (http://www.ttdpatch.net/). |
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Several important non-standard controls: |
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* Use Ctrl to place presignals |
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* Ctrl-d toggles double mode on win32 |
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* Ingame console. More information at http://wiki.openttd.org/index.php/OpenTTDDevBlackBook |
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6.0) Configuration File: |
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The configuration file for OpenTTD (openttd.cfg) is in a simple windows-like |
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.INI format. It's mostly undocumented. |
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7.0) Compiling: |
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Windows: |
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You need Microsoft Visual Studio 6 or .NET. Open the project file |
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and it should build automatically. In case you don't build with SDL, |
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you need to remove WITH_SDL from the project settings. |
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(see also docs/Readme_Windows_MSVC6.0.txt) |
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You can also build it using the Makefile with MSys/MingW or Cygwin/MingW. |
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Please read the Makefile for more information. |
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Unix: |
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OpenTTD can be built with GNU "make". On non-GNU systems it's called "gmake". |
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Note that you need SDL-devel 1.2.5 (or higher) to compile OpenTTD. |
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8.0) Translating: |
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See http://www.openttd.org/translating.php for up-to-date information. |
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The use of the online Translator service, located at http://translator.openttd.org. |
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For a username password combo you should contact the development team, either by mail, irc |
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or the forums. The system is straight-forward to use, if you have any troubles, read the |
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online help located there. |
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If for some reason the website is down for a longer period of time, the information below |
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8.1) Guidelines: |
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Here are some translation guidelines which you should follow closely. |
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* Please contact the development team before begining the translation process! |
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This avoids double work, as someone else may have already started translating to the same language. |
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* Translators must use the charater set ISO 8859-15. |
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Otherwise, some characters will not display correctly in the game. |
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So, now that you've notified the development team about your intention to translate |
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(You did, right? Of course you did.) you can pick up english.txt (found in the SVN repository |
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under /lang) and translate. |
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You must change the first two lines of the file appropriately: |
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##name English-Name-Of-Language |
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##ownname Native-Name-Of-Language |
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In order to view the translation in the game, you need to compile your language file |
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with the strgen utility, which is now bundled with the game. |
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strgen is a command-line utility. It takes the language filename as parameter. |
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This results in compiling german.txt and produces another file named german.lng. |
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Any missing strings are replaced with the english strings. Note that it looks for english.txt |
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in the lang subdirectory, which is where your language file should also be. |
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X.X) Credits: |
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The OpenTTD team (in alphabetical order): |
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Bjarni Corfitzen (Bjarni) - MacOS port |
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Victor Fischer (Celestar) - Programming everywhere you need him to |
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Tamas Faragó (Darkvater) - Lead programmer |
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Dominik Scherer (dominik81) - Lead programmer |
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Kerekes Miham (MiHaMiX) - Maintainer of translator service, and host of nightlies |
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Owen Rudge (orudge) - Contributor, forum host, masterserver host |
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Christoph Mallon (Tron) - Programmer, code correctness police |
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Patric Stout (TrueLight) - Programmer, network guru, SVN-repository and website host |
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Retired Developers: |
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Ludvig Strigeus (ludde) - OpenTTD author, main coder (0.1 - 0.3.3) |
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Serge Paquet (vurlix) - Assistant project manager, coder (0.1 - 0.3.3) |
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Thanks to: |
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Josef Drexler - For his great work on TTDPatch. |
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Marcin Grzegorczyk - For his TTDPatch work and documentation of TTD internals and graphics (signals and track foundations) |
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blathijs - For his many patches, suggestions and major work on maprewrite |
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pasky - Many patches, newgrf support, etc. |
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Stefan Meißner (sign_de) - For his work on the console |
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Mike Ragsdale - OpenTTD installer |
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Cian Duffy (MYOB) - BeOS port / manual writing |
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Christian Rosentreter (tokaiz) - MorphOS / AmigaOS port |
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Michael Blunck - For revolutionizing TTD with awesome graphics |
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George - Canal graphics |
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All Translators - For their support to make OpenTTD a truly international game |
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Bug Reporters - Thanks for all bug reports |
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Chris Sawyer - For an amazing game! |