IRC logs for #openttd on OFTC at 2023-04-01
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08:32:20 <dP> andythenorth: do you maybe have any idea what's different about these sprites? I seem to be missing something idk what.
08:32:47 <andythenorth> Wolf01: interesting 🙂
08:32:59 <andythenorth> dP: sorry, more context needed 🙂
08:34:46 <dP> I'm trying to make funding preview but it's a royal pita because newgrfs need industry, so I'm faking one but seem to still be missing something
08:35:09 <dP> vanilla works fine, pirs works fine, but firs seem to still be missing someithning
08:36:09 <dP> some industry tiles work but some don't and I've no idea what's different about them
08:37:11 <andythenorth> is it only the ones with split layouts?
08:37:48 <andythenorth> something is up with the xy offsets there
08:38:31 <andythenorth> some of the tile patterns are correct, but they're transposed to the wrong place in the overall layout
08:41:22 <dP> hm, yeah, maybe I got offsets wrong...
08:44:51 <dP> are patterns relying on same industry flag in var 0x60 ?
08:48:49 <andythenorth> it will all be tile var 0x43
08:56:34 <dP> hm, how did I manage to get that wrong...
09:01:26 <andythenorth> hmm I know it's really niche but
09:01:41 <andythenorth> it would be nice if that was a buy menu toggle
09:01:58 <dP> other than some glitching of out-of-bound sprites
09:02:18 <dP> it wasn't offsets but layout that I got wrong, layouts are offset by 1 in newgrfs...
09:35:32 <dP> needs some overlay to explain wth is going on I guess...
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10:14:42 <Kuhnovic> dP: Is this for CityMania or for OpenTTD?
10:19:31 <dP> yep, new feature for cmclient
12:25:43 <petern> I'm gonna throw that bike away, bloody punctures
12:29:16 <petern> 10589 smells of ulimits on a VPS
12:41:41 <dP> it's a game setting so doesn't really make much sense in the ui
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12:45:46 <petern> A PR could change that
12:46:41 <petern> The bit that exposes it to newgrf would need to go.
13:17:33 <petern> andythenorth: salad eh?
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14:32:37 <Eddi|zuHause> Wolf01: that looks vaguely what i wanted to do in CETS
14:37:16 <Eddi|zuHause> concerning expire: we can introduce a separate "show expired vehicles" toggle in the buy menu, but "vehicles never expire" has side effects that aren't just visual (mainly concerning model reliability)
14:39:33 <dP> Wolf01: oh, just watched this video, I think we discussed something similar with discord_user_f4a0790 as well
14:39:38 <dP> can totally do it like that
14:43:30 <dP> they don't seem to do lighting though...
15:00:09 <andythenorth> Eddi|zuHause: yes, 'show expired' is what I actually want
15:00:42 <andythenorth> anyway, I haven't made a PR 😛
15:00:55 <Eddi|zuHause> should be a "good first issue" :p
15:02:52 <frosch> TrueBrain: did we ever discuss adding a wasm preview to eints?
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15:03:25 <frosch> i wonder whether we can reload a language file without restarting ottd
15:04:06 <TrueBrain> I wouldn't know why not .. does require some changes, but the sky is the limit! 😛
15:29:50 <LordAro> there was some suggestion of getting rid of thr binary format entirely
15:30:00 <LordAro> as obviously GS don't need it
15:35:32 <nielsm> compiling the languages takes a few seconds at most, right? and could be multithreaded too (UK English probably needs to be preprocessed in some way still)
15:36:31 <nielsm> could also do a pre-scanning of the language files to check what languages are available, but only fully load a language on demand
15:37:34 <frosch> english.lng is special because it defines strings.h, and we use numeric keys inside ottd
15:38:15 <frosch> though i guess you would have to compile the STR_x into the binary anyway
15:38:48 <frosch> "STR_x + parameter types" would be some kind of string prototype :p
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15:39:48 <nielsm> the english.lng could perhaps be stuffed into the exe file during compile? and contain the additional data required to load text format language files at runtime
15:42:56 <frosch> hmm, now i am worried translators would fill strings with crap temporarily, to reverse engineer which string is used where
15:43:38 <frosch> if ottd knew the string name we could also have some debug setting to render all strings with their name
15:44:02 <frosch> so buttons would be labeled with "STR_FOO(1, 2, STR_BAR, 4)"
15:44:27 <frosch> probably would not fit on all buttons :p
15:46:40 <Rubidium_> isn't it easier to just generate the appropriate language file for that?
15:49:28 <Rubidium_> I think you can come quite far with a relative simple sed, except for those few strings that have their parameters out-of-order
16:09:35 <Rubidium_> frosch: sed 's/ :[^{]*{/ :{/;s/}[^{]*{/}, {/g;s/}[^}]*$/}/;s/{[PG] [^}]*}//g;s/ :[^{]*$/ :/;s/\(STR[^ ]*\)\( *\):\(.*\)/\1\2:\1(\3)/;s/RAW_STRING}/STRING}/g;s/STRING[1-7]}/STRING}/g' english.txt > debug.txt
16:10:44 <Rubidium_> it's far from perfect, since it doesn't do the right thing with font or colors, so you get some stray commas in the UI
16:11:12 <Rubidium_> a wide screen monitor is advised though
16:14:24 <Rubidium_> interesting question though... why does the town name have STR_BLACK_STRING and most of the others STR_JUST_STRING?
16:22:05 <frosch> maybe because townname can be newgrf supplied
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18:29:30 <petern> Huh, never noticed, oops.
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19:38:59 <TrueBrain> so ... TallTyler , can we expect a release soon? 😄
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19:41:46 <frosch> today would be 1st april. but ofc you can also wait for next week to ruin hellish' family easter 🙂
19:43:05 <Eddi|zuHause> making a release without any RC would be a fun april fools joke :p
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19:46:51 <TrueBrain> We haven't done any RC for a minor release in a while .. so pretty sure that isn't as special as you try to make it 😄
19:47:12 <glx> any bug is reported after the stable release
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21:06:37 <discord_user_f4a0790> dP: Yeah this is similar to my idea
21:08:04 <discord_user_f4a0790> I think my idea was basically having an image of a train with no shading and then having a map to tell where to lighten or shade textures
21:09:04 <discord_user_f4a0790> It would make doing liveries far less fiddly
21:09:31 <discord_user_f4a0790> But it would only really be worth it if you were doing more than 2 liveries
21:09:48 <discord_user_f4a0790> So for me such a feature could be worth it
21:12:06 <discord_user_f4a0790> Essentially what I’m suggesting is that the texture and shine is one image that any colour can be applied to
21:13:49 <discord_user_f4a0790> War thunder has this where they draw the texture of a vehicle with one image and how reflective the texture is with another
21:14:32 <dP> reflections are kind of different thing
21:16:18 <dP> but we could have layered image, first layer is just paletted with the texture map like in the video and second is shading overlay
21:16:40 <dP> so livery colours can be changed on the texture map but shape and shading stays the same
21:22:14 <dP> problem with this approach though is that you don't see the end result when drawing
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21:22:59 <dP> I guess I can make a script that watches file modification and shows combined image on each save
21:23:18 <dP> better than having to compile newgrf at least
21:23:28 <dP> though I can compile on file modification as well xD
21:24:22 <dP> already have plans to eventually make a watch mode that automatically recompiles grf and reload it in the game every time asset is changed
21:25:55 <andythenorth> dP: might go crazy with frequent saves of pngs though
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21:26:23 <dP> well, just don't start compiling until previous one is finished
21:27:16 <dP> also I'll do cache first anyway so recompile should be fasst
21:50:07 <discord_user_f4a0790> dP: Yeah that’s what i was thinking of
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22:20:13 <dP> oh, arctic-tycooners servers have closed...
22:23:42 <Eddi|zuHause> am i going mad? i'm now placing accurately measured hectometer plates next to the tracks
22:24:16 <Eddi|zuHause> well. not perfectly accurate, but roughly
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