Itīs a collection of various new train stations for Transport Tycoon deLuxe (TTD) working under TTDPatch. These are usable in all three major climates (temperate, arctic, sub-tropical).
Bit by bit there will be different kinds of stations implemented into this set: "way points" for better path-finding, passenger stations to allow a more variated approach to the needs of villages and cities and freight stations which will be specific with respect to transported cargo.
Version 0.2 implemented way points (class "waypoints") in the form of signal boxes.
Version 0.3 added individually configurable station facilities like platforms, shelters, halls, etc. (class "platforms").
Version 0.4 adds 16 small station buildings (class "small stations") which are not special for a particular vehicle set or country but should be usable for quite different scenarios. There will be more distinctive station buildings e.g. in the European Scenario resp. in the Alpine Climate.
Further versions will offer large city terminals and a collection of freight stations.
For way points there are 4 different buildings available for each of the 5 time periods (1920-, 1940-, 1960-, 1980-, 2000-), i.e. a total of 20 different buildings are implemented at the time being. Please note that way points have a special use in the game and cannot be used as normal stations, e.g. trains never stop at way points.
While way points are used in a single-building layout, passenger stations are intended to be composed in a mostly free form from the available building blocks ("objects") to make the overall stations more variated. To allow this in a most flexible way, this set provides mechanisms for automatic adjustment of building blocks, i.e. you wonīt always exactly get what youīre putting together.
In addition, since alpha 47, itīs possible to "build over" parts of stations.
This is a very useful feature, but take care not to destroy
parts of your stations which are composed by multiple tiles,
i.e. halls, under- and overpasses or platforms.
The NewStations set is available in a DOS ("newstats.grf") and in a Windows version ("newstatsw.grf"). Just copy the appropriate NewStations .grf file into the "newgrf" directory under your TTD main directory and add the entry "newgrf/newstats.grf" resp. "newgrf/newstatsw.grf" to your "newgrf.cfg" resp. "newgrfw.cfg" file.
Youīll need TTDPatch version 2.0.1 alpha 58 (or higher) to run the NewStations set.
The actual version of the NewStations Set is 0.44 (grf-ID is 6D 62 06 00)
and itīs of December 27th, 2005.
The actual glass colour has been set to a green tint, however that doesnīt look good with every player colour possible. In case you donīt like the glass colour in conjunction with a special player colour or you donīt like the tinted glass feature at all you may pass a parameter to revert to the original "dirty" glass colour.
Youīll need to set following variables in your "ttdpatch.cfg" file:
NewStations v0.4 implements way point stations, platforms and small station buildings.
To choose between the different classes ("waypoints", "platforms", "station") use the top pull-down menu in the station building window. To choose between different objects of a class use the lower menu.
All available objects are listed in the table below.
For more information and progress of the project you may check the Patagonia pages.
Class | Station ID | Type | Year | Number of platforms | Platform length | Cargo animation | remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
way points | 00 | Signal-box | 1920- | 1 - 7 | 1 | no | non-stop |
01 | |||||||
02 | |||||||
03 | Signal-box (gantry-style) | ||||||
platforms | 04 | Roofs | n/a | 1 - 7 | yes | ||
05 | Platforms | 2 - 7 | |||||
06 | Benches | 1 - 7 | |||||
07 | Car park (front) | 1950 | Cars only on edge, else roofs | ||||
08 | Car park (back) | ||||||
09 | Flat roofs | 1960 | 2 - 7 | Underpass for lengths > 3 | |||
0A | Glass roofs | 1980 | Underpass for lengths > 3, tinted glass | ||||
0B | Bridge | n/a | 1 - 7 | 1 | no | ||
0C | Hall (small) | 1 - 4 | 1 - 7 | yes | |||
0D | Hall (large) | 2, 4 | |||||
0E | Underpass | 2 - 7 | 1 | no | |||
0F | Free | 1 - 7 | 1 - 7 | ||||
10 | Void | ||||||
small stations | 11 | St. Andrae1 | 1920 | 2 | 1 | no | |
12 | le Brassus | ||||||
13 | Kritzendorf | ||||||
14 | Vacha | ||||||
15 | Whitehorse | 2 | |||||
16 | Leba | ||||||
17 | Schaan | ||||||
18 | Forbach | ||||||
19 | Stenar | 1930 | |||||
1A | Sitges | ||||||
1B | Taucha | 1940 | |||||
1C | Nottingham | 3 | |||||
1D | Montelusa | 1950 | |||||
1E | Olten | 1960 | 2 | ||||
1F | Kufstein | 1970 | |||||
20 | Buir | 1980 | |||||
21 | AI station stub | 1920 | 1 - 2 | 2 - 3 | yes | n/a for human player | |
non-track tiles | 22 | buffer stop (down) | n/a | 1 | 1 | no | |
23 | buffer stop (up) | ||||||
24 | empty platform | ||||||
25 | St. Andrae | 1920 | n/a | ||||
26 | le Brassus | ||||||
27 | Kritzendorf | ||||||
28 | Vacha | ||||||
29 | Whitehorse | ||||||
2A | Leba | ||||||
2B | Schaan | ||||||
2C | Forbach | ||||||
2D | Stenar | 1930 | |||||
2E | Sitges | ||||||
2F | Taucha | 1940 | |||||
30 | Nottingham | ||||||
31 | Montelusa | 1950 | |||||
32 | Olten | 1960 | |||||
33 | Kufstein | 1970 | |||||
34 | Buir | 1980 |
The NewStations set allows composing railway stations from pre-defined building blocks (objects) of the same or even different classes. The "platform" class introduced in v0.3 containing various non-station building objects like generic platforms, over- and underpasses, shelter, car parks, halls, etc. is intended to be used for passenger stations.
Most of its objects of this class are animated and provide a mechanism for automatic adjustment with regard to neighbour objects depending on the overall layout of the station.
It is strongly recommended to built up stations with smaller building blocks using whichever objects fit best. This will increase realism: Itīs better to have many different objects making up a station than to use the same element for all of its tracks. For a better understanding of the various possibilities the process of station building is illustrated here.
Using the new feature of "building over" station objects (since a47) will make this task easier and result in even more variation. However, you should avoid to split-up multi-tile objects by overbuilding them only in part which would result in half halls or quarter bridges.
Cargo animation is done on a per-tile basis. However, the total size of the station is considered as well to get a balance between the total amount of cargo available at the station and the number of cargo (passengers) shown for different sized stations. This could result in loosing cargo animation when building a station from too many un-animated tiles or for large stations with small cargo amounts.
None so far.
V0.44 (Dec 27th, 2005)
V0.43 (Dec 23th, 2005)
V0.42 (Sep 5th, 2005)
V0.41 (Jun 5th, 2005)
V0.40 (May 5th, 2005)
V0.30 (Feb 15th, 2005)
V0.20 (Nov 26th, 2004)
V0.10 (Apr 5th, 2004)
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The availability of new stations was only made possible by the outstanding work of
Josef Drexler and
Marcin Grzegorczyk on TTDPatch.
In particular Iīd like to express my gratitude to Josef for the fruitful
collaboration during further developing the TTDPatch.
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