NewShips



A new Ship Set for TTDPatch

by Michael Blunck

June 2003

What is the NewShips set?

Itīs a collection of new ship and vessel models for Transport Tycoon (de Luxe) working under TTDPatch. These ships are usable in all three major climates (temperate, arctic, sub-tropical).

The new ship graphics were already part of TTDPatch 1.9 and have been enhanced during the following alpha patchesī season.


Why a NewShips set?

The new ships were the first new vehicles for TTDPatch because the existing ship and vessel models in Transport Tycoon were most mediocre of all the existing vehicles with respect to design and operating efficiency. In particular, there was only a single model for all existing dry goods including such different cargo as mail and livestock.

Instead, the new ships have a greater variety, they are better suited to the available cargo and look better than the original ones. In addition, most of them are animated while theyīre being loaded or unloaded.


How to install the NewShips set?

Preliminaries

The NewShips set comes in a DOS and in a Windows version ("newships.grf" resp. "newshipsw.grf"). Just copy the appropriate NewShips grf file into the "newgrf" directory under your TTD main directory and add the entry "newgrf/newships.grf" resp. "newgrf/newshipsw.grf" to your "newgrf.cfg" resp. "newgrfw.cfg" file.

Donīt forget to delete the old entries in "newgrf[w].cfg". E.g. if you had

newgrf/bulkfrg[w].grf
newgrf/carcarr[w].grf
newgrf/contshp[w].grf
newgrf/gcv[w].grf
newgrf/lngtank[w].grf
newgrf/lstockc[w].grf
newgrf/oiltank[w].grf
newgrf/passln[w].grf
newgrf/pcgoodc[w].grf
newgrf/reefer[w].grf

in your former "newgrf.txt" delete them all!. From now on youīll only need one entry: "newgrf/newships.grf" resp. "newgrf/newshipsw.grf". Because the old NewShips grf files cannot be used with TTDPatch 2.0, you should delete them too.

Youīll need TTDPatch version 2.0 (or higher) to run the NewShips set.

The actual version of the NewShips Set is 0.4 (Grf-ID is 6D 62 00 04).

Variables to set in ttdpatch.cfg

You need to set following variables in your "ttdpatch.cfg" file:



What Ships and vessels make up the NewShips set?

Unfortunately, TTD can handle only 11 ships/vessels. This is a "hard limit" which cannot be modified even by TTDPatch. However, I managed to get slightly more ship models into the NewShips set by using some tricks:

Veh-ID Name Year Capacity Cargo1 Speed [km/h]
00 'RSV' Tanker 1928 300.000 litres Crude Oil
Goods (chemical Products)
33
01 'Mitsumi' LNG Tanker 1981 450.000 litres Crude Oil 40
02 'Fincantieri' Ferry2 1926 100 Passengers 35
03 'Brown' Passenger Liner 1986 500 Passengers 53
04 'Hovercraft' Passenger Ferry2 1967 100 Passengers 112
05 'Harland' Reefer 3 1968 280 tons Fruit
Food
40
'Daewoo' Car Carrier 4 1980 500 crates Goods (Cars) 38
06 'Meyer' Livestock Carrier 1972 360 Livestock 38
07 'Austin&Pickersgill' Cargo Vessel 1926 190 tons all Cargo
except Passengers and Mail
33
08 'Kværner' Bulk Carrier 1961 360 tons Grain
Coal
Iron ore
Copper ore
37
09 'Flender' Container Carrier 1971 450 crates Goods (in containers)
refrigerated (Fruit, Food)
40
0A 'Astander' Piece Goods Carrier 1962 360 tons Wood
Steel
Goods (Plywood)
Paper
Rubber
37
1 by refitting, depending on climate, 2 original ships, 3 arctic and sub-tropical, 4 temperate climate only


Copyright Notice

NewShips Set - © 2003 Michael Blunck - All Rights Reserved.

Permission to use, copy and distribute this software (consisting of the graphics and its implementation code) and its documentation for non-commercial purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the following four paragraphs appear in all copies and distributions. Contact the above Copyright holder for commercial licensing opportunities.

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Acknowledgements

The availability of new vehicles was only 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 TTDPatch.


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