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TT Meet 2012

2012-05-27T21:46:11Z

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{{TT Meet}}
==Introduction==
The 2012 UK Transport Tycoon Forums meet is planned to take place in '''Crewe''' on the 25th August. The exact plan is still to be finalised, but is likely to involve time in a pub and potentially a visit to the Crewe Heritage Centre. See below for further details on the venue, activities, and getting around Crewe.

As with previous years, we will not be able to accept responsibility for under-18s at the meet, so we respectfully ask that you do not attend if you are under 18 unless you are accompanied by a parent or guardian. As our initial venue is a public house, please be aware that '''entrance or service may be refused to under-18s'''. If this happens, I'm afraid we can't do anything to help you out.

==Attendance==
===I'm coming!===
''Post your name/nick here if you're coming.
* [[User:Orudge|orudge]] 12:58, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
* [[User:Geo Ghost|Geo Ghost]] 13:13, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
* Lankku 14:54, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
* JamieLei

===I'm pretty sure I'm coming!===
''If you're not that sure whether or not you'll be able to make it, but you want to make the effort, post your name/nick here''

* [[User:Dave W|Dave W]] 14:15, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
*[[User:Chrill|Chrill]] 00:42, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
*[[User:47407|47407]] 07:48, 26 April 2012 (UTC) - ''Recategorised from "Not attending"... It depends on if I remember :P''
*[[User:GoneWacko|GoneWacko]] 12:05, 1 May 2012 (UTC) - Really depends on who else is coming. But considering it's Crewe the chances are slim.
*[[User:Bwong|Bwong]] 13:16, 2 May 2012 (UTC) - Depends on whether or not my plane gets delayed.... woot
*[[User:LaSeandre|LaSeandre]] 04:28, 12 May 2012 (UTC) - Maaaaaayyyyyyybeeeeeeee, depends on cheap train/bus tickets.
* [[User:Born Acorn|Born Acorn]] 00:04, 18 May 2012 (UTC) : Tis like 30 mins in a car. Or Taxi. Not decided yet.
* [[User:Jonty-comp|Jonty-comp]] 21:46, 27 May 2012 (UTC) - Might as well, beats sitting in Chesterfield having to put up with my parents. By this point I will be terribly homesick of nerds and students.

===Cannot attend===
''If you previously thought you were going to be able to attend, but now can't, post your name/nick here''
*[[User:SkeedR|SkeedR]] 17:48, 29 April 2012 (GMT) (will be in Watchet, Somerset)
''If you are cursing your employer by failing to get a pay raise to go to the meet, post your name/nick here''
*-

==Travelling==

Let us know how and when you're getting to the meet. This way, we will be able to know when people are arriving, and can let people know if they're likely to be travelling together or meeting each other at a station. Please try to keep all entries in time order!

===There===
* [[User:orudge|orudge]] - Probably driving down to North Wales and then getting to Crewe on the way via some means or other
* [[User:GeoGhost|Geo Ghost]] - Train from Stevenage via London. Shall post times when tickets are available.
* Lankku - Train from Loughborough, changing at Derby
* Dave W - Will travel on the morning. Only takes about an hour.
* Jamie - From Birmingham Noo Street on the day.
* 47407 - East Croydon - MKC/Watford Jn, then onwards to Crewe

===Back===

* [[User:orudge|orudge]] - The opposite of the way I came down
* [[User:GeoGhost|Geo Ghost]] - Train back to Stevenage via London. Shall post times when tickets are available.
* Lankku - Train to Loughborough, changing at Derby
* Dave W - Travelling back to the Midlands on the day
* Jamie - Back to Birmingham Noo Street on the day.
* 47407 - Reverse of before

===Travel around Crewe===

The initial venue for the meet is still to be decided, but is likely to be a pub.

We may move away from the pub later in the day, so if you think you're going to be arriving later than, say, 1pm, please let Owen know and he can try to update you on our location later in the day.

TODO

==Overnight in Crewe==
The following people will be staying in or near Crewe over the weekend:

* Nobody

==Activities==

=== Socialising! ===

The main focus of the meet is to get to know each other, enjoy a few pints, eat burgers, and have a laugh! While you're welcome to bring your laptop to play a game of OpenTTD or similar, you'll probably find that most people won't have gone to the trouble of doing so.

=== Quiz ===

Owen is pondering rustling up a little quiz for you all, to see just how much you know about the forums and the game! Well, that was supposedly going to happen last year... maybe this year instead.

=== Crewe Heritage Centre ===

It has a miniature railway. Nuff said. Plus a variety of other interesting things. [http://www.creweheritagecentre.co.uk/ Check their web site for more information.]

More importantly it has the only preserved simulated working lever frame in the country! [[User:Lordmwa|Lordmwa]] 16:18, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
Oh no it isnt! The Lavender Line has a working signal from a frame :) [[User:47407|47407]] 11:42, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

=== Trading and Bartering ===

Lankuu will be buying Jamie a doughnut that he owes since the London meet. Or possibly the other way round...

=== Screaming Contest ===

'''Contestants''':

Owen's daughter 
Andel's daugher 
Jamie

Winner gets to steal candy from Dave.

==External links==
* [http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=59612 Main discussion thread on TT-Forums]
* [http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=57850 Initial discussion thread on TT-Forums]

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User:Jonty

2011-06-13T10:11:25Z

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Good God, it's that Jonty Sewell again!

[http://www.jontysewell.net/ JontySewell.net] 
[http://www.radio.warwick.ac.uk/ Radio Warwick] (I run all the technical things here, don't you know)

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2011-06-13T10:10:36Z

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Good God, it's that Jonty Sewell again!

[http://www.jontysewell.net/ JontySewell.net] 
[http://www.radio.warwick.ac.uk/ Radio Warwick] (I run all the technical things here, don't you know)

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EnhanceTunnels

2006-01-10T19:54:29Z

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'''''Allows train tracks to be built over tunnel entrances'''''

=EnhanceTunnels=

Allows straight train tracks to be built over tunnel entrances

'''2.0.1 alpha 69 or later'''

-=Switch=-

Configuration file: enhancetunnels on|off

Command line: N/A

-=Description=-

With this switch on, straight train tracks can be built over tunnel entrances creating so called "tunnel bridges" (90° angle from the tunnel entrance).

{picture file=img/wiki_up//screenie1.png}

-=Bugs=-

PBS can't reserve properly a tunnel bridge, this means you need atleast one rail pice between PBS signals and a tunnel bridge.

'''Massive graphical glitches''' that are not expected to be fixed until the new graphical subsystem is implemented sometime after the next stable release.

Currently the sign cheat "tracks" will not convert tunnelbridges and is not safe to use!

This feature was contributed by Oskar Eisemuth.

EnhanceTunnels

2005-12-30T09:54:42Z

Jonty-comp:

'''''Allows train tracks to be built over tunnel entrances'''''

=Enhanced Tunnels=

Allows straight train tracks to be built over tunnel entrances

'''2.0.1 alpha 69 or later'''

-=Switch=-

Configuration file: enhancedtunnels on|off

Command line: -??

-=Description=-

With this switch on, straight train tracks can be built over tunnel entrances, on a 90° angle from the tunnel.  At the time of writing, however, there are massive graphical glitches that are not expected to be fixed until the new graphical subsystem is implemented sometime after the next stable release.  An example of this is shown below:

{picture file=img/wiki_up//screenie1.png}

The train shown has two carriages, but the one at the rear cannot be seen properly.  This is to do with the tunnel graphics handling and is unfixable without lots of coding.

This feature was contributed by Oskar Eisemuth.

ChrisSawyer

2005-12-30T09:43:47Z

Jonty-comp:

'''''A small profile of the Genius that is Chris Sawyer'''''

Chris Sawyer

'''Creator of the 'Tycoon' games'''

-=Who is he?=-

''Taken from [http://www.chrissawyer.com|www.chrissawyer.com]''

Chris Sawyer is an independent game developer based in Scotland, specializing in constructional / strategic / simulation style PC games.

Chris entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the Memotech MTX home computer, and then the Amstrad CPC series home computer.

From 1988 to 1993, Chris specialized in PC conversions of Amiga games, and was involved in many well-known projects, including Virus (1989), Campaign (1992), Birds of Prey (1992), Dino Dini's Goal (1993), and Frontier Elite 2 (1993).

-=The games=-

''Also taken from chrissawyer.com, but edited to include more focus on TTD''

Since 1993, Chris has been developing original games on the PC, the first of which was Transport Tycoon, released through Microprose in 1994.  It run on DOS and was a smash hit, and soon Chris made a World Editor that allowed you to make your own maps and scenarios for TT and also introduced a Mars landscape expansion.

Not long afterwards, he expanded the idea and released Transport Tycoon Deluxe, that added three more climates: ))Sub-Arctic[[]]Sub-Arctic[[, Tropical and Toyland.  This was an even bigger hit than the original, partly because a Windows version was made.

Chris's second big project was ))RollerCoaster[[]]RollerCoaster[[ Tycoon, released through Hasbro Interactive early in 1999, followed by two add-on packs Added Attractions / Corkscrew Follies in late 1999 and Loopy Landscapes in September 2000. ))RollerCoaster Tycoon

NewHouses

2005-12-22T09:46:03Z

Jonty-comp:

'''''Enable new Town buildings'''''

=NewHouses=

Enables the use of more Town buldings than the default as defined by a GRF file.

'''2.0.1 alpha 34 or later'''

-=Switch=-

Configuration file: newhouses on|off

-=Description=-

This switch allows the creation of more Town buildings than Transport Tycoon originally allowed.  Before this switch was implemented, if a Graphics author wanted to change the appearance of Town buildings, they would have to overwrite the graphics already in use with their custom graphics.  Since this switch was implemented, however, graphics authors can now add more buildings, instead of replacing the ones already exsisting.  This means that there can be a much greater variety of buildings in Towns and Cities, and the game does not seem so repetitive.

This feature was contributed by Csaba Varga.

StationDrawingTutorial

2005-12-15T18:21:18Z

Jonty-comp:

'''''How to draw new stations for TTDPatch'''''

=How to draw Station graphics=

'''Originally by Cornelius of TT-forums, edited and put on Wiki by Jonty'''

A station tile will always comprise of at least three sprites: the track base, the 'background' and the 'foreground' (fig. A).

{picture file=img/wiki_up//StationTutorialFigA.PNG}

These three elements are layered together on the tile so that the background covers the tile, the train runs over the background and the tile, and the foreground covers everything (fig. B).

{picture file=img/wiki_up//StationTutorialFigB.PNG}

While you could present a station graphic to be coded with the foreground and background on the same sprite (fig. C) this will only make life harder for the coder as they will have to seperate the two in order to do their coding magic.

{picture file=img/wiki_up//StationTutorialFigC.PNG}

So for each type of tile in a station you need at least two seperate sprites for the foreground and the background.

---

'''Now we've got that out of the way, here's a tutorial on how to actually draw the sprites:'''

1. Start by drawing the base of the background sprite in the shape that you want.  For instance, in passenger stations, the platform is a few feet off the ground so that people can get on the train without climbing a ladder up to the carriage floor.  On the other hand, in goods stations, the platform may be lower, or on the ground.  In a wood loading station there's not likely going to be a platform, just muddy ground.

2. Then, add texture to your platform by using a Pixel Randomiser (a feature in good drawing applications where you select a group of colours and it randomly uses different ones).  If you don't own a top-of-the range drawing application, and just use something like Microsoft Paint, then click random colours and do it that way.

3. Next, decide where the features on your platform are going to be.  It may help to put a black spot where you are going to put lamp posts, and to draw the outline plan of a building before you actually draw it in whole.

4. Now, draw the actual buildings and other things you want to put on the sprite.  Remember that we're still on the background!  If you want to draw something that goes over the whole tile, draw the tower in the background, and the rest in the foreground.  That way, trains will go under it.

5. Then, add texture to the structures, remembering that the light comes from the right in Transport Tycoon.  That means that you have to draw the left side of the buildings in the shade, darker than the right side.

6. Finally, do the same thing for the foreground platform.  If you want to draw a one-sided station, don't do the foreground, or draw some dirt instead.

That's about it!  If you've got this far, post your station in the TTDPatch Graphics section, maybe in the Project Generic Stations thread, and I'm sure someone will code it into the game.

UserPagejonty-comp

2005-12-15T17:38:14Z

Jonty-comp:

'''''Jonty's User page'''''

I'm Jonty, and I'm here to help!

If you want to contact me, check my website at [http://www.tycooninterchange.co.uk.tt|www.tycooninterchange.co.uk.tt]