BR Extended Train Set

A UK Train Set addon (newGRF) for OpenTTD, featuring UK rail (train and tram) rolling stock from the entire history of the British Railway Network.

This is an 4x zoom, 32bpp, extra-long train set, designed with a focus on real-world consists and liveries first, and aim to be able to recreate the UK rail network in game.

Main Goals

• Extra length, 4x zoom, 32bpp train set with comprehensive unit selection across the ages (1850-modern day) (early versions may not support the entire age)
• Speed options (operation VS potential/achieved speeds)
• Customizable multiple unit consists

Potentially...

• 2CC Unit variants
• Unit bonuses (Passengers in express vehicles pay more)
• Coupling restrictions options (Brake vans, MU working)

Tracking table

To track vehicles planned, current progress and other statistics, please refer to the following spreadsheet. Correcting or providing additional information and diagrams for tracked or new vehicles are welcome. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RACfDDpuTNXPyaUC5tNg7-STm_maQqCuw_r31gAB8eU/edit?usp=sharing

Credits (In no particular order)

Developers

• Su1phur
• TheAbsoluteMadlad

With special thanks to:

• Timberwolf, for creating and providing the Voxel-to-Sprite Toolchain.
• GarlicBread42 and the GETS Team, for their assistance, knowledge and models.
• Audigex and the BRTrainsV2 Team, for without their inspiration and support this set would not have started.
• UnholyPhish for his revamped sound files and documentation used for this and the BRTrainsV2 project.

To Build

Building from the source should be mostly automated using the build.py script, but it has a few requirements:

• Python 3.8+
• nml Python package (available through pip)

To build the grf completely, just run the following command in your terminal:

python build.py --compile brtrainsv2XL

This should first compile the .nml file, then compile that through to a .grf file using nml. Install in the same manner as previously described, copying the generated .grf file into OpenTTD/newGRF.

Note, this method still requires the nml python package to be installed.

To build the grf, and initiate the game with the compiled .grf, run:

python build.py --compile brtrainsv2XL --run 

This moves the compiled .grf to your Documents/OpenTTD/newgrf, then looks for and executes C:/Program Files/OpenTTD/openttd.exe".

You may be prompted to provide a path to any openttd.exe, if one is not located. After being provided, the configured path will be stored in build/build.json. Subsequent executions will be pathed to said stored openttd.exe.

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv2 license See LICENSE for license details