## Planeset

#### A complete aircraft replacement for TTDPatch

#### Co-operative development by TT-Forums members

#### October 24, 2006

#### Official release; version 1.5.3

### What is the "Planeset"?

The Planeset is the first comprehensive TTDPatch airplane set available. It is designed as a complete replacement for the original Transport Tycoon Deluxe airplanes. Its aim is to offer more diverse selection of airplanes compared to original TTD airplanes; to give a unique graphical look for them; and to offer more real-world airplane running specifications. Original Transport Tycoon had real names for the airplanes, but for some reason they were "mutilated" for TTD. For instance "Boeing 727" became "Darwin 100", "Lockheed Tristar" became "Guru Galaxy" and so on. The planes in Planeset have the correct names. All operational parameters such as passenger/mail capacities and running costs reflect the actual aircraft better without such anomalies such as A300 with passenger capacity equal to B777 and higher than the A330.

With the Planeset, you should always have an appropiate airplane available for any air route you decide to run. However, the number of planes allowed is limited by TTD to 41 planes, so don't lose your head if your favourite airplane isn't included in the set.

### Who is responsible for the "Planeset"?

The Planeset was developed by some members of the Transport Tycoon Forums (administered by Owen Rudge) with interest towards getting proper airplanes for TTDPatch. On some parts it might include some elements previously developed by others. If you believe your work has been used and you are not properly credited, please post your concern in the forum for immediate attention. Second-hand complaints will be disregarded; specific complaints with evidence will be rectified as soon as possible. Please bear in mind that the TTD vehicle sprites are very small, and as such there is unavoidable similarity between similar vehicles. The original TTD sprites have been used as the basis of the work to retain similarity in graphical style when compared to original TTD airplanes.

If you wish to comment on the released set or if you want to contribute to further development, use the "Planeset (official topic)" thread located on the Forums.

### What climates can you run it on?

Temperate, Arctic and Tropical. It's mainly tested under Temperate so if you find something really weird in Arctic or Tropical, report.

Files included in the package

- planesetw.grf - The Planeset graphic file.
- readme.html - This info and documentation file.

### Installation

1. The Planeset is developed to run with latest TTDPatch beta version. This release has been tested using 2.5 beta 5. Please obtain the latest TTDPatch beta version to make sure Planeset works properly for you.
2. Copy the "planesetw.grf" file to the "newgrf" directory in your TTD main dir. (TTD[Patch] DOS users: In this and the next step, remove the 'w' from planesetw.grf and newgrfw.cfg.)
3. Add the entry "newgrf/planesetw.grf" to your "newgrfw.cfg" file.
   The PlaneSet optionally takes a single parameter, which behaves as a bitswitch. Add up the value entries for the items you want to enable, and place the resultant number at the end of that line. The default value is 0.

   Bit # | Value | Meaning
   --- | --- | ---
   0 | 1 | Force purchase-date for all livery selections (Some livery changes (the ones that are visually almost identical) use last-service-date for selection by default.)
   1 | 2 | Disable Russian livery names for Russian planes (Regardless of this setting, Russian names will not appear if the Cryllic glyphs are not loaded).
   2 | 4 | Disable the CC liveries where valid original liveries exist.
   3 | 8 | Disable the original liveries.

   It is an error to set both bits 2 and 3.
4. Make sure that you have "newplanes on" set in the "ttdpatch.cfg" file.
5. To set plane speeds relative to other TTD vehicle ground speeds, edit the "ttdpatch.cfg" file. Set "planespeed n" where n is 1, 2, 3 or 4. Running costs are dependent on speed of plane with factors 1.0-1.6-1.8-2.0 for planespeeds 1-2-3-4. Do NOT use setting "planespeed off"!
6. The Planeset replaces all planes in the game. It can not be used with any other replacement graphic set that alters airplanes in any way unless that graphics file is especially designed to replace specific planes of Planeset.
7. This version of Planeset DOES NOT work with OpenTTD (as of version 0.4.8). A version called "Planeset - The 459 Remix" with slightly different vehicles is designed especially for OpenTTD 0.4.8 operation. Thanks to mart3p, peter1138, and richk67, both the OpenTTD nightlies and the MiniIN properly support OpenTTD, as of revision 6912.

### How is the Planeset built?

The Planeset is built from planesetw.nfo and planesetw.pcx file using Josef Drexler's GRFCodec program. These are no longer distributed, as they contain absolutely nothing interesting; produce them by decoding planesetw.grf file and (optionally) running the nfo through NFORenum's beautifier. The PCX will have the right palette. The PCX file is manipulated with i.Mage 0.98 and/or The GIMP and the NFO file is manipulated with a high-tech program known as Windows Notepad! The NFO file requires some understanding how it works, TTDPatch NFO Foundations (link below) and the NFO file are the best documentation for you.

Back when 459 coded things, the PCX and NFO files were first-class development references for those who wanted to learn drawing and coding. When DaleStan took over he stripped the comments in the process of reordering the file in a way that did not make him go completely insane. Between grfcodec's quoted string support and NFORenum's code beautifier many of the comments became unnecessary anyway.

### I want to draw new graphics or liveries to the set. What should I do?

I: You need an appropiate drawing program. Some programs that were used in Planeset graphical development are i.Mage, The GIMP, SpriteEdit, and Windows Paint. Use whichever program(s) work best for you, but be warned that Windows Paint can easily produce a file with an invalid palette (see II).

II: The right palette and color depth. In i.Mage the ttdwin.pal can be loaded and it works but I recommend the following for beginners: just open the planesetw.pcx and all the planes currently in set pop right in front of your eyes in the form they exist when they are coded for a release of Planeset with the right palette! Especially with other programs, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EXACTLY THE RIGHT COLOR FORMAT AND PALETTE which is PNG or PCX with 8-bit indexed palette as in ttdwin.pal or planesetw.pcx. Failure to use proper palette will cause your work to be less useful: Indexed palette color numbers and order are also meaningful in addition to the RGB values since they define which colors are "magic colors" and which are not.

III: With patience, start to draw. The way you'll learn drawing is trial-and-error. At the Forums there is an explanation how palette colors work. There are many "magic colors" in the palette that are more than just a color in a picture. For instance there is the "magic company color blue" (color #198-205) that identifies your vehicle in the game from your competitor and the blue color #0 you see around every plane that stands for transparency. Don't misuse magic colors!

For new liveries, please avoid changing the shape of existing plane. You can use all existing work for reference and "drawing wires" technique will prove valuable in drawing wing shapes.

### I want to code a plane. What should I do?

Take a look to TTDPatch NFO Foundations and learn it yourself. There's a walkthrough that can be applied for airplane creation process as well. See the included planesetw.nfo file for reference how different planes are coded.

### Known bugs and glitches

- None currently

### Further development plans include the following

- A version that has real-world derived airplane liveries for all airplanes. However, with real-world liveries you can't differentiate between different companies' planes midair. The company color set is desirable for optimal multiplayer experience.
- A version with two-CC support. Currently, only one color exists on each plane. However, the regional/express/freight/chopper distinction can still be made.
- If somebody from the TTDPatch development team develops a system for TTDPatch that alters running costs for planes depending what they are doing (idling at airport, in holding pattern, flying point-to-point) it will be applied to balance running costs even more.

### Limitations of original game

- You cannot set exact service entry dates for TTD vehicles. You can only set "date of introduction" for a vehicle and the service entry is randomized around that date.
- The absolute maximum amount for airplanes in the set is 41. That's the amount of planes that were present in TTD originally. It's technically impossible to include more planes.

### History of official releases

- 27/Jun/06: 1.5.3 - Update release. A TTDPatch bug was been fixed, so the workaround had to be removed.
- 27/Jun/06: 1.5.2 - Bugfix release.
- 22/Jun/06: 1.5.1 - Bugfix release. Fixed two broken real-sprites.
- 22/Jun/06: 1.5 - Update release. Changes from 1.2 include many real-world liveries, removing the flashing red from some Chinook sprites.
- 30/Mar/06: 1.2 - Bugfix release. Changes from 1.1 include fixed sprite selection for the Chinook and 747s.
- 18/Feb/06: 1.1 - Update release. Changes from 1.0 include: newcargos support, early retirement, a few new sprites (Chinook), zeppelins take off silently. The full changelog is here.
- xx/Aug/05: 1.0 - Initial release. Changes from 3/Aug/05 BETA include ATR72, Bombardier CRJ-700, Embraer ERJ-145 and Fokker F-27 replacing Sikorsky S-58, Canadair CRJ-100, Ford 5-AT Trimotor and DHC Dash 8-100. Running costs raised and made speed-dependent.

### History of beta releases

- 18/Aug/04: Initial release.
- 20/Aug/04: Fixed documentation slightly.
- 25/Aug/04: Fixed some bugs and graphical glitches found in playtest, lowered running costs for slow planes and lowered mail capacities for certain planes.
- 4/Sep/04: Fixed a small bug causing error message to appear with latest TTDPatch alpha 35.
- 14/Sep/04: Added Boeing 7E7 (787) and redone the pricing scheme for airplanes.
- 3/Nov/04: Added load/unload rates and decay rates for airplanes.
- 15/Nov/04: Added airships.
- 25/Jan/05: Added S-58, lowered load/unload speeds for Zeppelins.
- 27/Feb/05: Added An-124 and Chinook, added airport type indicators for each aircraft, added WIP brief description list of all planes.
- 3/May/05: Added Osprey, modified GFX for airships, 747's and An-124.
- 2/Aug/05: Added S330, tweaked plane parameters (757 can be operated from small airport and other minor tweaks). This will be the last BETA release before the official release version!
- 3/Aug/05: This was the last BETA. Edited graphics for CRJ100, A380 and Saab 2000.

### Credits

The Planeset is a result of joint development effort with work of many people. It is entirely nonprofit. Permission is given to reproduce or redistribute it in its entirety according to the terms of the GNU Public Licence. The work of Planeset can be freely used as reference material as long as "The Planeset development team" is mentioned as source.

### The Planeset development team (with their respective forum usernames):

- krtaylor - co-ordination, adminstration, homepages and original plane specification list
- 459 - graphics, lead coder (v1.0 and earlier), playtesting, plane specifications and beta/release builds
- DaleStan - coding of advanced features (v1.0 and earlier), lead coder (since v1.1)
- zero1000 - graphics, coding and early test versions
- Dinges - graphics, coding and early test versions
- scottishasttdx - graphics
- CyberBoy - graphics
- way2good - graphics
- RPharazon - graphics
- mdhowe - graphics
- Jezulkim - graphics
- Spaceball - graphics
- Aydan - graphics
- Grigory1 - graphics

### Links

Planeset homepage
TT-Forums official Planeset thread
TTDPatch site
i.Mage site
The GIMP site
TTDPatch NFO Foundations