Personal Information

Alias: planetmaker

Home: Braunschweig, Germany

Email: ottd[at]planetmaker[dot].de

Started playing TTD: don't know exactly, but it it was still in the nineties TTO

Joined #openttdcoop: autumn 2007, member since 25 April 2008 ("...change that patch setting yourself..." ;) )

Prefers: low to moderate terraform; fluent, well-designed networks and nice eye-candy

Dislikes: congestions. Permanent quick hacks and bypasses

Best at: don't know - probably ML mergers, SLHs and small fixes

Patches, GRFs & other coding work

• GUI overhaul Project site
• worked on the integration of the patch(es) for wwottdgd/2
• Restrict terraform to one tile only (patch option): one-tile-tf for r13397
• Restrict changes of company and manager name as well as company colour on a per-company basis (patch option)
• patch collection:client_patches.diff - modifies client-side only things. Playable with any server (currently on hiatus)
• Maintainer of OpenGFX (download)
• Contributor to 2cc Train Set
• Contributor to FIRS and HEQS (mainly their build systems)

Patches in trunk

• (svn r19898) -Fix [FS#3853]: hg version detection fails for uncommited merges
• (svn r19871) -Fix [FS#3826]: update the landscape buttons in the main menu / newgame window correctly
• (svn r19627) -Fix [OSX]: mark the macports default include directory as a system include directory so our -W flags don't cause warnings on headers in there
• (svn r19626) -Fix: mention libtimidity in ./configure --help
• (svn r19133) -Fix [FS#3621]: [Mac OS X] --enable-desync-debug failed compiling
• (svn r18409) -Change [FS#3349]: Recolour the bubble generator just like any other industry.
• (svn r17768) -Fix (r17715): [OSX] Newer GCC versions don't like jumping over variable definitions with goto's.
• (svn r17704) -Codechange: [OSX] Improve detection of OS X version.
• (svn r17448) -Change [FS#2997]: buy vehicles instead of building them; makes it consistent with selling (based on patch by planetmaker).
• (svn r16979) -Codechange[FS#3066]: Add notion of Ctrl_Click in the tooltip for Loan borrow/repay buttons (planetmaker)
• (svn r16555) -Feature [FS#570]: ability to enter server and company password via command line when joining a server (based on patch by Progman, Ammler and planetmaker)
• (svn r16462) -Change [FS#2930]: use a safer way to detect the hash of a mercurial repository
• (svn r15212) -Feature [FS#2566]: Change the dropdown box where you can chose which edges will be water to 4 pushbuttons (based on patch by planetmaker).
• (svn r14902) -Feature: Advanced setting to keep various building tools active, which are usually closed after placing an object. - (together with Sulai)
• (svn r14805) -Feature [FS#2238]: pressing CTRL while dragging to build a bridge build the last built bridge type if possible (planetmaker)
• (svn r14152) -Fix (r14146): Apple decided to use a name I wanted to use... thus making compilation fail on OSX
• (svn r13501) -Feature(tte): ctrl+click on sign you own to remove it (Osai, planetmaker) - rewritten; original idea and patch by Osai
• (svn r13481) -Codechange: add 'B' keyboard shortcut to build aqueduct (planetmaker) - most voluminous patch ever probably (13 characters overall length: 8 'normal' chars, 3 tabs, 1 space, 1 line feed): SmatZ' commit message probably took five times as long to write.

Personal wishlist & collection of ideas

• Possibility to restart / renew a map without keeping newgrfs (using the current newgrf settings), but reusing exactly the same height profile and town placement and approx. their size. Also keep the unmovable objects and - as bonus as not necessarily possible - the industry placement.
• GUI for rcon
• diagonal terraform
• infrastructure sharing
  • Wiki page on development
  • HG repository for development
  • switch: train control by owner (esp. depots)
  • switch: waypoints block yes/no
• programmable waypoints or signals
• airbrush like tree placement in the scenario editor
• percentage of tree coverage for maps
• variable station size for placement
• disable stockpiling / placement restrictions
• patchsetting for terraform-size on a per-company basis
• rivers generated upon map creation (WIP)
• more than one dock per station
• give money per company and not per player
• nested train groups:
  • coal trains
    • coal trains to A
      • coal trains from B
        • coal trains length 3
        • coal trains length 5
      • coal trains from C
        • coal trains length 3
        • coal trains length 5
  • PAX trains
    • ICE trains
      • ICE ABC
        • ICE A->B->C->A
          • length 4
          • length 8
        • ICE A->C->B->A
    • S-bahn trains

OpenTTD wishes listed here which came true

• grf info for station tiles (trunk. Thx SmatZ)
• improved quick goto (faster giving orders) [trunk since r14827 - thx Rubidium]
• more clients [trunk since r14730 - thx Rubidium]

Random OpenTTD stories and poems

SmatZ works on a pool.
That is so very cool
having clients more and more,
features we adore.
It's just so very sweet -
let's hope he will succeed.
--planetmaker 12:01, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Random Photos

Moon and Mercury at sunset, August 2008