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OpenTTD must-change settings that should be default already

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Andrew Ward

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Hi, I'm Andrew Ward. I'm a software developer, an open source maintainer, and a graduate from the University of Bristol. I’m a core developer for Luanti, an open source voxel game engine.

OpenTTD is a game where you build a transportation empire with road vehicles, trains, boats, and planes. It’s an open-source remake of a game called Transport Tycoon by Chris Sawyer, released in 1994. I have been playing it for many years; I have no idea how many hours I’ve sunk into it.

There are a few setting changes that I consider essential. It’s bizarre to me that these aren’t the defaults - I guess OpenTTD is trying to keep close to the original 1994 game. I like to focus on passenger and mail services, and therefore consider these essential.

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RimWorld: Create timelapse from Progress Renderer on Linux

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Andrew Ward

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Hi, I'm Andrew Ward. I'm a software developer, an open source maintainer, and a graduate from the University of Bristol. I’m a core developer for Luanti, an open source voxel game engine.

Progress Renderer (Steam | GitHub) is a brilliant mod that takes a screenshot once a day, and dumps it into a folder.

The following bash script can be used to generate an mp4 timelapse of the screenshots. Simply specify a region to cut out of the screenshots, and some other parameters, and run the script in the working directory.

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