NML:Property

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Vehicles, Stations, Canals, Bridges, Towns, Houses, Industries (Tiles), Cargos, Airports+Tiles, Objects, Railtypes, Roadtypes, Tramtypes, Terrain

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Block Syntax

GRF

• GRF parameters

Item

• Property
• Graphics
• Livery override

Realsprites

Recolour sprites

Template

Spriteset

Spritegroup

Spritelayout

Tilelayout

Switch

Produce

Random switch

Cargotable

Railtypetable / Roadtypetable / Tramtypetable

If/else

While

Error

Disable items

Deactivate other NewGRFs

Testing for other NewGRFs

Overriding vehicles in other NewGRFs

Sprite replacement

• Replace TTD sprites
• Replace new sprites
• Add font glyphs

Alternative (32bpp) sprites

Town names

• Town names parts

Snow line

Parameter assignment

Setting base costs

Sorting vehicles in the purchase list

property {
	(<ID>: (<string>|(<expression> [<unit>]));)+
}

This one looks a lot more complicated than it actually is. A property-block contains one or more assignments. Each assignment starts with the name of the property that is changed followed by a colon. After the colon follows the value and you end the line with a semicolon. The type of the value depends on the property, some properties require a string as value and some an expression. For some properties you can optionally specify a unit that is used to convert the value to the unit that is written to the output file. You can only use a unit if the expression is constant. List of valid units