Hello respected community

Hello respected community

New physics

• With brand new physics, overweight trains are really a bad idea. Watch carefully not
  only weight of whole train, but also weight of train when fully loaded. Heavy trains are
  still fast when going down the hill, but placing signal where overweight trains are
  going up the hill, so they need to stop and lost its inertia is also a bad idea.
  
• All locos and wagons has been carefully rebalanced to reflect real train params and
  also provide you challenging and fun gameplay. Some of them are slow but strong for
  pulling heavy cargo, others are fast but weak for serving on a passenger route. You
  can also combine multiple units into one train to adapt train for specific cases.
  

Multiple-unit trains

• Now you can shuffle multiple locomotives into one train by drag & drop like ordinary
  wagons. More locomotives provide higher tractive force, better acceleration and
  slightly higher top speed.
  
• Each loco has its own maintenance cost so choose wisely. When you run out of
  tokens for one specific locomotive, it stops providing tractive force and behave
  as heavy wagon instead.
  

Train pathfinding

• When the path to the destination does not exists, train stops and let you know, but
  once path does exists again, train automatically continues.
  
• There are fixes for pathfinding including wrongly visited depot without reason, proper
  consideration of turn around on platform end, etc.
  

More hardcore options

• Now you can enable new hardcore options like One-depot mode (choose wisely
  since you can place depot only once per game)
  
• You can also allow overweighted trains to stop when not able to climb the hill and
  turn around instead
  
• Or you can allow trains to stop when run out of tokens for maintainance.
  

Track laying snapping

• Now the game helps you to connect track when zoomed out. It is something like
  autoaim. You can setup intensity of this feature in setup window.
  

Other

• There are support for locomotives with cargo capacity. This will be used in future
  railcars and mods.
  
• Correct mph/kph conversion rate.
  
• Tooltips for map objects showing also track speed limit.
  
• Fixed Seed and deterministic new map generating.
  
• Possibility to choose different town names set and language (see advanced tab in
  the new game window).
  
• Possibility to invert mouse axes for onboard camera.
  
• Locomotives and wagons availability is now limited to specific eras, so you cannot
  for example buy some steam engines in later eras.
  
• Rebalanced Oil industry chain, so it is a bit easier to satisfy.
  
• Rebalanced how passenger / mail / goods affects city growing.
  
• Main menu news feed so you can easily see that your game's got a new update.
  
• Many other small improvements and fixes...
  

Hello respected community

• Distance bonus for passengers and mail (with visualization per wagon in train window, train map icon, train list)
  
• Distance bonus for other cargo included in industry buildings rules (bonus computed according to closest resource on map)
  
• Second "High speed" track type (including upgrade tool, new signals, smart shortcuts respecting last track type used)
  
• Language can be selected in splash window (+ game branch visible in splash window and ingame)
  
• New track & road smoothing (including construction mode and lod in a distance)
  
• Many fixes
  

Full changelist:

• Added: Distance delivery bonus
  
• Added: Branch name is visible in splash window and in-game right bottom corner
  
• Added: Language selection in splash window (when nothing set, game tries to use steam client language as a default one)
  
• Fixed: Town growing
  
• Added: Automatic vertex color generating also for lod - fixed all road / track smoothing issues in construction mode
  
• Fixed: Track & Road & Other infrastructure smoothing finished and fixed all issues
  
• Fixed: "Remove" shortcut
  
• Modified: Reexport models for new smoothing shader
  
• Modified: Colors a bit (trees, grass, fog)
  
• Added: Script function GetRemoteQuestVariable able to read global variables of other quest
  
• Modified: Depth of field shader improvements
  
• Fixed: Default dof intensity
  
• Modified: Avoid <1 numbers when unloading passengers in town by chunking these to whole numbers
  
• Modified: Ballancing of distant bonus
  
• Fixed: GetNumQuestsActive script function counts only visible quests
  
• Added: Visualization of wagon profit estimates
  
• Fixed: Rare crash when watching year statistics
  
• Fixed: Rare bug with Invisible objects from some camera position
  
• Added: Reward estimates also for autorouting
  
• Fixed: Some object were not clickable
  
• Fixed: Script function GetRemoteQuestVariable when used on director script or non-existing script
  
• Fixed: Map coords computation for mouse cursor
  
• Fixed: Invisible tool tip sometimes
  
• Added: Estimated reward shown in train 3d icons
  
• Added: Estimated reward shown in train list
  
• Modified: All wagons available in editor
  
• Added: Save/Load of last autorouting destination
  
• Fixed: Crash when building depot upgrade for second track
  
• Fixed: Async threads crash when rendering estimated reward
  
• Fixed: UI padding insufficient after fixing of text length computation
  
• Fixed: Visibility of track depends on track invisible option, not buildings
  
• Added: UI remembers last track type and use shotcuts accordingly
  
• Fixed: Proper bridge/tunnel/station speed limited by object and track together
  
• Fixed: Speed weird peaks when too strong engine on a limited speed track
  
• Added: Texts for on map tooltips (not localized yet)
  
• Fixed: Building highspeed track tunnel
  
• Fixed: Missing internal part of high speed tunnel
  
• Fixed: Upgrading tool working for Tunnels
  
• Fixed: Upgrading tracks on bridges shows proper track position
  
• Fixed: Crash when computing distant reward for non-accepted cargo there
  
• Fixed: Potential crash when searching for the best path backward
  
• Fixed: Missing arrow in routelist
  
• Fixed: Removing Steel bridge by remove tool
  
• Fixed: Upgrading steel bridge
  
• Fixed: Effects for high speed signals
  
• Fixed: Upgrading when multiple tracks on a single tile
  
• Added: New signals for highspeed track
  
• Modified: Chain signals have real sign on them
  
• Fixed: Signal construction switching visualization
  

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• Walls modification according to road presence
  
• Decorative upgrades for your stations (it is rather proof of concept, more will occasionally follow)
  
• Fixes for pathfinding (when using waypoints and force load / unload as well as some special cases)
  
• Optimizations for rendering
  

Full changelist:

• Added: 3 new decorative upgrades for a station
  
• Added: Third wall type
  
• Added: Platform walls & Possibility to change walls elevation
  
• Added: New tab in stop window with decoration upgrades
  
• Added: Stop upgrades displayed in multiple columns according to window width
  
• Added: More performance markers
  
• Added: Performance dump enabled when "perf" command line param
  
• Added: Performance for script commands including script name
  
• Added: Possibility to render text with shadows
  
• Added: Commandline arg "perf" (enable performance dump), "aidbg" (ai debug visualization)
  
• Modified: When place depot, tool is disabled and depot window opened
  
• Modified: If not alternative wall, use default
  
• Modified: After manual turn around, train does not check available path
  
• Modified: Improved AI debugger
  
• Modified: Changed default start tokens and max loan from 1000/1000 to 2000/5000
  
• Modified: New texts
  
• Modified: Better track removing
  
• Fixed: Train will not turnaround when timeout on signal, but it is not bettre to turn aroung
  
• Fixed: Pathfinding issue with 2+ stations route
  
• Fixed: Waiting on green semaphore
  
• Fixed: Train turnaround rare issues
  
• Fixed: Modding track types
  
• Fixed: Distant shadows
  
• Fixed: Depth of field
  
• Fixed: Shadow pixel stability
  
• Fixed: Pathfinding bug when using Full Load / Full Unload commands
  
• Fixed: Script performance log showing proper script names
  
• Fixed: Road automatic elevation when road climb up the hill towards gate
  
• Fixed: Starting editor does not change sea level preferred value
  
• Fixed: Shadows invalidation in the first frame after load / generate(edited)
  
• Fixed: Waypoints
  
• Optimized: Terrain shadow casting
  
• Optimized: Towns updating
  

• Added: When place depot, tool is disabled and depot window opened
  
• Added: Commandline arg "perf" (enable performance dump), "aidbg" (ai debug visualization)
  
• Added: Performance dump for script commands including script name
  
• Modified: Speed up Depth of Field postprocess again
  
• Modified: After manual turn around, train does not check available path until next junction or signal
  
• Modified: Improved AI debugger
  
• Modified: Changed default start tokens and max loan from 1000/1000 to 2000/5000
  
• Modified: New version of localized texts
  
• Fixed: Train will not turnaround automatically when timeout on signal, but only if there is available path bacward
  
• Fixed: Pathfinding issue with 2+ stations route
  
• Fixed: Waiting on green signal
  
• Fixed: Train turnaround rare issues
  
• Fixed: Modding track types
  
• Fixed: Depth of field
  

Experimental

• Alternate walls for building / station according to road presence in neighborhood
  
  
  
  
• Possibility to generate big town buildings in the city center (working on proper generator atm). These will be rare but have some special bonus rules for you.
  
  
  
  
• Station decorational upgrades (similar to that 1x1 tile platform, but some more variations - with benches and tree, with a roof above the platform etc).
  
• Second type of track (highspeed) - working on upgrading tools and visuals.
  
• Steam workshop has still very high priority and now I have more time to fully focuse on this.
  
• Few more ideas to prototype and potentially add...
  

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• Fixed: Logging into steam account when steam in offline mode
  
• Fixed: Autorouting now ignores last station (for cargo like passengers or mail)
  
• Fixed: Pathfinding ended in depot fixed (proper turnaround penalty, search uses turnaround also on the end of station platforms - without penalty)
  
• Fixed: Pathfinding when autorouting search for loading station
  
• Modified: Increased searching budget (because of next dest. prediction)
  
• Fixed: Right Alt lock rotation on camera
  
• Fixed: Brushes and terrain tools have switched tooltips
  
• Fixed: Tooltip for button Back on new game - advanced tab
  
• Modified: Default start money set to 2000
  
• Fixed: Track laying under steel bridge
  
• Added: One new city building
  
• Fixed: Spanish language name
  
• Fixed: Depth of Field quality
  

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Better pathfinding

Avoid going through the station

Train stops when lost

Next destination path prediction

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• Fixed: Loading of old saves
  
• Fixed: Missing humidity when random map generated(edited)
  

• Fixed: Missing humidity when random map generated
  
• Fixed: Freeze when starting 2nd era
  
• Fixed: Town buildings generating + optimized
  
• Removed: Trace dump disabled until proper switch implemented
  
• Fixed: Another freeze when unable to place buildings
  

Editor Change log

• Added: Support for save/load/delete scenarios
  
• Added: Support for start new game from saved map (scenario with erased artificial infrastructure)
  
• Added: Support for start new game from saved scenario
  
• Added: Possibility to load and save Heightmaps and masks
  
• Added: Planting trees based on density
  
• Added: Saving height map
  
• Added: Recompute humidity (grass color)
  
• Added: Place towns according to latitude/longitude
  
• Added: Terrain tools window
  
• Modified: Input box improvements (dark background, handling focus properly)
  
• Added: Editor keeps landscape when changing map size
  
• Added: 2 new heightmap filters (multiply and bias)
  
• Removed: Construction mud when in editor mode
  
• Added: Generating heightmap in editor mode
  
• Added: CPU filters (new tab, buttons, .. disabled for now, need to switch to GPU filters instead)
  
• Modified: Terrain tools window visible by default when starting editor
  
• Added: Generating / Removing separately plants, heightmap, towns, industries, humidity map
  
• Added: Input box able to restrict to number
  
• Added: Latitude Longitude for towns generation in editor (stores to setup.xml)
  
• Modified: Terrain tools window improvements
  
• Added: Europe heightmap
  
• Added: World largest 7000 towns
  

• Fixed: Default map coordinates now fits to Europe heightmap
  
• Modified: Towns in editor are sorted and placed from largest to smallest
  
• Modified: Towns are smaller (still according to its real size)
  
• Added: Number of towns is progressive according to map size (90/30/10).
  
• Fixed: Loading of bitmap where no imageSize filled into header (some OS?)
  
• Added: Map coordinates are visible in bottom right corner
  
• Fixed: Terrain tools are not available out of editor
  
• Modified: Some of Terrain tools window Button names
  
• Added: 4 script callbacks: OnIndustryTick(), OnEpochChange(int epochIndex), OnTokenChange(string hash, int delta), OnSecond()
  
• Fixed: Saving maps
  

• Added: Loading heightmap is now GPU-accelerated
  
• Modified: Terrain heightmap Filters tab is back again
  
• Modified: Heightmap support for jpg, png, dds
  
• Modified: Heightmap internally switched from 8bits to 32bits texture on GPU
  
• Added: Switch on/off terrain heightmap 32bit
  
• Modified: Iteration of GPU terrain routines
  
• Added: Auto recompute humidity after generation step
  
• Added: Asynchronous queue for filters
  
• Modified: Fixed new game map generating
  
• Fixed: UI Frame text alignment
  
• Added: GPU heightmap filters (Multiply, Bias, Blur, Median, Voronoi, VoronoiSmooth, Perlin, Gerstner, AdjustHeights, GeoNoise, WaterErosion)
  
• Modified: Voronoi and Voronoi Smooth are tileable to avoid different density on map borders
  
• Added: Amount scrollbar so now it is possible to combine more filters sequentially
  
• Added: Building buttons to Grow town and whole Delete town
  
• Fixed: Debug script output window
  
• Fixed: Town growing when missing road
  
• Modified: Raise number of arguments limit (16->64) for script function UpdateTextFormat
  
• Added: New song "Diesel time"
  
• Added: UI gradient window overlay
  
• Fixed: Building editor buttons properly limited to editor only (grow / delete town)
  
• Fixed: Deleting town with larger buildings (2*1 at least)
  

• Fixed: Crash when click on building
  
• Fixed: Not working Content tool colors
  
• Added: First version of terrain heightmap brushes (disabled for now)
  

• Added: Terrain raise in editor uses brushes instead
  
• Added: Editor can place all possible buildings
  
• Added: When saving in editor, not-available buildings in 1st era are removed and put to special list (type+pos+version)
  
• Added: Terrain changes per vertex (non-brush) are batched together
  
• Added: Brush hardness, brush size
  
• Added: Terrain brush visualization
  
• Added: Simplified rendering of screen quad
  
• Added: Brush paints to the texture first and once mouse released, texture is used as amount mask for effect
  
• Added: Optimization for brushes: Only affected area updated
  
• Added: Brush visualization on map no more uses line, only actual brush position
  
• Added: Rightclick to cancel brush
  
• Modified: Improved brushes / manual vertex edit / whole map filters
  
• Modified: Brush paints also when moving mouse over GUI windows
  
• Modified: Properly initialized GPU heightmap after editor start
  
• Modified: Intensity of some filters
  
• Modified: Filter tab UI polishing
  
• Modified: Tuned Filter tab in Terrain tools
  
• Modified: Mult / Div filter - now it ignores underwater terrain and scale down/up not to zero, but to sea level
  
• Modified: Splash screen shows Including Editor
  
• Fixed: Deadlock in async generation when staring new game
  
• Fixed: Compile time switch for terrain brushes
  
• Fixed: Water erosion when generating new map
  
• Fixed: Filters sometimes caused wrong results
  
• Fixed: Loading screen freeze until mouse moved
  
• Fixed: Runtime brush update
  
• Fixed: Whole map filters
  
• Fixed: Brush issue (streaks across the whole map) on first use
  
• Fixed: Wrong map shape when generate new map
  
• Fixed: Brush in construction mode
  
• Fixed: Map reset when restart editor
  
• Removed: Brush no more change its color according to brush amount
  

• Added: Texture initialization supports more formats
  
• Added: One param for each filter (it can be used for specifying filter function)
  
• Added: "Set" filter able to draw specific altitude
  
• Fixed: Device lost Cleared whole map
  
• Fixed: After load file into editor, editing cleared the map
  
• Fixed: Wrong tooltip after each brush application
  
• Fixed: Vertical scale of heightmap after load
  
• Fixed: Right bottom corner of map issues after using some filters
  
• Fixed: Brush wrongly applied when clicking on UI
  
• Fixed: Lowering map when painting using some filters
  
• Fixed: New map generating
  

• Added: New brush able to copy height from where painting started
  
• Modified: Hidden year in editor
  
• Added: Reset year when new game
  
• Added: Scrollbar in map selection in new game
  
• Fixed: Corrupted file when add industry in editor and save / load
  
• Fixed: erasing map in editor after load
  

• Fixed: Loading of textures having non power-of-2 size
  
• Fixed: Height scale when loading heightmap is 0-255 again
  
• Added: Autosave in editor
  
• Fixed: Buttons enlarge in non-town building window
  
• Fixed: Using buldozer on buildings in editor
  
• Added: Industries from other than 1st era are removed from custom map when starting new game
  
• Added: Custom industries are placed in each era, if not possible (due to not-empty space), placed within 20 tiles distance, if not possible, at least randomly
  
• Added: Undo (5 steps atm, using adaptive CPU mem. allocation)
  
• Modified: Undo has 10 steps
  
• Added: Undo UI, visualize num steps cached
  
• Added: Rivers brush
  
• Fixed: Crash when load heightmap, change map size, erase
  

• Added: Persistent per brush setup
  
• Modified: Brush strengths and default params
  
• Fixed: Loading flat heightmap
  

• Added: Plant brush (disabled - wip)
  
• Added: Script function IndustryGetType (returns hash of given industry object)
  
• Fixed: Watermark when loading map into editor
  

• Added: New brushes
  
• Modified: Switch versioning repository
  

• Added: Internal possibility to test load (reads only some basic info about the file without applying it)
  
• Fixed: Paragraph line
  
• Modified: Refactored town growing (building budgets)
  
• Added: Possibility to force building facing to road, including corners
  
• Modified: Editor map has always high sea level
  
• Modified: New game - custom maps window
  
• Added: Second stage of town buildings (WIP)
  
• Fixed: removing of bigger buildings
  
• Modified: Town growing improvements (upgrading buildings, roads)
  
• Added: Wind sound switch
  
• Modified: Improved town generating
  
• Modified: Recovery from some savefile coruptions
  

• Fixed: number of town buildings generating
  
• Removed: Asserts from release (without VC it caused crashes instead)
  
• Modified: Mods moved from media to mods directory
  
• Added: Possibility to use also directories inside mods as a mod
  
• Fixed: Erasing of towns when generate
  
• Modified: Erasing all buildings when changing map size
  
• Fixed: Towns 1x1 generating when used for the second time in editor
  
• Fixed: Industry generating when start new game
  

• Added: Optimized processing of UI add item list
  
• Added: Limit brush / filter to either under /above water
  
• Added: Map seed
  
• Fixed: Heightmap loading for the second+ time
  
• Fixed: Scaling heightmap when loading
  
• Fixed: Packages loading
  
• Fixed: Corupting save files by saving
  
• Added: Some test for save files error recovery
  
• Fixed: Random numbers generator (master vs slave logic fixed)
  
• Fixed: limit brushes to underwater / above water
  
• Fixed: bug with repeating of keystrokes
  
• Fixed: Baking textures
  

• Fixed: New game produces only 1/4 of a map
  
• Fixed: Far ambient BBoxes computing
  
• Modified: Switched positions Flatten and Set brushes
  
• Modified: Another iteration of steam workshop implementation
  
• Fixed: Town growing in editor
  
• Fixed: consistency of random numbers
  
• Fixed: When maximized, do not remember window size (keep one from normal window state)
  
• Fixed: Mods loading from zip, also switching every path to lower case
  
• Fixed: reusing of map cache (performance ~5% improvements)
  

• Fixed: unpacked mods
  
• Fixed: icon
  
• Modified: Improved custom map window
  
• Modified: steam workshop iteration
  

• Added: After terrain brushes, all affected map objects are tested and removed if not suitable terrain
  
• Modified: Speedup main menu
  
• Added: Map Size Filters when browsing custom maps
  
• Added: Brush for planting trees
  
• Added: Brush for removing trees
  
• Modified: Texts
  

• Fixed: Newgame window size
  
• Fixed: Copying artificial plants when generat new map
  
• Fixed: Town (+industry) names when start custom map
  
• Fixed: Number of towns displayed in right bottom corner
  
• Fixed: Randomly spread buildings
  
• Fixed: removing of roads by plant brush
  
• Fixed: Multiple industries generated when start custom map
  
• Removed: Autosaves from new custom map menu
  
• Fixed: Tree brush hides forest model
  

• Added: Limit for custom map count
  
• Fixed: generating on low/med/high presets
  
• Modified: Hidden date in editor except month
  
• Fixed: Crash when generate trees -> change map size
  
• Modified: moved plants to landscape generator so it cooperate easily with brushes
  
• Fixed: Industry start positions & names
  
• Added: Basic FBX generator
  
• Fixed: Generating editor trees followed by painting them
  
• Fixed: Missing shadows
  
• Modified: Town generating
  
• Modified: New game window (custom map info is loaded only one on request)
  
• Added: Input box now supports multiline
  
• Added: Map description (wip)
  
• Added: windows can have fixed width of right half (not only left one)
  
• Fixed: Low/Med/High town count when generating in editor
  
• Added: Remove whole town when main building removed
  
• Fixed: Town/building icon altitude when modify heightmap
  
• Modified: Town do not remove its building so often
  
• Fixed: New era buildings positioning
  
• Fixed: Missing shadows
  
• Fixed: Advanced New game Params are applied also to custom maps
  
• Added: Possibility to add custom map description (with images etc.)
  
• Modified: Script for ruined church is now able to search for existing one instead of create new one (custom maps)
  

• Added: Sorting industry icons in build tool according to their start era
  
• Added: Autowrap text in input box
  
• Added: clip text into input box
  
• Added: Scrollbar in Custom map description (new game window)
  
• Modified: Increased custom maps limit to 512
  
• Fixed: Crash in editor
  
• Fixed: Reassign town when town it's is removed
  

• Added: Icons & Help for plant brushes, under/above water
  
• Modified: Roads placed in editor belongs to towns
  

• Modified: Copy build media batch file
  
• Fixed: Asznchronouse Undo list issue
  
• Fixed: Memory overflow (reading uniform string from file
  
• Fixed: Town growing
  
• Fixed: Town captions
  
• Fixed: loading of longer strings
  
• Modified: Minimal resolution raised from 800600 to 1024?/?*720
  
• Fixed: Column width in new game - custom maps - map info
  
• Added: Localized Terrain tools + Terrain brushes window captions
  
• Added: Many editor related tooltips
  
• Removed: Wrong tooltip with tutorial string
  
• Fixed: Credits
  
• Modified: Terrain tools buttons scaled up by 20px each to fit translated texts
  
• Added: DbgTextClear() script function
  
• Modified: Localized texts
  

• Added: Humidity brushes
  
• Added: (WIP) Humidity after device lost restore
  
• Fixed: Humidity paint brush
  
• Added: New game -> Advanced -> back returns to previous tab
  
• Modified: New texts version
  

• Fixed: Random spread of generated buildings
  
• Fixed: Brushes remove bridges and tunnels
  
• Fixed: Changing of map size in editor cause brushes to generate holes or other issues
  
• Fixed: Vegetation checks suitable terrain after using brushes
  
• Fixed: Using automatic humidity map generating and than humidity brushes
  
• Fixed: Manual trees placing and than using tree brushes
  
• Fixed: Shadow clipping to early in a distance
  
• Modified: Shadow quality vs distance improved, improved shadow bias 10x
  
• Added: Plant / Humidity tooltips
  
• Modified: Humidity brushes and editor icon
  

• Fixed: using random tree and than tree brush
  
• Fixed: Save/Load heightmap scale
  
• Modified: New localized text version
  
• Modified: Better shadow fading in a distance
  
• Added: Mod with Elishka steam engine
  

• Modified: Date progress in editor turned off
  
• Modified: removed not finished (locked eras) buildings from construction menu
  
• Fixed: Not-growing towns
  
• Fixed: Placing industry searched for closest towns also in non-existing towns
  
• Fixed: in paused game, towns got number of passagners from surrounding builngs
  
• Modified: latest translated texts version
  
• Fixed: Humidity reset when used undo step
  
• Fixed: Available industry buildings only in editor + quest buildings
  
• Modified: Turned off time in editor