Simutrans 124.4 released

Highlights of this version

• Searchable comboboxes (just type when a box is open)

• Grouping goods/passengers by connection

• Overhauled city growth

• Improvements for the tutorial for pak64, pak64.german, and pak128.

Paksets updated on Steam

• Pak64 124.3

• Pak128 2.10.1

• Pak64.german 124.4.0.1

• Pak128.german 2.4

Full changelog

Here's the full list of changes since the last version.

Added

• new settings cost_kw_per_credit (default was 512) to change revenue from power. Smaller numbers more income

• searchable comboboxes; for editing click twice

• expose make public month to cript API

• elevated powerlines

• new flag for bridges and ways in makeobj 60.9 clip_below Default is (1) but for slim structures (e.g. powerline) it could be set to zero for nicer display of structures below

• Retain message of the day in servergames. Can be reshown in the game info/network dialog

• (Nazalassa) bridge renovation when building on an existing bridge

• Makeobj now supports named directions for sloped way images (imageup[w]=...)

• after (FrankP) new constructions ite images for ras, com, ind as 7,8,9

• (Nazalassa) Sound can now also be loaded from pakset addon directory

• groups goods by lines of their next stop and sort by amount (not available for convois, of course)

• (mostly Yona-TYT) flowtext recognised img tag. For now only tags #?XXX are supported, where ? is one of these letter GSDTW and XXX a number. G is a general tool icon, S and simple tool, D is dialog tool, T a toolbar and W and window gadget.

• New simple tool 43 to highlight single ribi ways

• Now all windows show same ordering

• use system fonts in Android

Changed

• Use fluidysnth pulseaudio driver for linux systems as the sdl2 driver is being deprecated

• sound loudness slider now follows a x^4 curve, approximates an exponential loudness control for finer adjustments

• more time for startign complex tutorials

• (poppo) extended selection of way resp. their obj with CNTRL and SHIFT and pipette tool

• Stops that are not connected to any other stops now have a blue status colour

• Comobobox show current selection until actually some letters are typed to search for something

• (poppo) jump tool now allows also for z coordinaate

• clean up main page

• (poppo) build_wayobj and dragging signals also use the test_driver like the removal tool

• only clip below bridegs if there is a high building

• Support separate key-down/key-up events

• if defined USE_TOWN_ROAD_BUILDER_TOOL the cityroad building tool will use the internal tool of the city (default off)

• (k47) stations names drawn later in minimap

• trains with both diesel and electric engine can go on non-electricfied track, but run without electric power there

• Show obsolete shows lso distribution_weight=0 factories in the editor window

• test renovation before new building san duse homeless and jobless numbers to releive growth of town borders

• cities try harder to build slopes for expansion even in mountanious sites

• Combobox try to show as much entries as possible

• Unified handling of pak set dirs and names

• Increase maximum loading time of vehicles to 2^31-1 ms

• Add widget to change price factor for beginner mode

• Move map size edits in new world diaglogue on one line

• default signal spacing for dragiing to 5 (as 4 and smaller can slow down trains faster than 200 km/h)

• If there is a halt tile above ground, it will become the base tile for name and jumping too~

• Pause tool unpauses server waiting for clients

• Help texts will be first searched in pak directory

• No longer default pixelfonts for Windows and Android

Fixed

• Topspeed replacement with city roads was broken. Multitle buildings also may have the roads around them never fully renovated

• Crash when trying to open a directory using dr_fopen

• Transformers are removed by factory field expansion

• Factory editor could not slect water factories from climate selection

• Overcrowded stops can cause unhappy return passengers in unconnected networks

• not connection to tunnels, bridges and elevated ways when extending city streets

• show convoi (and line) name when permanent tooltips are enabled for convois

• Inline tool icons change size when zooming in or out and scaled tool icons are enabled

• Corrected format of transformer tool icon tooltip

• Fatal error message when building a city house that was copied using the pipette tool

• Comobobox show current selection until actually some letters are typed to search for something

• (jrs) really lock the freelist_tpl

• (poppo) change and delete cities first using the pointer to the city from the townhall/house at this position

• wrong bridge height allowed on end slopes

• GDI did emit keypresses for SHIFT etc.

• city connects correct over slopes but not to depots

• (k47) world borders soemthimes not correctly displayed

• (poppo) trains could not choose if electrification was not to the end of track

• update test suite

• trams connect to all ways also in tunnels

• Not allowed for powerbridges to end on ways

• Android now supports 16k pages fully

• ownership check when renovating bridge

• compiling with USE_VALGRIND_MEMCHECK

• bridge removal costs

• exclude renovation buildings and not wrong connection along slopes (and simplified code)

• only build new houses on empty tiles

• reset illegal street slopes to flat tiles

• no longer crash when city grows into fields

• citybuildings no longer destroy power lines

• overhauled townhall road building to cope with difficult terrain and avoid illegal tiles

• (Nazalassa) use catg_index for line sort

• tunnel route search suceeded even if z coordinates of portals did not match

• check and correct for wrong smoke offset tiles

• pak192.comic 'Suck a tentacle' achievement

• longblock signal reservation broken

• Wrong expansion of parameterized image lists with empty image

• slist_tpl returned wrong sort status when sorting lists of only two elements

• Finance windows did not show powerline revenue as all revenue

• (Nazalassa+prissi) toolbars can be automatically stacked again (option in simuconf.tab)

• (Nazalassa+prissi) Notifications from locked players and no company messages for locked players

• (Nazalassa) various bug with display of the connection (work in progress)

• (poppo) a chosesignal after a presignal could lead to unsecessful route searches if the directions differed between those signals.

• missing logic for handling signal/roadsign maintenance

• (Nazalassa) Players can change nickname to one that is already in use

• Crash when changing the sort mode of a halt while a convoi window is open

• (Nazalassa) Cursors ignore player changes

• (Nazalassa) Cannot build tunnels directly above tunnel slopes if way_height_clearance=1

• (Nazalassa) Ticker messages do not respect player colours when the ticker is opened

• (Nazalassa) Public unread message counter is increased for private messages

• 'makeobj list' cannot print properties of factory nodes

• Zoom in immediately followed by zoom out if SDL raises mouse wheel event with 0 vertical scroll amount

• Public player cannot replace wayobjs of other players

• Possible save file corruption when reverting to default settings using the settings window

• Graphical glitch when dragging the forest tool across slopes if the pakset does not have double grounds

• Crash when screenshotting in-game window with non-0 position

• Missing collision check for water factories

• properly enforce maximum city building size

• multitile city building totally renovated, 3x faster city growth (at the start of the map in debug mode)

• accidentally messed up replacement of larger multitile buildings by single tile buildings

• count instead dir

• count instead dir

• multitle buildings code (and also several issues with normal renovation) fixed

• crash when 2x1 building did not fit

• accidently add wrong offset for checking orientation of multitile bild

• new city buildings were built when exceeded 2x1 size (only renovated)

• did not save correct when too many messages

• switch reservations off when showig single way tiles and vice versa

• only save the newest messages

• wrong assert when replacing buildings (debug only)

• single way tile did not force bridge direction

• could built powerlines under bridges by just building a zero length power bridge starting under a bridge (also added to test scripts)

• was assigning wrong values to old_sort_mode prevented convoi goods update

• bridge builder not handling invalid end coordinates in work

• stations on bridge heads drawn too low

• remove some more unused variables