Simutrans 124 Released

The long awaited Simutrans 124 is finally here! This version comes with a lot of changes, although the most visible ones are the improved support for anti-aliasing of fonts and some reworked windows. Under the hood, many less visible changes were made to allow this to be the first stable Android release - which means you will be able to play online now on Android too!

Note for macOS players on Steam: Due to the new directory structure, paksets installed through Steam may not show at all. You can use the in-game installer to workaround this.

Highlights of this version

• Improved anti-aliasing of fonts, now using TrueType fonts by default.

• Reworked main menu and option windows.

• Reworked list windows, they are now checkered lists easier to read.

• The minimap now changes if you are in underground mode.

• The new directory structure allows the players to install paksets if they don't have admin rights.

• Fixed loading of heightmaps.

Paksets updated on Steam

• pak64 124.0

• pak128 2.9

• pak192.comic 0.71

• pak64.german 124.0.0.2

• pak128.german 2.2

Paksets updated outside Steam

• pak64.nippon 0.62

Full changelog

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

Added

• pak64.german 0.124.0.0.1 uses 40x40 buttons and therefore the theme is necessary and should not be missing

• labelupdate for all windows were it makes sense

• Checkered list windows

• obj_xxx_details in translation will display some more details on an obj, especially vehciles

• traffic lights remove themselves if only a curve or a single tile is below them

• fontconfig for linux font selection

• Aliasing fonts

• Rework of banner and options windows. Added button to play tutorial and load last save to banner

• rotate house tool will also switch railroad switches (eyecandy only)

• new parameter in simuconf.tab cityroad_speeds for a timeline (year,new_speed) of speed limits of way with pavement

• rotate also rotates the order of vehicles on a tile to avoid overlapping

• Sell all convois in a depot with Ctrl + Sell button

• Signals can be replaced by overbuilding them using left-click

• missing script ai text

• menubar can be dragged to each corner

• Display artist credits for music

• function find backend specific default TTF font dr_get_system_font()

• Theme colour parameter for highlighted objects (gui_color_object_highlight)

• scroll to selected font in load-font window

• theme parameter gui_color_image_transparency to set transparency color for icons (Yona-TYT)

• update vehicle history frame with search string

• .pak files are now also searched for in subdirectories of pakset

• tooltip warnign when try to cross way without suitable crossing or curves on runways

• Loading time display in depot, convoi info and vehicle timeline

• MSI installer for SDL2 MSVC builds

• single toolbar mode (top and centered) primarily for Android and tablets

• Try to detect base_dir when installed on linux

• new tool (and button in signal dialog) for removing signals only

• map view can be changed with any general tool by dragging the pointer above a threshold

Changed

• High resolution icon for Android

• all list react immediately on editing the filter name

• removed a lot of table to speed up convoi list and added route bar

• right click/control+left -> goto pos, left click -> open window

• Again orange as default unowned color to have more contrast

• Decouple label style and show option

• enforce a minimum width of 5 digits for number edit fields

• GUI numberinputs stretch horizontally to fill their space

• Players can't build over public ways if there is another player halt on them

• Slightly improved goods window

• Almost impossible to have a language selected with a non-matching font

• rename texttype to correct name

• save button and save window single translate

• button text to exists translate (equal to the window title of the dialog)

• state of railroad switches will be saved between games

• Delete buttons are always shown when saving/loading. Config show_delete_buttons is deprecated

• Increased default vertical spacing of loadsave items from 0 to 1 (so it doesn't look super crammed)

• use internal server list name for backup

• use 5bit granularity for alpha-blending sometimes

• do not change debug tab in scenario window if debug text is empty

• issue warning when old object is overlaid by new one

• click on ticker jumps to coordinate of message under cursor (or opens message window)

• send doubled-object warning as message, click on the message shows the full warning

• only warn about doubled objects with different checksums

• a go-to-coordinate action will change view to underground/normal view if target is invisible

• messages, speed records, ticker use 3d coordinates

• tests use command_x.set_slope

• Display number of station tiles in parenthesis in convoi details

• update convoi list name filter on enter to avoid longer delays

• reflect underground view settings in minimap windows

• Look for fonts in subdirectories recursively (up to 5 levels)

• pedestrians spawned on more tiles, more distributed over tiles, now client wise settings for server games

• Ignore pedestrians for deletion tool

• only show connection of top factory window in minimap

• use TAB to change between tabs

• 6% speed gain to to a freelist with integrated iterator

• Always allow '-until' command line parameter

• MacOS bundle is now self-contained

• removed LEFT_REPEAT message hack, as this destroys left dragging for fps<10

• discard all but the last drag event in a single call to check_events(() or the calac_route maz be called twice during mark_tiles

• process events in screen refresh and queue them for execution for more responsiveness on weak devices”

• reset frame time when zoom in

• file location in the same directory

• pakset downloader in separate file

• Divide minimap 'Selections' button into two (Show networks and Selections)

• Use XDG_DATA_HOME for user dir on linux (only if it has been set)

• allow dragging scrollpanes instead using scrollbars

• only load goods for a destination into a single convoi. This avoids loading in parrallel of slow loading convois

• test connect timeout now 2 seconds (for windows, please adapt and test on Linux/Mac) for query server status

Fixed

• generating header script works under windows again

• all again to connect from vertical cliff to monorailboden

• vehiclelist ignored name filter for waytypes selection

• vehicle list did not sort by capacity and was not properly restored after saving

• hide wayremover, wayobjremover and signalremove icons when those ways are not available

• labellist positions need to be 3D

• derive ground info from obj info so long waynames work again

• a bridge and tunnel has just a default street => do not show info

• extra margins of objects inside a marginless container fixed => all dialogues open in the same size again

• if a schedule open not of plane 1 => crash

• Could connect way to side of sloped elevated way

• Game lags when paused, especially on big maps

• Withdraw Line button did not indicate withdraw status correctly

• OS window sometimes does not close when modal dialogue is open

• makeobj MSVC builds

• show waiting bars even without labels

• banner window does not close on window close!

• outside was not redrawn when windows minimized

• wrong function name

• default char for cyr.bdf and revision detection fpor MSVC

• start also with a wrong unloadable font specified

• Error when using 'makeobj dump'

• removed unblocking sockets for linux

• distribute.sh was not working for some time on linux with default template

• Height conversion mode ignored if selected after heightmap

• Wrong speed of bridge ramps in some cases

• Wrong length for bridges in build preview tooltip

• pakset.nsh

• built nsis again for github nightly

• Extract .cab and .tar.gz correctly

• (THLeaderH) crossings upgrade in ways are upgraded

• crash when loading vehiles as cnv==1 is used as flag during loading

• drawing order of private car

• better calculation of dsip_lane also with overtaking cars and road convois

• Wrong draw order of road convois turning E->SE or NW->N

• airplane convois are somewhat working. Need through stops better for this

• Makeobj ignored switch images for tracks with no seasons

• Graphical glitches related to translucent player colours

• Wrong brightness of colours in screenshots

• Label colours when label is unowned

• swallow all extra finger events to have better zoom and three finger scrolling

• Debug assertion failure when starting a new scenario

• Loading window no longer closes all other windows and does not trigger other loading tools in the toolbar.

• Missing translation of 'Depot' (dataobj/schedule.cc:590)

• Clamp env_t::max_acceleration correctly

• Cannot load sounds from pakset if pakset is in user directory

• ticker messages - use one method to insert in list

• replace %% in translated strings by %, but only for those strings where the base string does not contain format specifiers

• Memory label cut off when increasing map size in New World dialogue

• Broken compat.tab parsing

• Crash when trying to load TTF font without family or style name

• Crash when allocation of buffer for node name fails

• Crash when dumping pak file containing a node with invalid size

• Crash when reading pak nodes with malformed or unknown type

• Crash when using 'makeobj dump' on corrupted pak files

• Crash when reading non-null-terminated object names from pak files

• Use-after-free when listing node names of pak files

• crash when such a pedestrian was created near map border

• do not generate pedestrians on roads without any connected roads

• Crash when displaying alpha images near window border

• builing vehicles from the future is not allowed

• problems with transparent pixels

• crash in build-station tool without cursor

• get_available_* returns only descs of buildable objects

• do not draw on the window boundary

• correctly check for character 30

• improved width calculation for numberinput elements

• cannot build double slopes if the pakset does not support it

• try to repair broken format strings (replace % with %% for broken specifiers)

• use double percent sign in translatable strings

• format string checks

• fix/remove more RGB555 stuff

• crash if desc == NULL (may come from scripts)

• Missing credits of midi tracks

• Credits of midi tracks

• correctly handle suspended calls with ct == FORCE

• crash in scripted tools

• correctly reset tool-drag event if scenario check failed

• search_folder_t::search_path if d_type is not supported (koroal)

• invert schedule function not working properly (koroal)

• window position not being saved in some cases (koroal)

• factory_x::get_tile_list returns list of tile_x's (Yona-TYT)

• remove preview image of tools if moved on a tile that is forbidden by scenario rules

• memory leak

• -addons/-noaddons setting saved in settings.xml

• do not reset full underground mode when zoom with mouse wheel

• apply the correct coordinates when processing links in scenario window

• Vehicle list name filter not saved due to typo

• initialize restart-variable (Yona-TYT)

• properly clear random-mode flag

• do not check for local execution, shut down network on quit

• size calculation of depot dialog to properly show vehicle list (Roboron)

• loading of scenarios for paksets from addons (Yona-TYT)

• (after ranran) loading of legacy translation files

• schedule positions when rotating non-square maps

• clear schedule-editing flag if check fails

• trivial case in haltestelle_t::is_connected

• crash with invalid defaultparam

• Cannot build trees on clouds

• world.generate_goods did not work correctly for mail/freight

• Uninitialized read in gui_image_t::get_min_size when COLOUR_DEPTH=0

• Adapt Load Script dialog to new directory structure

• restore all open convoi and halt windows

• quit does not quit the server

• Addons are loaded by default (contrary to documentation)

• starting a scenario in now a command to do this in the step

• call the quit tool from dialogues for quitting

• Undefined Behaviour when converting char * to utf8 *&

• Crash when supplying invalid default_param to tool_plant_groundobj_t

• Crash when supplying invalid default_param to tool_build_station_t

• Crash when supplying null default_param to tool_build_station_t

• implement constructor in c++ instead in squirrel

• correctly propagate error when pushing large arrays

• Crash when supplying invalid default_param to tool_plant_tree_t

• Speedbonus not being applied to air (reverts partly r9208)

• use translated error message instead of raw string

• setslope for scripts on server games on single-height paks

• accept sym-links as directory

• dragging of tools with ctrl, propagate flags through defered calls

• scrolling with mouse wheel in droplists opened above combobox

• copy way-flags when replacing ground tiles

• Cannot load addon scenarios if there are no addon objects

• Use-after-free in makeobj when reading malformed dat file

• crash when trying to save to unreachable location

• check for NULL pointers

• Paks loaded from addon subdirectory even if -noaddons is specified

• Signals not shown when minimap is set to show tracks

• Graphical glitch when ticker disappears while background is visible

• Position of elements in 'Sort by' depot combobox

• PVkraftwerk should produce again power

• Disable font size button for bitmaps fonts

• do not updtae crossing speed with new way

• when deleting stuff from tiles with two or more objects

• Don't double sync_step citycars

• focus with comboboxes

• pedestrians agon walking diagonal

• also forbid pedestrian entry on tiles with more than 240 objects

• Do not generate too many pedestrians per ground

• pedestrians try to hop to full ground

• beaches were not properly recognised for environmental sounds

• Curl pakset download for built-in installer

• pakset downloader not listing any paksets

• crash due to calc_route called twice when dragging way tools at low fps

• Obey control lock tool in more all situations where the control key would work

• accidently swapped single toolbar option defualt for non-android

• Pakset selector failed to load a single pakset with no addons

• Network filter comboboxes take preference capturing the mouse wheel over the minimap

• control+drag of ways

• append halt only once

• show no tooltips on toolbars if cursor is on title bar

• do not swallow keys and scrollwheel events in scrollpanes

• windows were topped before the underlying window got their removal message => topped window function not working as expecting i.e. schedule display of convois

• Disallow merging with public stop (or any stop) to take over ownership

• heavy_rotate_saves does not delete old saves correctly

• Cannot load PPM heightmaps

• Int overflow for large power networks in minimap

• missing string and no spaces at the end of translator objects

• switch on and off network overlay when line is active

• minimap background rendiering mode is not reset but selecting other options

• crossing logic did not correctly obeyed speed limits

• After loading a save, the color of the stop list title

• display_snapshot uses wrong area if area is offset horizontally

• scaling window with GDI