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