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