First beta version of small maintenance update now available! This is an additional update that was not in the original plans. Development and testing is intended to take no more than a couple of weeks.
Get the beta version by opening your Steam client and right-clicking on the game, then selecting Properties from the pop-up menu. From the properties window go to the Betas tab and choose "beta" from the drop-down menu (no password required).
Planned features include improvements to signalling, custom scenery models, saving a run and continuing later, Unity update, small bugfixes and optimisations.
Changes in the first beta
- Added configurable limit to number of semaphore arms for each signal
- Added support for custom 3D scenery models
- Fixed missing stripes in some levels of detail (LOD) for vehicle bodies made with the integrated modelling tool
- Fixed bug in the train editor where removing one vehicle definition would cause removal of all vehicle definitions that share the same physics device
- Optimised memory use in pathfinding to reduce stutter
The number of semaphore arms is limited to 2 on each side of the main arm by default. Right-click on a signal and choose signal properties to change the values.
In order to use custom 3D-models for scenery right-click on empty space in infra editing mode and edit custom 3D-model templates. The model nodes are set up in the same way as in the train editor, except that each node is just a template (or a "prefab"). Custom model are placed in the scenery the same way as other single building or tree models.
Custom 3D-models need not be imported models. You can also all use models (like vehicle parts) from the built-in library, in addition to the predefined infra/building/tree models in the earlier versions. It's also possible to animate models. For instance, try prev + 0.01 as a rotation function (frame rate dependent).
Routes saved with the beta version are incompatible with the current release version because of changes to signal and scenery object data. Please make backups of any routes you're going to work on with this beta version.