The Santa Fe update is finally here!
This is by far the largest update since Rolling Line's release, and includes brand new American trains, props and a new official map!
The new map is inspired by some historical hot-spots of the Santa Fe Super Chief, like Pasadena Station (Los Angeles) and parts of the Arizona desert, like the Canyon Diablo Railway Bridge and Winona.
You can access the new official layout by simply starting a new game from the main menu, and choosing the "Santa Fe" map.
This map was made using tons of new custom track props that are also included in this update, like new buildings, classic cars, canyon rocks, bridges, traffic props and new colors.
Though the star of the show is the new EMD F7 locomotive, along with the Super Chief streamliner passenger cars.
Since this is quite a large update, here's the full list of changes made:
- Added F7 locomotive, A & B units in both the Warbonnet and Bluebonnet paint schemes
- Added 4x steamliner passenger cars
- Added 5x 1950's classic cars
- Added flipped level crossings, for American roads
- Added clock as individual placeable prop
- Added painters to remove & add ballast to track (you can use this to hide ballast on bridges/roller coasters
- Added special new main-menu scenes to celebrate the update
- Added new table wall segments with no black roof attached
- The sky continues up onto the roof in the custom table room now
- Props now still randomize their scale if you change it (e.g. making trees very small will still have a slight randomized scale)
- reduced the near-clip of cameras on PC (makes items visible closer to your eyes)
- Changed how pausing time on the menu works, time will now resume with any movement (you use to need to move quite a distance away, which was confusing)
- Fixed bug where items on your belt were still active in miniature
- Fixed bug where a controller would still show a train driving when a new save was loaded
- Fixed issues with items like controllers/magazine racks not being hidden in miniature
- Plus - made some small changes to the Big Boy model, which looks much cooler now
This update has been in the works for a while, and is certainly the largest update for Rolling Line I've ever worked on. This should be an example of the kind of "themed updates" i'm going to be making in the future!
Custom liveries for the F7 and steamliner cars will be coming hopefully within the next week, as a separate update.
Enjoy!