Here comes some new freight wagons!
Since I'm working on lots of programming improvements in the background, I wanted to give everyone some new content to enjoy in the meantime. It's been ages since any new wagons or trains have been added into the game officially, and these american freight wagon types have proven very popular in the community, so why not get them into the game officially!
These new freight wagons are some very popular ones from America:
- Autorack
- Tanker
- Hopper (flat side)
- Hopper (curved side)
Each one of these models was made by members of the community in the form of QuickMods, and then modified a bit (as well as adding official livery support) to be included in the game.
Thank you so much to:
- G5K (for making the tanker mod)
- ABStudios (for making the Autorack mod)
- Stationmaster (for making the hopper box mod)
- TrainTiny (for making the hopper curved mod)
This is a perfect example of how much the community contributes to Rolling Line!
It's awesome to see community-made content directly making its way into the game for everyone to enjoy, and there's bound to be more of this in the future!
Custom liveries
And of course all of these new wagons have official custom livery support!
In fact there are tons of examples people have already made on the Steam Workshop:
You can find them simply by going to the Steam Workshop and using the “livery type” drop-down list:
Just as with all the other liveries, you can find the templates in the "Rolling Line -> Modding -> templates" folder.
Plus there's a guide here on Steam that explains how to make your own liveries!
All you need to make liveries is basic image editing software (even MS Paint is fine):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1405658466
Legacy rooms
Meanwhile in the background, this update makes a big change to how the old "legacy rooms" are handled. For anyone who remembers back when Rolling Line was released, there was no "custom table" room, and you could only build maps on a selection of pre-made tables.
These old pre-made table rooms have always been sitting in the game to preserve old maps that use them, but they haven't been accessible from the new game menu for a long time.
These are the maps im talking about:
(the three "oval / double / horseshoe" rooms, and the old main layout outer loop)
Well this update replaces all the tables/drawers/controllers/menus/walls etc of those old rooms with prop versions (e.g. replaces the old menus with the modern dynamic menu which players can use in their own maps).
The reason this is happening is so that I can finally remove more of the old hard-coded legacy parts of the game, and those old tables were a big part of that.
From the player's perspective, nothing will really change, so you don't need to worry about the technical side of this update.
But one thing that is important is that after this update you will not be able to edit the color of tables in these old rooms!!
Any old maps will still work perfectly fine, but you can't change the table colors past this point.
This only affects the old legacy rooms, so unless you are still making a map in those old rooms, then this will have zero effect on you.
So to summarise, on the surface these changes won't affect you at all, but lots is going on in the background which helps remove old legacy code and features that the game no longer needs.
This is all part of the big optimizations which are on the way in the near future!
Rolling Line's code is going through massive changes and improvements, which is something I've been needing to spend time on for YEARS. So it's amazing to finally be focusing on this. It's going to massively improve the game (both performance and stability) in the long run.
Other features
In addition to the new freight wagons and the legacy map changes, this update also includes:
- Drawers now use a different menu position if they use the slide in/out style instead of the stationary option
- There is now a "new" flare on the "next page" button on drawers when there are new props on the next page of drawers (like the new freight wagons, which are on the second page)
- VSync is now on by default. If you find that the game is using heaps of GPU processing then try turning VSync on! (in the "graphics -> advanced" menu)
- The "menu location" option is now gone, since it's no longer used
- The player spawn location when teleporting to menus has been adjusted a bit
- You will now be snapped to the closest menu (instead of the root menu) when capturing thumbnails and such
- Fixed a bug where the collision for the small table next to the menu would not be moved when changing the room size
And that's everything for this update, I hope you all enjoy the new freight wagons!