Today's update adds a whole bunch of quality-of-life improvements!
Things like:
- A search function for searching through mods/maps/liveries/etc
- Thumbnail grid lists are now used in more menus, like the workshop update list.
- The livery spawning drawer has been re-designed
- The pause menu now has new options for "your maps" and "downloaded maps" to make finding layouts easier
- The QuickSave function has been cleaned up a bunch
- The backups menu is far easier to use
- Grid lists for the legacy QuickMods and QuickTerrain drawers
- Full list of screen resolutions for PC
- Lots of bug fixes
Since Rolling Line has been getting updates for over 3 years now, it's got lots of "old" and "new" parts, and this update finally cleans up a few of the features that needed upgrading.
Things like finding mods, workshop maps, liveries etc is now made much easier with thumbnail grids and a search function!
So you can type in parts of a maps name (and tags for mods!) to narrow down the list.
Typing in tags like "animal" "japan" "roadside" "prop" etc will work with mods!
(these tags are the same tags on the workshop)
Searches are not case-sensitive (so capital letters don't matter) and the text you type just has to be contained in the name/tags to show up.
You can find the new search option all over the place, simply click the search icon at the top of a list and type in your search text!
New pause menu design
This update also re-designs how you find and load maps from the pause menu.
There is now a dedicated set of buttons up the top for:
- "your maps" (local save files)
- "downloaded maps" (saves you've downloaded off the Steam workshop)
There is also a shortcut to the "new save" option up top too!
So all of the map loading & saving options are now in one place.
From these menus you can easily access your local & downloaded saves with an easy-to-use thumbnail grid! (and of course you can use the search feature)
Expand option lists into thumbnail grids
For some menus (like livery options, weather presets, etc) there is now an option to "expand" the options list and view all the options as a thumbnail grid.
From here you can click an option to highlight it:
Livery drawer re-design
The livery drawer now works just like the mod spawner drawer, so it has a thumbnail grid + the livery type can be switched using the category drop-down-menu at the top.
You can also set the category to "all" to view all liveries at once.
The livery names have also been cleaned up a bit to be more consistent, e.g. all steam trains start with "steam", passenger wagons with "coach", freight with "freight" etc
This makes searching through them easier!
The legacy QuickMod and QuickTerrain drawers also use the new thumbnail grid UI too.
Better backup list
The saves backup list (Pause menu -> Manage saves -> backups) is now much easier to navigate thanks to the search option and a much larger list view.
You can also now hover over each backup to see the type (session quit, save over, exit, etc) and the date + time the backup was made:
Full resolution options list
An annoying limitation that you may have noticed before is that the PC resolution list only showed the first 10 options. Well it now lists all possible resolutions for your screen:
And some more stuff:
As well as all the UI features, this update also includes:
- Fixed collision on one of the "path" terrain pieces
- Fixed the "refresh" button for layouts (which stopped working a few updates ago)
- QuickSave now works much better, and will never save over the wrong map. QuickSave will be blocked unless there is definitely a valid save to copy over (this applies to pressing F5 too)
- Prop mods are no longer re-loaded when spawning from the drawer UI
- Fixed an issue where the old legacy room menus would get stuck on menus like "capture thumbnail" and "quickSave"
- Might have fixed an issue with the sun and moon defaulting to directly upwards
- Fixed issues with custom posters & flags not being packaged properly sometimes
That's quite a lot of stuff to cover!
Every now-and-then I need to do these updates which package together a ton of quality-of-life improvements and fixes that have been stacking up.
But it's always worth it to get these things done!
Enjoy!