Mashinky news & patch notes

Hello beloved community!

Today, it is kind of content & content update :) I've been working for some time on pack of new road vehicles, and while preparing them for the release, holiday season came so I've also prepared new Christmas quest with Santa.

Hope you will enjoy it!

New road vehicles

• Added 13 New modern road vehicles including new double decker bus. These were the last missing road vehicles I've planned for the full game.

Christmas quest

• There is a new Christmas quest, featuring 5 unique vehicle versions (reskins for goods delivering vehicles) and loco as a reward!

• Get on board a car for goods delivery, find Santa waiting at a station and give him a lift to any city station where he jumps out and light up the Christmas tree on city center.

• Repeat for as many cities as possible to get unique locomotive as a reward.

• I've added also 3D icon of Santa and the distance to him when in driver mode and route list icons visible (by hitting Alt key). This should helps you find him easily.

Quality of life

• Added Metric system (Kph/Mph) game setup. I know I know, sorry it took me so long :) I really appreciate your patience.

Change log:

• Fixed proper Turn around on the end of runway

• Fixed two potential crashes when accessing missing planned path

• Fixed cargo filter icons in shared routelist

• Added christmass quest, script, visual midification of 5 vehciles, animated Santa on road stops, animated Santa in road vehicles, added co-driver positions for him, etc.

• Vehicle / wagon with cargo type but no capacity shows visually full load

• Added new script function GetVehicleCargoType(vehicle, preferredCargoType) - return first cargo type detected, but if preferred valid, returns the same string if vehicle have it

• Added new script function VehicleSetWagonType(vehicle, index of wagon, new hash)

• Modified XMass quest now release Santa after each successful delivery so you need to find him every time (but you may change vehicle to test xmass modified versions)

• Added 3D icon of Santa position when in driver mode and routelist icons visible

• Added emmisive materials support

• Xmass assets are now using emmisive light bulbs

• Fixed possibility to pick up Santa when manual driving (and station is not in the routelist atm)

• Fixed black rectangles instead of croswalks

• Added Kph/Mph setup

• Fixed strange keys iresponsibility when load savegame from other savegame

• Fixed proper track/road speed hints

• Fixed driver mode road highlight visualization

• Fixed issues with loading some saves and start custom maps

Enjoy the holiday season, I will meantime keep working on last 7th era, monorail and endgame content ;)

Best regards,

Jan

Hello beloved community!

I have a rather boring update today :) It's mainly about the performance of the game engine. I focused on FPS at runtime, but I also significantly reduced the loading time! Due to huge changes in the codebase, it took quite a while, because we had to make sure everything works the way we want.

Runtime optimizations

Probably the biggest performance boost comes from the switch from the old "agents search by track tiles" to graph-based search. Now the entire track system is divided into graph edges between any crossings, intersections, or track type changes. Any vehicle can very quickly check which path is best at each intersection, so it responds to signal states as it always does, but with less performance impact and without stuttering.

Another big benefit is the new ability to move a vehicle by any distance in a single update. In previous versions, vehicles would move multiple times if necessary, each time by a maximum of half a tile. The reason was to ensure proper signal responses and other dependencies during movement. Now, for example, fast trains or planes can move across multiple tiles with signals and crossings, which significantly improves performance.

This helped a lot, especially on large and dense maps where performance suffered, especially when accelerating the game by 4x. In some cases, this update can increase FPS by 3x.

Loading time optimizations

Regarding loading time, I modified the streaming to only collect lowpoly models, exit the loading screen, and continue streaming the hipoly models. This saved some loading time.

I also implemented a non-native driver way of loading models and added custom texture decompression algorithms, making it easier to work with multiple threads and improve loading even more.

Loading times were cut by about half compared to the previous version.

Improvements

There are other updates as well, I improved the terrain and grass rendering, polished up the colors a bit, and last but not least, I added what we call the Lazy Button (hotkey is "I"), which can place any object you click on (helpful when you need to switch tools frequently).

Meanwhile, I have about 14 of the 16 new road vehicles, so once I finish the last few trucks, we'll iterate on the parameters and prepare the next - this time content - update for you ;)

Today's detailed list of changes:

Optimizations

• Searching for path switched from per tile to graph based structure

• Vehicle can move by multiple tiles per a single update tick (no need to multiple ticks, saving performance)

• Improved loading times

• Only low level of detail variant are loaded before load screen disappear, the rest on runtime

• Switch to 3rd library ASSIMP to load models into the game (loading optimization, multithreading etc.)

• Loading textures are now proceeded via own DXT decompression (loading optimization)

• MipMap chain not generated on texture initialization, but driver decides and manage itself

• Many loading optimization, deterministic on-load map update, building add/rmv upgrades, overlay refresh

• Plants and properly baked into far ambient load baked even when only lod loaded

• Terrain chunks refresh starts not from map corner, but from the camera center and extends in circles to cover whole map

• Only town buildings map area is refreshed when city center changes its amenities range, not all buildings (including distant industries)

• Buildings not check upgrades when loading

• Optimized also some script function calls (saved 30-60ms each second in some cases, lower stalls)

• Optimized performance when laying a long track

Added

• Added copy Tool (shortcut "I"), we call it lazy button. It offers building of the last object clicked

• Visual improvement of terrain and grass with the glossiness specular, terrain normal map and grass movement specular

• Reintroduced time speed setup

• Added junction locked icon when train selected (this could help identify why train refuse to choose some direction when standing on a junction)

• Camera can stay locked on vehicles/building/depo/station even when vehicle window closed until Esc/camera moved/disabled lock

• Added bulldozer tool added into track/road/terrain/electricity/industries/plants, changed icon for terrain tools, shortcut Q properly select last used category

Fixed

• Consistency of route lists ordering asc/desc

• Visibility of unused route lists according to route infrastructure type (no more train unused route lists in road vehicle window)

• Consistency of route lists in vehicle window (hovering / click / highlighting could have been desynchronized)

• Route list line index after save/load consistency fixed

• Airport stamps creation

• Road vehicles overtaking detection (still some issues and passing through)

• Building tunnel checks properly enough tokens and disable whole tunnel otherwise

• Click on airport will not opens stop window if airport infrastructure tool chosen

• Pilot toolbar shows cargo properly (not clipped)

• Vehicles react properly when waiting on yellow signal (do not get stucked, re-plan path if needed)

• Vehicle path highlighting flickering

• UI Loading screen progress info has now outline to be easily readable

• When missing mod with bridge/tunnel type in save file, wooden bridge/default tunnel is used

• Possibility to apply wagon part pivot also in space of main part (used for multiple articulated wheels), flag "pivot_by_main_part"

• Coal mine color is darker to easily spot it

• Terrain map textures priorities (blending of snow / mud / fields)

• Plane lost message now has a cooldown

• Plane in depot was keep switching between lost and on states

• Fields fences positioning

• Inconsistency vehicle overtaking progress when Save/Load

• Train doesn't check only first wagon when desiding wheter autorouting for load or unload, but all wagons must be empty to decide to load

• Raised limit for town upgrades and different industries both to 512

• Glass mail is available in 2nd era instead of 3rd. Blitz Oil and Blitz Goods are available in 3rd era instead of 4th. Trambus goods is available in 4th instead of 5th.

• Dampler cement properly available from 6th era

• Loading of meshes with non-triangle geometry

• Shader aync loading after latest changes

• Crash when exit to the main menu and load multiplayer map

• Some crash when no multiplayer present (switch from the game and back)

• Missing signal glows in fullscreen mode

• Passenger destinations properly refreshed when vehicle sold

• Red plane path

• Scale of several models (caused "invisibility")

• Crash when jumping in first person

• S-curve and overlapping curve removing should be consistent now

• Loading of mod files when path starts with \\ or / or .

• Crash when using stamp with station upgrades on map border

• Random crash when using stamps

• Stamps missing building upgrades when using on bigger maps

• Stamps code consistency no matter on how big map you create them

• Size 6+ stamps

• Crash on ATI when initialization of render targets

• When reopenned window while camera locked on its object, goto check has proper pushed state

• Crash when placing building with plants while plants falls out of map area

• Station catchment area vizual bug fixed on ATI GPUs (applied also for buldozer red area etc)

• Loading of meshes having more than 65535 vertices (32-bit meshes)

• Loading of meshes having unsorted material list

• Wack limestone now available from 6th era

• Freeze when new era triggered by date

• Path visualization for planes in multiplayer

• Industry toolbar available once 3rd era (when first buildable industrz appears)

• Star new content industry buildings

• ATI "Pixel perfection" bug

• Industry toolbar available once any building available (including mods)

• Selection rendering fixed when rendering density lowered

• Multiplayer path preview

• When upgrading track from highspeed to normal, track under the signal stayed the same

• When upgrading tracks under the signal, graph based search lost registration of this signal in it's node, causing wrongly refreshed signal when train passing through (and red signal potentionally)

• Upgrading track with signals by drag drop new type

• Upgrading track with signals by upgrade tool

• Icon of terrain tools in terrain tutorial localized texts

• Train slow down on yellow chain signal

• "Early" wrongly added into 3rd era quest as a reward

See you soon on new pack of road vehicles release;)

Meantime, have a great day!

Best regards,

Jan

• Added 16 new aircraft (4 types with 4 different variants)

• Added possibility to move camera by cursor near screen border (works in windowed too) and can be disabled in settings/game

• Improved track laying alg to rather show errors over not-empty-spaces than offering crazy curves
• Raised camera higher above the terrain by 25%
• Fixed hangar window buttons
• When multiple vehicle windows opened, selecting routelist will preview in only one of them
• Road vehicles do not overpass when it is not really needed (keep waiting in traffic jam etc)
• Company progress counting (missed number of planes etc)
• Placement or upgrading infrastructure is properly applied into balance sheet
• Balance sheet has a proper tooltip (was missing some lines)
• Trains are not loading/unloading in one save (also building indices were mismatched after latest changes)
• Overlay toolbar now has a proper size when using auto overlay option
• Station platforms have proper walls when right next to the airport
• Planes properly find the way to the destination when possible (it detected obstacles when overlay not showed anything)
• Powerplants capacity and usage of electricity fixed
• Transition of electrified track and others
• Road Crossings geometrical smoothing
• One way road arrows positioning on slope
• Wrong placing of roads as series of diagonal curves
• Track laying circles improved a bit
• Transition from higher to lower track types (including pathfinding)
• Tunnel highlighted track type
• Removing track with signal by removing tool (when drag & drop over longer section)
• Music playing after start
• Multiple signals placement
• Path highlighting in tunnel

• Each Truck or Bus has now its own driver (visual appearance is randomized internally by vehicle index used as a seed). Animation is driven by front wheels and includes steering wheel as well.
• Each Train engine has also its own driver (vehicle index and wagon index are used together as a seed for random appearance). The animation plays only according to the elapsed time.
• Each plane has its own pilot (plane index is used as a visual appearance seed in this case). The animation plays only according to the elapsed time too.
• Visual appearance combines randomized model parts as well as colorization per each part. In some cases, it can also choose different genders.
• There are several different animations picked according to driver seat and vehicle controls positions.
• Visual appearance is picked according to vehicle type (different for steam and diesel / electric rail engines for example).
• The driver model is hidden when the player controls the vehicle himself or when the vehicle is destroyed, or turned off.

• Camera positions are now visible only when camera looks towards them. This makes the UI a bit more clear
• There is also possibility to turn off/on drivers in graphics settings
• I've improved visualization of vehicle replacement plan to make it easier to orientate

• Added automatic vehicle replacement based on its age. This can be different per each vehicle or turned off.
• Road asphalt speed has been increased
• Cargo filter in industry list works now
• Start all / Stop all vehicles in vehicles list now works properly when filter active

• Added interior BR 3
• Added burn shader so the destroyed vehicle changes its appearance
• Fixed terrain holes (quarries etc) when in construction mode with overlays
• Added a bit more fresnel bright hallo around objects (more visually pleasing)
• Added fields rendering in a distance, construction mode and near the sea
• But Fields are not visible in construction mode except ground color, which improved visibility when laying tracks
• Fixed visual glitch with noise of horizontal polygons of overlapping trees in construction mode
• Ground gravel/concrete are now visible in construction mode even behind far rendering distance
• Fields borders are now properly positioned in construction mode
• Fixed: map border glitch when using any overlay

• Removed some debug output which caused massive FPS drop
• Moved file streamer from sync to render thread (sync thread is critical for performance)
• Improved performance of shadows rendering (wrongly invalidated more cascades than needed)
• Optimized terrain chunk preparation on the CPU
• Optimized overlay map synchronization on the GPU
• Building updates are now distributed over multiple frame ticks
• Optimized vehicle bounding box computation
• Lowered GPU memory requirements by ~36MB

• Fixed crash in overlay synchronization after map size change
• Camera angle properly oriented when switched into a building camera
• Building sounds are now per building part index, therefore can be multiple per building and react properly on part addition / removal or change by upgrade
• Music is now moddable (possible from zip)
• Modded industry upgrades properly enabled in its era
• Fixed removing of upgrade that only changed building part model appearance
• Fixed mod building upgrades rules
• Fixed consistency of autohealing invalid towns in savefiles when done on server or on client
• Fixed visibility of building upgrades in building window in editor
• Fixed multiplayer routelist crash
• Fixed "Plants out of bounds" assert / crash
• Fixed detection of vehicle standing on railroad crossroads (may missed collision detection before)
• Fixed partial autoheal after building lost its map representation (corrupt savefiles autohealing)
• Anticrash for loading animated model crash in drivers (have no idea, but instead of crashing the game, driver is skipped)

Hello beloved community!

Detailed changelog:

3rd era

• Blitz truck for Goods
• Blitz truck for Sand
• Blitz truck for Mail

4th era

• Bach 302 Bus
• Zilon truck for Logs
• Zilon truck for Wood planks
• Zilon truck for Steel
• Trambus truck for Coal
• Trambus truck for Crude oil
• Trambus truck for Sand

5th era

• Metropolitan Bus
• Wack truck for Coal
• Wack truck for Iron ore
• Wack truck for Steel
• Wack truck for Limestone
• Ania truck for Cement

Fixes

• Fixed animated doors of road depot
• Merged locomotive into another train is properly unbind from its shared routelist
• Fixed clipping of cargo type filter in depot window
• Fixed wrong shortcut in driver mode
• Fixed vehicles sharp yank when entering new road tile
• Fixed clipped destinations visualization in vehicle info window
• Fixed crash in some circumstances (reproduced on 150+ mods active)

Hello respected community!

Hello respected community!

Airplanes & Airports

• Added new transport vehicle type - Airplanes
• Added ground infrastructure - old and new airport facilities

Airplanes

• There are currently 17 planes in the game (more will come later)
• You can transport limited cargo types by airplanes (passengers, mail, goods and food)
• It is quite expensive way to transport passengers / cargo, but it can be extremly fast
• Planes can smartly plan their path from one airport to another, and on the airport itself
• You can manage airports in routelist, add air waypoints or even use specific runway's / taxiway's tiles waypoints
• Planes reserve a runway 5 tiles before landing, and can cancel landing maneuver anytime and circle around airport instead
• They can wait on the last taxiway junction before occupied airport stands or stop and go through hangars if they get stuck
• They can even change altitude while circling the airport, when they need to avoid obstacles
• Each plane requires different runway length and may require modern runway type, and each can have different fly altitude
• Added new visualization of obstacles around airports (terrain, buildings or even trees can prevent plane takeoff / landing)
• Planes can be controlled from pilot perspective, althought it is very difficult when flying :)
• Planes use fuel only when flying

Airports

• You can design your own airport by placing runway tiles one by one, taxiways, junctions, airport stands, airport buildings and hangar
• You can also create, share or use airport stamps of interesting airport designs, making their reusing easier
• Minimalistic airport needs runway and airport stand, which is 2x1 tiles, but the actual building part can be overlapped with another airport stand building. This allows for even more unique airport designs
• There are several basic airport stamps included for your inspiration
• Airport has several automatic signals to smartly control movement of planes, while maintaining maximum airport throughput. Runway has signals on both ends reacting to incomming plane reservation. Runway and stand have also entry signal and stand and hangar have exit signal. There are several single plane only areas: airport stands, hangar and runways. On the other hand, airport taxiways allow multiple planes lined up on them, so there is buffer for planes waiting between loading/unloading at the stand and landing/taking off on the runway.
• Airport runways have huge 4 tiles pollution distance, so it can be better to place airports away from the town.
• Airports can be naturally combined with other transport types and act as a transport hub when using passenger destinations feature
• There could be railway or road tunnels under the airport, making combinations even easier
• Old airports can be easily upgraded to a new one when the upgrade becomes unclocked reaching specific era
• Taxiways are one way only and warning icons show you if there is missing entry/exit or unusable road
• Each runway has its own number shown on the runway ends. The number is also shown in routelist when runway is used as a waypoint.

UI & gameplay

• Planes can be managed in a similar way as other transport types, duplicated, replaced by newer type, driven manually, etc.
• Icons for planes are bigger, so hangar window and all lists have been updated accordingly
• Planes cannot be stopped or turned around while in the air or while performing landing / takeoff maneuver
• There is a new dynamic parameter in plane info window. I call it "runway accumulation" and it shows how many tiles the plane needs for accelerating / decelerating on the runway and if it affects the possibility to take off, stop or even turn from runway to taxiway. This is also helpful to watch when piloting your plane by yourself.
• Airport has also key bindings shortcuts that help you to build airport faster
• There are error messages when plane is unable to reach destination, when it requires different type or length of a runway etc.

Quests

• There are several new plane-related quests you can jump in and enjoy
• Some other quests can be finished by using planes now as well

Graphics

• Aside from new visualization overlay for flight obstacles, there are many improvements because of planes
• Every vehicle part can be animated independently now (used for independent spinning of wheels and propelers)
• Vehicle innertia is divided to ground innertia (default) and air innertia, and planes can smoothly transition between them when taking off / landing
• Multiple particle generators on each vehicle
• Different rotation of plane parts when moving on the ground and when flying (rear wheels touch the ground only when plane doesn't have enough speed to take off. This can also help to see if "runway accumulation" is enough for takeoff when piloting a plane by yourself)
• Animation can be driven by power instead of speed (used also for propelers)
• Rotating propelers can switch to blurry version when power set above 50%
• AI driven vehicles increase power smoothly now, so propelers' spin speed increases gradually
• Vehicle path plan visualization has "shadows" in construction mode now, so you can easily see the altitude
• It is possible to turn the vehicle path plan visualization on even in realistic camera mode now to help you pilot your plane easily
• Crashed planes fall to the ground

Fixes

• Fixed onboard cameras for flipped vehicle
• Fixed weight of vehicle speed when planning passenger destinations
• Improved stamp setup window (now each infrastructure type can be selected independently)
• Properly flipped engine's/vagon's icons in replacement list
• Fixed placing one way curve onto the same tile as diagonal track
• Fixed garbage tutorial Czech text endlines
• Fixed typo in caption when placing signals
• Fixed crash in path finder in some rare circumstances
• Added colors into routelists
• Fixed skybox flickering

Hello respected community!

Borderless window rendering

• Long time requested feature is finally in Mashinky. You can choose borderless rendering and launch the game without changing the monitor resolution, as well as seamlessly switch between Mashinky and other desktop applications.
• In order to be able to choose the resolution again even when using a borderless window, I refactored the engine's render pipeline a bit so that the render resolution can be decoupled from the window size.
• Additionally, I modified the UI to always render at native resolution. This way, you can reduce the resolution on weaker hardware while maintaining a crisp and readable user interface.

Drive mode improved

• I also tried to improve the driver mode experience and since the track may not be visible from all driver camera positions, you can now see the track in front of you including signal states or stations thanks to simple visualization so you can enjoy the ride.

Bug fixes and improvements

• Added AI now smoothly increase/decrease throttle (only visual usage, not affecting acc)
• Added possibility for animation per each wagon part
• When adding waypoint, only reachable stops icons are visible
• When adding waypoint, only same type of vehicles are visible (to copy routelist from)
• Added Prev/Next button for vehicles, stations, buildings, depo
• Keeping the Tab selected when switching to next / prev item (vehicle / stop / depot / building)
• Improved winter ground, grass and trees colors a bit

• Added: All garbage-type cargo should affect station pollution area
• Added: Wagon part flags "visible_when***"
• Added TrackType/Version flag "alter_wall", able to change internal station wall
• When multiple local mods detected in MP, only first 10 are shown in a warning
• Added possibility to specify terrain type having huge river across the map
• Fixed animspeed param properly gathered from xml even when old vehicletype format used
• Fixed using 3D asset name with "2" at the end (which means it is animated), while not having animation on it
• Fixed crash when removing industry building (by removing mod)

• Added GetNumUpgrades improved so it can count upgrades for all buildings of specific type
• Added Script function int GetVehicleType(vehicle);
• Added Script function string GetListOfVehiclesByMaxSpeed(vehicleTypeFilter, hashTypeFilter, maxListSize);
• Added Script function string GetListOfVehiclesByMaxSpeedReached(vehicleTypeFilter, hashTypeFilter, int maxListSize);
• Added Script function string GetListOfVehiclesByMaxAge(vehicleTypeFilter, hashFihashTypeFilterter, int maxListSize);
• Added Script function string GetListOfCitiesByPopulation(maxListSize);
• Modified 45-NeedForSpeed and 56-DeliveryTele quests
• Modified script function GetRemoteQuestVariable so it can return any type convertible to string

• Modified Slowing station cargo rating drop by 25x
• Modified Road vehicles stopping in the station cannot overpass other vehicles there
• Modified Cement delivery affects city growth again
• Modified Lowered penalization for passing through non-destination station

• Fixed vehicle slowing down removed before crossroads when other exit from junction is a dead end
• Fixed terrain type switching buttons in editor
• Fixed face consistency when loading saved game
• Fixed stamp signals in tunnels consistency
• Fixed Save/load of last load stop id (used to properly choose new destination in autorouting)
• Fixed selective removing of rail signal
• Fixed block yellow signal
• Fixed flickering of signal glow when TXAA enabled
• Fixed performance when path has been redundantly recalculated when moving vehicle's info window (due to reselection of vehicle according to it's window focus)
• Fixed wasting of performance on repetetive path searching in some other cases
• Fixed removing of all industry on map works again in editor
• Fixed pixel alignment when upscaling image
• Fixed rendering transparent surfaces
• Fixed selection highlighting overbrighted colors
• Fixed ending of track wrongly positioned in some circumstances
• Fixed flickering of loading bar or face of company boss
• Fixed buttons in depot according to vehicle type
• Fixed rare crash when open the list of vehicles
• Fixed smoother movement interpolation in curves (to avoid goniometrics, there were 8 curve points, now raised to 256 precalculated)
• Fixed ALT press stayed after Alt-Tab, showing all icons on the map
• Fixed ghost non clickable space in depo bonus tab
• Fixed depot bottom bar height consistency
• Fixed missing some vehicle icons on map after load
• Fixed highlighted vehicle path flickering (vanishing and reappearing)
• Fixed vehicle position cache (for better performance)
• Fixed full throttle when switch in and out of vehicle
• Fixed stamps including stations when placed next to another station
• Fixed stamps influencing also station upgrades (WIP, still some issues there)
• Fixed wrong openning of station window when creating stamp from station
• Fixed duplication of vehicle by wrong-type-depot
• Fixed crash in pathfinder
• Fixed collisions ignoring where track's side wall clipped out

Hello respected community!

Airports & Planes in Mashinky

Borderless and improved driver mode

Hello respected community!

So, there is a new Santa quest!

Vouchers

Holiday season and big thank you!

Changelog

Garbage

• Highest building levels produce garbage
• Station having too much of a garbage produces garbage area around
• Garbage area limits some town building functionality
• Player can transport garbage out of a town (and either stack it in the land fills or use it in the recycling plant or in the incinerator upgrade near the coal power plant)
• Added 2 garbage trucks and 2 garbage wagons
• Garbage area is also visualized over buildings and infrastructure (littered trash all around). This can be turned off in setup.
• Disabled buildings are now visually abandoned. This can be also turned off in setup.

Quality of life

• Disabling rules in buildings (in multiplayer, it affects only your company so others can still benefit from these rules)
• Rotation / movement cursor (compass and relative position in the map tile)
• Filters in industry overlay, showing producers and consumers easily.
• Stars where new items (buildings, wagons, locos, track types etc.) appear

Rendering

• TXAA, temporal antialiasing improves edges and screen noise
• Anisotropic filtering, this makes textures appear sharper, more detailed.
• Sharpening post effect, automatically applied to compensate some TXAA smoothness. Also makes screen appear sharper
• Shadows in construction mode. This gives construction mode a lot more plasticity and eye candies :)

Optimizations

• Precaching shadowing objects for render thread
• Improved Terrain frustum culling
• Caching signals interconnections for faster update once cached
• Better frame profiler marks (allowing search for script peaks as well)
• Speed up loading a bit (by skipping reloading mods when not needed)
• Crash and performance wasting solved in building-rules-enabled checks

Fixes

• Vehicles stuck together
• Floating point in vehicle window engine running costs
• When station cargo rating drops to zero, no draining is applied until either: User disallow station from producing cargo or there is another station around having positive cargo and allowing station to produce the cargo
• Anisotropic filtering also for vegetation
• Possibility to skip mod requirements when saving scenario in editor
• Improved trains path-finding ignores signals behind first destination (still need valid path to the second destination)
• Derailed trains / vehicles without reason
• Rare multithread crash when watching create or join company window while company value updated
• Crash when interacting with depot window
• Building rule is automatically disabled if no station around accepts products (this way you can selectively enable / disable building rules)
• Fixed missing map icon when train has no name
• Sometimes placing signals tool doesn't show arrows properly
• Showing cargo amount in building/stop part
• Electric wires rendering
• "Useless vehicle message" can be aggregated
• Wall under the food shop
• Snow mask consistency between hipoly and lowpoly
• Added possibility to skip Splash window forever
• Default first signal is one-way (except easy difficulty)
• Path highlight on proper road side (mostly on bridges)
• Road sharp step issue when road connected to a bridge
• Snow mask on road suspension bridge and rail steel arched bridge
• Building model also change when limited by garbage to visualize the issue
• Icon above building (in town overlay) and building info window showing limitation by garbage
• Luxury upgrade tip not visible until proper era
• Loading of stations not having a single tile will disable them (some rare mods on/off circumstances)
• Highest level of city buildings and luxury areas moved to 6th era

Hello dearest community!

• You can start a new game for up to 8 players now.
• Companies and players are decoupled in the game logic, so you can join other players in their companies or start your own anytime through the gameplay.
• Multiple companies can cooperate on quests (some quests are shared by design), fight for resources, or cooperate on supplying the industry buildings and split the rewards. You can also protect your company by password, so no one can join your transport imperium freely. You can also share your whole rail network with another company or set boundaries by placing owner-only signal. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30409173/45af715877a1cf46ed2a227cbc2c1480304648e4.jpg
• Companies have their performance ratings, which show on the score board (including detailed graphs) from 0 to 1000 points. It basically shows how successful the company is, and headquarters changes its visual appearance according to the company rating.
• You can use a chat window (by ~ or icon) to communicate with your co-players, and easily add a map location or object into your messages by clicking on it when typing a message. Everyone can easily click on these hypertext links later and see for themselves; which makes the strategy planning with your friends way easier. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30409173/1023f70dbe4fd06dabadf41564e5781ae9d08119.jpg
• You can also see "cursor" of each player in the world and if anyone enters the first person mode, their appearance in the game world changes to show not only their position, but also the view direction. This way you can easily walk, drive, chase each other while jumping over buildings or even derail the train together. Fun is not only delivering the cargo anymore, but the multiplayer opens brand new possibilities :D
• To support multiplayer gameplay, cargo distribution rating has been added into each station. It is important to pick up your cargo frequently to keep your station's rating high now. Otherwise, the industry may prefer another station or, when your rating drops to zero, redistributes your cargo elsewhere. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30409173/2403f97b60b66c2071c71261bb7d796eb200a7fb.jpg
• Thanks to several huge optimizations done not only for multiplayer, the game runs smoother even in single player mode. In multiplayer, the fps increase could be even bigger due to the fact, that only the server computes paths and game logic, and evaluates scripts. This helps not only smoothing the gameplay, but it also prevents anyone from cheating or modifying the game locally.
• On the other hand, mods are allowed in multiplayer and clients automatically check & update list of used steam workshop mods when connecting to the server.
• Aside from many bugfixes also included in this update, yellow chain signals finally work the way that each train checks its path to ensure it can enter junction block without risk of not being able to exit it.
• There are also improvements to shadows, fixed editor brushes, FPS limiter, not loading trains, rare crashes and more than 200 other minor bugs. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/30409173/8879efca34703fab0a58ff17d2431867a05c55de.jpg
• Start the multiplayer by enabling this option in the new game setup window, or start the server while playing one of your old save files. You can also protect your server by password, join friend's server from steam friends list, start your own server without public IP and have fun together with your friends. The preset stays in the savefile, so next time you load this game, the server will be online again.

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What has been fixed:

• Fixed pass destination functionality, visible destinations in stop window, several related optimizations
• Fixed ghost trains (dislocated train and icon)
• Fixed overflowing stations with cargo / people
• Fixed unlock new era payment stored properly in save file
• Fixed draining of cargo when rating drops to zero. Caused by hidden feature cargo rating in cases where rating drops to zero. This fix also heals broken savefiles on load.
• Fixed town growing ability
• Fixed coming of passengers / mail to stations even before first vehicle arrives
• Fixed removing of bridge above a road caused road removal
• Fixed removing part of crossroads properly keep the rest untouched
• Fixed hobby market and food shop captions (funny how long the issue avoided my attention)
• Fixed new face in multiplayer properly generated on connect
• Fixed train movement desync in multiplayer
• Fixed filters in company assets window

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• Huge improvement of general engine and game performance (including loading times)
• New faces for director of your company, including women
• Quality of life - adding list of crashed vehicles, list of favourite vehicles (together with route lists) so you can buy them by a single click in depots
• Fixes

Performance update

• Improved CPU game performance, especially when higher game speed used. By searching using Visual studio Performance non-intrusive profiler, I was able to identify places in code where CPU spends most of time and optimize these.
• Improved lags and freezes of game. By using my own frame profiler and whole game run profiler, I was also able to identify places, where processing time vary the most. These areas in code cause small freezes when for example industry tick occurs, town is about to grow and so on. Improving code in these areas end up having more stable framerate. Some tasks were moved to another thread or splitted into multiple frames.
• Improved loading times. I've also modified several places where extra power could be invested into map preparation and assets streaming from disk. For example FPS limiter works in a different way when loading screen is on, to allow other CPU threads do their job. I've spent also extra care to ensure that there are no redundant tasks when loading game. Overall loading times are smaller now.

Quality of life improvements

• Now, it is not that fatal when two trains crash into each other. There is a list of crashed vehicles in each depot to help you re-create what has been lost. This list includes also route lists.
• Having list of such vehicles led us to the idea of adding also favourite vehicle list (also including route list), so now you are able to "save" any vehicle, even the one running out of depot, and have such list of favourite vehicles to create duplicates easily.
• Some of you complained about circle icons in walking mode visibility, so now you can easily hide them in realistic mode transparency window. Thank you for raising your voice so i can improve the game!

New faces

Optimizations in details

• Optimized Passenger destination AI network update
• Optimized Station cargo add/rmv when choosing destination
• Optimized Stop cargo destinations
• Optimized Track spline computation
• Optimized MP events, vehicles sync, etc
• Optimized Client skip event processing while loadscreen present
• Optimized Server skip sending all events after unconfirmed map save
• Optimized Maximum of 1000 events sent per network tick (prevent client from being overwhelmed)
• Optimized Precache stop and vehicle bonuses
• Optimized FPS limiter allows other threads to process when loading screen present
• Optimized Vehicle to vehicle collision spatial data structure faster when searching for vehicles around
• Optimized Arc-tangent replaced by fast approximation (precision on 0.01 rads)
• Optimized Sin/Cos precomputed and approximated runtime
• Optimized Update 0-N towns per tick instead of all at once
• Optimized Far geometry lod baking has now dirty area instead of checking all map chunks

Fixes

• Fixed Autorouting ignore stations where cargo acceptance is disabled
• Fixed Assert about wrong track ending
• Fixed Transparent tokens
• Fixed Industry not producing cargo (caused by rating drop to 0, now visible and colored red in that case)
• Fixed When detected missing era quest on load, add one (have no idea how the original one could be missing, some mods?)
• Fixed Duplicate wall param in building types XML
• Fixed Some new faces glitches, changed background
• Fixed Crash when city grows
• Fixed Assert in depo window
• Fixed Visibility of walking mode icons properly reacts on transparency setting
• Fixed Overlapping graphics on stop window upgrade buttons
• Fixed Wrong positioning of road vehicles wheels on curved road
• Fixed Broken faces in quests
• Fixed Wrong electricity distribution computation
• Fixed Adding vehicles to favourite in road vehicles depot UI

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• Toyshop (sawmill upgrade)
• Furniture workshop (toolworks upgrade)
• Factory

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Connection & Server

• You can play as group of up to 8 players on the same map (including custom maps) now! Just enable multiplayer when starting new game. This will start server and anyone can join you.
• The setup stays in the savefile, so next time you load this game, the server will be online again. Each player will autoconnect to their company when they join again.
• Connection is peer 2 peer, but you can host the game without public IP. I've implemented also rendezvous server for this, so hopefully it will handle all your requests smoothly.
• You can also protect your server by password.
• Chat window is accessible by ~ or icon in the toolbar. You can easily add a map location or object into your messages by clicking on it when writing a message. Everyone can then easily click on these hypertext links.
• See other player's cursor on the map or even special "beam" when switched to first person mode (walking, driving, using building mounted camera positions etc.). Quite funny feature I would say, I like it a lot :)
• Each new player or company is automatically identified by creator's steam name. No more default names!
• Server browser. It is not filtering games atm, only (for example) by games of your friends.
• New options when starting new game (if to start server too, if mods allowed, default setup for new players cooperative / competitive)
• You have the possibility to send invitation to your friends. It will appear in their steam chat window.
• All scripts run on server side to allow any script interaction or quest sharing
• Some scripts are not compatible with distant processing (on server side) yet, so these are removed in MP (some camera control tutorials for instance)
• Added the possibility to connect directly to the server via steam friends list
• Mods are enabled/disabled/downloaded according to the server you are connecting to. This does not change your future single player game.
• Clients can run faster now. Some events are no more simulated on the client side, but only on server side to release some workload from clients, or to ensure the consistency and also to prevent any client-side cheats or local mods, so nobody gains unfair advantage over other players.
• Smoothing vehicles and player's cursors movement when server sends update

Cooperation x Competition

• I've added rating into stations cargo distribution. Now (in MP) it is important to pick up your cargo frequently to keep your station rating high. Otherwise, the industry will prefer another station or, when your rating drops to zero, redistribute your cargo elsewhere (including to some others of your stations around).
• Companies and players are decoupled in game logic. You can join other players in their companies or start your own. Or change it anytime while in game ;)
• Multiple companies can cooperate on quests (some quests are shared by default). We will be changing this while in multiplayer beta testing. Maybe some more options for sharing quests can be added based on your feedback.
• You can also protect your company by password so no one can join your company freely.
• You can share tracks with another company. Once you share your track other company can connect by their tracks as well, so think twice before allowing them to do it :)
• To prevent other company from using some of your shared tracks, you can place owner-only signal where only your trains can pass through.
• Company rating! This score board (0-1000 points) shows how successful your company is (including detailed graphs). And what is the best result of the rating?...
• Headquarters grows according to your company rating!
• There is also a possibility to send tokens to another player
• Owner's overlay easily showing what assets belong to each company

Other updates

• Yellow chain signal properly causes vehicle to stop when the next exit signal on vehicle's path is red
• Improved shadow filtering, ranges, interpolation between CSM levels and resolution
• Fixed brushes in editor
• Fixed screen vertical tearing when vignetting effect used
• Fixed GPU heating up when in main menu (FPS cap)
• Fixed FPS limiter, so it is more accurate now
• Fixed situations where train is not loading in the first visited station
• Fixed invalid icons when using 100+ active mods. Still there, but occurs later
• Fixed LOD baker issue (polygons over the map, invisible objects)
• Fixed several rare crashes
• Fixed approximately 200 other smaller bugs, including in MP

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Content of city update

• The new update for Mashinky introduces reworking of towns in the game, adding new challenging mechanics to shape residential areas,
• Adding more than 50 buildings related to cities in game, including city upgrades, several levels of each residential building, decoration tiles or even different visual apperance of buildings through ages.

• You can now affect cities, encourage them to grow and help local representatives with urban plans.
• With your care, cities can become really satisfied and beautiful metropolises, where everyone wants to live.
• To achieve this, you will be shaping cities by placing city upgrades, laying roads and deciding where city should grow having more needs satisfied or where to restrict the urban development in order to protect new inhabitants from pollution of industrial areas.

• Update introduces different zones around each city upgrade. These zones unlock through the gameplay, starting with basic amenities for your towns (school, fire brigade, police, ...), relax facilities later in the game (parks, stadiums, gallery) and luxury end-game buildings (luxury car dealer for instance).
• Each residential building has 3-4 different levels based on the co mbination of zones present at the building location, but be aware of pollution areas around industries preventing houses to level up.
• Some other areas are used to set up the urban plan of your town, specifying where it should grow or what areas to avoid with residential buildings development.

• New update also introduces reworked city generator, which is now able to use bridges, tunnels, rotate building towards the street, grow behind multiline railroad crossings or modify terrain in order to produce beatiful and more realistic towns.
• It also uses different tiers of sidewalk to show you the wealth of each city area.

City update

• You are now able to affect cities, encourage them to grow and help local ​representatives with urban plans. With your care, cities can become really satisfied and beautiful metropolises, where everyone wants to live.
• To achieve this, you will be shaping cities by placing city upgrades, laying roads and deciding where city should grow having more needs satisfied or where to restrict the urban development in order to protect new inhabitants from pollution of industrial areas.

New content

• 50+ buildings for your towns (different levels of residential buildings, decoration tiles, functional upgrade buildings)
• New mechanics for cities: Zones around city upgrades. Including new overlay, icons, tutorial
• Each residential building has 3-4 different levels based on the combination of zones present at the building location.
• Different buildings appearance also through ages
• Added sidewalks within some city zones helping you understand where are advanced parts of your city located
• City now has a city square (with several levels based on city size)
• Added city decoration buildings
• New city generator able to use bridges, tunnels, rotate building towards the street or modify terrain

Improvements and Fixes

• Added more buildings color variations (8 -> 16)
• Rail type upgrade now possible also by drag & drop whole area
• Fixed Town size counter. Now only residential buildings are taken into consideration
• Improved no-shadow rendering (mostly shading trees)
• Added deferred decals shader (used for crosswalks now)
• Windows properly align to the empty space as close as possible to prefered position when openned
• Added Ramp terrain tool
• Fixed crash when close window while placing industry upgrade
• Added blinking UI highlighted items now use an arrow to make them more visible
• Added town message when unable to grow, also do not reset counters, only freeze them
• Fixed electricity overlay and electricity distribution

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• Added: Vignettation postprocess (a small detour, where I try to solve long-term comments on a gray and dark world). A pleasant palette of colors is definitely needed for relaxful playing with trains. Plus, it cost me about an hour of my work :)
• Modified: POEditor latest localization text
• Modified: More snow everywhere
• Modified: Cost of Aries vs Lok
• Modified: Lowered Steam API version from 151 to 150 due to Proton crash (SteamUGC from 15 to 14) - Linux Proton fix
• Modified: World towns list included in build
• Removed: Christmass gifts from buildings production
• Removed: Chromatic aberation postprocess (It is not my favourite any more :)
• Fixed: 1x1 towns in new game
• Fixed: Number of towns and town building. Now the city size is the same on all map sizes
• Fixed: Disbalanced town sizes (they are more even)
• Fixed: Quest Limits
• Fixed: Crash when game interacts with invalid building (somewhere in one of 100+ mods)
• Fixed: Lod baker issue (also potential optimization)
• Fixed: Set params in wagon xml
• Fixed: Camera positions in Azakase/Isuzumo engine
• Fixed: Script for quest visit 10 cities
• Fixed: Electricity overlay update
• Fixed: Crash when using stamp near map border
• Fixed: QC script callbacks
• Fixed: Blured wires when DOF turned off
• Fixed: Snow was missing on flat land maps (snow level reacts more on max map height)
• Fixed: One way road upgrade
• Fixed: Glassworks building rule
• Fixed: Mud when generating new map
• Fixed: Wrong road crossing generated when starting new map
• Fixed: Editor generates industry from all eras
• Fixed: Editor regenerating towns / industry now correctly remove roads
• Fixed: Draining money tokens when starting new era
• Fixed: x86 Steam API libraries version
• Fixed: Cost when placing shop

Update content

• Supporting map size up to 1024 x 1024! But be aware, only those having x64 operating system and more than 8GB ram are able to use these maps (maybe some future optimization unlocks them for all players)
• Having this opportunity I've dusted off my brushes and create the new map for you: 1024_h_uk. It is based on real data not only for elevation and town locations & names, but also forest coverage mask, grass wetness mask, industry locations (some of them are having real world names) etc. This map is rather hardcore due to low industry density, but could be a nice challenge for your long winter nights ;)
• Having large maps I've also added one new station upgrade able to unlocks you +2 station size.
• Last, but maybe the most interesting, is Christmas quest. You will need to utilize your railway network / road vehicles even more to serve good things. There are unique visuals and very rare reward for you.

Vouchers

Enjoy holiday season and big Thank you!

Performance optimizations

• Construction terrain rendering performance huge improvement (terrain loding and polygons fake rendering)
• Better vehicles rendering early out
• Better shadow CSM levels rendering order / management
• Time budget for terrain tiles texture update
• Mud fading out performance improved
• Raycasting full terrain improved
• Rect list merging optimized (cause new era freeze)
• Script callback OnConstruct once per tick as maximum (cause new era freeze)
• Dirty rects update after era change
• Terrain and map objects change
• CSM Shadows ranges reacts on visibility range

Ultra zoom out

One-way road stops

Improvements

• Walk mode allows you to enter tunnels, collide with trees, proper collision with ground around buildings, sand and limestone quarry on sloped terrain and proper reaction when player falls through terrain.
• Improved physics for engine acceleration (air friction was wrongly affected by actual power, not actual speed)
• Reworked all train cameras to allow you to see the signal from cabin in most cases, also scaling down signals to further improve visibility

Fixes

• Fixed construction terrain visual glitch on linux, mac and some Intel GPUs fixed
• Fixed FPS Limiter value save/load
• Fixed crash when loading (one way stops flags misused)
• Fixed vehicles are turning around at stations even when no valid path exists

First Person Mode

• Put on your shoes and hurray out
• New Walk mode including collisions, sprint, jump, sounds, ... :)
• Every object enterable directly from walk mode
• Cameras inside vehicles and buildings are visible and usable easily

Driver mode

• Now it is possible to drive your trains!
• You are the driver, so you can change actual engine power, use bakes
• You control also each junction so you may go anywhere or just follow the automatic navigation
• You need to avoid collisions and follow signals as well or stop the train before station ends (proper positioning on a station affects speed of loading/unloading)
• And this applies to your road vehicles as well ;)
• You have the possibility to counter loading / unloading when driving the vehicle.
• Also you can re-stop on station and continue loading / unloading.

Yellow signals

• Based on community feedback on driver mode, I've added yellow signals warning you that red signal is ahead so you can slow down and prepare to stop
• For AI, this acts as an ordinary green signal for now
• For chain signal used as an entrace for multiple exit signals, it is yellow if any of following signal is red

One-way roads

• You may easily place one-way roads!
• Road vehicles will respect the direction and may use overpassing easier
• Within road crossings, you decide on each line if it is bidirectional (no arrows there) or one way

Other

• Added Possibility to place HQ from company window
• Added Possibility to rename company (HQ)
• Fixed Depot tutorial
• Added Sorting mods by alphabeth order
• Added Filtering mods by type

• Fixed track next to road visibility
• Added Continue possibility in main menu
• Fixed removing road from crossroads issue causing FPS drop (includes autoheal when loading this issue saved into savefile)
• Added Philip diesel engine

• Passenger destination (released today)
• City update
• Multiplayer

• There is a new optional feature where passengers knows exactly what they want to go and can smartly decide what vehicle to use, where to switch to another line and how to reach the destination as soon as possible
• This applies also to mail
• Each passenger leaving the train pays for the actual distance traveled and waits in the station for his next train
• Olny passengers reached its destination counts into city growing
• Passengers prefere faster vehicles with less stops before the destination
• This also work with out-of-town transhipment station
• To give you the real time and easy to understand data about each passenger waiting or going by train, each map icon has information about number of passengers heading here
• Also each train or stop window shows clickable details about destinations
• To make it even more interesting, new overlay showing lines occupancy is in the game!
• To keep your save file compatible, the game detects old save format and offer you turning passenger destination on. Otherwise, this can be choosed only when starting a new game

• There is a new window helping you to control the overlays
• It is an auto-hide top right corner fixed window with plenty of useful data
• Overlays are automatically triggered, but now you can force any specific one
• New and very interesting overlay is the Occupancy overlay, able to show you each line where something is delivered as well as its occupancy, also occupancy of each station and even occupancy of each wagon
• You can easily identify bottleneck lines or not-fully-utilized vehicles
• This works for all cargo types and you can filter each cargo type

• Fixed track/Roads/Stations/Bridges/Tunnels on map border
• Fixed red signal in a depot when placed into existing network
• Fixed textures streaming (lodbaker issue when parts of map empty until zoomed in)
• Fixed crash when window rescale while generating / loading the game
• Fixed placing road over rail with signals
• Fixed flickering Vehicle / Stop icon when using autorouting
• Fixed road Depot red signal when placed
• Fixed crash when placing depot to the map border
• Fixed "Camera icon" functionality
• Fixed missing 2 road vehicles icons
• Fixed UI proper removing of item when also async adding it in the same tick (potential crash cause)
• Fixed autorouting pass dest when using out-of-town transhipment station
• Fixed wrong window tab openned when hitting bottom right corner icons
• Fixed overlay glitches when device lost
• Fixed crash when load some of the old saves

• Added ability to show vehicles having route through this station

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New industries

New locomotives

New wagons

New vehicles

Station upgrades

Quests

New features

Bugfixes