n3v_laurence
Moderator
Thank you to all those who have been testing Trainz Plus Beta. We have another minor update to fix some of the issues found in the last build as well as several improvements to the new shader settings.
Please report any bugs using this link: https://n3vgames.typeform.com/to/xRdryu
Key Features:
Change log from 121941 to 122060:
HD Grid:
Effect Layers:
User Interface Changes:
Important Information:
Known Issues:
REMINDER:
** Please ensure you have a backup of your local data folder before using it with Trainz Plus Beta **
INSTALLING & PATCHING:
For Trainz Plus Beta via the Trainz Plus Beta Stream
PC Trainz Store Only:
Requires build 121941 (PC). This is a small patch 40 MiB for build 122060
This build introduces several new key features coming to Trainz Plus in 2023. Please note this is a Beta release and as such, some features are still in the final phase of development.
Please report any bugs using this link: https://n3vgames.typeform.com/to/xRdryu
Key Features:
- New HD Grid resolution
- New Shader Options, Basic, Standard & Extreme
- Basic is equivalent to old Standard
- Standard is equivalent to old Ultra
- New Update Route option
- Clutter Effect Layer Rework
- GPU Clutter
- New Color Tint Effect Layer
- New User Interfaces
- Water Effect Layers changes including options for water color
Change log from 121941 to 122060:
- Water Effect Layer Fixes - Further Upgrade Route fixes
- TurfFX Effect Layer Fixes - Potential deadlock when exiting
- Standard Shader adjustment - Improved visuals for HD terrain height details
- Tweaks to Terrain Height draw - Improved updates to terrain in distance when roaming
HD Grid:
- 30km draw distance
- Tessellation ensuring detail up close, reduced detail in the distance
- Original textures used for mini-map/satellite view (No "Low LOD" textures)
- Maximum 16 textures per baseboard
- Minimum 0.125m Radius brush size
- No baseboard "walls" (extend your terrain indefinitely)
- Rotation and Scale options for HD Textures
- Scrapbook support should be good now (please report bugs with detailed steps)
- Lots of tweaks to parallax and displacement mapping
- "Add New Baseboard" option
- "Convert Existing Baseboard to..." option
- "Upgrade Route" option to automate conversion to HD
- Converts legacy water to water effect layer (all water will appear 5m below ground surface)
- Updates all baseboards to HD
- Checks for the 16 most used textures on each board and replaces other textures with nearby textures (Automatic Handling)
Effect Layers:
- Color Effect Layer type added (S20 & HD Terrain Only)
- Rework and improvement of Clutter Effects
- Implementation of GPU Clutter for smoother performance
- Water Effect Layers now support color changes
User Interface Changes:
- New Driver Properties Window
- New Driver Settings, Driver location, Player Assignment, Dispatch Status, Command status, Activity log
- Vehicle Properties Window updated with new properties as per Driver
- New Driver MiniMap (found in Driver Properties Window)
- New Driver Palette for S20
Important Information:
- HD Terrain is only editable in S20
- HD Terrain does not support seamless joins to legacy terrain (so we recommend converting the entire route)
- HD Terrain is not compatible with Legacy Water
- Converting from HD Terrain to 5m & 10m will cause some loss of detail
- Large Copy & Paste operations do not support HD detail
- Color Effect requires a minimum 5m radius
- Use Sensitivity % to adjust the rate of update when painting/terraforming
- New Detail windows and logs
- Asset naming (previously done via properties) has been moved to Info Palette
Known Issues:
- The current build has had some optimisation, however there are some known slow operations that will be addressed prior to official release.
- High resource usage on HD routes
- Assertion Errors are enabled for this build. Trainz will pause until Assertion Errors are closed. Users can select Continue and Ignore Errors. (Reporting when these occur with bugs will help with troubleshooting)
- DLC packages will report a failure to download precache data. Clicking retry will ignore the error and proceed to complete installation
- DLC Packages will report a precache assertion error during database rebuild. Select Continue and Ignore Errors
- MPS is unsupported for this build
- Water Effect Layer does not work with color from skybox, but instead has its own color options, now allowing for different water colors for each individual Water Effect Layer
- Potential Deadlock when using Bulk Replace
- Driver Properties window not correctly updating
REMINDER:
** Please ensure you have a backup of your local data folder before using it with Trainz Plus Beta **
INSTALLING & PATCHING:
For Trainz Plus Beta via the Trainz Plus Beta Stream
PC Trainz Store Only:
Requires build 121941 (PC). This is a small patch 40 MiB for build 122060
This build introduces several new key features coming to Trainz Plus in 2023. Please note this is a Beta release and as such, some features are still in the final phase of development.
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