0.5.0-RC1 (2006-12-21)
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- General fixes and improvements to TTDPatch's newgrf format, most noticable are newstations, newsounds, more callbacks and I18n
- Added languages: Bulgarian, Esperanto, Russian, Ukrainian, Languages with proper diacretics: Czech, Hungarian, Turkish
- Feature: Show NewGRF compatability of network games; green for full compatibility, yellow for missing newgrfs and red for invalid revision (r7505)
- Feature: Load a list of NewGRFs from the config (in the [newgrf-static] section) that should always be loaded (r7490)
- Feature: Double the length of the cargo and rating indicators in the station list window for better visibility (r7466)
- Feature: NewGRF set up window and browser which allows modification and viewing of NewGRF settings ingame or the main menu (r7357)
- Feature: Support for saving NewGRF settings with savegames (r7348)
- Feature: Add support for gradual (un)loading of vehicles (r7326)
- Feature: Add freight trains patch option which is a multiplier for the weight of cargo on freight trains, to simulate longer heavier trains (r7269)
- Feature: UNICODE/UTF8 support, with (optional) usage of fonts rendered by Freetype instead of sprites. This means full unicode support (input, rendering, file/io) and greatly enhanced internationalization for non-latin languages (utf8) (r7182)
- Feature: Add Slovak, Brazil and Slovenian currency [SF 1243657, 1171147; FS#131] (r7160, r5964)
- Feature: Allow towns to be built on top of trees in the scenario editor [FS#396] (r7152)
- Feature: Allow over-building of compatible railtypes, i.e. normal and electrified rail. If building electrified rail, normal rail is upgraded for you (at a cost) (r7106)
- Feature: Additional positioning for long dropdown lists with scrollbar support if dropdown list wouldn't fit (r7086)
- Feature: [win32] Remember the window size between restarts when quit in fullscreen mode (r7061)
- Feature: Increase the chatbuffer of chat messages, messages longer than the graphical box will be wrapped to a new line (r6956)
- Feature: Allow typing longer text than visible for an editbox; it will scroll properly now (r6954)
- Feature: Allow spectators to team-speak to eachother (r6933)
- Feature: Allow for " to be in console tokens. Escape them with \. eg \" (r6875)
- Feature: Change the functionality of the chat window. SHIFT+ENTER (SHIFT+T) sends a message to all players, CTRL+ENTER (CTRL+T) sends a message to all team mates and ENTER (T) is customizable (r6824)
- Feature: (Train is) lost message is now generated immediately when pathfinder can't find the path (r6800)
- Feature: Add a measurement tool that will show dimensions and height differences of various draggable tools (r6758)
- Feature: Added sort options to the build aircraft and train windows (r6708)
- Feature: Depot lists are now sorted, so vehicle 1 is always first and so on (r6652)
- Feature: Ability to pause a server if not enough players are connected. The setting for this is 'min_players' (r6628)
- Feature: Ability for servers to execute a script just after a client has connected, e.g. for a MOTD, etc (r6625)
- Feature: Add refit commands to vehicle orders (can only be done in goto depot orders) (r6624)
- Feature: Support cargo subtypes in the refit window. The refit window has been altered to support resizing and scrolling (r6601)
- Feature: Depot and vehicle list windows reworked a bit with more buttons to include 'Autoreplace all' (instantly), 'Sell all', 'Start all' and 'Stop all' (r6542, r6552, r6515)
- Feature: Using goto depot with a different control selection will now alter the service/stopping in depot flag instead of cancelling the goto depot order (r6295)
- Feature: When automatically detecting the language try to first match language+territory (e.g. de_CH), then just language (e.g. de) and fall back to en_GB otherwise (r6290)
- Feature: Add a "goto depot" button to various vehicle list windows (r6229, r6246)
- Feature: Save max_companies/clients/spectators in the config file (r6170)
- Feature: Vehicle status bar will show the heading string in different colours to visually discern the difference between a service and a forced stop (r6165, r6414)
- Feature: Control clicking Goto Depot will now make the vehicle service instead of stop in depot (r6165)
- Feature: List of vehicles with the same shared orders, accessible from the orders-window of a given vehicle (r6161)
- Feature: Added -s (source) and -d (destination) to strgen to specify paths for input and output files (r6089)
- Feature: After removing a farm, its farmland is removed too (over time) [FS#82]
- Feature: Clicking twice on the location button in the smallmap centers to your position, clicking twice centres your viewport [FS#54] (r6040)
- Feature: Change the original date format to a 32 bits format based at the year 0. Highest date is the year 5.000.000AC (r5999)
- Feature: Auto-completion in chat-window. It completes Player and Town names (in that order) using <tab> (r5968)
- Feature: Catalan Town Names generator [FS#261] (r5965)
- Feature: Possibility to generate scenarios by importing heightmaps. It can be in PNG or BMP format
- Feature: New (optional) landscape generator based on TerraGenesis Perlin noise with GUI, progress bar and fine-tuning options (r5946)
- Feature: Filter for textboxes to only allow input of certain patterns (like numbers only) (r5944)
- Feature: [win32] Remember the maximized state of the game window and restore on start [FS#234] (r5874)
- Feature: Add an icon to the SDL openttd executable (r5872)
- Feature: Also allow horizontal and vertical rails on steep slopes (r5864)
- Feature: Allow building of (certain) rails, roads and bridge ramps on steep sloped tiles (r5833)
- Feature: Replacing from a train engine without cargo capacity to one with cargo capacity will now make autoreplace refit the engine to carry the cargo type from the last wagon in the train (r5465)
- Feature: [OSX] Macs with touchpads that support two finger scrolling can now use this "scrollwheel" to scroll up/down (r5460)
- Feature: Allow building canals at sea-level, using ctrl to toggle canal or plain water tile. This allows building of non-raisable sea-level water ways (useful in multiplayer) and dikes for low-level areas (r5403)
- Feature: Add 4 new airports. 2 for aircraft, 2 for helicopters (r5346)
- Feature: Implement smooth horizontal depot and, vehicle list scrolling for trains (r5046)
- Feature: Add new pathfinder, YAPF. Has greatly improved performance and better, fully configurable, pathfinding (yapf) (r4987)
- Feature: Add a new console command "players" that lists current players along with basic stats [FS#150] (r4828)
- Feature: Station List View can now be sorted and filtered (by waiting cargo type and facilities) (r4822)
- Feature: The integer-list parser now accepts a space character as an item seperator next to the comma for openttd.cfg (r4490)
- Feature: Add support for electric railways as a seperate tracktype. Electric trains will not run on non-electrfied track unless otherwise controlled by patch option (elrails) (r4150)
- Feature: A new multi-lingual multi-measuring-unit system (r4126)
- Feature: Add proper OPENTTD <> LOCALCODE conversion using iconv. Savegames with special characters will be legible in filesystem (r4105)
- Feature: Undraw the mouse when it leaves the window and draw it again when it enters (r4075, r4083)
- Feature: It is now possible to turn a single unit in a train (CTRL+Click on unit in depot) (r3944)
- Feature: Delete news items about vehicles when they get stale (r3757)
- Feature: Save patch settings with the savegame so you are presented with the same behaviour when loading the game on another machine/installment (r3726)
- Feature: Add 2cc (two company colours) livery schemes. This replaces the original colour selection window (r3717, r6455)
- Feature: [OSX] Added support for tripple binaries (binaries optimised for G3, G5 and i686) (r3674)
- Feature: Allow autoreplacing of train wagons (r3535)
- Feature: Allow sorting of vehicle lists by model or value (r3528)
- Feature: Allow trains details view to be resized (r3521)
- Codechange: Improve the usability of the signal-dragger, do not bail out at (certain) errors, just silently ignore them [FS#149] (r7127)
- Codechange: Make the zoom in/out buttons of the extra viewport into proper push-buttons (r7078)
- Codechange: Make the AI choose road vehicles based on a rating (currently max speed * capacity) instead of either the cost or the index of the vehicle (r7070)
- Codechange: Truncate text in window captions to prevent overflow (r7058)
- Codechange: Allow standard ini-file style comments (;) (r6972)
- Codechange: Send server messages with format NETWORK_ACTION_SERVER_MESSAGE so it is general colour like the rest of the server messages. Spectators speak in grey (r6932)
- Codechange: Change textmessage format a bit. Only the sender's name and target are in the sender's colour, the actual message is in white. Should improve readability (r6932)
- Codechange: Add an MD5 sum check of our own data files, and warn if they don't match (r6921)
- Codechange: Add strict bounds checking in string formatting system to check for possible buffer overflows (r6884)
- Codechange: Have the dropdown menus fall fully inside the top toolbar (r6745)
- Codechange: Determine the length of the main toolbar dropdown list based on the length of the strings in that list (r6744)
- Codechange: When vehicles never expire they will stay at peak reliability instead of the lowest to make them useful even when old (r6681)
- Codechange: Show more correct capacity of articulated wagons in the train purchase list (r6650)
- Codechange: When showing tooltips, properly position the tooltip taking into account window dimensions and cursor (r6405)
- Codechange: Speed up the animated cursors a bit so they move once in a while at least (r6367)
- Codechange: Remove the "unsorted" vehicle sorter, because it's plain useless (r6270)
- Codechange: Remove MSVC6 support. The compiler was too stupid and too many workarounds were needed. Please switch to mingw or VC2005++ express (r5286)
- Codechange: Allow a switch in Makefile.config to disable threads in OpenTTD (r5978)
- Codechange: [win32] Add native x64 target to VS2005 project files (r5813)
- Codechange: [win32]The exception dialog showed the last modification-date of win32.c instead of the last compilation-date (r5801)
- Codechange: Add owner attribute to canals and locks. This makes them more useful in multiplayer games, as only the owner can delete them. Does not affect usage (r5084)
- Codechange: Add MSVC2005 support, project and solution files are in the _vs80.* files (r4581)
- Codechange: [OSX] Shark (Xcode's profiling tool) can now relate CPU usage to lines (r3611)
- Codechange: Rewrite the multistop slot assignment system. More resource-friendly, several slot-assignment improvements (r3730, r4259)
- Codechange: Completely remove the deprecated -p parameter (is superseded by -n) (r3508)
- Fix: Town ratings were not reset when a company went bankrupt (r7433)
- Fix: With realistic acceleration, guarantee a minimum braking force is applied. This ensures trains will stop when going down hill (r7425)
- Fix: Changed "kick off" acceleration resulted in only a small amount of power being applied; this resulted in a perceived delay before trains moved. (r7421)
- Fix: Long delay for message windows to appear. Immediately show a new message if present if no news window is open, or has just been closed instead of waiting for the timer of the current news to time out [FS#255] (r7402)
- Fix: Deleting Train in depot with autoreplace fails [FS#418] (r7385)
- Fix: Don't update vehicle images when turning a train around. During this procedure the train is split into parts which can result in incorrect images being used (r7378)
- Fix: OpenTTD could crash under certain circumstances when a vehicle as autoreplaced and a news window was open [FS#332] (r7368)
- Fix: Segmentation fault in the SDL video driver when one goes to fullscreen and there are no suitable resolutions (r7332)
- Fix: When loading a game from a dedicated server the local player set to 0, theoretically enabling the dedicated server to also play (r7312)
- Fix: TTDPatch vars are little endian (r7282)
- Fix: Always display the excavation of roadworks even when fully zoomed out or "full details" are off (r7240)
- Fix: Window allocation and deletion messed with the actual window pointer, possibly crashing OpenTTD [FS#350, SF#1560913] (r7205)
- Fix: Callback not executed for non-player based patch changes in multiplayer for all clients; possible desync issue (r7190)
- Fix: Station sign (and base station coordinates) didn't move along with station when station moved by walking. [FS#388] (r7169)
- Fix: MiniMap was misplacing vehicles sometimes [FS#402] (r7166)
- Fix: Some mouse events possibly lost under high CPU load, handle mouse input right away instead of waiting for GameLoop. [FS#221, SF1168820] (r7157)
- Fix: Some keyboard events possibly lost under high CPU load, handle keyboard input in place instead of global variables magic. [FS#279] (r7153)
- Fix: "Position of Main Toolbar" option isn't honored when starting new game or loading saved [FS#172] (r7130)
- Fix: Synchronize the engine-renew settings of a player when joining a multiplayer game (r7126)
- Fix: Several errors/glitches related to multiplayer and bankrupcy (mainly server), and non-updated company-information (r7125)
- Fix: Cloning a vehicle that has been refitted would incur the expense as running costs, not new vehicles [FS#371] (r7115)
- Fix: Do not let ships enter partial water tiles under bridges; they will travel up land... (r7110)
- Fix: AI tried to build road from the back or side of road stop/depot (r7069)
- Fix: Zooming out near map-borders would previously fail because the new centre would be outside the map [FS#317] (r7047)
- Fix: 'Goto' button in orders window got depressed along with all other buttons when an existing order was modified [FS#311] (r7046)
- Fix: Scenario bridges/tunnels cannot be demolished [FS#200] (r7028)
- Fix: Pressing F1 in scenario editor did not work (r7023)
- Fix: Properly guard against viewing company-sensitive information from invalid players (eg spectators) which could lead to crashes [FS#292] (r7022)
- Fix: In the replace vehicle window, the left vehicle list was not drawn when an engine was not selected (r7009)
- Fix: Crash at game end when server company is bankrupt [FS#369] (r7008)
- Fix: List of actions panel in the town authority window went underneath its scrollbar (r6885)
- Fix: Pressing ^D (EOF) at a dedicated console caused it to repeat the last command, instead of doing nothing (r6835)
- Fix: Don't add up running cost of articulated engine parts (r6765)
- Fix: If a rail is not available, don't show toolbar even with hotkey 'A' (r6740)
- Fix: Only apply the virtual transfer profit if the order is a transfer order, rather than to any unload order (r6738)
- Fix: Disable main toolbar buttons showing company list drop downs when there are no companies [FS#356] (r6695)
- Fix: Autoreplace can now use the money for selling the old vehicle to build the new one (r6640)
- Fix: A loop-hole that allowed docks to be built regardless of town authority rating (r6477)
- Fix: [win32] The dedicated server could overwrite the keyboard input buffer before it was handled by OpenTTD (r6449)
- Fix: Reset the location of the last sound as that location can be outside the map when you are loading another, (smaller) map (r6437)
- Fix: Show an error message when executing 'scrollto x' with x < 0 or >= MapSize() instead of asserting later on [FS#340] (r6435)
- Fix: Station catchment area persists after switching tools [FS#136] (r6368)
- Fix: Do not reset the current cursor action when centering on a depot/hangar (r6360)
- Fix: Go to hangar orders for aircraft could get spuriously removed when a road or rail depot got deleted (r6355)
- Fix: Due to some off-by-one errors the width or height of a clipping rectangle could become 0, which isn't sensible. This should fix a very rare and hard to trigger assertion in GfxFillRect() (r6351)
- Fix: Never allow scrolling the map in the main menu (scroll-settings weren't reset if switched to mainmenu) (r6037)
- Fix: Never set I-am-a-thread bool to true IN the thread, dual-core machines could flip [FS#78] (r5977)
- Fix: Town-growth removed houses under construction to make way for road; unwanted behaviour [FS#49] (r5970)
- Fix: Cloned toad vehicles are not refitted to correct cargo [FS#275] (r5917)
- Fix: Bugfix for errors in FindNearestHangar function in aircraft_cmd.c [FS#235] (r5914)
- Fix: Sort order for produced amount and transported percentage was reversed in the industry list (r5912)
- Fix: Changing patch settings through the console didn't accept on/off or true/false [FS#170] (r5903)
- Fix: Differing price calculation for tunnels depending on starting point [FS#253] (r5901)
- Fix: Goto sepot not always working for road vehicles [FS#249] (r5898)
- Fix: Bus trying to service in depot of other company [SF1519167] (r5897)
- Fix: If vehicles break down and service is turned off, the vehicles failed to enter any depots; now they will quickly go to a depot if set to be replaced (r5888)
- Fix: Incomplete removal of player owned property due to lack of money [FS#273] (r5886)
- Fix: < > boxes in patch-settings didn't grey out when they hit the limit of their range (r5714)
- Fix: Check the configuration file for valid values and clamp them to their ingame minimum/maximum [SF1288024] (r3726)
- Fix: Remove the restriction that the 'patch' console command can only be run from network games [SF1366446] (r3723)