V1.13.0.2

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This release contains a major step forwards in graphics capabilities, thanks to Aditiya Afrizal- Shadow effects.

Shadow effects may currently be controlled globally through a new options page. Please note that results will vary, depending on the way any given route has been constructed, and the lighting setup it uses.

Significant Changes:

• New: Add shadow effects. (Aditiya Afrizal)
• New: Allow the clip-distance to be configurable. (Aditiya Afrizal)
• New: Add the CameraCar animated instruction.
• New: Handle Intel DVI ADPCM and GSM-610 format WAV files.
• New: Add optional smooth camera transition effects, when switching between views. (Aditiya Afrizal)
• Change: Assorted improvements to the wavefront object parsers.
• Change: Set the specular lighting color from the X object parsers.
• Change: Improved the GL main menu on non-standard DPI.
• Change: Improved the behaviour of menus when the game window is resized.
• Change: Aspect value of 0 is also accepted as a 2-aspect R/G signal in CSV files with hacks enabled. (BVE2 accepts this)
• Change: Implement BVE2 panel.cfg transparency mask- Please see the following errata entry for further details.
• Change: Implement the BVE5 black clear color- Helps with some routes which use this to hide things.
• Change: Improvements to Bve5_Parsing library.
• Change: Bump SharpCompress version
• Compatability: Add UchiboX objects to database.
• Compatability: Update route patch database.
• Fix: XML door sounds missing in cars other than the driver car.
• Fix: XML motor sounds not quite right (again…)
• Fix: XML couplers not parsed right.
• Fix: Physics issue with couplers where Minimum == Maximium
• Fix: Bug with BVE5 routes using interpolation in the first block.
• Fix: Improve handling of some BMP files containing an undeclared color table.
• Fix: Pressing and holding the R key kept toggling the renderer type indefinitely.
• Fix: Typo in TE2 exported coupling behaviour.
• Fix: Route map creation moved to the main GDI Plus lock.
• Fix: The AI driver could get stuck with extremely close signal / station spacing.