OpenBVE v1.5.0.1 RC6

Almost two months after opening this site, it’s now time to post the a series of release candidates for the new 1.5.0 stable series of builds.

Version 1.5.0.1

Significant Changes:

• Graphical/ audio backend ported to openTK.
• Package Managment system added.
• Correctly moving bogies added.
• Various animation variables added.
• Large numbers of bugs fixed. (Probably some new ones too!)
• New in-game map & gradient profile.
• Timetable display options improved.

RC2:

• Fix a critical Windows installer bug.

RC3:

• Improve error handling when loading the train.dat file
• Fix a crash when attempting to clone a null object.
• Add ~30 additional translatable strings. (Thanks MarcRiera!)

RC4:

• Selecting package dependancies could crash in some cases.
• It was possible to get the installer stuck in an unresolved state when a version conflict occured.
• The bug report dialog wasn’t working properly on Linux due to path issues.
• Package websites missing the http:// would cause a crash when clicked on.

RC5:

• Improved UI on package management. (Button placement etc. - Thanks MarcRiera)
• Fixed various bugs relating to packages with dependancies.
• Improve handling of various situations pertaining to a missing Data folder.
• Fix a crash when creating packages on some versions of OS-X.

RC6:

• Added a Recently Used folders list to the route and train browsers.
• Add the animation function TrackFollowerFunction
• Add railtypes to the list of available commands for use in a Cycle.
• Fix a crash when creating packages.
• Train packages could under certain circumstances acquire an extra ‘Train’ folder/
• The route and train lists under the ‘Start’ screen were not refreshed when installing or removing a package.
• Fix a rare crash encountered when loading a texture failed unexpectedly.

Note: The inital version of RC 6 contained two critical bugs on non-Windows platforms. These have now been fixed- Please re-download if OpenBVE fails to launch.