Version 1.5.1.1

Significant Changes:

• Fix: Trains missing the Sound.cfg file (A minority of trains from the BVE1 / BVE2 era) were broken.
• Fix: Several issues with the TrackFollowerFunction, relating to station jumps.
• Fix: A time-based animation updated incorrectly when returning from the menu.
• Fix: A route encoded in UTF-8, with a $Include file encoded in SHIFT_JIS had incorrect character mapping in station names.
• Change: Improved handling of broken/ non-standard folder structures.
• New: Added an in-game gradient display option. (Must be added under Controls for existing users. New installs are set to CTRL + N by default)

Version 1.5.1.0

This release contains several more requested features, as well as improvements to the main menu system. There has been one behavioural change affecting all prior content.

Behavioural Changes:

In prior versions of OpenBVE, pressing and holding a horn key would cause the sound to repeatedly trigger until the key was released. This has been changed to the following:

• Primary & Secondary horns: The sound will play once.
• MusicHorn: The sound will toggle on with the first keypress, then toggle off.

Please see also the following errata note:

https://github.com/leezer3/OpenBVE/wiki/Errata#horn-behavior

Significant Changes:

• New: Three-part horn sounds are now supported.
• New: A needle declared within a Panel2.cfg file, with the subject of hour , min or sec will now accept the additional parameter Smoothed , to use either smooth or stepped rotations.
• New: Switch sounds based upon the current run index are now supported.
• New: The subjects Klaxon , PrimaryKlaxon , SecondaryKlaxon and MusicKlaxon are now available for animations.
• New: In-game menus may be scrolled using the mouse.
• Fix: An optimised animated object with multiple functions could appear in the wrong position.
• Fix: Object based backgrounds broken in certain obscure cases.
• Fix: Object based backgrounds could clip incorrectly.
• Fix: Incorrect keyup events generated when leaving the in-game menu.
• Fix: The pressure for a straight air-brake did not quite go to zero, causing the run sound to continously play for some trains.
• Fix: A train with defined bogies for cars greater than than the length in train.dat crashed.
• Fix: If the restart process was invalid in filesystem.cfg , this would generate an error message & not restart.
• Fix: A control with no assigned target would crash the in-game configuration menu.
• Fix: The mouse did not work in the second or greater page of in-game menus with multiple pages.
• Change: Disable the FileSystemWatcher on OS-X, as this leaks open file handles.
• Change: Enter key not marked for translation.
• Change: Update pt-PT translation.

Version 1.5.0.10

With it having been nearly three months since the last release, I thought it time to upload another. The ‘RC’ tag has also been removed from this release, as I believe that it’s now in a state which can truly be called stable. (Famous last words…..)

Significant Changes:

• New: The ‘compatibility’ objects have been expanded to include open-source copies of all of the original Uchibo objects, as these are used by many older routes.
• New: Animated files now allow times written in the HH:MMss format to be used in expressions.
• New: The parameter WrapMode (b3d) / SetWrapMode (csv) has been added to allow object authors to control the texture wrapping mode used by the game engine.
• New: The command Route.StartTime has been added. This allows route authors to set the starting time independently of the arrival time at the first station.
• New: Plugins may now interlock the state of the train doors.
• New: Plugins may now add or subtract a score value.
• Change: Damping is no longer applied to rotations when switching between camera views.
• Change: The colon is now allowed for use as a time separator.
• Fix: If a route used compatibility objects, but was written with an UTF incompatible text encoding, these objects would not load.
• Fix: Some characters were not correctly serialized into package descriptions when using the Mono runtime.
• Fix: It was sometimes possible to arrive late at the first station upon loading the game.
• Fix: Several issues with the TrackFollowerFunction.
• Fix: A potential crash when drawing route maps.
• Fix: Normals were not updated correctly in certain instances.
• Fix: It was possible for the ansiotropic filtering level to get stuck at zero.

Version 1.5.0.1

Version RC9a:

• Windows installer re-uploaded due to a missing critical file. This should fix instances of ‘Unhandled Windows Forms Exception’ when clicking in the main menu. Sorry about that!

Significant Changes:

RC9:

• Fixes some more issues with packages and the main menu on various system combinations.
• Fixes a bug with yaw/ pitch/ roll in some animated objects.
• Animated object visibility was not correctly updated when using the free camera. (See errata note: https://github.com/leezer3/OpenBVE/wiki/Errata#animated-objects-not-introduced-properly-when-using-the-free-camera )
• Fix: A value of zero is not valid for a Route.RunInterval command.

New command line switches:

• /station= Jumps to the given station on startup.
• /time= Fast-forwards to the given time on startup.
• /fullscreen= true or 1 for fullscreen.
• /width= and /height= Sets the screen width and height.

Version 1.5.0.1

Significant Changes:

RC8:

• Fixes a Packages crash on some Mono systems.
• Fixes a potential crash when closing the in-game menu.
• Add Dynamic Lighting and Dynamic Backgrounds: http://bveworldwide.unlimitedboard.com/t1326p25-dynamic-lighting-backgrounds-based-upon-the-time-of-day