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Improved shaders, sea reflections, fixes and more..

Hello respected community!




We are already working on 5th era, but it will take some time, so meantime here you have rather visual update, but also fixes for several bugs.

Main updates:
  • Sea reflections
  • Shadows improvements
  • "Turn around" button force train to stop, turn around and continue
  • Town size and number of depot / station / building upgrades visible in map icon
  • Fixed Green signal issue when upgrading track
  • Fixed Building tunel "under sea level" issue
  • Fixed Upgrading / Removing parallel track under the bridge


Complete changelog:


Added
  • Shadow blur pass (bilateral filtering via depth difference)
  • Sea reflection (bridges, tracks, buildings, trees, vehicles)
  • Optimized: Sea Reflection (portal reflecting frustum culling)
  • "Turn around" button in train window force train to stop, turn around and start again
  • Showing town population and number of building / depot / station upgrades directly in map icons
  • First version of sea reflections optimization (per tile sea level/portal reflected frustum culling) (WIP)


Modified
  • Upgrade tab icon
  • Icons for upgrade and industry changed in tool bar and main menu
  • Snow brightness is more subtle


Fixed
  • Path-finding Issue
  • Wrong Green signal (potential train accidents when modifing track)
  • Trees Shadow in winter (without fallen leaves)
  • Postponed quests fixed (it happend that they never come back)
  • Tool bar state reset after load (cinstruction mode, game speed)
  • Endless loop when loading save file ingame
  • Valley bottoms raised to allow tunnel under
  • Loading specific savefile
  • Upgrading / removing parallel track under the bridge
  • Bridge half pylons issue
  • Sea shadow noise
  • Sea reflections text in setup window


Removed
  • Storage full message (until proper msg setup window implemented)


Thats all I can share for now, but we have more currently work in progress ;)

Have a nice day!
Jan