Mashinky update for 9 May 2019

Hello respected community!

5th era is finally out now!

Please enjoy and let me know any concern, feedback, issues ;)

Full changelog is here:

5th Era update overview

• 5 new locos (3 electric, 1 diesel, 1 quest loco), 6 new wagons (1 quest wagon)
• 3 new industry buildings with upgrades
• 2 new buildings without upgrades
• 6 new quests, 1 era quest
• 1 new cargo type
• 1 new track type, new depot
• new sounds, particle, camera positions, fixes, features, visual effects, etc.

Electrified track

• Electrified track (UI, 3D assets, gameplay params & balancing, transition parts, AI pathfinding, new depot)

Fields

• Field generator (respects terrain shape, chunking into compact shapes, select amount in newgame dialog, tools for planting and removing, limit trees on fields)
• Field types - corn, grain, sunflower
• Shader feature for Fields growing in spring, autumn harvest, clipping by rocks, separate "harvestable" geometry (fences stays over the winter)
• Field type moved to xml - so fields are modable too!
• Generating fields even into savegame when old savefile detected

Script

• New quests for 5th era
• Bonus wagons present in the depot even if owner quest invisible

Buildings

• Oil power plant, upgrades
• Coal power plant, upgrades
• Farm, upgrades
• Glassworks (quest building)
• Food shop
• Temporal coal mine upgrade

Vehicles

• New Ragulin diesel loco
• New Alligator electric loco
• New E118 electric loco
• New E66 Azakase electric loco
• New Passenger, Mail and Restaurant wagon
• New Timber wagon

Rendering

• All textures are now compressed (smaller HDD footprint, faster streaming)
• Transparent pass (Glasses)
• Fresnel driven glossiness
• Overlays for track type (helpers for track upgrading)
• Vehicle particle delay randomizer (controlled by its xml params)
• New Electric loco particle
• Improved details via distance interpolation

Sounds

• New sets of sounds for electrified locos
• New Sounds for Oil Power plant, Coal power plant, Farm
• Loco sound reference speed (not needed current max speed) - this will provide more engine sound variations

User Interface

• By deselecting wagon / loco type filter in depot, all are activated again
• Prefered track (only when using shortcuts) is now automatically updated once new track appears or after load / start new game
• Screen resolutions sorting (also it offers Full Screen multiple times with different frequencies)
• 55 new buildings cameras and 24 new vehicles cameras
• Vehicle shows depot icon when it's heading to a depot
• Missing or dangerous mods windows shows only up to 10 first mods and "..." instead of the rest to fit the screen

Gameplay

• All tracks returns full price once removed (so player can get tokens back by removing track)
• Train chooses depot exit according to its track type (for bug depot with multiple exits)
• Multiexit depots are possible now even for one-depot mode (you may place multiple depots chunked together)
• Upgrade also to basic track (downgrade from any track type to basic one)
• Generator places buildings closer to map edge - up to 5 tiles instead of 5%
• Params for all new vehicles and wagons, several iterations, balancing

Optimizations

• Better clipping for plants, smooth terrain chunks and grass
• Faster Generating new map and Loading savegame

Fixes

• GPU loop issue, fullscreen switching (not verified all occurrence yet)
• Wring UI text size computation (caused empty space in missing mods list window)
• Grass length, wrong clipping, added some grass on rocks
• Flickering when rendering large buildings far from camera
• Unable to load the game when some mods are missing and others are dangerous
• Train does not skip waypoints when right after full unload / load
• Removed unnecessary whitespaces at the beginning and end of mod name
• Dithering lod transition
• Some Script issues
• Clipping of grass and fields near the bottom screen edge
• Terrain type names
• Map generating issue (caused slow down of generating)
• Sea foam rendering
• Grass & Fields mask where bridge ends, also for station and station upgrades
• Correct upgrade cost (take track sell cost also into account)
• Removed gravel under town buildings, used grass and gravel paths instead
• Using enter when missing mods window appear no more break the loaded game
• Crash / corrupted far geometry after map edit
• Depot refresh after upgrading track inside
• Tons issues with glass and fields when implementing them :)

Hope you will like it as much as I do (and due to the fact it probably the biggest update so far)

Thanks again for your support and interest in Mashinky game!

Best,
Jan