openBVE v1.5.1.6

Significant Changes:

• New: Basic support for the RailDriver controller from PI Engineering. (Requires calibration, see P2 of 'Options')
• New: openBVE will load many Loksim3D objects.
• Fix: ACE textures using 1-bit alpha were broken.
• Fix: Potential infinite recursion bug in path resolution API.
• Fix: Several components of Japanese BVE1 panels were not working correctly.
• Fix: BVE4 trams from Martin Finken (GT6, TW6000 original version etc.) had a broken initial panel zoom.
• Fix: Backgrounds textures not correctly loaded in the Minobu route for BVE2.
• Fix: Inconsistent error messages under some package management situations.
• Change: The sounds for the default (no) ATS plugin may be overwritten via sound.cfg. Please see the following errata note for further details: https://github.com/leezer3/OpenBVE/wiki/Errata#default-plugin-ats-sounds
• Change: Route / train specific hacks may be turned off via setting enablebvetshacks to false in the options file. These should generally be left enabled.

openBVE v1.5.1.5

Significant Changes:

• New: Bumped openTK version, better support for various joysticks (e.g. Thrustmaster HOTAS-X)
• New: Object Viewer and Route Viewer support drag + drop.
• Fix: AI trains could get stuck at the terminal station. (Introduced with 1.5.1.4)
• Fix: Improved handling of character encoding mismatches in various places.
• Fix: Blue colored text did not work.
• Fix: The pitch for the Right Door open sound was incorrect.
• Fix: Supplying an empty Object string in an extensions.cfg file crashed.
• Change: Debian package dependancies tweaked to work on more recent versions.
• Change: Removed various duplicate code from Route Viewer / Object Viewer.

openBVE v1.5.1.4

Significant Changes:

• Fix: Improved handling of .Section commands with unexpected contents. (Signals could get stuck on red in rare cases)
• Fix: Departure occurring at the terminal station.
• Fix: When using the AI driver & certain .Net plugins, the reverser repeatedly bounced on and off at the terminal station.
• Fix: Rolling backwards whilst moving off from a station stop on a hill caused the it to trigger again.

openBVE v1.5.1.3

Behavioural Changes:

• New: Joystick buttons limit increased to 64, plus various other changes from openTK backend.
• Fix: Holding down a door button no-longer causes the doors to bounce between open & closed.

Significant Changes:

• New: XML based markers ( http://openbve-project.net/documentation/HTML/route_marker.html ), allowing for text messages and basic time dependent scripting.
• New: When a door button is pressed, VirtualKeys.DoorsLeft / VirtualKeys.DoorsRight is raised.
• New: Panel2.cfg supports the subjects doorbuttonl & doorbuttonr
• New: Animated objects support the subject leftDoorsButton & rightDoorsButton
• Change: LBA and large GC objects enabled. (Fixes some issues with NYCTA routes)
• Change: Workaround for some Chinese BVE2 routes not finding the default train correctly.
• Change: The non-visible 'NUL' character is ignored if encountered during routefile processing.
• Fix: Missing error message in dynamic background parser.
• Fix: Using 'SIGNAL' at the start of a comment in a routefile could be misinterpreted.
• Fix: Issue when using the 'Back' button whilst creating a package under some circumstances.
• Fix: Workaround for certain malformed paths whilst loading a .animated file.
• Fix: Car based plugin sounds not working correctly.
• Fix: VirtualKeys.GearDown not working correctly.

openBVE v1.5.1.2

Significant Changes:

• New: BIG5 and Windows-1252 charsets added to those auto-detected.
• New: Updated ja-JA language file- Thanks midnightexpress1981
• Change: Improved charset detection process & fallback charset handling.
• Change: Fog placed at absolute zero is assumed to apply from before the start of the route, rather than interpolating in over the course of the first block.
• Fix: Trains missing a point sound in the Sound.cfg file broken.
• Fix: Bug in package creation under Mono only.
• Fix: Potential crash if holding down an arrow key to scroll the route list.

openBVE v1.5.1.1

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)

openBVE v1.5.1.0

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.

openBVE v1.5.0.10

• 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.

openBVE v1.5.0 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.

openBVE v1.5.0 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