TSRE GenX v0.7

TSRE GenX

TSRE GenX is an experimental improvement branch of the TSRE5 Trainsim.com fork, focused on practical route-editor improvements for MSTS and Open Rails route building.

This branch is based on Eric's TSRE8.006 baseline from the master branch of eric-from-trainsim/TSRE5-Trainsim.Com-Fork.

The goal is not to replace Eric's main TSRE work. This is a test branch for debugging, experimentation, and evaluation, with the hope that useful pieces can eventually be reviewed and folded upstream.

Branches

• tsre-scomod-stable is the stable/rescue branch, capped and tagged at v0.6.
• tsre-scomod-wip is the continuing work-in-progress branch, currently released for testing as v0.7.

Highlights

• Updated code to build with current MSYS2/MinGW tooling.
• Reworked F terrain conforming for stronger, more practical track cuts and embankments, including improved low-end track-width behavior.
• Added Ctrl+F selected-object tile conforming, Shift+F non-destructive smoothing, and the F2 Conform DB brush for grade-following spot cleanup.
• Added Alt+A selection of all 256 terrain texture patches on the selected tile.
• Added autopaint tile-level track and road painting plus shoreline-aware water-edge painting based on the actual terrain/water contour.
• Added F2 confirmed route-wide and current-tile TERRTEX reset tools for returning painted terrain to terrain.ace.
• Added F2 route-local terrain paint presets covering texture, brush, intensity, shape, and rotation.
• Added F2 full 0-360 degree terrain texture rotation for directional ground textures.
• Rebuilt F2 seasonal textures around a visible Summer, Spring, Autumn, Winter, and Night selector instead of hidden settings-file switches.
• Added seasonal textures active-season refresh and per-file ORTS-style fallback for terrain, route objects, transfers, Dynamic Track, forests, and polyforests, including ACE/DDS alternatives.
• Added Terrtex: Mirror Season for paired default/snow painting, with safe opposite-side placeholder creation when matching seasonal swatches are missing.
• Protected seasonal TERRTEX 1024x1024 files from accidental downsampling during painting and corrected transfer/material cache refresh behavior.
• Reduced route performance stutter with forest-generation controls, a Forest Regions view toggle, and texture-cache invalidation only when material paths change.
• Improved load reliability with single-instance protection, corrected route-table refresh, and validated editable recent MSTS/ORTS root selection.
• Added Restore Last Session for reopening the last route, camera location, main window, and Control Panel layout.
• Added Windows the GenX executable icon, desktop-shortcut helper, and Route > Open Route Folder command.
• Consolidated Control Panel Status and Navi functions into a scalable F7 panel with editing-state controls, navigation, movement locks, and delayed edge snapping.
• Improved Object Panel with category-aware search and reset, cleaner Scale Rail grouping, and 30 Recent Items in a bounded scrollable history with Clear Recent.
• Reworked F1-F4 panels property panels, Object Panel, Control Panel, Settings Editor, and startup screens into a consistent scalable interface.
• Substantially reorganized F2 textures around a larger selected-texture preview, a compact two-column Recent Texture bank, clearer paint/preset/brush groups, and texture-name tooltips.
• Added global UI scaling and consistent user-action sound feedback without playing sounds during passive panel refreshes.
• Added Place Guard validation with automatic undo and distinct feedback for dangerous or invalid scenery, track, and interactive-object placements.
• Reorganized F12 Settings into practical categories with direct settings saves, timestamped backups, full-sentence tooltips, and an integrated key-assignment reference.
• Repaired F3 maps OSM Vector Map HTTPS support, hardened failed-response handling, and increased generated map imagery to 4096 resolution.
• Preserved Dynamic Track Classic Flex while adding a Classic/NextGen selector and adapting GokuMK's work as the foundation for compound and full S-curve NextGen connections.
• Improved Dynamic Track editing with database rebuilding after Flex, synchronized elevation data, clearer section/length information, fallback textures, and consistent naming.
• Added splash screens runtime-discovered artwork with a persistent shuffled cycle shared by the Route Loader, Consist Loader, and About window during each session.
• Improved track properties grade-unit presentation and added Lock Grade so newly placed track or road pieces can inherit the selected piece's physical grade.
• Added Grade Helper for dock-friendly, validated, connected, per-piece vertical transitions to an exact target grade.
• Added Grade Symbols connectivity-aware markers for static and Dynamic Track, including steady-grade, transition, and direct crest/gully classifications.
• Added View and Markers reversible overlay toggling and improved marker placement, color, height, and label reliability.
• Added Edit > Copy Info selection diagnostics for clipboard-ready troubleshooting and reporting.
• Reduced route display overhead by rebuilding Grade Symbol connectivity only at safe tile/database boundaries, reusing unchanged pointer-depth results, and throttling unchanged Control Panel updates.
• Refined route lighting with warmer directional sunlight and cooler sky-facing ambient light while preserving MSTS texture artwork and neutral editor overlays.
• Added Save, Restart and Restore in F12 plus optional UI sounds for startup actions, toggles, checkboxes, dropdown selections, and menu commands.
• Added property guidance for Detail Level, MSTS StaticFlags, and MSTS Collision, clarified Alt+A in the key reference, and corrected read-only Control Panel hover behavior.
• Added the full-screen F4 Activity Builder and high-resolution TrackDB viewer.
• Added standalone MSTS/ORTS path creation, editing, validation, and PAT writing.
• Added natural-end water flow routing with live switch throwing and recalculation.
• Added reverse points, duration and clock-time wait points, overlap visualization, and passing sidings.
• Added selectable/deletable path controls, undo/redo, map rotation, route markers, labels, signals, stations, and service-point symbology.
• Standardized F1-F4 and utility panels with the charcoal/orange visual system, square selectors, consistent controls, active-tool highlighting, focus restoration, and pinnable helper windows.
• Added the pinnable Auto Place workflow and further Grade Helper, Control Panel, Object Selection, and Terrain Editor cleanup.

Downloads

Executable test builds are intended to be published on the GitHub Releases page, not committed directly into the source tree.

Download the current test ZIP from Releases when available. Keep this copy separate from any production TSRE install.

The ZIP includes AddShortcutDesktop.cmd, which can create a desktop shortcut for the packaged TSRE5.exe.

The ZIP also includes LICENSE.md and THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt. TSRE GenX follows the original TSRE5 GPLv3 license; bundled runtime DLLs remain under their respective upstream licenses.

Documentation

• scoWorkList.txt contains the detailed change summary.
• scoFileEdit.txt lists the code/project files touched during the work.
• THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt records upstream authorship, acknowledgements, and bundled runtime-library notices.
• docs/ contains the release-facing documentation copies.

Status

This is not an official TSRE release. It is a working route-editor improvement branch for testing and discussion.