TSRE GenX v0.8

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, promoted and tagged at v0.7.
• tsre-scomod-wip is the continuing work-in-progress branch, currently released for testing as v0.8.

Highlights

• Updated code to build with current MSYS2/MinGW tooling.
• Added atomic terrain-file replacement and truthful failure reporting to route-wide cleanup tools.
• Added crash-safe coordinated saves for route databases and modified TRK files.
• 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 for faster route-wide texture work.
• Added Water Edge detection and painting that compares terrain elevation against the tile water plane, follows the actual shoreline with a feathered texture transition, and handles shallow-water terrain breaks instead of painting coarse 16x16 patches.
• Added the Waterbed Offset brush for consistent river depth beneath sloping water planes.
• Expanded Water Helper with one persistent terrain-snapped ruler, bounded shoreline scans, seamless fitted water surfaces, Undo, recovery, and memory limits.
• Added confirmed TERRTEX reset tools for route-wide and current-tile paint cleanup.
• Added Water Tiles Off to clear route-wide water-patch flags without changing other terrain data.
• 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 and camera context, plus compact Pin controls that remember the main window, Control Panel, and Grade Helper placement between sessions.
• 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.
• Revised Category Search with ALL defaults, mutually exclusive Tracks/Roads/Other filters, search-within-category behavior, cleaner Scale Rail family grouping, Reset, and a bounded Recent Items history.
• Added pasted objects to the same bounded Recent Items history as normal placements.
• Reworked F1-F4 panels property panels, Object Panel, Control Panel, Settings Editor, and startup screens into a consistent scalable interface.
• Rebuilt the F2 Terrain Editor around paired MAIN TERRTEX and SNOW TERRTEX previews, a six-item Recent Texture bank plus a dedicated Brush swatch, and clearly separated texture, preset, brush, embankment, and advanced groups.
• Added F2 texture loading and safety with multi-file ACE/DDS/common-image Load support, generated-tile-texture filtering, decode validation, failed-file reporting, source-filename tooltips, and a complete Clear Recent reset.
• Hardened Terrtex: Mirror Season so painting requires a valid same-name Main/Snow source pair, clearly marks the active output side, and automatically disables mirroring instead of leaving an invalid brush state active.
• Reduced F2 Terrain Utilities to a focused, pinnable Track Bias helper.
• Added a shared Hacks popup for Track, Static Object, and Terrain Patch properties.
• Added Delete Instances to remove every route instance of a selected static, gantry, or collision object.
• Added global UI scaling, consistent manual-action sound feedback, cleaner square F12 boolean selectors, and coordinated state colors without false responses during passive 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.
• Adapted Eric-from-Trainsim's F3 imagery provider work so keyless OSM Vector remains always available while Google, Mapbox, and Custom satellite imagery use an explicit provider selector with independently preserved settings.
• Adapted Eric-from-Trainsim's 8.006m ORTS rolling-stock compatibility work with safe normalized .inc path resolution that preserves legitimate parent-folder paths without heuristic path rewriting or duplicate inclusion.
• Adapted Eric-from-Trainsim's route reporting idea into Route > Create Route Health Report, which scans every route world file, atomically saves one consolidated report in the route folder, and opens it immediately in a read-only Copy All window.
• 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, with remembered placement and automatic Lock Grade handoff.
• 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.
• Replaced the legacy settings.txt workflow with per-user settings.json, atomic saves, timestamped backups, reset-to-default support, and automatic preservation/recovery of damaged JSON.
• Added route-session cleanup so reopening or changing routes does not retain stale route-owned state.
• Added portable first-run defaults, bounded AppData housekeeping, and safe selection-color recovery.
• Added terrain conform settings for independent TrackDB and RoadDB height bias without re-invoking the full Game load path.
• Hardened Dynamic Track textures so procedural and fallback materials follow one dependable loading path without requiring an Open Rails track profile.
• Reworked Dynamic Track display with a track-following selection outline, normal percent-grade presentation, equal Select/Place controls, and a continuous world-space yellow TrackDB overlay.
• Rebuilt NextGen Auto-Flex around direction-neutral, transactional connection solving that rejects U-turns, backtracking paths, one-ended joins, and bad internal or external seams.
• Corrected Dynamic Track geometry so the object mesh and TrackDB share the same endpoint plane, tangent, grade frame, and curve-to-straight transitions; verified with smooth Open Rails train tests in both grade directions.
• Added Advanced Shunting WP support for ORTS Extended AI operations: timed horn, uncouple from either end, join/split, and permission to pass the next red signal.
• Expanded F4 path editing with explicit New/Edit/Clone sessions, selectable and deletable controls, undo/redo, live switch recalculation, reverse points, wait points, passing sidings, and natural-end path routing.
• Finished F4 path metadata and saving with cancellation rollback, stable saved filenames, player-path flags, required endpoint information, stronger PAT validation, and atomic output.
• Hardened F4 path repair for stale, disconnected, open-ended, and partly unreadable PAT files.
• Improved F4 path presentation with named endpoints, reverse and wait-point markers, service-point identification, selected-path emphasis, overlap and passing-route visualization, and focused controls shown only while editing.
• Standardized utility window controls with compact icon Pin buttons, clearer movement-state colors, and reliable application shutdown even when hide-on-close helper windows remain open.
• Added a compact native Compass heading tape with persistent View-menu state.
• Centered confirmations, warnings, completion notices, and unsaved-change dialogs on the active monitor.
• Standardized destructive warnings with one fixed-width GenX dialog, safe default, and consistent wording.
• Refined Object Properties grouping and labels while preserving established editor functions, and removed the unused selected-terrain Shader launcher without hiding Shader ID information.
• Adapted Eric-from-Trainsim's Main Load idea with adjacent Load/Restore actions, a more prominent Consist Editor action, retained root selection, return-to-loader behavior, and isolated CE process state; standalone CE remains unchanged and CE background colors persist independently.
• Hardened Consist Editor include handling, missing-stock replacement, popup styling, independent preview colors, and 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.