PaperScrape v5.12 — Stable

v5.12

This release is about the houses: their chimneys, their windows and the people behind them. The
smoke rises from the chimneys, every window of a floor matches, the people walk from window to window,
half the windows of a house light up at night, and the shops and the towers can keep opening hours of
their own.

• Smoke that rises. The smoke now comes out of the top of the chimney, rises slowly, drifts a
  little to one side and fades away: light grey by day, a middle grey at night. Before, three still
  puffs sat beside the chimney at every hour, the lowest one on its side.

• Smoke in the cold seasons only. Chimneys smoke where the autumn or the winter colours are on:
  Autumn, Winter, Christmas, New Year's Eve and Tundra, as they come. Sunset, Spring, Desert, Beach,
  Big City, Easter and Halloween no longer smoke. To bring the smoke back on one of them, choose
  Autumn or Winter under "Seasonal palette" in Seasons & decorations; that palette's look comes with
  it, the autumn trees and falling leaves or the snow and the winter clothes. There is no separate
  switch.

• Windows that match. On every floor of a house, of the school and of the bars, every window is
  now the same, framed, where before a floor had one framed window beside small bare ones, or only
  small bare ones. The bar's small window no longer sits over its sign or on its lantern.

• People at any window, and they walk. In the houses, the shops, the school and the bars the
  people can stand at any framed window, the new ones included, and every building has as many as
  before. Now and then one of them goes to another window, and walks there: out of the window
  sideways, hidden by the wall, and into the other one from its side. It is the same person, in the
  same clothes. A tower's people stay at their windows, as before. Nobody appears or vanishes any
  more.

• Houses at night. A house lights half its windows, every window with somebody at it among
  them, and the others are dark glass. Now and then, one at a time, a light goes out as another comes
  on. The distant houses on the mountains have dark unlit windows too, and a gallery card shown at
  night lights half the windows.

• Opening hours, separately. "Business hours" is now two switches in World & scene, Cities:
  "Shop opening hours" for the restaurant, the school and the bar (under Shops) and "Tower opening
  hours" for the towers (under Buildings), each with its own "Open from" and "Until". Both come
  switched off. If you had "Business hours" on, you will find both on, with the hours you had.
  "Reset Shops to default" and "Reset Buildings to default" each put back their own.

• Closing and opening. When a shop, the school, a bar or a tower closes, its people walk out one
  at a time while its windows are still lit, and when it opens they walk in. Closed at night, its
  windows are dark glass like a house's unlit ones, where before they kept the pale glass of the day.

• When the time jumps. If the hour moves all at once (the screen off for a while, a fixed hour
  moved, the phone's clock changed) or you change the opening hours, the people are at once where they
  should be, as the sky and the lights are: they walk when the change happens while you watch.

• A little more work for your phone. On our test phone the wallpaper uses about 1.5 to 3 % more
  of the processor than 5.11, for the smoke, the lights and the people walking, and it moves as
  smoothly as before.

Nothing else you have set has changed: your themes, colours and sliders are as you left them. A theme
file or backup made with 5.12 and opened in an older version gives the towers the shops' hours.

Still the case since v5.3: this version does not install on Intel-based devices or emulators,
Chromebooks running Android apps included. v5.2 remains the last version that does.

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🔒 Verify this build: check PaperScrape-v5.12.apk.sha256, or run gh attestation verify PaperScrape-v5.12.apk --repo urgali/paperscrape.