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Jul 23
La Maison Radieuse, SRGC winner by mEGa
The first Simutrans Regular Graphics Contest (SRGC) has been concluded, and i can announce mEGa the first winner.
A new version of pak96.comic has been released. It includes new sounds, buses, trucks, stops and several bugfixes and adjustments.
You can download it from the Simutrans German Forum
Today James released version 9.12 of Simutrans Experimental. This is predominantly a bug-fix release, which fixes a number of issues identified in the previous version, and incorporates some GUI fixes from Standard, but also adds one new feature: a better handling of gradients.
The development versions of standard Simutrans can be found at the nightly page.
Thanks to Statto you can play Simutrans in Portland, Oregon now. This beautiful map comes in two sizes: 636×408 and 1002×603.
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Chemistry Block, University of East Anglia (Harry Harris cc-by-nc-sa)
Update: The timeframe for submissions has started now. It also has been prolonged by one week.
The Simutrans Regular Graphics Contest (SRGC) is a graphics contest every three months. The objects of this contest are new graphical elements for simutrans. (Most graphics content in simutrans is organized in modular pak files, bundled together in pak-sets; eg pak64,pak128 etc) Submissions should run in the game and be designed to work together with an existing pak-set.
The theme for the initial competition is Modernist City Buildings. Read the rest of this entry »
A new version of Simutrans-Experimental is available today: Simutrans 110.0.1 Experimental 9.6. This version addresses the long-standing issue of network play between computers running different platforms.
There have also been some general bug fixes, and one or two small feature changes, but it does not yet incorporate all of the latest changes from Standard, as the priority was to fix the networking. It is anticipated that these changes will be incorporated into the next version.
SMSC May edition winners
May 29
The 2011 May edition of the Simutrans Monthly Screenshot Contest has finished. Congratulations to all people who took part in it.
Today a mere 7 maps were added to the Simutrans Maps website.
Six of them were made by uci with the use of ETOPO data. The maps depict Europe, Japan, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Grand Canyon and Mount Fuji.
Further on Statto has made stunning map of the Zurich area, with lakes, rivers and mountains.
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Here comes a new edition of SMSC. The subject of this month is Large rail convoys.
Everybody can participate, with only one screenshot of 800 x 600 pixels, in jpg or png formats. You can use any pakset, and the deadline is May 19th. The voting begins on May 20th.
The prize will be a mention of your nickname in the Simutrans Hall of Fame, praises from the whole community and one post including your picture at blog and simutrans.com.
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