Jun 22
v111.3
This version includes a the new map window, the powerlines underground, and a pakset downloader, if simutrans is started without paksets.
You can find a full changelog and download links for windows, linux, haiku and mac binaries at the International Simutrans Forum.
As of today there are more than 200 maps available at the Simutrans Maps website. The latest contributions were made by Carlbaker and ML.
Carlbaker extracted four smaller maps from his huge USA North-East map. They have various sizes and themes and cover New York City and Long Island, the New England coast, Boston to Niagara and Delaware and the Appalachians.
ML made a map of Prague and its surroundings a few years ago and has kindly made it available to the community. It comes in three sizes: 250×197, 500×394 and 1000×788.
And of course a big thank you to everyone who has contributed a map for Simutrans Maps in the past. It was the only way to get to these 200 maps.
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We have a new set of tools for image processing in the Simutrans community, that complements the Shades tool.
It’s recomended for those who work with special colors directly within the XCF file (gimp native image format). It offers several functions like selecting, removing, repairing, lightening, darkening and converting special colors. It works with six different groups of special colors, the basic in Simutrans: Non-darkening greys, Windows, Primary player colors, Secondary player colors, Lights and Transparency.
You can download it here. More details at the Simutrans International Forum
Another new edition of SMSC is on the way. The subject of this month is Parks and Skycrapers.
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 June 18th. The voting begins on June 19th.
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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The Winner of the May edition of the Simutrans is derajjared with San Miguel road, a beautiful bridge that descends from the high hills and crosses the river rafts to reach a small village located on the side of the open road that connects two cities. It was created with pak128 and gathered almost a quarter of the votes.
Screenshots by Enkort and alexbaettig scored second and third respectively.
Find the poll and discussion at the International Simutrans Forum.
May 20
For those who like to play in the USA there are now two new maps of the North East of the USA available. They were made by Carlbaker. They roughly represent the original thirteen states of the USA. Two formats are available, called large and medium by their creator. The huge one is 2200×2548, the very huge one is 3482×4032, which makes it the largest map currently available on the Simutrans Maps website.
It’s a map with lots of beautiful, varied and challenging terrain — ranging from coastal to mountainous areas.
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Another new edition of SMSC is on the way. The subject of this month is Civil engineering.
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 16th. The voting begins the day after.
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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Winners of the April edition of the Simutrans. The first one, from derajjared is a small town have called south ville inspired in some Latin American municipalities.
The second winner, from kierongreen has a good story: the Bideford to Exeter service has just left Barnstaple Railway Station, while one horse drawn omnibus service has just left to transfer passengers across the River Taw to the town centre. Another omnibus is just arriving, unfortunately these passengers will have a bit of a wait for the next train but at least they have plenty of time to purchase a ticket Built with pak.128 and pak.britain, both gathered 9 votes.
Screenshots by AEO and TommPa9 scored second and third respectively.
Find the poll and discussion at the International Simutrans Forum.
It’s time for a new release of pak128.Britain. Version 1.11 has the following new features:
– London underground tube trains, track and stations
– More new bridges for road and rail
– More new aeroplanes
Download the new release from sourceforge.
Have fun – and do let us know in the pak128.Britain forum if you have any comments or feedback
Another new edition of SMSC is on the way. The subject of this month is Small cities.
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 April 15th. The voting begins on April 16th.
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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