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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Good news for all pakset lovers, we have new releases of old well known paksets.
The Simutrans experimental development team has released a new version of the pak128.Brittain-Ex. The v0.7 seems to be a testing and evaluation version, but it should balance better with Simutrans-Experimental than the standard Pak128.Britain. The dev team has done a great deal of work on balancing this pakset since version 0.6, so it should work considerably better. As a side note, it doesn’t support all Simutrans-Experimental features yet.
You can download it here. More details at International Simutrans Forum.
On the other hand, the pak64.japan is back after major overhaul. The content is under a mixture of licenses so it won’t be hosted at Sourceforge, but the binaries and the source are available here. Besides, the texts are available for translation at Simutranslator.
More details at International Simutrans Forum.
Recently we have discovered an awesome tool that was hidden at japanese.simutrans.com links section.
Its name is Resizeobj and it allows you to port almost every kind of object from pak128 scale to pak64 scale, with very good results. Take a look..
resizeobj test
It’s a command line tool for Windows with several parameters that allow you to set the amount of anti-aliasing, special night colors and the image size among other things. You can convert vehicles too. The windows binary and the source code are available for downloading at resizeobj homepage.
P.S: For non-japanese speakers, I recommend to use an online translator as the whole website is in japanese.