Sarlock, a fellow member of our community, published an interesting and detailed step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to use Blender, a free 3D computer graphic tool, to create graphics for Simutrans, focusing on buildings.
The tutorial also introduces you to the basic functions of Blender.
A new version v0.6.1 of the Simutrans Building Editor, TileCutter, is now available.
This new version provides a browse dialog for makeobj and several bugfixes like Z dimensions now permitted up to 16, infinite loop in dialog has been removed, irregular buildings and the source version work again.
You can download it here. More details at the International Simutrans Forum.
A new version v0.5.9 of the Simutrans Building Editor, TileCutter, is now available.
This new version provides a better preferences dialog and french language support. There’s also available a Mac OSX application bundle in .dmg format.
You can download it here. More details at the International Simutrans Forum.
A new version v0.5.8 of the Simutrans Building Editor, TileCutter, is now available.
This new version provides a completely new save format with much better forward-compatability. This will make it a lot easier to add new features. It also includes bigger icons for a more attractive interface.
You can download it here. More details at the International Simutrans Forum.
A new version v0.5.7 of the Simutrans Building Editor, TileCutter, is now available.
This new version provides many tweaks and optimisations, especially for non-Windows platform support and much better handling of configuration/log file storage with platform-specific locations used.
You can download it here. More details at the International Simutrans Forum.
A new version 0.5.6 of the Simutrans Building Editor, TileCutter, is now available.
This new version provides a command Line interface for scripting, the ability to disable .dat file output and the basic documentation is now available on website, via Online Help.
You can download it here and you have more details at the International Simutrans Forum.
Jun 25
This release is a mostly bugfix version… one new thing is the recoloring tool, which can be used to add easily player colours to your graphics. It’s recommended to upgrade.
You can download it here. The source code is also available VS site.
After releasing the new version of Tilecutter, the application’s texts are now avaliable for translation at Simutranslator, the online tool for translating texts of Simutrans in all languages.
English and Spanish are the first languages that have reached the 100% of Tilecutter texts translated. German is about 7% and Portuguesse is 5.5%. The rest of languages are at 0%.
They’re only 128 texts so come on and help us translating this great tool! you can make suggestions request an account at Simutranslator.
Jan 29
There aren’t big news in this new version, named as 6.0 alpha 2. The brushes finally work and the next feature that will be implemented is the undo function.
You can download it here.
More details in the official announcement at Simutrans forum.
After a long break, an alpha version of TileCutter has been released. This new version offers a new and improved UI with Makeobj integration and one-click export, a completely re-written cutting engine, the ability to save and load project files and a better translation system and integration with SimuTranslator (by now, only german and spanish translations are included)