The terrain under the tracks and the end of Tracks onto the terrain took every chunk along the tracks away and made it again from the model, the changes made by hand with them (79 chunks on test2). The heights while laying are kept under a key of their own, so the fitted ones chosen when they were the default are left behind; fitted stays a choice.
The free laying isn't the default any more. The first time a session opens the laying or the plan, a window asks how the
new tracks are laid, with the two cards of the panels (the norms marked as chosen); a click on one of them takes it and
closes the window, which comes before the offer of the terrain model of a new scenery. "Remember the choice, don't ask
again" keeps it in eu07_editor.ini (track_norms ask, free or plk), and a choice kept follows a later click on the cards of
the panels; the settings of the editor (General) choose between asking and either way. The self-test scripts start with the
free laying, as they were written for it.
- In the top view of the tracks work area, the renderer's reach is the half diagonal of the screen. It used to be three extents, which cut wide windows short.
- Cells far from the camera no longer draw only their tracks: the terrain shapes are drawn too. Models keep their own ranges.
- In that view, the heightmap streamer loads chunks as far as the corners, up to 50 km. The detail comes from the size of a pixel, not from the distance.
- The walk over the chunks around the camera is skipped while it would ask for nothing, so a wide reach costs little.
- A setting, kept in the editor settings, leaves out the ballast of the railway in the top view, so the ground under the tracks shows. It is in the View menu and next to the extent slider.
- Self-test: ortho <extent> [noballast|ballast], orthophoto off.
With the lay tool on, a scenery with no tracks nor terrain chunks gets the offer of the terrain model and the aerial photos
around the camera; without a place yet it asks for the PUWG 1992 coordinates of this point, as geoportal.gov.pl gives them,
and keeps them as the place of its orthophoto. The offer can be turned off (editor setting terrain_offer). Self-test
nmtoffer.
- the switch tool asks what to place: a switch, a slip switch, a crossing or a connection of tracks (crossover, double,
scissors, ladder), with the templates and the options of that kind only and one line of how to place it with the mouse;
the bar of hints says the same, the wheel keys of a connection included; panel in its own editormodeswitchtool.cpp
- templates are listed by their names, the lengths a and b and the rest of the label in the tooltip
- the panel of a selected switch shows its length, its type and its drive; the name, number, rail, kilometre and angle are
under Details
- one toolbar: the tools are no longer drawn a second time down the edge of the view; the track tools show select, lay,
plan, switch and parallel, the others behind More, which starts closed again (setting track_tools_all)
- the infrastructure tool has no button nor key
- the gizmo options start closed, the node bank isn't drawn in the track mode
- no drive models: said in plain words
- self-test switchkind
Consolidates platform-specific config-directory logic (APPDATA on Windows,
~/Library/Application Support on macOS, ~/.config on Linux) into a single
user_config_path(filename) function in utilities/utilities.{cpp,h}, removing
copy-pasted #ifdef blocks from application.cpp, editor/editorSettings.cpp,
input/{keyboard,gamepad,drivermouse,uart}input.cpp.
