maj00r
22dbfb77e6
feat(editor): the tutorial lesson of laying track lists Ctrl+wheel for the radius and Shift+wheel for the shape, the lesson of fixing tells the gizmo can be turned off so the track isn't moved or stretched by chance, and the clips only draw each frame over the last one, so every GIF reader shows them alike
2026-10-17 23:32:43 +02:00
maj00r
970c6b52c5
feat(editor): clips of the tutorial lessons (looking around, laying track, curves, joining, switches, fixing), recorded in the editor with a badge of the mouse button or key in use
2026-10-17 23:30:37 +02:00
maj00r
a890087b8b
fix(editor): the tooltip of the Terrain work area is translated
2026-10-17 23:30:37 +02:00
maj00r
dfeb1b9e23
fix(editor): the hints of laying and dragging track (start, starts at the end of, joins, no track fits, moved) are translated
2026-10-17 23:30:37 +02:00
maj00r
fc3f391e19
feat(editor): Help > Tutorial instead of First steps: seven lessons (looking around, laying track, curves, joining, switches, selecting and fixing, saving and driving), each with a looping clip from lang/editor_tutorial/<lesson>.gif played from the start on a click, the mouse buttons and keys drawn as pictures beside what they do, ticks that fill in when the user does it, a button that turns the right tool on, Back / Next and a dot per lesson that turns green when it is done
2026-10-17 23:30:37 +02:00
maj00r
6d0423b58a
feat(editor): friendlier track editing: the point labels of a path are translated, a selected switch says that the turnout tool sets its geometry and offers Edit the switch (T), the geometry of its paths starts collapsed, the gizmo options show only on the tabs that use the gizmo, cancelling a laying clears its status and the status of a laying counts pieces and metres
2026-10-17 23:30:37 +02:00
maj00r
58a0b0c864
Merge branch 'feat/track-join-ux' into feat/switch-blades
2026-10-17 23:30:37 +02:00
maj00r
df2bbae449
Merge branch 'feat/rail-crossings' into feat/switch-blades
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The frogs, crossings and check rails of feat/rail-crossings next to the track editor and the switch paths made of pieces of feat/track-join-ux. The self-test commands of the crossings (frog, geomhash, frogkey, guards, railtime, crossings and switches 0|1, now called throw 0|1 because the editor already has switches) go into their own group selftest_rails.
2026-10-17 23:30:36 +02:00
maj00r
7088618d90
feat(editor): every switch laid in the editor gets the key frogs, a box in the Switch panel sets or clears it as one undo step; the editor rebuilds the tracks crossing a changed or removed one; self-test commands frog, crossings, frogkey and geomhash; Polish translation
2026-10-17 23:28:41 +02:00
maj00r
aa20a88ed0
feat(editor): connections of tracks laid whole from the switch tool: a crossover with a straight insert or an aligning curve between switches of different angles or tracks that aren't parallel, a double crossover meeting on either track, a scissors crossover with the crossing of its inserts, and a switch ladder onto the parallel tracks of a fan or onto new ones at given spacings; press on a straight and drag onto the other track, Shift+wheel the kind, Ctrl+wheel the R of the aligning curve, Alt+wheel where a double crossover meets; the ghost shows the whole set with the spacing, the inserts and the distance of the mathematical points; switches get their drives and a //$r connection record; the crossover drawn from a diverging end uses the same solver; self-test connection
2026-10-14 23:38:31 +02:00
maj00r
52a289b15b
feat(editor): switch templates by their geometry and a template editor: the diverging track is a chain of straights, arcs and transition curves from the start of the switch, with the pre-blade stretch and the angle of the blade at its tip; own templates are kept in eu07_switch_templates.txt and listed in the switch tool; double switches Rpd and Rpj are laid as two switches joined by the main track and handled as one set by sliding, replacing, flipping, the gizmo and deleting, with drives for both switches; self-test switchtemplates
2026-10-14 23:17:30 +02:00
maj00r
9b75e64c9b
feat(editor): digitizing takes the good parts of a line: a run whose design can't be read whole is split at the track the reading fails at and each part is digitized on its own, only single tracks that make no line are left out and named in the log; Digitize all reports the lines digitized and the paths left out, opening a line digitized in parts says so with the reason for the paths left out; a stored radius agrees with the one its design makes within 0.1 %
2026-10-12 18:00:26 +02:00
maj00r
f5895abfa8
feat(editor): tracks drawn without a design get digitized: the route design keeps the line it opens in the scenery when no design is kept for it, or says why it can't (straights meeting with no curve, the curves read leaving a path by how much), trying the other transition shape before giving up; Digitize all the tracks in the route design does it for every line of the scenery and reports the count; a kept design counts as departed only where no path lies along it any more, so a parallel track or a diverging one beside a digitized line no longer shows it as left by metres; self-test command digitizeall
2026-10-12 03:24:23 +02:00
maj00r
696168a132
feat(editor): fewer hints in Tracks: the bar in the view is one line with a short mode name and at most three keys, fading when the cursor comes near; the tool options show only the mode name with the full list under (?), the inspector says Nothing selected; the hints name what is dragged instead of its colour or shape, the break is press and drag, the S-curve its four clicks, the turntable and the signal with no type chosen have their own; Esc back to Select only in the full list; the gizmo settings are hidden in Plan; in Polish a track is tor everywhere, odcinek only for a piece being laid, an isolated section and a path of a switch
2026-10-12 02:59:30 +02:00
maj00r
f81698eaf1
feat(editor): the top view zooms out to 50 km for a whole line, from 0.5 m per pixel the rail tracks are drawn as thin lines and the hover reaches 16 px around them, only the tracks near the cursor are checked; handles drag beyond 200 m from the camera in Tracks; Plan works with the mouse alone and without the gizmo: the grips of a straight, the vertices and the radius of a curve drag directly, the break tool is press on the straight and drag, the panel tool stays chosen afterwards, the Q/W/E bar is hidden in Plan; self-test command ortho
2026-10-12 02:49:07 +02:00
maj00r
16c90eb674
feat(editor): Straight and Curve are one Plan tool (G, also C) right after Lay track, a straight opens with its grips, a curve or a line with its vertices; digits no longer type a length while extending from a free end; the scenery wizard chooses realistic or fictional, a realistic one gets //$g and //$o and opens with the orthophoto in the top view, a fictional one only the top view with the grid; the orthophoto settings are kept in the scenery as //$o (on, year, opacity, radius, height, drape, lift, hires, scene, origin) and survive the new formats; self-test command mapstate
2026-10-12 02:21:29 +02:00
maj00r
653d206a54
feat(editor): the vehicle tool places trainsets: what is placed on a named track is written to the scenery on save as trainset <timetable> <track> <offset> <speed>, with reversed when it faces against the track, listed until the save with x to leave one out; the timetable and the starting speed are set in the panel, a tick turns writing off for a vehicle only to drive; the starter WMB10 is only added when nothing was placed; self-test command trainset
2026-10-12 02:00:50 +02:00
maj00r
c9f381a9c9
feat(editor): the parallel track is a tool of its own (N) in the toolbar, its green preview only shows there, Shift+click on a straight in L opens it with that track; the norms are two buttons at the top of the Lay panel and of the Curve tool, shared by both, free hides the recommendations of the curve and its norm warnings, the duplicate transitions checkbox is gone; the Lay panel starts with the radius, the speed and the shape; the Tracks toolbar shows the tools that lay track, the ones that correct a line are under More (remembered); First steps ends with driving the track laid; self-test command tracktab
2026-10-12 01:52:28 +02:00
maj00r
7fea51ad06
feat(editor): norms of laying, free by default: free lays plain arcs with no transition curves and no cant and keeps quiet about the norms, PKP PLK gives the transitions and the cant for the design speed with the warnings, chosen at the top of the Lay panel; digits in Tracks only type values, never change the edit mode; in Lay a track under the cursor says the click starts on the ground beside it, Shift+click chooses it for a parallel track; Alt while laying turns the direction in steps of 15 degrees, with the azimuth by the cursor; K splits only within 20 px of the selected track, where a marker shows it; the environment, overhead line, transition curve, view and include labels translated, one name for laying track in Polish
2026-10-12 01:35:39 +02:00
maj00r
f28640dd44
feat(editor): laying track for a beginner: Ctrl+Z and Backspace during a chain of laid pieces go back to the end of the piece before instead of carrying on from a removed track (Ctrl+Y ends the chain); every warning of the laid shape and of a join is shown by the cursor for 4 s after the click, also when the radius chosen on the wheel didn't reach the cursor and the arc goes through it, the preview of a shape with a warning is orange as it is laid anyway; the switch type stays chosen after a switch is placed; the status says each click lays a piece; a "First steps" window (Help menu, opens with the editor until unticked) with eight steps ticked off as they are done; an empty scenery opens in Tracks with the camera over its origin and a grid where there is no ground under the cursor; F1 lists the laying gestures (Ctrl/Shift+wheel, drag from a free end, typed length); self-test command laychain; Polish translation
2026-10-12 01:21:50 +02:00
maj00r
704511fe5e
feat(editor): the plain straight a switch branch leads into gets its end moved to where the branch lands instead of a short straight being added: shortened when it reaches past, lengthened when it ends short; straights drawn with handles count (the trimmed end loses them), so a switch slid up to a track that ends close to the crossing now places
2026-10-12 00:36:13 +02:00
maj00r
b27d1772a7
feat(editor): a switch being placed slides along its straight first, so its branch lies on the line of the track it leads into (a straight between, or an arc of the switch radius right after it with the arc ending at the track's end); only when the slide leaves the straight it stays put and reverse curves fill in; the straight between reverse curves takes the speed of the switch's branch (R<300 40, <500 50, <760 60, <1200 80, <2500 100 km/h) instead of the track's
2026-10-12 00:25:01 +02:00
maj00r
d4d2a02018
feat(editor): the switch no longer slides to meet the track, only the straight and arc fill in: arc of the switch radius between two straights, and where the angles match but the tracks are apart, or the arc doesn't fit, reverse curves with no transitions and the largest radius that fits; the straight between them (6 m to V 60, 0.15 V to 100, 0.25 V above) only when 1/R1 + 1/R2 > 1/106.5 m (PLK ST-T1 9.3, table 9.4); new pieces take the style of a plain track, not of a switch
2026-10-12 00:09:49 +02:00
maj00r
0a73550c8d
feat(editor): the branch of a switch leads into the free end of a track: when the angles match the switch slides so its branch lies on the track's line, otherwise an arc of the switch radius right after the switch turns into it (with a straight between for a parallel track); works while placing a switch (drag toward the end) and when dragging from the branch end of a placed one, the track is shortened when it reaches past the branch; self-test switchlink / branchlink
2026-10-11 23:53:18 +02:00
maj00r
080e308d5e
feat(editor): picking a drive or its side in the Switch mode panel changes the drive of the selected switch at once, no drive takes it away, each as one undo step; self-test command drivechoice; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:28 +02:00
maj00r
4b785f3789
fix(editor): putting a drive by a switch that has one puts it in place of the old one instead of next to it; the window of a switch with a drive shows which drive it is and on which side, and picking another drive or the other side swaps the include as one undo step; the default drive is the electric ele (no lever, no lantern); the last entry of editor_pl.po is read; self-test commands driveput and drivefamily; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:28 +02:00
maj00r
dae97f7169
feat(editor): every switch laid gets its drive at once, also the one made by pulling a free end into a straight (named z1, z2... like the others): the drive marked default: true in its //$e description (mech_komin) until another is picked, on the diverging side or the other; the drive goes into the same undo step as the switch; a switch with a drive puts it on the other side with one button, as one undo step; drive_headers.py marks mech_komin as the default; self-test commands drives and driveflip; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:28 +02:00
maj00r
12f7fc879f
feat(editor): a switch on a straight slides along it: drag it with the mouse in the Switch or Path mode (snapping to the joints, km shown) or type the distance in its window; the straight paths on both sides get shorter or longer, the ones it runs over are cut, the next switch or the end of the straight stops it; Replace the geometry with the template does the same with the ends of a longer or shorter type instead of leaving the neighbour overlapping it; a straight neighbour following an end that neither moved off its line nor turned keeps its zero control vectors; self-test commands switchslide, switchreplace, pathsnear; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:28 +02:00
maj00r
11aa67378d
feat(editor): the drawn tracks kept in the scenery as //$h lines as they are drawn: laying, pulling out of a free end, joining two ends and the parallel track record the whole line they belong to, its straights, arcs and transition curves, with the radii from the chord and the turn of the arcs and the transitions from the turn they make, in the same undo step; the curves read in the route window and the Curve tab are what the paths are, no transitions or cant made up for them; a curve ends at the point of reverse; a parallel arc is concentric with its source; the paths laid in pieces of up to 90 degrees match the kept design within their own approximation; 'Keep the line as it lies' for lines drawn before; self-test commands digitize and parallel; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:28 +02:00
maj00r
4ea2f4f13f
feat(editor): the kept alignments and switches after a drag of the gizmo or of a point: a line all of whose paths are moved or turned as a whole takes its kept design along; paths pulled out of a kept design, or given another cant, are told about on the status line with the way back; a switch moved or turned as a whole keeps its type and its record follows it, with its km; a switch bent out of the shape of its type loses it and is told about (//$r records keep the shape of the switch); all of it in the same undo step as the drag; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:28 +02:00
maj00r
b466755a0f
feat(editor): single slip (Rkp 1:9 R190/R300) joining the pair of tracks on the side of the click, and crossing (Skrz 1:9, 1:12) of two straights, placed as the double slip is, at a crossing of two straights, and kept in the scenery as //$r records with their parts; the list of the slip switches and crossings; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
maj00r
0bfb8a4e7c
feat(editor): switches kept in the scenery as //$r lines: type (Rz, arc Rlj/Rld, slip Rkpd), rail, R, 1:n, side, a, b, R of the main track, the parts of a slip, km and number, catalogue or measured; recorded as they are placed on a straight, in a curve (one-sided when diverging to the side the curve turns to), as a double slip, and when their geometry is replaced or flipped; the switch panel shows the kept type and the R of the diverging track bent with the main one, with the number, rail and km to edit (km from the kept horizontal alignment); the speed check of a diverging track takes its R from the kept type; records follow renamed switches and go with removed ones on save; editor records stay out of the terrain files (.txtf), and those written there by hand go with them into .btf; the side of the diverging track shown as seen; self-test commands for placing switches, the kept switches and the .btf conversion; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
maj00r
572daeb274
feat(editor): the horizontal alignment designed in the route design kept in the scenery as //$h lines: its vertices and the elements they make (straight, transition, arc, with the radius at the start and the end and the cant), so the paths laid by it are known again without guessing from their curvature; a curve read from the paths takes the radius, the transitions, the cant and the compound arcs of the kept design when its paths lie on it within 2 cm, the other way round too; the whole line design taken back when the fragment has its ends; a curve redesigned alone taken into the line it belongs to; km of the start kept with the design and carried on to the vertical profile of the same paths; paths which no longer follow the kept design shown in the route window, with the kept design to take or to forget; self-test commands for the route design and the kept alignments; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
maj00r
34941822ff
fix(editor): the cant ring works on a control vector, it cants the end of the vector and the tracks joined there
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
maj00r
a756beb34b
feat(editor): track gizmo rings along the track: direction, grade and cant
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The rotate gizmo stands along the track. The cross ring changes the grade about the middle or the selected
end, the joined tracks take the grade at the joints; the ring along the track changes the cant of the track
or of the selected end, the joined tracks take it at the joints and ramp it. On a control vector the cross
ring tilts it up or down. Ctrl steps by 5 degrees, 1 per mille, 5 mm.
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
maj00r
89678ead3e
feat(editor): track gizmo turns, lengthens and edits the control vectors, joined tracks keep the tangent
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W turns the track (about its middle or the selected end) and a selection of tracks, the joined tracks follow.
E lengthens the track at its free end: a straight stays straight, an arc keeps its radius, cant and grade.
The gizmo on a control point moves, turns or lengthens the vector; the control point of the track joined
there turns with it, at a switch the vector only slides along the switch. Straight neighbours dragged along
keep their tangents and become straight again when nothing bent them.
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
maj00r
3a549e76a9
feat(editor): Shift no longer forces a straight while laying
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- laying, dragging out of a free end and the curve of a switch go on with the shape chosen; a straight is the straight layout on Shift+wheel, at a diverging end of a switch it also stops the crossover
- hints without Shift: straight
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
maj00r
55bb48e8bd
feat(editor): laying from the ground goes on like laying from a free end
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- the second click of the lay tool lays a straight from the first point and goes on from its end, each next click lays the shape chosen (arc then straight, straight then arc, arc through the cursor, straight) with the radius on Ctrl+wheel, as from a free end; no polyline of vertices cut into pieces of the longest path any more
- a track started on the ground and ended at a free end is the shape pulled out of that end towards the start point, one path per up to 90 degrees of arc
- hints and readout the same for both; self-test command layclicks
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
maj00r
16c1ac4c7b
feat(editor): two free ends joined without loops or forced curves, the shape from a free end on the wheel
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- the join of two free ends (a drag from one onto the other, or a click of the lay tool on it) tries in turn: a straight when the joints check can't see the kinks (half its angle), one circular arc through both ends (a piece cut out of a curve comes back as it was, its cant kept), a curve with straights where the tangents meet, a reverse curve, and only then a free Bezier curve; a curve turning more than it needs to, sharper than 10 m or longer than three chords is never taken
- the transition curves eased out of a curved neighbour only when there's room for them between the ends, never crossing each other into a loop
- cant and transition curves recommended for the radius the curve really gets, at the speed of the joined track or of the tool and never above what the radius allows; the circular arc keeps at least max(20 m, 0.4 V) between the transitions, the cant lowered to what the shortened transitions can ramp, transitions under 1 m left out
- shapes from a free end: arc then straight, straight then arc, arc through the cursor, straight; Ctrl+wheel steps the radius, Shift+wheel the shape (at a free end: the other joins), the plain wheel still zooms; a click of the lay tool from a free end lays the shape and goes on from its end
- self-test commands join, layto and joints; Polish translation
2026-10-11 21:33:27 +02:00
ff25e71e90
Merge branch 'feat/modern-editor' into feat/mini-generation
2026-10-09 13:13:33 +02:00
3e3317d26f
feat(editor): the toolbar as buttons with icons and names, the chosen tool standing out as the chosen field of work does, the names left out when the row is too narrow for them; the fields of work with icons of their own (surroundings, tracks, roads, terrain) and both rows captioned at their left end (work modes, tools); the tools of the toolbar and of the left edge of the 3d view from one list; Polish translation
2026-10-09 12:49:45 +02:00
1bf687b4c9
feat(editor): the node bank in two panes, as the assets of unity: its groups on the left with the scenery templates, the entries of the chosen one on the right, as cards or a list, a search going through all of them; the models dragged from the node bank onto a model set, the templates of a set or the list of the brush or the area fill; the templates of the model sets shown with their previews; the model sets docked by the node bank by default; Polish translation
2026-10-09 12:01:00 +02:00
645a54a739
feat(editor): icons over the 3d view: the tools of the field of work along its left edge (the edit modes of the surroundings, the track tools, the road tools with the lanes, the terrain tools with the orthophoto), the modes of the gizmo at its top, the axes of the world as the camera sees them in its top right corner, a click on one looking along it, with the top view under them; the icons drawn by editor/icons/editor_icons.py into a png which CMake writes out as an array built into the executable; the gizmo modes and the top view left out of the toolbar; Polish translation
2026-10-09 11:54:47 +02:00
f2e73812d9
feat(editor): View menu with the top view, the lanes of the roads, the structure gauge and a window of the weather and time (time of day, day of the year, visibility, clouds, air temperature, seen in the editor only); the orthophoto settings in a window of their own again; the tracks and roads menus left out, their tools being in the row of the field of work; End drops the models onto the same ground the insert puts them on, the terrain tile models and the terrain patches of the editor included; the loading screen kept in the main window; Polish translation
2026-10-09 11:46:42 +02:00
f94100ffe7
feat(editor): more models selected at once (Shift+LMB), moved and turned by the gizmo together, undone in one step; Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V copy the selected models with their groups and paste them at the cursor; Ctrl+G groups the selection, Ctrl+Shift+G takes a group apart, groups written to the scenery as group ... endgroup and loaded as groups of their own; End drops each model of the selection and of their groups onto the ground; menu of the selection at the cursor on Ctrl+RMB; Edit menu with undo, redo, the clipboard, grouping, deleting; Help > Keyboard shortcuts (F1) with the keys of every field of work, F2-F5 choose the fields of work, the tracks menu lists the track tools with their keys, the keys and descriptions in the menus and tooltips; self-test commands for the selection; Polish translation
2026-10-09 01:12:46 +02:00
791d5d052c
feat(editor): fields of work in a row of their own over the toolbar (surroundings, tracks, roads, terrain), twice as high, with bigger bold text, and the tools of the one chosen in the toolbar under it: the edit modes of the node bank, the track tools in groups with the vehicle and the structure gauge, the road tools with what the place tool puts, the terrain tools (sculpt, smooth, chunks, orthophoto); the tool options window keeps the settings of the tool; the node bank shows a big preview of the entry pointed at for a moment, with its model and skin; the green colours by default again; Polish translation
2026-10-09 00:42:17 +02:00
f184ce7a6a
feat(editor): colours of the editor: amber accents on grey panels as in the design of the layout, the rest of the simulator stays green (colours of the ui chosen by the ui of the mode drawn; Editor Settings > General, kept in eu07_editor.ini), docking preview in the accent colour in both; keys 1-5 choose the edit modes in the order of the toolbar, shown in its tooltips; Mode windows merged into Windows: the windows of the editor, model sets among them, window layout reset and unpinning of the docks; Polish translation
2026-10-09 00:15:14 +02:00
9b0e88db7a
feat(editor): node bank shows the entries as cards with the previews of their models (Previews, size of the cards 48-256 px, kept in eu07_editor.ini), in the groups and with the search as the list; images found by the names the preview generator gives them, worked out by the same code now (editor/editorPreviews: path of the model and skin, numbers of entries with the same ones in the order of nodebank.txt), read and scaled down in a thread of their own, uploaded a few in a frame, at most 512 kept, read anew on Reload node bank; images of the user interface made by the gl renderers (Create_Image/Release_Image of the imgui renderer, srgb in the modern one); Polish translation
2026-10-08 23:55:56 +02:00
4b451622de
feat(editor): pins of the docks: an unpinned dock hides its windows in a strip at the edge of the main window, a tab of the strip shows its window over the 3d view when pointed at for a moment or clicked, and it goes back when the cursor leaves it or on a click elsewhere, but not while it's in use (button held, popup open, typing, drag); pin in the tab bar of each dock, or Unpin in its window menu where the tabs leave no room; pin in the title of the shown window, or docking it by hand, puts the dock back next to the docks at that edge; Ctrl+Space (also in Mode windows) unpins all docks for the most of the view, or pins them back the way they were; unpinned docks kept in imgui.ini, cleared by Reset window layout; Polish translation
2026-10-08 23:27:17 +02:00
maj00r
aa03cb3235
move bended model alongside track
2026-10-08 22:44:41 +02:00
