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.
Fitting the grade line took 3 ms for 250 m of track, 30 ms for 1 km, 65 ms for 2 km and 200 ms for 4 km, and the preview of the lay tool and of the drag from a free end fitted it every frame, twice for the drag; on the terrain model the preview of some 800 m took 10 to 17 ms a frame, the cursor standing or not. Now the frame waits under 1.5 ms for 4 km. The formations of the tracks led into the terrain went through every chunk under them 0.3 s after each click, some 50 ms, while the cursor went on to the next point; they wait for the laying to end. The tracks laid and the terrain are the same as before.
Selftests: perf logs the longest frame and those over 33 ms, fittime the time of the fit by length, terrainhash a hash of the chunks in memory.
Laid to the norms, the readout says the design speed of the transition curves and of the cant: that of the track the laying goes on from or joins, or the one set for the laying. A new option takes the set speed also on from a track with its own, the new tracks get it; Ctrl+Shift+wheel steps it while laying and turns the option on. The panel shows the speed the laying under way is designed for.
A track laid on from a free end in the PKP PLK laying, by a drag out of the end, by clicks from it or laid back onto it, starts from the curvature and the cant the end has. An arc turning the same way as the end is a compound curve: a transition of the norms ramps the curvature and the cant from the one arc into the other. From a straight the arc gets its entry transition, the arc then straight its exit one. Where the way is too short the transitions are cut and the cant lowered to what they ramp, and the readout says so; with no room at all the track is laid as before and the note says why. The curves traced on the orthophoto and the recommended values of a compound curve get the transitions between their arcs too. The free laying stays as it was.
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.
Each end of a rail track joined to nothing, where a train would run off, gets a red dot next to the white dots of the joints,
in the 3D view near the camera and from above over the whole view. The ends are looked for again after an edit or once the
camera leaves the place they were found for, not every frame.
Dragging an end of a straight refits the curve next to it with the cant
and the transition curves recommended for the speed, keeping the curve's
own only where it had some; a plain arc laid freely came out with
transitions. Break and S-curve took the recommended transitions too. The
recommendation of a design not checked against the norms is a plain arc
now, the tools take the norms in effect rather than the ones the design
was last computed with, and the Plan panel calls the automatic choice
"None" in the free design. Self-test: norms free|plk.
Esc in the middle of dragging a point of a track kept the moved point,
and the hint said so; dragging a straight was taken back but left an
empty step in the history; a vertex or the radius grip of a curve stayed
moved in the design. Now Esc puts back what was there before the drag in
all three, and the history doesn't keep a step for it.
The name of a node or "(no name)" was written out in twenty places and
four local functions, a lower-case copy of a text in four files, the
test for a number, the file name of a template made comparable and the
heading of a direction in three and two, the green main button of a
panel in five and the key=value parameters of a self-test command in
five. Each of them is one helper now: name_of, tall_button_height and
main_button with the panel helpers, numeric with format, normalized
with the include helpers, heading_of with the plan geometry and
selftest_values with the tools; lower gives way to ToLower.
The third tool out of editor_mode. It reaches the terrain model and the
places of the tracks on it through the services, the place of a track
for the terrain model is a type of its own now, and the laying and the
switches ask the tool for the kink it allows. A self-test command can
ask to be run again in the next frame, as the check against the terrain
model does while the model comes in.
A touchpad under Wayland sends a scroll as many fractions of a notch.
Shift+wheel took each of them for a step and went round the shapes of
the laid track, the joins and the connections several times in one
swipe; now the fractions are gathered into whole notches and a gesture
moves such a choice one step. Ctrl+wheel steps the radius once a notch.
The 3D zoom measured to the level 0 when nothing was under the cursor,
which in a scenery on the terrain model lies far below or kilometres
ahead, so a light swipe at the horizon flew the camera away. It
measures to the ground under the camera now, backs away by no more than
four heights of the camera over it, and takes at most two notches at a
time. Self-test laystate tells the shape, the radius and the camera.
Besides the steps of 15 degrees, Alt snaps the laid straight to the
ratios of the switches (1:4.8 to 1:26.5) of the straight track the
straight crosses, or of one within 30 m of where it starts; the label at
the cursor says which ratio to which track. The first click with Alt
within 2 m of a straight track puts the start on its axis, so a branch
or a crossing at 1:9 starts exactly on the track.
Labels:
- every button, field, tooltip and message of the editor reread for a beginner: short nouns for the fields with the
sentence in the tooltip, the less used options under More settings, one glossary (field of work, template, track,
grade), sides told from directions, degrees and per mille as signs, messages built from one format string
- plural forms through STR_P; the last entry of a po file is read too, and the Polish plural rule is in the header
- lang/editor_pl.po: the code pass entries merged, 391 entries no code uses and 3 duplicates dropped
- roads: the notes and errors naming a road translated; the build options and the layout fold the texture length,
kerb sizes, traffic share, roundabout part, height over the ground and junction speed limit under More settings, the
lanes start folded
Grade lines fitted to the terrain model (NMT), a line or the whole scenery at once:
- fit_ground: a robust fit on nodes 5 m apart; the ground parting from the line (a bridge, a viaduct, a wall) is gone
past rather than followed, the bends keep off the switches as far as their curves reach, a run of bends the same way
is one point of intersection, a curve with no room is as sharp as the room lets it be
- the ends of the line and the other paths of its switches leading into lines fitted already bound the line by what
the tracks between can climb; ends meeting in the plan, laid apart in height by hand, are joined before the run
- apply_profile: the paths are split where split_path takes the parameter (a straight was cut in the wrong place, into
pieces of a few centimetres the game takes for zero length), no piece shorter than the margin; the paths off the
ends of the route are brought to its height
- Bytom: 1600 lines, grade breaks at the joints 89 -> 20; Tarnowskie Gory: 848 lines, 223 -> 3; no step over 2 cm
- editormoderoute.cpp: the route design, its kept records and digitizing
- editormodestraights.cpp: the plan tool: straights, the detour, the curve fit
- editormodelay.cpp: laying track, free ends and extending, the build tools
- editormodeswitchplace.cpp: placing switches, crossovers and links, double slips, curved switches
- editormodetrack.cpp keeps the selection, the snapshots, the tabs, the inspector and the path panel, the hints
- the sizes of the handles and reaches and the small helpers they all use in editormodetrackshared.h
The code is moved as it was.