The tiles moved out of the scenery's pak into an archive of their own: a sorted index of fixed-size entries found by where a tile sits in the quadtree rather than by a name, each entry compressed on its own so a tile can be read without touching the rest. A name apiece would have been seventy megabytes of index to read before the first tile could be drawn. An entry carries what its tile's ground asks for - how far it departs from the finest mesh, and how long its triangles are - because which level to draw has to be settled for tiles that are not on the card yet, and the index is the only thing about them that is read up front. Until now the figure came from the tile's level, which is the worst tile in it, so one steep corner spoke for every tile that shared its level. The mesh carries a normal per vertex, octahedron-encoded into two bytes, in place of the face normal the fragment stage worked out from how the view position changed across a triangle. A face normal makes the ground read as facets, and a coarser level's facets face differently from the ones they stand for, so the light over a hillside changed as the level did. A geometry stage hands the fragment stage the three materials of the triangle it is in and the barycentric weights, so ground changes over a triangle rather than along its edge; 3.3 has no gl_BaryCoordEXT. And the level a tile is drawn at now counts the camera's height. The distance was measured on the ground plane alone, which puts the tile underfoot nought metres away from a camera a kilometre above it - and nought metres asks for the finest level there is, so a view from the air wanted the whole ground at full detail, more tiles than the buffers hold, and what would not fit came out as holes. Archives written under the old rules are refused at the door and baked again.
MaSzyna - Railway vehicle simulator
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MaSzyna executable source code is licensed under the MPL 2.0 and comes with a large pack of free assets under a custom license.
Table of Contents
Getting Started
MaSzyna compiles and runs natively on Linux and Windows. Other platforms are not tested.
Heads-up
Our dev team is small; we keep improving the build process, but issues may still occur. If you get stuck, please ask on the official Discord server.
Prerequisites
For runtime requirements see Minimum Requirements.
1) Software (oldest tested in parentheses)
Note: MinGW is currently not supported.
2) Libraries (oldest tested in parentheses)
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GLFW 3.x (3.2.1)
If a link error occurs, pass-DGLFW3_LIBRARIES="<path>"to CMake. -
GLM (0.9.9.0)
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libserialport (0.1.1)
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libsndfile (1.0.28)
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LuaJIT (2.0.5)
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GLEW (2.1.0)
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libpng (1.6.34)
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OpenAL (1.18.2)
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pthread
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Python 3.14 (64-bit; headers and import library required for embedding)
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Asio (1.12)
3) Graphics API
- OpenGL 3.0 or newer
- DirectX 12 via NVRHI (optional, Windows only, for Better Renderer)
CMake flags
| Flag | Meaning |
|---|---|
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug |
Debug build |
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release |
Release build |
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo |
Release build with debug symbols |
-DWITH_BETTER_RENDERER=ON/OFF |
Enable/disable NVRHI-based renderer |
-DPython3_ROOT_DIR=<path> |
Root of the Python 3.14 install on Windows (python.exe, Lib, DLLs) for embed/copy steps; on Linux, optional if CMake picks the wrong interpreter |
Linux note:
WITH_BETTER_RENDERERuses DirectX 12 through NVRHI and is not supported on Linux.
Windows
Install Python 3.14 x64 from python.org and include the optional Python native development feature (headers and .lib for embedding). Pass -DPython3_ROOT_DIR="C:\Path\To\Python314" on the cmake line when you want the layout under that directory used for embedding and for copying Lib / DLLs next to the executable.
AppVeyor CI builds with the worker image’s preinstalled Python at C:/Python314-x64 (see appveyor.yml: -DPython3_ROOT_DIR=...).
# Clone repository with submodules
git clone --recursive https://github.com/MaSzyna-EU07/maszyna.git
cd maszyna
# Init vcpkg
call setup.bat
# Create directory for CMake build files
mkdir build
cd build
# Generate CMake project (replace %CONFIG% with Debug/Release/RelWithDebInfo)
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=%CONFIG%
# Build (replace %CONFIG% accordingly)
cmake --build . --config %CONFIG% --parallel
Linux
# Install dependencies (Fedora/RHEL family)
sudo dnf install -y \
@development-tools \
cmake \
mesa-libGL-devel \
glew-devel \
glfw-devel \
python3.14-devel \
libpng-devel \
openal-soft-devel \
luajit-devel \
libserialport-devel \
libsndfile-devel \
gcc \
g++ \
wayland-devel \
wayland-protocols-devel \
libxkbcommon-devel
# Clone repository with submodules
git clone --recursive https://github.com/MaSzyna-EU07/maszyna.git
cd maszyna
# Create directory for CMake build files
mkdir build
cd build
# Generate Makefiles (NVRHI is not supported on Linux)
cmake .. -DWITH_BETTER_RENDERER=OFF
# Compile using all cores
make -j"$(nproc)"
Tip (Ubuntu/Debian): Package names differ; install equivalent
build-essential,libgl1-mesa-dev,libglew-dev,libglfw3-dev,python3.14-dev,libpng-dev,libopenal-dev,libluajit-5.1-dev,libserialport-dev,libsndfile1-dev, and Wayland/X11 dev packages as needed.
Installing
There is no make install yet. Copy the built executable to your MaSzyna installation manually.
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Output directory:
./bin -
File name format:
eu07_YYYY-MM-DD_<commit>[_d]-
YYYY-MM-DD– build date -
<commit>– short commit hash -
_d– present in Debug builds
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If you already have the MaSzyna assets, copy the executable to the install dir. Assets can be downloaded from eu07.pl.
Rainsted on Linux
If Rainsted (a third‑party starter) fails to detect the executable under Linux, you can create a small wrapper script named eu07.exe:
#!/bin/sh
./eu07 "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4" "$5"
If detection still fails, padding the file (with comments) up to ~1 MB may help.
Known Issues
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GLFW linking – On some systems you must provide the GLFW library path explicitly with
-DGLFW3_LIBRARIES. -
X11/Wayland linking order – Linking order of X11 and related libs can matter.
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NVRHI on Linux – The NVRHI/"Better Renderer" path targets DirectX 12 and is currently unsupported on Linux.
Support
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Official Discord Server: https://discord.gg/qAh9ctWPQv
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Project page: https://eu07.pl/
Minimum requirements
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: 2 core at least 2 GHz (e.g. Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD Athlon II X2)
- RAM: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics Card: supporting OpenGL 3.3 with at least 1GB VRAM
- 150 GB of free disk space
- Sound card supporting OpenAL with stereo
- Optional COM ports for custom control panel setups.
License
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Source code: MPL 2.0
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Assets: Custom license
