OpenRCT2 v0.4.15 “And your father smelt of elderberries!” released!

Another month, another release. And it’s a banger! We have some fresh new track pieces, thanks to outside contributors mix, Fidwell and X7123M3-256. But we have also a lot of quality-of-life fixes, mostly done by Aaron, like the redesigned Map Generator dialog and elevating track designs using the Shift key. And lots of improvements to rendering, made by mber. And finally, the usual grabbag of fixes, including one for the supports being invisible on startup that unfortunately snuck into the last release.

A list of the changes:

• Feature: [#775] Add 2x and 4x zoom levels to software renderer (previously limited to OpenGL).
• Feature: [#15642] Track design placement can now use construction modifier keys (ctrl/shift).
• Feature: [#20539] [Plugin] Add API for getting a ride’s statistics.
• Feature: [#21521] [Plugin] Add hook 'park.guest.softcap.calculate' called before calculating the soft guest cap.
• Feature: [#22383] Add downward-inclined brakes to hybrid coaster and single rail coaster.
• Feature: [#22694] Park graphs have tooltips and can be resized like finance graphs.
• Feature: [#22758] The table of ‘real’ peep names can now be changed using Peep Names objects.
• Feature: [#22842] [Plugin] Expose large scenery object tiles to the plugin API.
• Feature: [#22883] [Plugin] Add plugin API for spawning guests.
• Improved: [#22470] Android: automatically detect RCT2 installs in /sdcard/rct2.
• Improved: [#22735] The map generator has a redesigned interface that is much more user friendly.
• Improved: [#22777] Add long flat-to-steep track pieces to the Wooden and Classic Wooden Roller Coasters.
• Improved: [#22815] Add long flat-to-steep track pieces to the Mine Train Coaster.
• Change: [#22494] Themes window now displays colours and checkboxes vertically.
• Change: [#22596] Land ownership fixes described by .parkpatch files are now only considered on scenarios.
• Change: [#22724] Staff now have optional ‘real’ names as well.
• Change: [#22740] Add virtual floor to shifted track design placement.
• Change: [#22795] Replace Giga Coaster and Twister Roller Coaster booster images.
• Fix: [#2614] The colour tab of the ride window does not hide invisible cars (original bug).
• Fix: [#7672] Wide path status is set to all ‘wide’ paths, instead of only a quarter, impeding pathfinding.
• Fix: [#15406] Tunnels on steep Side-Friction track are drawn too low.
• Fix: [#21959] “Save this before...?” message does not appear when selecting “New Game”.
• Fix: [#22072] Objective date string and staff tenure date string cannot be reused on agglutinative languages.
• Fix: [#22133] Ride time is incorrect for extremely slow speeds.
• Fix: [#22231] Invalid object version can cause a crash.
• Fix: [#22479] Crash when a ride has no valid music object.
• Fix: [#22562] Bottom row of pixels is not always drawn by the OpenGL renderer when zoomed in.
• Fix: [#22653] Missing water tiles in RCT1 and RCT2 scenarios.
• Fix: [#22654] Misplaced scenario elements in RCT1 and RCT2 scenarios.
• Fix: [#22655] Incorrectly set surface style around missing water tiles on Botany Breakers.
• Fix: [#22729] Invisibility settings persist after reloading OpenRCT2.
• Fix: [#22734] Support clearance above steep Side-Friction track is too low.
• Fix: [#22774] Fix entities leaving stale pixels on the screen when the framerate is uncapped.
• Fix: [#22805] Fix deadzone when panning the view in positive axis directions.
• Fix: [#22808] Incorrect support rotation on some Mini Roller Coaster track pieces.
• Fix: [#22857] Side-Friction Roller Coaster train clips through slopes.
• Fix: [#22880] macOS builds lack asset packs and scenario patches.
• Fix: [#22891] [Plugin] getInstalledObject API function not implemented.
• Fix: [objects#346] Invalid refund price for Brick Base Block scenery item.

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We would like to thank everyone who contributed with code, testing, translations, bug reports and everything else. We would also like to thank our sponsors:

• Digital Ocean, for hosting the multiplayer master server and our infrastructure
• Backtrace, for handling our automated crash reports
• JetBrains, for providing us with development software
• Github, for handling our development and issue tracker

If you're interested in contributing to OpenRCT2, feel free to join us on Discord.

You can also sponsor OpenRCT2 team members:

• https://github.com/sponsors/IntelOrca
• https://github.com/sponsors/janisozaur
• https://github.com/sponsors/broxzier
• https://github.com/sponsors/Gymnasiast

Happy building!

~Gymnasiast

Addendum: if you prefer to see the changes in video form, look no further. Our favourite type of door furniture made one: