OpenRCT2 v0.4.22 “Jump across the English Channel” released!

We're back for another monthly release! This release features improvements to the OpenGL renderer, new track pieces for the Go Karts, better automated detection of RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic installations, and a bunch more.

The complete changelog is as follows:

Feature: [#24206] [Plugin] Add APIs for breaking down rides, reading the current breakdown, and for fixing broken down rides.
Improved: [#20073] The OpenGL drawing engine now supports screen invalidation which avoids the redrawing of unchanged regions.
Improved: [#21767] RCT Classic for macOS can now be used as the source game.
Improved: [#23590] Title bars are now drawn bigger when “Enlarged UI” is enabled.
Improved: [#23626] Add small, medium and large flat and sloped turns, S-bends and diagonal track to the Go-Karts.
Improved: [#23982] The scenario objective window has been merged into the scenario options window.
Improved: [#24233] RCT Classic+ from Apple Arcade can now be used as the source game, and is detected automatically.
Improved: [#24260] Better performance on parks that have a lot of Guests and Entertainers.
Improved: [#24319] RCT Classic installs via Steam are now detected automatically on Windows.
Change: [#23803] Lightning strikes and thunder now happen at the same frequency independently of the game speed.
Change: [#23857] Replace display options tab with custom sprites.
Change: [#24069] [Plugin] Plugins are now available in the scenario editor and track designer.
Change: [#24135] Compress Emscripten js/wasm files.
Change: [#24194] The advanced options tab has been reworked to make it easier to find the RCT1 path setting.
Change: [#24235] Small changes to RCT1 theme.
Change: [#24236] Controls and Interface options now both have their own tabs in the Options window.
Change: [#24308] “Software” and “Software (hardware display)” renderers have been merged into a single “Software” renderer.
Change: [#24317] The scenery window now shows at least one row of scenery objects, even if there are multiple rows of tabs.
Fix: [#18479] Tile elements ordered beneath water do not draw correctly.
Fix: [#19782] Game stops counting inversions and golf holes after 31 (original bug).
Fix: [#21207] Track List window gets positioned incorrectly.
Fix: [#21919] Non-recolourable cars still show colour picker (original bug).
Fix: [#22182] [Plugin] Crash when using map.getAllEntities("car").
Fix: [#22634] Asset packs with sound effect overrides are not loaded correctly at startup.
Fix: [#23108] Missing pieces on Hypercoaster and Hyper-Twister, even with the ‘all drawable track pieces’ cheat enabled.
Fix: [#24013] Failure to load a scenario preview image (minimap) could lead to an uncaught exception error message.
Fix: [#24045] [Plugin] Data storage is not cleared when converting save game to scenario.
Fix: [#24121] Checkbox labels run beyond the edge of the window if they’re too long to fit.
Fix: [#24142] [Plugin] Track origin is miscalculated on downward slopes.
Fix: [#24220] Narrow station platforms have missing sides on certain rotations.
Fix: [#24286] Steam installs of RCT1 and RCT2 are not autodetected on macOS.
Fix: [#24310] [Plugin] Missing invalidation on various plugin api setters for entities.

Deurklink has made another a video summarising this months changes. Thanks again, Deurklink!

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v0.4.22 — Windows — 74.2 MiB — Signed

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
SignPath, for providing a free certificate to sign our builds

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On behalf of the OpenRCT2 team: happy building!

Aaron