OpenRCT2 v0.4.24 “Encyclopaedia Salesman” released!

It’s early July and the summer holiday is approaching fast. For us, it’s a good moment to do some cleaning and hopefully deliver a solid release that will last the whole summer, even if you drop it in the pool... well, that doesn’t make any sense. Let’s get back to the release itself, shall we?

The release features a lot of cleanup and refinement of existing features. Heavily built-up maps should now glitch a lot less. Animated doors should no longer get stuck. Neither should you, as we made improvements to several windows.

Here is the complete changelog:

• Feature: [#24411] Vanilla scenarios now also have previews in the scenario selection window.
• Feature: [#24616] Add ability to scroll map with gamepad sticks.
• Feature: [#24662] Add optional screenshot argument for Z coord.
• Improved: [#22684] The limit of 2000 animated tile elements has been removed.
• Improved: [#23228] Landscape edge doors now animate opening and closing and play a sound.
• Improved: [#24026] Notification settings have been made into a tab of the Recent Messages window.
• Improved: [#24569, #24710] Add ten additional translations to the Windows installer.
• Change: [#24559] Scenario options are now disabled rather than hidden when disabling money makes them non-applicable.
• Change: [objects#383] Disable all base colours on non-remappable WW/TT vehicles, change black to light_blue.
• Change: [objects#384] Remove erroneously enabled WW/TT third remaps.
• Removed: [#24628] “Pause game when Steam overlay is open” feature (already broken for a long time).
• Removed: [#24640] Grouping by difficulty (instead of per campaign) in the scenario selector.
• Fix: [#15846] Rightclicking on track piece when there is construction below does not work.
• Fix: [#16176, #23113] Animated tile elements do not always redraw when there is over 2000.
• Fix: [#17365] The slope of new land surfaces is only correct on one side when shifting and resizing the map.
• Fix: [#18080] Obsolete official .DAT files can be loaded accidentally.
• Fix: [#21703] Scenery wall doors get stuck open if the game is saved and loaded whilst they are open.
• Fix: [#24456] Zoomed out vehicles on the ride window tab can sometimes draw incorrectly.
• Fix: [#24458] Vehicles in the ride window vehicle tab are offset differently than vanilla RCT2, and the sprites are cut off at the bottom.
• Fix: [#24576] It is possible to edit open rides in certain circumstances.
• Fix: [#24589] Music tab doesn’t fully render in multiplayer.
• Fix: [#24615] Blank strings in Windows installer.
• Fix: [#24617] ‘Divide by zero’ error when updating boat hire acceleration.
• Fix: [#24626] Viewports that only follow sprites (e.g. in the Ride and Guest windows) can be made to unfollow them.
• Fix: [#24661] `convert` console command always crashes with a segmentation fault.
• Fix: [#24666] `convert` console command rejects files with an SV7 extension.
• Fix: [objects#388] ‘Italian Police Ride’ has a non-functional first remap colour.

As always, Deurklink made a video for this release, for easy digestion:

Download

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

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

On behalf of the OpenRCT2 team: happy building!

Gymnasiast