There's a lot of things happening on the Simutrans Community that are not Steam-related news or updates, and I know that most of you don't bother to check the forums, so let's inaugurate a section called "Simutrans Extra" with the latest news from the community delivered to you monthly (or whenever is something interesting to tell).
Tutorial for pak creators
Let's start this first Simutrans Extra with something great. Have you ever wanted to make a Simutrans add-on? Do you have a building that you have always wanted to see in-game but you don't know how that works? Well, the pak192.comic developer "Leartin" is now writing a step-by-step detailed tutorial about the process of creating Simutrans objects.
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[Tutorial] You got a graphic - now what?
If you end up creating something worth, don't forget to share it with the community! You can even ask pakset creators to include your objects, or share them independently as add-ons, for example by submitting them to the Simutrans Steam Workshop.
A new music back-end for Simutrans
From some time ago, music playback on Linux and MacOS has been broken. To address this, I've developed myself a new music back-end that will address the music problem on both systems, and also add some advances features like MIDI soundfont selection! Here's a short video showing it capabilities:
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This new music back-end will be available on the next Steam stable release for Linux & MacOS. Windows release will probably keep using the same old backend, as it works out-of-the-box without the need of including a soundfont. Nightly releases won't include this either.
2021 Wiki Survey on Simutrans
Every year the wiki celebrates a survey to gather information about Simutrans players. This information is really helpful for developers, and while I can gather some information from Steam, it's not as useful as this wiki survey, so please go there and fill the survey if you want.
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2021 : Simutrans Players
New Simutrans Server for pak128
DThunder (you know, the user who never get the first position in the screenshot contest), have started a new server called "128 World" for pak128 players
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Discussion on the forum
That-other-game similar to Simutrans is also coming to Steam
That-other-game which is Similar to Simutrans is (finally) coming to Steam. Hopefully, people will stop wrongly posting content of that-other-game in our Steam Hub. Anyway, we wish that-other-game developers luck here on Steam!
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Steam Announcement of that-other-game
That's all for this Simutrans Extra #0. Happy simutransing!
[ 2021-02-12 19:57:43 CET ] [ Original post ]