TheoTown full update changelogs

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.10.95

• Add building spawned pedestrians via attributes "pedestrian" and "pedestrian count"
• Add pedestrians to police, fire departments and hospitals
• Add ability to spawn pedestrians from buildings via script
• Add frame type TYPE_FENCE as this type was missing before

• Fix cityTime uniform did not return time in seconds but ms
• Fix wires and pipes did not use their frame types
• Fix city corruption related to plugins changing their type

• Deprecate Facebook login method
• Reduce traffic over the weekends
• Improve time uniform precision
• Change reader/writer streams to use utf8 explicitly to fix encoding related bugs
• Disable session log on iOS as it caused issues with premature output
• Prepare support for diagonal bridges
• Streamline internal draft resolution
• Update the icons
• Update translations

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.10.96

• Fix having regular train stations could boost amount of elevated trains
• Fix image prefetching could take infinite time due to lack of progress in case of cache misses

• Allow CONDITION_FRAME to check for full road frames by using "code":"f"
• Update translations

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.10.97

• Fix flickering issue of (budget) text overlays

• Disable diamond syncing with Google Play Games service as it is deprecated
• Optimize car pathfinding calculations and updates
• Update translations

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.10.98

• Fix tutorial hidden elements were not restored when entering other city
• Fix French thousands separator (non breaking space) was drawn as ?

• Cache shader uniform locations
• Update non visible cars less often
• Update credits

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.10.99

• Fix car visibility detection for cars on hills

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.00

• Update game build tools and dependencies.

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.01

• Add the new opera feature
• Add culture happiness and culture effect (leads to level 3 residential demand)
• Add new light definitions by Pluc

• Try to fix out of array exceptions caused by following cars near to the edge of the map

• Prepare addition of building parent / child relationships
• Make daily reward timing more lenient
• Plugin store accessibility changes
• Disable AA on Android
• Update dependencies

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.02

• Fix road pile placement was broken on elevated terrain
• Fix missing escape character in text

• Update translations

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.03

• Fix underground roads connected to neighboring cities could destroy buildings in neighbor cities
• Fix opening file selection dialog on desktop during fullscreen mode would freeze game without showing the dialog
• Fix monthly SWAT costs were not tallied
• Adjust car drawing to fix new monorail flickering

• Prevent charging money when re-building road decoration
• Allow plugin creators to comment on their own plugins
• Improve code flow
• Update translations

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.04

• Add region zooming support
• Add ability for road decorations to remove active flags from the underlying road e.g. by using "remove flag all":true
• Add car spawner ability to target buildings by tag using "target tags" attribute
• Add support for happiness modification using Lua
• Add formatting helper functions to TheoTown Lua library
• Add load-time animation indices validation to prevent runtime crashes
• Add tollbooth management
• Make logo and font size in screenshots resolution independent

• Fix missing category frames lead to a crash when using the traditional toolbar
• Fix car chains did not survive saving/loading due to reordering on car removal
• Fix semi transparent buildings flickering in build tool when smooth zooming
• Fix region / city name size in map screenshots
• Fix region map screenshot transparency bug
• Fix loadText path

• Use tags instead of explicit IDs to identify train and train station relationships
• Improve bus route visualization
• Adjust car speed dependent on whether a road crossing has traffic lights
• Remove plugin loading from an SD card as it's not supported on Android anymore due to scoped storage and not used on any other platform
• Simplify car colorization by automatically extending frames if needed e.g. using "colors":["#ffffff", "#ffcc88", "#5493BF"]
• Reorganize car auto colors for better colors used for busses
• Adjust rating indicator to show +/- dependent on rating change
• Automatically close follow car tool if no drivable "car" is available
• Don't apply low car update frequency to car chain heads as screen visibility is hard to determine there
• Prepare support for monorail
• Refactoring to accommodate recent and upcoming changes
• Update translations

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.06

This release marks an update to the game on the iOS app store.

• Add build tool helper lines to more line based tools

• Fix cannot run on iOS for strange reasons that are related to gradle and gdx freetype

• Adjust resolution on iOS
• Never use rendered city buffering on desktop as it leads to apparent bad performance when zoomed out
• Only consider car "roads" for "too much traffic" notification
• Prevent plugin file tree parsing from including .git directory
• Show helper lines in road tool
• Move light definitions into own content file
• Update libraries

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.07

• Add account deletion button to account stage

• Fix bridge road intersection's information window had overlapping buttons for traffic lights and bridge type
• Fix use of "copies" or "n" attributes in frames did not work nicely with winter frames due to winter frames expecting consecutive frames
• Fix account disclaimer dialog did show every time
• Fix it was hard to move performance slider button as the button could loose focus easily
• Fix could not buy a gift by watching an ad
• Fix network communication with backend

• Update libraries

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.08

• Add ability to car definitions for animation pos array to contain null entries to skip the corresponding frame without the need to define a "frames" attribute
• Add support for more elaborated Lua errors including stack traces

• Optimize city background drawing by adding support to draw chunks of 4x4 tiles. Custom backgrounds must define a fourth frame containing the 4x4 tile variant to support that feature
• Remove pirate language
• Refactor exception handling on desktop and allow ignore to actually ignore exceptions for a short time
• Refactor Android and iOS exception dialog
• Change our way of compiling and building the game internally. This may result in some regressions in the coming versions. Replace some Java code by Kotlin counterparts.
• Update translations

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.09

• Fix armv7 support was lost in the previous update

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.10

• Add Script.EVENT_ALIGNED which can be used to detect alignment changes / initial alignment for aligned buildings
• Add tag "car hearse" to define custom hearse cars

• Fix building upgrade requirement name resolution did not look up actual draft
• Fix initial frame of aligned buildings was random
• Fix motorcycle lights
• Fix game could not be run on desktop
• Fix on Mac OS the game had to be started with UI on main thread due to AWT

• Refactor how service buildings select their car drafts. "service car tags":[] can be used to override the list of tags that should be used as service cars. The defaults are dependent on building type.
• Make alignable building non movable by default
• Allow use of DrawingLibrary within script:update
• Allow "service car tags" to be a single string value instead of an array of strings for convenience
• Prevent excessive building listener events during moving building when using the move building tool
• Prevent pollution from pulling health happiness down to zero
• Lower spread rates of fires and illness and increase effectiveness of fire engines and medic cars
• Update startscreen backgrounds to Discord event winner submissions
• Raise exception when trying to use Drawing.setTile without city context

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.11

• Add custom cursors on desktop
• Add icon resources for level icons and use them for level influence types

• Fix city growth stopped due to slight negative traffic influence from tollbooths being applied to build considerations

• Don't use transparency for buildings of the current draft in aligned building tool
• Lower effect of waste and dead bodies on health happiness

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.12

• Add animation spot attribute "frame shift", default value 1, can be set to 0 to prevent building's base frame to impact rotation of animation
• Add directionality to non one-way roads that can be used for kind of rotation aware road decorations

• Fix game did not compile for iOS
• Fix negative dpi reporting lead to only normal resolution being available

• Only rebind framebuffer in engine if necessary to fix performance issues when many plugins are in use in conjunction with smooth zoom.
• Limit right click scrolling in city stage and make it frame rate independent
• Set bus depot building to only be satisfied with road connection that supports busses
• Use allowBusStop:false for roads that do not have bus flag set by default
• Consider Android < Oreo as "potato" devices and disable smooth zoom by default on them
• Always enforce EVENT_ALIGNED to be called on potentially affected aligned buildings
• Enable edge scrolling on fullscreen by default
• Adjust building upgrade related Lua functions
• Use base frame for rotation aware animations when evaluating target frames (may break stuff, but unlikely)
• Localize shop restore functionality
• internal refactoring

[JustAnyone]

Version 1.11.13

• Add a thread local buffer for a huge reduction in allocations, especially when loading plugins

• Fix frame shift default for animation spots was not actually set so it defaulted to zero
• Attempt to fix resolution issues again

• Enforce presence of plugin.manifest for .plugin file creation
• Prevent .git folders from being included in .plugin files created using "export" console command

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Version 1.11.14

• Fix inheriting road lead to crash
• Fix buildings with max amount cap could not be moved unless the new building place intersects the old one
• Fix moving building to the previous location did cost money and caused rebuild
• Attempt to fix resolution issues x3

• Remove Google Analytics
• Show amount of draw batches in debug overlay
• Increasing the logging amount on startup

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Version 1.11.15

• Fix crash when moving cursor outside of city in wire tool on desktop
• Fix building composition road deco over aligned road preview

• Allow animation drafts without frames definition as child animations may have some
• Draw currently building building opaque in build building tool