The sixth patch after the scenery update is now available with the following changes:

Graphics

• Adjusted sky and post-processing colour settings
• Adjusted shininess of some hedge objects
• Improved tree colours, leaf density, LODs and transitions
• Fixed floating blobs on top of some trees
• Fixed shadow pop-in during early morning/late evening (long shadows may cause reduced frame rate)
• Optimised shadow rendering (mostly affects short midday shadows)

Editors

• Fixed possible crash in route editor when moving a node
• Fixed possible crash when moving a node on top of another road/track
• Fixed some generative scenery like level crossing covers and track fences to update properly in route editor without having to press F5
• Fixed problem with changes made to custom type materials not syncing properly to visible scenery in route editor
• Fixed track end buffers to sync properly in route editor without having to press F5
• Fixed changes to sign texts in route editor to sync without F5
• Fixed zones without a texture and "apply vegetation" ticked to work more consistently
• Added "copy to clipboard" button for some id fields in all editors
• Added optional per-platform start/end ramp length overrides
• Added multi-line support to sign texts

Other

• Changed initial HUD pause message to suggest pressing Pause key instead of PgDn
• Pressing Esc during the initial pause now starts the sim instead of opening the menu
• Fixed "run in background" setting to work after restarting
• Fixed log file spam when quitting the game
• Several optimisations to reduce stuttering and minor lag spikes

What's next?

The next update will be another patch, focusing on optimising the loading of custom 3D-models and adding some kind of digital elevation map support for the route editor.