-Skyscraper 2.0 Alpha 9
-Copyright (C)2003-2014 Ryan Thoryk
+Skyscraper 2.0 Alpha 10
+Copyright (C)2003-2016 Ryan Thoryk
http://www.skyscrapersim.com
http://sourceforge.net/projects/skyscraper
For more information, see the LICENSE file.
This software utilizes the FMOD sound system
-FMOD Sound System, copyright (C) Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd., 1994-2010.
+FMOD Sound System, copyright (C) Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd., 1994-2015.
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3. Release Notes
-This release is the ninth development relase of the 2.0 series (which is a complete rewrite of
+This release is the tenth development release of the 2.0 series (which is a complete rewrite of
the original 1.0 version), and is part of an ongoing effort towards a 2.0 stable release.
-This software requires both the OGRE graphics engine library (version 1.7 or later) which
-can be found at http://www.ogre3d.org, the Bullet physics engine with some custom patches,
-available at http://www.skyscrapersim.com/downloads/dev/other_apps/, the FMOD sound system (www.fmod.org), and the wxWidgets library (version 2.6.3 or later) which can be found at http://www.wxwidgets.org.
+This software utilizes the OGRE rendering engine library (version 1.8 or later), the Bullet physics engine with some custom patches, the FMOD sound system, the wxWidgets library (version 3.0 or later), and the Caleum sky system addon for OGRE.
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+Skyscraper on Windows supports both DirectX and OpenGL. To switch between them, simply delete the ogre.cfg file in Skyscraper's folder, run the program again, and choose from the OGRE rendering menu.
See the changelog for a detailed list of new features, fixes, and other changes in this release.
5. Usage
To use Skyscraper, run the program, and a main menu screen will appear with a button for each
-available building (and one button for loading user buildings). Choose the building to load, and in a few moments you will be walking around in that building. The only buildings that are completely simulated in this release are "Simple" and "Triton Center". While in one of these buildings, you can click on objects such as elevator call buttons, etc to perform actions. The recommended building to try out is the Triton Center, since it is the most complete official building. The "Simple" building is a minimalistic demo to basically show how to make your own buildings in the application's scripting language. Other user-created buildings are included, and can be loaded by choosing the "Other Building" button on the main screen.
+available building (and one button for loading user buildings). Choose the building to load, and in a few moments you will be walking around in that building. You can press F5 to switch between standard and freelook modes. The only buildings that are completely simulated in this release are "Simple" and "Triton Center". While in one of these buildings, you can click on objects such as elevator call buttons, etc to perform actions. The recommended building to try out is the Triton Center, since it is the most complete official building, and also the Glass Tower, which has some of the more complex designs. The "Simple" building is a minimalistic demo to basically show how to make your own buildings in the application's scripting language. Other user-created buildings are included, and can be loaded by choosing the "Other Building" button on the main screen.
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Keys currently used in the simulator:
+On a Mac, the Control key is the Command key (to the right of the Option key), and Alt is the Option key
+
W or Up Arrow - move forwards
S or Down Arrow - move backwards
A or Left Arrow - move left
Space - Jump
Home or O - Float upwards (or jump if collision detection is on)
End or K - Float downwards (or crouch if collision detection is on)
-F2 - print FPS on console
+F1 - show control reference
+F2 - print render statistics on console
F3 - Reset camera rotation and zoom to default
F4 - Enable/disable wireframe mode
F5 - Freelook (mouse look) mode
F6 - Full camera reset (respawn)
F7 - Show colliders
+F8 - Show mesh bounding boxes
F10 - Fullscreen mode
F11 - Take screenshot
F12 - Open control panel
Minus or [ - Zoom out (increase FOV angle)
Esc - exit to main menu
V - Toggle noclip mode (gravity and collisions off)
+B - Binoculars mode (hold down), and reset FOV to default
+C - Pick up object (physics-enabled models)
+; - (semicolon) - Load an additional building
+1 to 0 - (number keys) - Switch active camera to engine instance number (ex. 2 for building engine 2)
Ctrl-R - Reload current building
Ctrl-Alt-C - Crash program (throw exception) - used for testing handlers
--- Mouse actions ---
-the selection order of controls (buttons and switches) can be reversed by right-clicking them
-elevator shaft doors can be manually opened and closed by holding down the Shift key and clicking on them - note that this only works when the interlocks are released, which can be done in the elevator editor by clicking "Set" next to "Interlocks" on the related elevator
--polygons (wall/floor sides) can be deleted by holding down Ctrl and clicking on the object
--doors, controls/buttons, and call buttons can be locked/unlocked by holding down the Shift key and clicking on the side to lock, if you have the associated key
+-polygons (wall/floor sides) and other objects can be deleted by holding down both Ctrl and Alt, and clicking on the object
+-doors, controls/buttons, and call buttons can be locked/unlocked by holding down both the Ctrl and Shift keys while clicking on the side to lock, if you have the associated key
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-6. Detailed Release Notes (major changes since Alpha 7)
-
-Skyscraper now generates it's own raw 3D geometry. Alpha 7 relied on Crystal Space's "thingmesh" system, and during the Alpha 8 (Crystal Space version) development, I ported everything off and created Skyscraper's geometry processor which made the OGRE port possible.
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-Skyscraper now uses the OGRE graphics engine for all graphics rendering and other operations, Bullet for collision detection and physics, and FMOD for sound. This has resulted in many more features and greater expandibility. Previous releases used the Crystal Space game engine.
+6. Detailed Release Notes
-Skyscraper supports both DirectX and OpenGL (previous versions only used OpenGL). To switch between them, simply delete the ogre.cfg file in Skyscraper's folder, run the program again, and choose from the OGRE rendering menu.
-This version has a new performance profiler built in (the same one Bullet uses), and is mainly to help pinpoint performance issues. To get to it, click the Profiler button on the control panel window. It'll show different components and functions of the simulator, and their per-frame timing in milliseconds.
+Information for this release:
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-This version supports starting elevators in a certain fire mode (FireService1 and FireService1 parameters), and supports only playing elevator music while the elevator is moving (MusicOnMove parameter) - you can also globally set those in the INI file.
+This release has a very large amount of bug fixes and stability fixes, which results in Alpha 10 being the most stable release of Skyscraper yet. Many fixes were intended to make Skyscraper stable for dynamic creation and deletion of objects during runtime, in anticipation for a building designer.
-Small objects (such as directional indicators, controls, call buttons) now have a maximum distance value (default 100) that they'll be shown, to improve performance.
+Most objects can be deleted by pressing Ctrl and Alt together, and clicking on the object. On a Mac, the keys are Command and Option.
-Skyscraper now supports loading standard OGRE mesh models. A couple couches and keys are loaded in the Simple building as an example. See this forum thread on how to create models using Google Sketchup:
-https://forum.skyscrapersim.com/index.php?topic=5556.0
+Skyscraper has supported loading standard OGRE mesh models since the Alpha 8 release. A couple couches and keys are loaded in the Simple building as an example, and there is a couch on the roof of the Triton Center to demonstrate physics. See this forum thread on how to create models using Google Sketchup:
+http://forum.skyscrapersim.com/index.php?topic=5556.0
To optimize rendering speed, the main thing that will cause overall slowdowns is the type of texture filtering used. The better the filtering, the better the visual quality but the slower the app. Skyscraper defaults to anisotropic filtering at level 4. Lower-quality filtering is available too in the forms of bilinear and trilinear filtering, so to improve rendering performance, either lower the anisotropic level in the INI file or switch to a different filtering method. Also, the Vsync option normally locks the FPS at 60, but can cause abnormal slowdowns that can decrease the framerate below what it should (such as an FPS reading of 30 with vsync on, while one of 40 with it off). These options can all be set in the INI file.
-This version supports selective floor displays on indicators (meaning you can specify which floors to display on indicators) using the DisplayFloors command in the elevator section.
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Caelum is used to create dynamic skies, including moving clouds, moving sun and moon, effects like fog and rain, stars at night, etc. To use Caelum, choose (or create) a sky function from the data/caelum/sky.os script, and either add it to your building script using the DynamicSky command or in the INI file with the SkyName parameter. See the script guide (designguide.html) for more information on the available options. The Caelum sky-related time multiplier can be set in the Camera Control box, in order to quickly show day/night cycles.
To revert back to the old sky system, turn off Caelum in the skyscraper.ini file using the Skyscraper.Frontent.Caelum option.
-A basic code constructor has been added. It's basically in-sim menus that let you build things during runtime by generating the related script commands. You can access it by clicking "Object Manager" on the control panel and clicking "Create".
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-The Triton Center and Glass Tower now have new external windows using the new LoadAlphaBlendTexture command.
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-Skyscraper supports loading Ogre material definitions and textures directly by placing all of the files into the data/materials folder, and using the LoadMaterial command to map the material to a simulator texture name (more info in the script guide).
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-Texture animation has been added, and is done by many of the new commands - a new building has been created to show off the animations, and is called "Simple - Animated" - this uses all of the commands, and you can quickly learn how to use them this way. This feature was very easy to add due to the capabilities of OGRE and how easy those were implemented in that graphics engine.
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-An Action system has been created (along with a viewer/player in the control panel), allowing you to create custom controls and triggers anywhere in the simulator and bind them to specific simulator actions. Custom controls work just like elevator buttons/controls, and perform certain actions - see the animated simple building for an example. Triggers are defined areas that perform actions just like controls, except that it does them whenever you enter/leave the trigger area. See the animated simple building for an example/demo of this also. Sounds can also be played/stopped from actions.
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-A bunch of new textures have been added, which are mostly there for window shading effects (see the Glass Tower and Triton Center buildings for examples).
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-A new AddFloor command syntax has been made which fixes a number of polygon generation problems with the old version
-A "GotoFloor" option has been made in the camera controller, allowing you to instantly jump to any floor.
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-Due to changes made to the planar texture mapper, there's a chance that some walls in existing buildings will have their textures flipped - I haven't noticed anything during testing, but if you notice anything, it would be best just to fix those walls, since previous builds (including CS versions) worked in a more broken way.
+Major changes since the Alpha 9 release:
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-ReverseAxis command is now deprecated and only used for the old AddFloor syntax
+Ogre 1.9 is now used instead of 1.8.1, which Alpha 9 used. Model mesh files need to be upgraded to the newer format to prevent warning messages on startup - they'll still work fine though.
-SetPlanarMapping command has been updated, with a "rotate" option
+Skyscraper now supports running multiple buildings simultaneously via the new Engine Contexts feature. This makes the development of cities possible.
-The default walking camera speed has been changed to half of the old speed, for a more realistic walking speed. If you want the old behavior, just set the StepSpeed and StrafeSpeed parameters in skyscraper.ini to 140.
+Sky parameters can now be controlled via the Sky Control dialog.
-AddShaftDoor command has been updated with a voffset parameter - shaft doors can now be placed at any height, not just the floor's base. The Glass Tower uses this for the executive elevator.
+Virtual people are supported, to simulate elevator traffic.
-SetShaftDoors command is now deprecated, and the options have been moved into the AddShaftDoor command.
+A new sound system has been added, which is more efficient than the previous one.
-You can now fully configure the main menu from the INI file (and can even create as many buttons as you want).
+A new Dynamic Meshes system has been added, which greatly improves the rendering efficiency of the simulator.
-Since single-sided colliders are not possible (in order to support some "locking doors" people have made, which isn't a very good idea anyway, since you'd still be walking through a wall), I added support for actual door locks and keys. Models are loaded and assigned as keys, and all controls (including elevator buttons) can be locked and unlocked by shift-clicking on the control (but only if you have the related key). Keys are assigned numbers, and you can see which keys you have by clicking the "List Keys" button in the control panel. When you click on a key, the number is added to your inventory and the key model is deleted.
+See the forum and changelog for more information on the new changes and features.
-The elevator bumpers feature has been improved, and now works regardless if the user is moving or not.
+Command line options are now supported.
-Go toggle options have been added as actions, so you can manually operate the elevator while in inspection mode from any control (see the AddControl command in the script guide for more info).
+Double-decker elevators (really multi-deck elevators) are now supported.
-The Simple building now has a key model in it, which unlocks both the elevator's 10th floor button and the 10th floor stairwell door. Other controls can be locked and unlocked, and by default they're assigned a key ID of 0 (which means no key required).
+Elevators now support hoistway access functions.
-A couch has been added to the Triton Center's roof, which can be pushed off due to Bullet physics support.
+Working revolving doors are supported.
Modified keys:
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-PgUp or P - Look upwards
-PgDown or L - Look downwards
-Home or O - Float upwards (or jump if collision detection is on)
-End or K - Float downwards (or crouch if collision detection is on)
-F7 - Show colliders
-Alt + PgUp/P - Spin right
-Alt + PgDown/L - Spin left
-Plus or ] - Zoom in (decrease FOV angle)
-Minus or [ - Zoom out (increase FOV angle)
-V - Toggle noclip mode (gravity and collisions off)
-Shift-click - lock or unlock objects
+Number keys switch between engines, when multiple buildings are loaded.
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New commands/parameters:
-DisplayFloors
-AddModel
-AddShaftModel
-AddStairsModel
-DisplayFloors
-FireService1
-FireService2
-MusicOn
-MusicOnMove
-AutoEnable
-LoadMaterial
-LoadAnimatedTexture
-LoadAlphaBlendTexture
-RotateTexture
-RotateAnimTexture
-ScrollTexture
-ScrollAnimTexture
-ScaleTexture
-TransformTexture
-AddActionControl
-AddShaftActionControl
-AddStairsActionControl
-AddTrigger
-AddAction
-AddSound (updated)
-AddFloor (updated)
-MotorUpStartSound
-MotorDownStartSound
-MotorUpRunSound
-MotorDownRunSound
-MotorUpStopSound
-MotorDownStopSound
-CarUpStartSound
-CarDownStartSound
-CarUpRunSound
-CarDownRunSound
-CarUpStopSound
-CarDownStopSound
-(inspection mode actions: UpOn, UpOff, DownOn, DownOff, GoOn and GoOff)
-SetKey
-SetLock
-InspectionSpeed
-LimitQueue
-AutoEnable
-ReOpen
+ListVisibleMeshes
+CreatewallObject
+AddPolygon
+AddExternalDoor
+ChimeOnArrival
+new Buildings and Car sections
+Position
+Bounds
+ShowLoadedSounds
+ShowPlayingSounds
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+New elevator actions:
+PeakOff
+StopDoors
+SensorReset
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+New call button actions:
+Off
+Up
+Down
+FireOff
+FireOn
+FireBypass
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