Building construction never ends...?

[Roland Deepson]

This is likely not a bug, specifically.  However, to correct it, I tried everything, including deleting and reinstalling anew.  Every pakset tried, including pak64, pak128, pak128.britain.110, and pak129.open.r1150 all exhibit this issue.  I tried downloading a handful of nightlies and one or two full paksets at random, just to see if I could find an example where this problem does not happen, and I failed to find one.

All buildings, of all types, everywhere (in my savegames, in the initial load screen, in new generated maps) show the open pits with the tower crane / bulldozer construction motif.  This is in the towns, the factories, and buildings I've placed.  These buildings do function, however.  Selecting "Transparent instead of hidden" under display options reverts to the correct silouhettes of the buildings.

Road traffic and freigh / pax / mail traffic seems unaffected, so I'm guessing this is a sprite-drawing issue with my client itself?

I normally just play with scenery transparency, so I don't anticipate this being an issue, but it does seem odd.  Any thoughts please?

Thanks

[ӔO]

go to menu > display > cycle through the "hide buildings" setting.

Alternatively, the hotkey should be ( " )

[Roland Deepson]

Thanks

[isidoro]

I had a similar problem when upgrading from an old installation.  The problem was that there were some configuration files left and were interfering with the new ones.  I deleted them and all worked fine again.

The files were in another directory: ~/.simutrans in Linux.  I don't know the equivalent in Windows...

[Roland Deepson]

Hmm.  Well, the _"_ hotkey worked and fixed my problem, allowing me to cycle through all transparency states.  I'm not sure what caused my issue, but since it survived a hard reinstall (I saved my progress) it obviously ported over with some flag in my savegames.  Perhaps this was your underlying problem as well, and deleting your config files simply removed the record of the cause?

[isidoro]

No.  In my case, it wasn't related to any savegame, since even the initial screen had that problem.

Some of the files can survive a hard reinstall since they are saved in a different directory.  For me, that was the case.  When I deleted those old files, all savegames that didn't work before, started to work again.

[ӔO]

it might be the simutrans settings.xml file, which would be in "my documents" for windows.