Bug Fixes:

- Special Track Sequence Events can now be deleted.
- The Special Track Sequence tab now animates with the rest of the Coaster Track Menu.
- Deleting a coaster now deletes the supports of tracks following Special Tracks.

Bug Fixes:

- River nodes can now be correctly deleted.
- The release Speed, Power and Direction for Special Tracks now don't show when the Release Rule is set to "Release".
- Placing Special Tracks and changing their transform should now work properly.
- River Nodes should now load their scale properly
- The Comet lap bar now has a proper hitbox to enter Seat View.
- Coaster tangents and rotation should now load properly.
- Track Components should now generate properly on upside-down track segments.
- Fixed trick tracks using wrong internal code.
- Tracks following Special Tracks should now update properly with their attached coaster.
- River and Path Nodes should now work properly.

Bug Fixes:

- Deleting coasters should now work properly and not cause crashes on loading back a save with deleted coasters.
- The terrain brush size can be increased or decreased again.
- Editing and deleting Special Tracks should work properly.
- The Comet coaster articulations are now fixed.
- Added missing camera angles on the Chainlift Megacoaster.
- Deleting rivers should now work properly.

Improvements:

- Adjusted camera angles to look slightly better.
- Increased max terrain brush strength for faster terrain editing.

This patch fixes the "Fatal Error" caused by running the game in Windowed Fullscreen mode.

This patch also fixes the Comet back car mesh issue.

Please note that while in its Alpha stage, we cannot guarantee Park Studio will work reliably on all hardware, please report any bugs or crashes you encounter. Bug reports will be fixed as soon as possible.

DISCLAIMER:

Alpha 0.2.0 is not the full "0.2" release, we are changing the way we release updates to provide more regular, feature rich updates. This means that an update such as 0.2 will be complete when all features are implemented via smaller updates. 0.2 is planned to be complete with 0.2.2!

Park Studio Alpha 0.2.0 has been released, here is what it currently includes:

- Coaster Builder Improvements: The coaster builder received a major upgrade, introducing a "Curve Tool" that allows for a better coaster building experience with automatic tangents! Nodes are still available for fine-tuning!

- Special Track Elements: Jump Tracks, Drop Tracks, Tilt Tracks and much more are waiting to be added to your coasters!

- Improved Coaster Physics: Coaster physics were drastically improved, and new customization options were added to control them further!

- Water Tools: Create Rivers around and in your parks! More water features such as lakes and oceans are coming soon!

- Foliage Painter: Using the brand new Foliage Painter, easily create forests or populate your park with grass, bushes and rocks!

- New Coaster Models: Go Beyond Vertical with the new Mug Rides LSM Launch Coaster "Comet", inspired by the Mack Rides Stryker Coaster, and soon, a brand new coaster type will turn your park upside down!

- CSV Track Importer: Import your coasters from other software directly in Park Studio using the CSV importer!


Here are the features planned for release Alpha 0.2.1, coming soon.

- Additional Special Tracks: Switch Tracks, Transfer Tracks and other special tracks will come to complete the library of Special Tracks!

- New & Improved Water Tools: Water bodies will be added, along with a water shader overhaul allowing for better flowing water and scenery interactions!

- Prefabs & Steam Workshop: Prefabs will allow you to save your builds and share them on the Steam Workshop!

- Media Importer and Media Scenery: Screens, Flags, Speakers and more are coming to take your park to the next level with custom imported media!

- Menu Filters: Menu filters will come back to improve your experience when browsing the thousands of objects available in Park Studio!

- Track Components & Sounds: Better track components (LSM, Brakes) will come with sound and animations!

- Undo & Redo: Currently disabled in 0.2.0, Undo & Redo will come back in 0.2.1!

- Coaster Station Improvements: Coaster stations will be able to have a continuous movement, and trains will be able to open gates per row!

More features are planned to release in Alpha 0.2.2! Learn more on the trello[trello.com].

CURRENT LIMITATIONS

- Special Tracks are still heavily Work In Progress, they are buggy especially with blocks, use with care.

- Special Track Elements cannot be inserted between nodes.

- Trains cannot go backwards with Special Track Elements, they will glitch out.

CHANGELOG

This update includes the following new features:

- New Camera Features: We added a few new Cinematic features to the Advanced Graphics Options, including color grading, depth of field, etc...

- Zoom: You can now Zoom using (C).

- POV Buttons on Train Cards: We added a few buttons to enter different camera positions on your trains via the Train Cards.

- Time Control: The Time and Weather Menu now includes new buttons to control time, you can slow down, stop or speed up time.

- New Upscaler : Nvidia DLSS 3.7 has been added, including DLSS, DLAA and NIS. (Note: Upscalers are not a solution to performance issues, they are only here to help with performance while we do our best to improve the game's bottlenecks.)

This update includes the following improvements:

- Massively Improved Performance: We optimized a lot of systems across the game, including lighting and materials and fixed some performance issues that were found before the initial release.

- Camera Speed and Mouse Sensitivity: You can now control the Flying and Walking camera speeds as well as the Mouse Sensitivity.

- Realistic Jump: We changed how the player character jumps, it should now be more realistic and less floaty.

- Menu Auto-Scaling: The Menus will now automatically scale up or down when you select/deselect an object or coaster, making it easier to browse the library while keeping viewport space when placing objects.

- Shader Pre-Compile Screen: We added a new Shader Compilation Screen when launching the game, this will compile all shaders allowing for a smoother game experience, you can disable the Pre-Compile Screen in the Options.

- New & Improved Main Menu: We improved the look and feel of the Main Menu.

- Interaction Crosshair: When in Walk Mode, if you look at an interactable object or coaster train, an interaction crosshair will appear indicating the object can be interacted with.

- Insert Node Improvements: When adding a node between two nodes, the new node will be inserted in the middle of the two others

- Arrive and Leave Tangents: Tangents are now separated between Arrive and Leave allowing for finer control over your curve's tangents.

- Auto Tangent Button: A new button to auto-calculate and apply tangents.

- Node Linking: Nodes can now be linked to each other, extending their settings without manual intervention.

- Snapping Improvements: Snapping can now snap to rotation and snap to scale.

- Hardware Ray Tracing Support: Support for Hardware Ray Tracing has been added, improving Ambient Occlusion, Reflections, Global Illumination and potentially improving performance on Ray Tracing capable graphic cards.

- Editable Coaster Friction: Coaster friction can be edited per coaster.

- Higher Resolution Terrain: Terrain resolution has been doubled, note that terrain paint may be reset.

- Units in Menus: Units are now displayed in Menus when needed.

- Longer Rain and Snow Coverage: Rain and Snow will last longer on the ground before melting or drying.

- New Terrain Textures: A few new terrain textures were added such as sand, leaves and gravel.

- New Foliage species: About a dozen new tree species were added including Pines, Palms, Oaks and more.

- Shadow Resolution Setting: A new setting that allows to control the "resolution" of shadows, this has very low impact on performance but can be useful.

Bug fixes:

- Nodes shouldn't reset colors anymore
- Grid Size can no longer be 0
- Decimals now display properly on supports settings
- All trains now have the same number of cars, name colors can still be adjusted per train
- Opening a closed loop coaster now removes the track components of the removed section
- Train audio issues were fixed
- The mouse should now be as responsive as your computer's mouse
- Park Name now saves and displays properly
- Opening the pause menu doesn't freeze the game
- Nodes can now be selected through terrain
- Node triggers were shortened to avoid overlapping track issues
- Fixed some typos
- The loading screen bar now displays 100% instead of 0% when loading has been completed

There are most probably more fixes that were forgotten, if issues persist, please report them again in the bug reports channel on the Discord.

Known Issues:

- Trains sometimes fold on themselves when switching from a Special Track to a normal track or when closing a coaster with a train on a special track or beyond.

- Blocks can bug with Special Tracks, they will not generate properly, especially with multiple Special Tracks.

- Closing a loop with Special Tracks currently only moves the last node to the first, this will be improved

You can now support the development of the game by subscribing to a tier on our Patreon, more info below.

Why are we opening a Patreon?

As you may know, Park Studio has hit its sales goal, and has surpassed them since! But unfortunately, we did not correctly plan for the amount taxes and Steam would keep from those sales, which means we are currently unsure if the Park Studio project has the required funds to be developed to completion in a reasonable amount of time.

The cost of developing the game has also increased, we are needing more tools and more external support to surpass the challenges of using Unreal Engine 5, and create high quality content for you to enjoy, which is costly.

Adding to that, personal situation changes means life is costing more, and without an income, developing the Park Studio project full-time is not feasible.

That is why we are asking for your support, we are extremely thankful if you've purchased Park Studio and we know you are all waiting for more updates, new content and we will provide! We've made the promise to create an incredible game and we will respect this promise!

What are the tiers and advantages?

We are proposing 3 different tiers:

- Silver Supporter (1€ - 1,50$ USD): This tier supports us without any advantages, your name will be put on our website and in the game credits.

- Gold Supporter (5€ - 6$ USD) [**Recommended**]: This tier supports us and gives you access to exclusive teasers, early access to trailers, and exclusive game previews almost every week.

- Platinum Supporter (10€ - 11,50$ USD): This tier supports us and gives you access to all of the previous tier's advantages, plus free DLC content when DLCs come out (this tier currently does not offer anything more than the previous tier, but we appreciate your support!).

Does this mean updates will be locked behind a paywall?

No! The "Game Previews" that are proposed to Gold and Platinum Supporters are game builds that are very work in progress, some things may be broken or non-working. The updates will still release for free for everyone once the content is deemed ready!

Hello dear enthusiats!

Sorry for the lack of game updates, we've been working very hard on Alpha 0.2 and the tons of features it will add!

Here is a little update on what we've been working on, and what is left to do!


Development of the next big update has started after the last game update, Alpha 0.1.2, starting by adding a ton of Quality of Life features and upgrades such as a button on coasters to enter a train or new camera features such as Depth of Field, Zoom and more!

Screenshot taken in-game using the new camera featuresThen, the main menu and game UI was nearly entirely redone and improved to be more visually pleasing and performant.

Brand new Main MenuSpeaking of performance, the game has received massive performance upgrades and fixes making the game run at a smooth 60 fps on the recommended configuration, on top of that, Nvidia DLSS support was added, including DLSS, DLAA, RTX Vibrance and Frame Generation.

After that, the focus was on entirely redoing the system that handles saving and loading your parks, a complicated and time consuming task that took nearly a month to complete due to unforseen issues and limitations. Thankfully, the system is now in place and allows us to add features without breaking your saves.

The next big feature was then implemented: Water!

Using the brand new Water Tools, you will be able to create next generation lakes, rivers and seas with ease. The tools use the same systems as the building and path tools, allowing you to place, move and scale water pieces to fit your needs, and use a spline-based river system similar to the game's Path Tool.

WIP screenshot of the early implementation of riversDeveloped along with the Water Tools, the Foliage Painter was also implemented and will allow you to paint foliage with fine controls!

Finally, the most recently implemented feature was the CSV track importer, allowing you to import track layouts from other popular softwares such as NoLimits 2, a great coaster simulation software, directly into Park Studio!

NoLimits2 coaster imported into Park StudioAnd that's all we've been working on since June this year!


Before the update's release, there is still a few major features to implement, including:

• The brand new coaster elements, such as turn tables, switch tracks, drop tracks and more!
  
• Prefabs and the Steam Workshop allowing you to share your creations with the community!
  
• Custom Media using screens and speakers to make your park truly yours!

And the brand new Coaster Models, including the incredible Comet, that was recently revealed on our Discord[discord.gg]

WIP renders of the brand new Comet coaster

This patch includes the following improvements:

- Collisions are a little bit more optimized.
- Lights are a little bit more optimized.

Bug fixes:

- Rocks, driftwood and logs now have collision.
- Hiding the UI and pausing should now shows the UI back, avoiding strange visibility behaviors.
- Selecting an Architecture object and then a Scenery object now clears the object description in the Object Selection panel.
- Stations should now work a little better, please note that spamming the state buttons can break the position of the train.
- Train colors should now load properly.
- Coasters will now update properly when inputting values in the transform panel.
- "Brake to Halt" doesn't reset the "Desired Speed" to 0 anymore.
- The Park Lamp will now turn off properly when darkening the light color.

This patch includes the following improvements:

- The Move and Rotate gizmos will now hide the Axes that are not used when dragging.
- Duplicating a group will now create another group. A new group will be created as soon as one grouped object is duplicated.
- The range of scale for gizmos has been increased, gizmos will now scale smaller and bigger allowing for more precise and global edits.

Bug fixes:

- Unexpected track rotations should now be fixed.
- Setting the rotation from the rotation capsule should now work.
- Moving groups should now work properly.
- Rotating objects will not reset the scale.