We get repeated reports of people saying the game is incorrectly reported as a virus. It is becoming more inconvenient for players and even myself, because when we attempt to download a build, it is immediately deleted by scanners (including the default for Windows: Windows Defender).
One scanner is not too much of an issue, but the game is flagged by almost half of available scanners as reported by VirusTotal.
So why is it being flagged?
Windows has a very annoying concept, the subsystem for a binary. The console subsystem allows stdin / stdout as you would expect, just like posix. Unfortunately if a user runs a console subsystem binary from the desktop or explorer, the game will be opened under conhost and thus you get a console showing alongside the game window. This is not a good user experience for most players. To resolve this, you can use the windows subsystem, but this will detach stdin and stdout immediately on launch. There are hacks that can be done in code to allocate a new console but I found this to not work very well with stdin or other terminal emulators.
My solution to the problem was to have two binaries: openrct2.exe and openrct2.com. Both are executable but openrct2.exe is windows subsystem, openrct2.com is console subsystem. The desktop shortcut opens openrct2.exe with no console window showing. Typing openrct2 on the command line will execute openrct2.com (as .com has higher PATH precedence than .exe by default) with working stdin and stdout. In order to reduce the size, I have the entire game inside openrct2.dll and then supply two tiny wrapper EXEs that simply route main(...) into the DLL.
These wrapper EXEs are the problem, they are very small and do nothing but call into a DLL, this must match virus signatures too closely and their size probably reduces the data available for the scanner to analyse.
So as I can not find any other way of achieving my goal of a cli and gui version of OpenRCT2, this changes the build to publish openrct2 as a single executable (rather than a DLL + wrapper EXE), and then duplicate the entire ~10MB exe again and flip the subsystem flag. The installer and zip size won't be affected as this extra size will be completely compressed out, but when unpacked will lead to an extra ~10MB on disc. But I think it is a fair compromise.
VirusTotal now reports all artefacts as safe, for now anyway.
The search for height to build track ended at a half-height, leading to (undefined string) error. Changed to always end at whole height and search as high as possible.
Mistake made while improving mouse control when zoomed out caused the upper limit for multi tile scenery to be limited by the sum of all clearance z values instead of the greatest clearance z value.
- Feature: [#9285] Remember current group in scenario list window.
- Feature: [#9918] Increase image list capacity by about 100k units.
- Change: [#1349] Increase the number of ride music played simultaneously from 2 to 32.
- Fix: [#4927] Giant screenshot cut off at bottom and top.
- Fix: [#7572] Queue paths connect to regular paths through fences.
- Fix: [#7690] Problem with guests freezing on certain tiles of path.
- Fix: [#7883] Headless server log is stored incorrectly if server name contains CJK in Ubuntu
- Fix: [#8136] Excessive lateral G penalty is too excessive.
- Fix: [#8584] Duck spawning function does not check tiles with x or y coordinate of 0..64 (Original bug)
- Fix: [#9179] Crash when modifying a ride occasionally.
- Fix: [#9533] Door sounds not playing.
- Fix: [#9574] Text overflow in scenario objective window when using CJK languages.
- Fix: [#9603] Don't render audio when master volume is turned off.
- Fix: [#9625] Show correct cost in scenery selection.
- Fix: [#9669] The tile inspector shortcut key does not work with debugging tools disabled.
- Fix: [#9675] Guest entry point limit can be bypassed in scenario editor.
- Fix: [#9683] Cannot raise water level if part of the tool's area of effect is off of the map.
- Fix: [#9684] Entering custom size for water/land tool allows confirmation with main enter key, but not numpad enter key.
- Fix: [#9690] The keyboard shortcut for rotating the game view can be set to Enter or KP Enter, but not both.
- Fix: [#9717] Scroll bars do not render correctly when using OpenGL renderer.
- Fix: [#9729] Peeps do not take into account height difference when deciding to pathfind to a ride entrance (original bug).
- Fix: [#9902] Doors/Portcullis do not check to make sure doors are open causing double opens.
- Fix: [#9926] Africa - Oasis park has wrong peep spawn (original bug).
- Fix: [#9953] Crash when hacked rides attempt to find the closest mechanic.
- Fix: [#9955] Resizing map in while pause mode does not work and may result in freezes.
- Fix: [#9957] When using 'no money' cheat, guests complain of running out of cash.
- Fix: [#9970] Wait for quarter load fails.
- Fix: [#9994] Game action tick collision during server connect and map load.
- Fix: [#10017] Ghost elements influencing ride excitement.
- Fix: [#10036] Do not allocate large chunks of memory for save file classification.
- Fix: [#10106] Ride circuits should not be used for modes that do not support it.
- Fix: [#10149] Desync in headless mode with rides that create smoke particles.
- Improved: [#9466] Add the rain weather effect to the OpenGL renderer.
- Improved: [#9987] Minimum load rounding.
- Improved: [#10125] Better support for high DPI screens.
* Remapped keypad Enter to return scancode
Fix#9684: Entering custom size for water/land tool allows confirmation
with main enter key, but not numpad enter key
Fix#9690: The keyboard shortcut for rotating the game view can be set
to Enter or KP Enter, but not both
* Add changelog entry
When choosing which entrance to head to peeps would not take into account the height difference between the locations. This caused peeps to choose badly especially when useing lift transport rides.
* Fix#8136. Fix incorrect calculation of excessive lateral G penalty.
This penalty had been modified for OpenRCT2 moving it from before certain other penalties were applied to after. The move accidently removed the ride type multiplier which caused a very large penalty to be applied. In addition the excitement penalty applied to the whole calculation instead of just the gforce bonus. This caused an excessive penalty to the excitement.
* Add changelog entry. Fix default initilisation.
* Increment network version
- Feature: [#485] Rides can now be simulated with ghost trains during construction.
- Feature: [#1260] Option for making giant screenshots have a transparent background.
- Feature: [#2339] Find local servers automatically when fetching servers.
- Feature: [#7296] Allow assigning a keyboard shortcut for the scenery picker.
- Feature: [#8029] Add the Hungarian Forint (HUF) to the list of available currencies.
- Feature: [#8481] Multi-threaded rendering.
- Feature: [#8558] Guest debugging tab.
- Feature: [#8659] Banner and sign texts are now shown in tooltips.
- Feature: [#8687] New multiplayer toolbar icon showing network status with reconnect option.
- Feature: [#8791] Improved tile element flag manipulation in Tile Inspector.
- Feature: [#8919] Allow setting ride price from console.
- Feature: [#8963] Add missing Czech letters to sprite font, use sprite font for Czech.
- Feature: [#9154] Change map toolbar icon with current viewport rotation.
- Change: [#7877] Files are now sorted in logical rather than dictionary order.
- Change: [#8427] Ghost elements now show up as white on the mini-map.
- Change: [#8688] Move common actions from debug menu into cheats menu.
- Change: [#9428] Increase maximum height of the Hypercoaster to RCT1 limits.
- Fix: [#2294] Clients crashing the server with invalid object selection.
- Fix: [#4568, #5896] Incorrect fences removed when building a tracked ride through
- Fix: [#5103] OpenGL: ride track preview not rendered.
- Fix: [#5889] Giant screenshot does not work while using OpenGL renderer.
- Fix: [#5579] Network desync immediately after connecting.
- Fix: [#5893] Looking at guest window tabs other than the main tab eventually causes assertion.
- Fix: [#5905] Urban Park merry-go-round has entrance and exit swapped (original bug).
- Fix: [#6006] Objects higher than 6 metres are considered trees (original bug).
- Fix: [#7039] Map window not rendering properly when using OpenGL.
- Fix: [#7045] Theme window's colour pickers not drawn properly on OpenGL.
- Fix: [#7323] Tunnel entrances not rendering in 'highlight path issues' mode if they have benches inside.
- Fix: [#7729] Money Input Prompt breaks on certain values.
- Fix: [#7884] Unfinished preserved rides can be demolished with quick demolish.
- Fix: [#7913] RCT1/RCT2 title sequence timing is off.
- Fix: [#7700, #8079, #8969] Crash when unloading buggy custom rides.
- Fix: [#7829] Rotated information kiosk can cause 'unreachable' messages.
- Fix: [#7878] Scroll shortcut keys ignore SHIFT/CTRL/ALT modifiers.
- Fix: [#8219] Faulty folder recreation in "save" folder.
- Fix: [#8480, #8535] Crash when mirroring track design.
- Fix: [#8507] Incorrect change in vehicle rolling direction.
- Fix: [#8537] Imported RCT1 rides/shops are all numbered 1.
- Fix: [#8553] Scenery removal tool removes fences and paths while paused.
- Fix: [#8598] Taking screenshots fails with some park names.
- Fix: [#8602] Wall piece collision detection deviates from vanilla
- Fix: [#8649] Setting date does not work in multiplayer.
- Fix: [#8873] Potential crash when placing footpaths.
- Fix: [#8882] Submarine Ride does not count as indoors (original bug).
- Fix: [#8900] Peep tracking is not synchronized.
- Fix: [#8909] Potential crash when invoking game actions as server.
- Fix: [#8947] Detection of AVX2 support.
- Fix: [#8988] Character sprite lookup noticeably slows down drawing.
- Fix: [#9000] Show correct error message if not enough money available.
- Fix: [#9067] Land/water tools show prices when money is disabled.
- Fix: [#9124] Disconnected clients can crash the server.
- Fix: [#9132] System file browser cannot open SV4 files.
- Fix: [#9152] Spectators can modify ride colours.
- Fix: [#9202] Artefacts show when changing ride type as client or using in-game console.
- Fix: [#9240] Crash when passing directory instead of save file.
- Fix: [#9245] Headless servers apply Discord Rich Presence.
- Fix: [#9293] Issue with the native load/save dialog.
- Fix: [#9322] Peep crashing the game trying to find a ride to look at.
- Fix: [#9324] Crash trying to remove invalid footpath scenery.
- Fix: [#9402] Ad campaigns disappear when you save and load the game.
- Fix: [#9411] Ad campaigns end too soon.
- Fix: [#9476] Running `simulate` command on park yields `Completed: (null)`.
- Fix: [#9520] Time Twister object artdec29 conversion problem.
- Fix: Guests eating popcorn are drawn as if they're eating pizza.
- Fix: The arbitrary ride type and vehicle dropdown lists are ordered case-sensitively.
- Improved: [#6116] Expose colour scheme for track elements in the tile inspector.
- Improved: Allow the use of numpad enter key for console and chat.
In OpenRCT2, when vehicles roll backward on a long, flat track piece,
they would eventually change their direction of movement and move
forward instead, after their velocity reached -4095. The acceleration
due to rolling resistance and drag changes to 0 at that point, which
caused the "implicit boost" up to a velocity of ~+32k (close to 2km/h)
to trigger.
The behavior is different in vanilla RCT2, where vehicles just keep on
very slowly rolling backwards.
This commit disables the "implicit forward boost" for vehicles rolling
backward to mimic vanilla RCT2 behavior.
- Feature: [#4418] Allow steep slopes on the side-friction roller coaster.
- Feature: [#7726] Add shortcut to advance one tick.
- Feature: [#7956, #7964] Add sprite font glyphs for Hungarian and some Czech letters.
- Feature: [#7971] Toolbox option to open custom content folder.
- Feature: [#7980] Allow data path for RCT1 to be specified by a command line argument.
- Feature: [#8073] Auto-upload minidumps to backtrace.io (optional, MSVC/Windows only)
- Feature: [#8078] Add save_park command to in-game console.
- Feature: [#8080] New console variable "current_rotation" to get or set view rotation.
- Feature: [#8098] Glyph for Russian rouble sign.
- Feature: [#8099] Add Powered Launch mode to Inverted RC (for RCT1 parity).
- Feature: [#8190] Allow building footpaths on 'corner down' terrain.
- Feature: [#8191] Allow building on-ride photos and water S-bends on the Water Coaster.
- Feature: [#8259] Add say command to in-game console.
- Feature: [#8374] Add replay system.
- Feature: [#8377] Add option to adjust amount of autosaves to keep.
- Feature: [#8458] Add sprite sorting benchmark.
- Feature: [#8583] Add boosters to water coaster.
- Feature: [#8648] Add optional chat button to top toolbar in multiplayer games.
- Feature: [#8652] Add network window including a graph for data usage visualisation.
- Feature: [#8670] Add ability to download missing objects when loading a park.
- Change: [#7961] Add new object types: station, terrain surface, and terrain edge.
- Change: [#8222] The climate setting has been moved from objective options to scenario options.
- Change: [#8718] Allow TARMAC object to be removed when running the `remove_unused_objects` command.
- Change: [#8718] No longer require the generic scenery groups and tarmac footpath to be checked when creating a scenario.
- Change: [#8734] Disable kick button in multiplayer window when unable to use it.
- Fix: [#3832] Changing the colour scheme of track pieces does not work in multiplayer.
- Fix: [#4094] Coasters with long flat-to-steep pieces offer them in diagonal mode (original bug).
- Fix: [#5684] Player list can desync between clients and server and can crash.
- Fix: [#6191] OpenRCT2 fails to run when the path has an emoji in it.
- Fix: [#7439] Placement messages have mixed strings
- Fix: [#7473] Disabling sound effects also disables "Disable audio on focus loss".
- Fix: [#7536] Android builds fail to start.
- Fix: [#7689] Deleting 0-tile maze gives a MONEY32_UNDEFINED (negative) refund.
- Fix: [#7828] Copied entrances and exits stay when demolishing ride.
- Fix: [#7945] Client IP address is logged as `(null)` in server logs.
- Fix: [#7952] Performance drop caused by code refactor.
- Fix: [#7954] Key validation fails on Windows due to non-ASCII user / player name.
- Fix: [#7975] Inspection flag not cleared for rides which are set to never be inspected (original bug).
- Fix: [#7985] Giant Screenshot ignores 'Map rendering' settings.
- Fix: [#7987] Broken track designs increase money by MONEY32_UNDEFINED.
- Fix: [#7991] Scenery and footpaths on Construction Rights tiles can be deleted using Clear Scenery.
- Fix: [#8034] Vanilla sprites are broken when making screenshots from command line.
- Fix: [#8045] Crash when switching between languages.
- Fix: [#8062] In multiplayer warnings for unstable cheats are shown when disabling them.
- Fix: [#8090] Maze designs saved incorrectly.
- Fix: [#8101] Title sequences window flashes after opening.
- Fix: [#8120] Crash trying to place peep spawn outside of map.
- Fix: [#8121] Crash Renaming park with server logging enabled.
- Fix: [#8139] Buying land costs money when the game is in "no money" mode.
- Fix: [#8141] Attempting to build entrance/exit on station 2 does not work.
- Fix: [#8142] Reliability of mazes and crooked houses can go below 100%.
- Fix: [#8187] Cannot set land ownership over ride entrances or exits in sandbox mode.
- Fix: [#8200] Incorrect behaviour when removing entrances and exits that are on the same tile.
- Fix: [#8204] Crash when tile element has no surface elements.
- Fix: [#8264] Rides and scenery placeable outside of map with ZC and Sandbox mode enabled.
- Fix: [#8335] Rides with arbitrary ride types can crash the game when they break down.
- Fix: [#8358] Infinite loop when changing vehicle count on stopped ride.
- Fix: [#8402] Crash closing a window in some cases.
- Fix: [#8431] Crash when game action logging is enabled.
- Fix: [#8433] Crash if master server response is not valid JSON.
- Fix: [#8434] Crash if curl_easy_init fails.
- Fix: [#8443] Crash when selecting the current vehicle for ride that has none available.
- Fix: [#8456] Junior booster track piece doesn't connect properly.
- Fix: [#8464] Crash on game shutdown.
- Fix: [#8469] Crash modifying colour on hacked rides.
- Fix: [#8508] Underground roto-drop is not going up.
- Fix: [#8555] Multiplayer window text limits are not computed properly.
- Fix: [#8572] Steel Twister track pieces ID 64 and 65 drawn incorrectly.
- Fix: [#8585] Part of track missing on air powered vertical coaster.
- Fix: [#8588] Guest list scrolling breaks above ~2000 guests.
- Fix: [#8591] Game loop does not run at a consistent tick rate of 40 Hz.
- Fix: [#8647] Marketing campaigns check for entry fees below £1 (original bug).
- Fix: [#8653] Crash when peeps attempt to enter a ride with no vehicles.
- Fix: [#8720] Desync due to boats colliding with ghost pieces.
- Fix: [#8739] Savegame from original game crashes when cruising through map.
- Fix: [#8742] Access violation in vehicle_update_sound_params.
- Fix: [#8804] Raising water shows money effect at the bottom rather than new height.
- Fix: [#8811] Some fields in the sv6 save file not being copied correctly.
- Fix: [#8824] Invalid read in footpath_chain_ride_queue.
- Improved: [#2940] Allow mouse-dragging to set patrol area (Singleplayer only).
- Improved: [#7730] Draw extreme vertical and lateral Gs red in the ride window's graph tab.
- Improved: [#7930] Automatically create folders for custom content.
- Improved: [#7980] Show the full path of the scenario in the scenario select window.
- Improved: [#7993] Allow assigning a keyboard shortcut for opening the tile inspector.
- Improved: [#8107] Support Discord release of RCT2.
- Improved: [#8491] Highlight entrance and exit with different colours in track design previews.
- Improved: Almost completely new Hungarian translation.
- Removed: [#7929] Support for scenario text objects.
* Fix#8264: Rides and scenery placeable outside of map with ZC and Sandbox mode enabled
map_can_construct_with_clear_at first checks whether it is inside the map, and then checks gCheatsDisableClearanceChecks, making earlier checks for gCheatsDisableClearanceChecks unnecessary.
* Increase network version
This was a regression from #7435 which introduced threads and caused JNI
to misbehave and fail to load our expected classes. Provide a workaround
based on the description in https://stackoverflow.com/a/16302771 which
stores a main thread's class loader and uses that in neighbouring
threads.
The sprite_remove in Sprite.cpp tries to find itself inside the quadrant.
It does not find itself, and because the rest of the code assumes that it will always find it
The normal code tries to set the value of the next_in_quadrant so that whoever points at it, will now point at its next sprite.
But because it didn't find whoever was pointing to it, it would set the pointer to SPRITE_INDEX_NULL to its next sprite.
This would lead to cycles in the linked list
The reason that the sprite was not found is that during the entry of a ride, the position of a peep is set to LOCATION_NULL
Exiting a ride sets it back to whatever the location is of an exit.
However stopping a ride that still has people in it would go wrong, as the people are removed from the ride through ride_remove_peeps
This function was called during the PaintWindows.
The fact that this function is called during the painting is the problem, because of the tweening:
Before painting all the positions are stored (Which would at that point be the LOCATION_NULL), during the painting
the peep would be removed from the ride, setting their location to the enrance/exit
After painting is done all the positions are restored again, so the patched position is forgotten and then it would be
removing a sprite with location LOCATION_NULL and that goes wrong
The fix is to have the window update outside of paint
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