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Iron Horse "Quicksilver" Add-On


Licensed under GPL v2. Source Code can be found here!

Why Quicksilver?
The Quicksilver locomotive was made (with Pikkabird's permission) because Iron Horse does not and will not have an included streamlined steam engine, and was the original scope of this Add-On. We've since expanded the scope a bit.

Why Version 5.X so soon?
The versions between 1.0 and 1.7, plus the ones between 1.9 and 2.9 were for testing the coding, leaving a huge gap from unreleased versions that weren't quite up to the standard. This continued with skipped versions until we had 4.X available now.

Furthermore, I was too loose and fast with compiling. 4.3 is the first 4.X version that didn't have horrible glitches in the graphics, and subsequent lack of testing (feel free to complain) led to 5.4 being essentially a re-upload of 4.3... Hopefully it's fixed now!

What happened to the Combine Car?
It's meant to work with Iron Horse 2.X, and since the Combine Car was based on a North American Combine Car, I removed it from the Add-On.

Is Iron Horse 2.X out yet?
As of this writing, sort of. IH2 is a work in progress, but it's not mine to make progress on.

EDIT: Newest version has stats better balanced against Iron Horse.

Thanks to...

Pikkabird (For using his graphics)
Gwyd (For helping to code the graphics and handling the graphics alignments)
acs121 (For upcoming engines)

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Also available on BaNaNaS.

Source updated!

I corrected the graphical glitches seen in the following images for 3.2 of Quicksilver.

I really need to double-check compiled NewGRFs. 3.7 should be the latest now, I don't recommend using earlier versions because I uploaded in a rush and didn't realize it hadn't compiled.

v4.3 is now available. BaNaNaS upload incoming!

v4.8 has been uploaded. Huge jump for a tiny sprite alignment because I'm an idiot who can't keep track of his code.

EDIT: 5.1, because I'm still getting the hang of sprite alignments

EDIT 2: 5.4, because I am very confused by the sprite alignment tool. I reverted to the 4.X sprite alignments and gave up.

5.5 has been uploaded, with minor sprite adjustments. Fortunately, this time I tested it!

EDIT: Minor sprite correction, though I'm sure of the sprite alignments this time.

Updated to 5.7, should be the last change for now.

Sprite edit to correct minor detail. Next version to be uploaded WILL change the prices of the locomotives, no more tiny changes here.

Updated to 6.0, dummies out several locomotives still in Iron Horse 1.9.x (the latest as of this writing) which will return when Iron Horse 2.0 is released. The dummied-out locos also had stat changes to more closely match their IH 1.9.x counterparts.