Looking for Seasons testers

[Rahkiin]

Note: this is an english post, due to lack of knowledge of the german language.

Hello dear Seasons players!

The latest 1.5 months have been a blast. Not only have we won the Farming Simulator ModContest 2017, we also received a lot of great comments on Seasons.

We loved reading your stories when playing Seasons and how much you all love the challenge of a more realistic simulation. Keep it coming!

The contest version is relatively error-free as far, as software goes at first release, and we are very proud of that. We could not have achieved this without the people testing Seasons before release.

Since then we have been fixing issues in the game and doing improvements for stability and some gameplay. There are some significant changes in the background that need some serious playtime, and we also have revamped textures that need a good bunch of testing.

Help us make Seasons better!
We would like to ask you to help us make Seasons even better, by testing our development version. It should be quite stable, so you can run it instead of the contest version (1.0). Make sure to make a backup of your save game first: it is still in development and can thus break your save game.
You can find our development version on our GitHub: https://www.github.com/RealismusModding/FS17_seasons. There is a green download button on the right. Make sure to unzip and remove the dash from the folder.

You can find the latest changes in our release notes: https://github.com/RealismusModding/FS1 ... issues/444.

If you run into any issues, contact us either in this thread, write an issue on our GitHub, or contact us on our Slack: https://slack.realismusmodding.com (also to keep up to date about the latest developments). Please provide us your log.txt.
Remember, the documentation is at https://www.realismusmodding.com/mods/seasons/manual. (And we are still working on writing more).


Regards,

Rahkiin
Realismus Modding

[empato]

Dear Rahkiin,

can you please tell us what was changed in comparison to the contest version? Is there a changelog available?
Really love this mod and could not imagine to play FS without it anymore.

Many thanks!

[don_apple]

Have a look at the following page to get a list of all the changes: https://github.com/RealismusModding/FS1 ... ts/develop

[empato]

Have a look at the following page to get a list of all the changes: https://github.com/RealismusModding/FS1 ... ts/develop

Honestly, this page is really confusing for me. I don`t find a list with the changes on it. I only see some very technical terms which is not understandable for a layman like me.

[Rahkiin]

You can find the latest changes in our release notes: https://github.com/RealismusModding/FS1 ... issues/444. Forgot to link it

[empato]

Got it, many thanks!!

[empato]

Hi Guys,

I`ve downloaded your development version as mentioned above. But the ingame version shows now Version 0.0.0.
I`m using also one of the GEO Modules (Northern Sweden) and this is causing now the following error in my log. Will this cause any issue? Shouldn`t be the version be the 1.1.?

[Seasons] Error: Version of Seasons is lower than version in mod zzz_GEOschweden
Warning (compatibility): Texture C:/Users/tobia/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2017/mods/FS17_Seasons/resources/gui/dev.dds width or height doesn't equal 2^n.
[Seasons] ssCropDestruction: Crop Destruction mod found. Modifying...

Thanks in advance to take a look at it.

[walster001]

Hi Guys,

I`ve downloaded your development version as mentioned above. But the ingame version shows now Version 0.0.0.
I`m using also one of the GEO Modules (Northern Sweden) and this is causing now the following error in my log. Will this cause any issue? Shouldn`t be the version be the 1.1.?

[Seasons] Error: Version of Seasons is lower than version in mod zzz_GEOschweden
Warning (compatibility): Texture C:/Users/tobia/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2017/mods/FS17_Seasons/resources/gui/dev.dds width or height doesn't equal 2^n.
[Seasons] ssCropDestruction: Crop Destruction mod found. Modifying...

Thanks in advance to take a look at it.

That would be the Dev Config Version (in the new development version of seasons) set lower than the version in the Swedish GEO moddesc? Is it a simple change via the xml or does it need to be changed by the devs? That is the question

[Rahkiin]

You will need to re-download because we made changes and fixed those 'issues'

[empato]

I`ve downloaded it again. Version still shows 0.0.0.0., BUT the error is gone and the log looks better now.

[Seasons] ssCropDestruction: Crop Destruction mod found. Modifying...
[Seasons] ssGrowthManagerData: Additional growth data found - loading: C:/Users/tobia/Documents/My Games/FarmingSimulator2017/mods/zzz_GEOschweden/data/seasons_growth.xml

Thanks for your quick help!

[Rahkiin]

We have published 1.1 to modhub. Once it is released you can start playing that. We won't have anything substantial to test for a while.
If you want to help out testing in the future, join our Slack (See our website)