I do not think ice would start forming on the outside of the canopy. I do not believe space in general is that humid
. It is condensation on the inside that freezes over. So it has to be the cockpit that is getting colder.I think...
Cold running gets the ship hotter, but your windows freeze over
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I do not think ice would start forming on the outside of the canopy. I do not believe space in general is that humid
. It is condensation on the inside that freezes over. So it has to be the cockpit that is getting colder.I think...
Unless you ejected heatsinks, might be a visual bug.
raise a ticket
raise a ticket
My ship doesn't ice over in silent running mode unless I eject multiple heat sinks. In normal running mode with the ship radiators working, the ship ices over only if I switch off all systems except life support. Haven't tried doing both.
I do not think ice would start forming on the outside of the canopy. I do not believe space in general is that humid
I think...
It still explains my point. The condensation on the canopy freezes over because of the very nature of it being a canopy. It's glass. Water seeping through the glass from the humidity inside the ship. Just like if you take ice water in a glass and let it sit at room temperature for awhile. That's how it works
OP is right, I think. Unfortunately, as the ice effect is cool as hell.
Silent Running prevents the release of heat, not its creation.
Cold Running prevents the creation of heat, not its release.
The freezing of your cockpit should be based on the temperature guage left of the scanner, not on the signature indicator (far right). Silent Running obviously increases the temp guage, and, if anything, should make your cockpit windows steam up, not freeze over. Frontier Dev?
This is how it actually works. Silent running does not make your canopy freeze.
The reason it freezes in some of those stealth videos because these people are so good at heat management they can reach 0 temp even in silent running.
Well it's not actually even that difficult to achieve. All you need to do is turn your drives off to achieve negative heat generation in silent mode.
The condensation on the outside of a cold glass is not water seeping through the glass it is condensation from the air. You would not get it if there were no humidity in the air, the outside of the glass would remain free of water whether frozen or not.
The cockpit canopy could not be permeable to water I hope.
.... or were you joking... sometimes I cannot tell...
It would have to be inside. There's no moisture outside to freeze. Inside there's moisture from your breath, and sweat evaporating from your body.
Water doesn't seep through glass... and if water could seep through your spacecraft canopy, that would mean it was not airtight!
but you are in a full suite with helmet ^^
Which is not airtight, it seals itself in the event of a "loss of cabin pressure". An innocuous sounding term for something really scary.