Hello everyone.
I got my hands on the Type-8, and I must say that I LOVE this ship, the looks, the feel, is everything I always wanted in a mining/trader ship. I have tough noticed a glitch and some minor 3D model hiccups that may have happened during the ship design, that I would like to address here and maybe give some ideas of change/improvements.
1 – Bug – Hardpoint animation.
I believe this may have already been noticed, but if not, well, I am putting it here. The two frontal hardpoints have animations swapped when installing weapons. You can see on the images bellow that when you install a weapon in one of the hardpoints, the one that open the hatch is the opposite one. Image to showcase the glitch.
Probably easy to fix, if not already fixed by the dev team, just waiting for the next update cycle.
2 – SHIP MODEL - Incomplete geometry.
On the lower side between the frontal landing gears and the center body of the ship, you can clearly see a piece of geometry that was copied from another side of the ship but was not extruded to connect to the body itself. Images bellow.
Probably a quick fix by the design team.
3 – SHIP MODEL – Detached piece of geometry
The back landing gears where clearly copied from the Type-9(not a problem there), the problem is in the fact that you can clearly see where the 3d model ends and it just floats there, like holding the ship by pure magic. Images bellow
I would suggest adding some kind of “Sleeve” on the top of the landing gear where the geometry could retract to, to hide the end of the geometry to just make it looks like it is connected to the ship.
4 – SHIP MODEL – Top small hardpoint looks out of place.
Now, this, is just something that I think it was kind of made on a bit of rush and ended creating something that is not BAD BAD, but doesn’t really make too much sense where it is sitting right now.
The small hardpoint located on the top of the ship, just looks like a little box that was put there to be a hardpoint, not attached to anything and it looks weird in my opinion.
I would recommend to move the hardpoint to the plate in front or in the back, as marked in the image below.
Or make it look more in place, I don’t know, with some more structure around it. Is not 100% necessary, just something that is bugging my head really.
I got my hands on the Type-8, and I must say that I LOVE this ship, the looks, the feel, is everything I always wanted in a mining/trader ship. I have tough noticed a glitch and some minor 3D model hiccups that may have happened during the ship design, that I would like to address here and maybe give some ideas of change/improvements.
1 – Bug – Hardpoint animation.
I believe this may have already been noticed, but if not, well, I am putting it here. The two frontal hardpoints have animations swapped when installing weapons. You can see on the images bellow that when you install a weapon in one of the hardpoints, the one that open the hatch is the opposite one. Image to showcase the glitch.
Probably easy to fix, if not already fixed by the dev team, just waiting for the next update cycle.
2 – SHIP MODEL - Incomplete geometry.
On the lower side between the frontal landing gears and the center body of the ship, you can clearly see a piece of geometry that was copied from another side of the ship but was not extruded to connect to the body itself. Images bellow.
Probably a quick fix by the design team.
3 – SHIP MODEL – Detached piece of geometry
The back landing gears where clearly copied from the Type-9(not a problem there), the problem is in the fact that you can clearly see where the 3d model ends and it just floats there, like holding the ship by pure magic. Images bellow
I would suggest adding some kind of “Sleeve” on the top of the landing gear where the geometry could retract to, to hide the end of the geometry to just make it looks like it is connected to the ship.
4 – SHIP MODEL – Top small hardpoint looks out of place.
Now, this, is just something that I think it was kind of made on a bit of rush and ended creating something that is not BAD BAD, but doesn’t really make too much sense where it is sitting right now.
The small hardpoint located on the top of the ship, just looks like a little box that was put there to be a hardpoint, not attached to anything and it looks weird in my opinion.
I would recommend to move the hardpoint to the plate in front or in the back, as marked in the image below.
Or make it look more in place, I don’t know, with some more structure around it. Is not 100% necessary, just something that is bugging my head really.
