Log details

Space visual improvements

Warp transit got a new visual, new cloak shader created, and a bunch of fixes.

Improve space effects

New star fog washes distant systems in glow, and planets cast eclipse shadows through it when they block the star. Sun coronas, volumetric fog became a lighter depth-fog haze, dust motes got denser with softer sprites, and atmosphere and corona shells are depth-tested so they no longer bleed over objects in front of them.

Ship HUD view of a ringed planet and a moon wrapped in dense green star fog — Star fog washes the system in glow

Bright sun corona with light rays streaming past a planet in a lighter haze — Sun corona over the depth-fog haze

Green ringed planet with glowing rings beside the corona of its star — Planet rings lit against the star

New warp tunnel visual

We rebuilt the warp streak tunnel with layered organic motion, and the warp and supercruise overlays now wrap around the ship. The orbit camera was previously locked, but now it stays free to control.

Ship mid-warp with golden light streaks wrapping around the hull as a star and moon stream past — Warp streaks wrap around the ship

New cloak shader

The shader dissolves the hull outward, so the ship fades away in a spreading shimmer rather than popping out of existence. You really know when you're cloaked or not.

Cloaked ship dissolving into a glowing orange wireframe in dark space — Cloak dissolves the hull outward

Ship wrapped in a bright orange shield flare in dark space — Shield flare around the hull

Targeting update

Tracked and locked targets keep their overlays between shots, each hardpoint tracks its own target, and a scan only fires once the lock has actually been achieved.

Three asteroid targets marked with green tracked and yellow locked overlays above a waiting ship — Tracked and locked overlays persist

UI changes

Chat and settings moved out of the ship HUD into a general UI layer, with a dedicated chat panel listing all connected clones. The UI theme picked up refreshed tree, item list, and window styles. Floating windows remember their position and size between sessions. Entering the game now shows a loading screen while the scene loads on a thread. Orbit distances control got presets with a shared set-distance dialog. The star system map draws the boundary at the system's edge,

Fixes

Ship systems no longer start with zero power, and planet rings can be of different sizes. Fix ship movement with smooth arrival braking, and aborting autopilot bleeds speed off gently instead of dropping you to a stop. Distances to stations, ships, and other entities are now measured from the target's surface rather than its center. The asteroid meshes had backwards winding that made them render inside out.

Thanks.