Interstellar Travel! [20w43a EXPERIMENTAL]
The build 20w43a introduces Interstellar travel. You can now pick a star destination and warp to it!
You will need to add the new warp block to your design. Check out your ship range in the Spaceship Computer.
Also added are a few improvements to the holomap.
Interstellar Travel features:
This is still a work in progress. The next steps are:
Holomap / Galaxy Improvements:
Turret Improvements:
Community Suggestions:
#3073 Minimum FOV lowered to 30.
#3065 Player look angle while seated increased.
#3058 Canopy can now scale vertically.
Bugfixes:
#2009 #1625 Clipping is now also checking different entity.
#3067 Cannot unlink Query gate.
You will need to add the new warp block to your design. Check out your ship range in the Spaceship Computer.
Also added are a few improvements to the holomap.
Interstellar Travel features:
- You can now warp to another system!
- Warp core block is added.
- Simply assign a warp jump target in the holomap, then while flying the ship Middle Mouse over the target and select "Initiate Warp Jump".
- Spaceship computer and holomap will display the spaceship warp range.
This is still a work in progress. The next steps are:
- Network support.
- Star system procedural variation (more planet type)
- Variety of asteroids, interstellar dust and more.
- Warp core addons and fuel
- Star System view in the holomap.
Holomap / Galaxy Improvements:
- Sector zoom is removed
- Star zoom is added
- Star lining on the galactic plane issue fixed
- More stars are generated.
Turret Improvements:
- Turret with more than one children entity are now correctly taken into account.
Community Suggestions:
#3073 Minimum FOV lowered to 30.
#3065 Player look angle while seated increased.
#3058 Canopy can now scale vertically.
Bugfixes:
#2009 #1625 Clipping is now also checking different entity.
#3067 Cannot unlink Query gate.