Option to turn off block animations...

[ziGHOSTiz]

The title says it all, I find when I'm surrounded by 100s or 1000s of blocks that animate my CPU slows to a standstill... Also very hard to look at for hours while building.

I suggest to have options to turn off block animations.

 

[Nauvran]

I believe there is a setting for that somewhere in the configs.
Crusade, kupu, or some other starmade genious might know how to find it and change it

 

[Crusade]

I hope you realise that block animations actually take very little CPU power - They are all shader controlled. and whether or not they are on or off, the textures for them will be loaded anyhow.

With that said, I think the only way to turn off texture animations is to tweak the shaders, or edit the texture sheet itself.

 

[kupu]

I hope you realise that block animations actually take very little CPU power - They are all shader controlled. and whether or not they are on or off, the textures for them will be loaded anyhow.

Yea pretty much this. Performance wise it takes very little.

If you want to turn them off anyway, then there are 2 methods.

1;

• Open the block editor (2nd launcher > modding > block editor)
• Find the blocks you wish to disable animations for in the directory on the left hand side.
• Click the entry and navigate the options shown in the new info panel to the "Animate" variable and set to false.
• Save the config. Reload the game.

2;

• Open BlockConfig.xml (found in Starmade>data>config) with a text editor. Notepad will be fine.
  
• Press CTRL + F to open a search bar. Search for <Animated>true</Animated> entries.
  
• Replace <Animated>true</Animated> with <Animated>false</Animated> (there are 33 of them i think)
• Save the file. Reload the game.

 

[Valiant70]

It would still be nice to have an in-game option to do this.

 

[EtherEel]

What about the "glowy" blocks like Power Capacitors? Is that still a shader issue or something else? (Those are hard to look at in large numbers...)