Read by Schine Rail Animation

[jstenholt]

How about some animation for rails? Currently they're static, and while they look great, it doesn't convey movement at all.

Giving rail blocks and rotators an animation would also give us a visual identification that a rail is active or inactive.

 

[nightrune]

Actually just showing it rolling while speed is greater then zero would be awesome.

 

[jstenholt]

Actually just showing it rolling while speed is greater then zero would be awesome.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.

 

[kiraen]

Rails don't move.
Any animations would/should be on the dockers.

 

[jstenholt]

Rails don't move.
Any animations would/should be on the dockers.

Well, the fact that rails are the things controlled by a speed controller, and not the docking points, you're probably wrong. If, on the other hand, that's the way you like to see it when you play, good on you.

Even if that makes sense in terms of how a real train works, it would be functionally pointless in Starmade because you can't bloody see rail dockers when they're docked. This suggestion is really just so that we have a way of knowing whether or not a rail has its speed set to zero by looking at it.

 

[kupu]

This was originally planned, we even have the frames required in the texture sheets.

However a new single face animation system needs to be made for it to happen and development priorities were, and still are placed on features.

 

[jstenholt]

This was originally planned, we even have the frames required in the texture sheets.

However a new single face animation system needs to be made for it to happen and development priorities were, and still are placed on features.

One day then?