[Taristin]

Lovely how they would implement things like that, and use it specific table entries, yet have it do absolutely nothing...

Unless it did do something, but it did it incorrectly and rather than remake the tables, they just erased that part of the code.

[Black Wolf]

Still... you're faced with the problem of every light on the ship going out. No UPS anywhere, no stored charge, no gradual shutdown, just instant flat on/off. It'd look OK, but not great, by any stretch. A gradual fadeoff using the materials system, when it's implemented, might look a bit better, or some kind of shutdown EFF/ani file that could be applied as the glowmap in the final few seconds showing lights winking out over a period of time. But it's probably more work than it's worth.

[starfox]

Little off topic, but when the ship's HP drops to zero and begins exploding, all turrets should be deactivated...currently they just keep shooting, even as the ship breaks/has broken apart...

Is this a bug, or one of those "Hard-coded" things, that are impossible to fix...

[Goober5000]

Little off topic, but when the ship's HP drops to zero and begins exploding, all turrets should be deactivated...currently they just keep shooting, even as the ship breaks/has broken apart...

Is this a bug, or one of those "Hard-coded" things, that are impossible to fix...

It's intentional.  If you want the turrets to stop firing, use turret-lock-all when the ship is destroyed.

[Flipside]

Could you use something like a 3-bit 'mask' when flickering particular glowmaps? So it has areas of lights that can be flickered alternately, rather than all at once? That might improve the look of things a little?

[Shade]

Flickering would make perfect sense for ships having backup generators. It takes a few seconds for them to kick in after power goes. And while they may have batteries, I imagine they'd save them for important stuff like life support rather than wasting energy on lighting Plus personally, I think it has the potential to look pretty cool.

[Edit] Ought to apply to glowpoints too, no reason why external lights would still work if internal ones go.

[NGTM-1R]

It's intentional.  If you want the turrets to stop firing, use turret-lock-all when the ship is destroyed.

Then tell me why the beam-locked ship suddenly sprays beams everywhere when it dies?

[Goober5000]

It's intentional.  If you want the turrets to stop firing, use turret-lock-all when the ship is destroyed.

Then tell me why the beam-locked ship suddenly sprays beams everywhere when it dies?

That would be a bug.  Mantis?

[NGTM-1R]

0,o

I would, but can't provide any examples to examine. I'm also not sure if it's still present, I haven't had occasion to check with newer builds.