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That's my current plan after seeing the announcement. Hard to believe there'll be 3 1/2 DLC releases between this video and the next (Pirates, Boron, multiverse with its one exclusive ship, and Timelines).

They gotta get in close for those selfies

Set all M Turrets to destrory fighters and dont use 0 star pilots

The capital ships don't actually have their bridge/cockpit built into the model, instead the room is a separate model that is loaded when it is in use (such as the player being in the cockpit or the player video-calling the captain of the capital ship). You won't see the cockpit when you're outside the ship, unlike small and medium ships. As for where these semi-invisible rooms are placed on the Teladi capitals, I think they're placed in the round holes at the front.

Wait? They don't?

The human models were there for a bit of humorous size comparison: if they were holding the fighters like toys, then the freighters must be huge to be towering over the actors. But the next video will have proper measurements, I manually measured all of the ships in Blender (all the exported ship models are proportional to each other and the Blender measuring tool is in the same factor system as the in-game distance calculations so everything should be accurate) and I documented the measurements here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1487ACI3f-Y5iHBG9dSBfNHA3sbS_zjm0ahgdnEPpQ0A/edit#gid=0 I'll have to take more measurements for the Boron ships once the DLC releases, plus any potential redesigned vanilla ships similar to the Paranid E line of ships back at the 5.00 update.

@@gooinabox3147 nice, For greater immersion, only 3 ships should be shown on the screen at the same time: 2 previous and 1 current, and the next one should not be visible. Then the camera would quickly move to the next one and again there would be a delay in the display. Be sure to have some kind of landmark next to each ship, something that people are familiar with in size (for example, the Eiffel Tower). To feel the dimensions of the ships. You can start for example showing with the size of a banana. Then a man with a jetpack. etc. The length of ships can be compared next to football fields. And the height - with a 9-storey building. Most importantly, the next size of the ship should be intrigue, it should not be visible. You can put a man with a satchel next to each ship.

The weight values come from the game database values, and I believe the reason why they don't make sense in some (or most) cases is that the weight is used in game calculations for ship acceleration, drift, strafing, braking, pitch/roll/yaw, etc. rather than being immersive. It would be a good value to slide up and down if the developers wanted to make a ship more or less maneuverable. The next video will probably ignore the weight values and instead go for length. Fun fact: when I export the ship models from the game and into Blender, the Measure tool returns a value EXACTLY 1/100 the value of the in-game distance calculations. So for a Manticore I can measure a value of .57 meters from tip to tail, which aligns with its 57 meters in-game (which can be roughly measured with a spacesuit and a navigational beacon).

Dunno, it is easily readable for me, but people with poor eyesight might disagree.

@@repatomonor21 This video made me rethink my decision to put off an eye exam.

Entering system: Kingdom End PROPHET!!

POG

And now the Xenon Terraformers are showing up again in beta. Should I expect to see your character models show up in version 8.0??

People play it because it is hard and has a million controls and not other way around. There are two game concepts. In the 1990s every game was hard and you had to put a lot of work in to learn how to play it. After endless hours your reward was to finally master it. Nowadays games as easy as possible and give you for every simple task a little reward all the time. First concept was just for having fun playing it and beeing proud of what you have accomplished, second one is to be addictive as possible.

@@TotalyRandomUsername I agree and is very rewarding to learn this type of games, but when you are adult and the hours of your day is valuable, you can't expend 1 hour re-learning the controls every time you stop playing this game because you was playing something else...

It's unlocked after performing the high-mass teleportation experiments and Boso Ta talks to you about potentially terraforming several planets. You can't build them manually; they're built automatically to ferry resources from the HQ to the planets being terraformed.

Definitely.

Yeah, I pulled most of the mass information from the in-game encyclopedia as well as the game files, and I think the mass is less for immersion and more for calculating ship velocity and turn speeds. The next ship comparison video will have the ship lengths instead.

I basically discovered this effect on a fluke. The way it works is that there's two Asgards (the white one and the painted one), and there's two invisible box rectangles that completely encompass the Asgards. The two invisible boxes are literal cube objects with transparent glass shaders, but I found out that I could adjust their transparency to 100% to make the boxes invisible, AND if I adjusted the render queue (the order in which things are rendered, I guess) for these boxes and the Asgards, the boxes would hide anything with an adjusted render queue inside or behind them (but things like the shipyard scaffolding and the space background will still show up as their render queue is uneffected). I then just move one of the boxes back to unveil the first Asgard (while the second Asgard was still hidden due to its spot in the render queue by the second box), and then moved the second box forward to reveal the second Asgard (which was fractionally bigger than the first so it hid the first Asgard on its own like a nesting doll). In a nutshell: 0:05 First cube of invisibility is moved backwards to reveal the first Asgard. 0:23 Second cube of invisibility is moved forward to reveal the second Asgard, and the second Asgard hides the first. 0:44 Somewhere around this point, the first Asgard is un-rendered completely so that the second Asgard can fly off. The blue wall and the trailing yellow hot metal gradient effect are just additional effects for show (created using a water shader and a texture projector, respectively); they don't actually have anything to do with the ship appearing. I sort of did a proto version of this video here: ruclips.net/video/MXV_-QrRpYE/видео.html which basically has the Asgard moving out of another invisible cube right behind the gate. The only issue with this method of invisibility is that the invisible cube also hides anything behind it with an adjusted render queue, not just things inside of it, hence why in this video you will only see the ship being 'built' away from the camera, and not towards it. It's a weird effect that honestly is probably just a glitch in how the glass shaders of the cubes work, but I won't argue with results; it's better than anything else I tried to research in Unity to achieve the same effect. Edit: I realized that I probably didn't explain the render queue stuff that well. I forget what the numbers were exactly, and I no longer have the project files for this video as I removed these old ship model files to make room for better quality ones, but it sort of works like this: The render queue is usually a number from 0 to 5000, but let's imagine we're just working between 1 and 4. The first cube of invisibility would have a value 4, the white plain Asgard ship would be 3, the second cube of invisibility would have 2, and the second red-and-black Asgard ship would be 1. The cubes of invisibility hide anything with a lower render value than themselves, so if we move the first invisibility cube with a value of 4 away, it would reveal the Asgard with a value of 3, but the second cube of invisibility (2) would still hide the second Asgard (1) until it too is pulled away.

@@gooinabox3147 I am a 3d modeller so what you are saying is probably more useful for my coder since he is all about shaders and stuff in Unity. But anyway I think I understand what's going on here and I gotta say it is pretty cool! Are you a wizard or developer?

@@oguzcanoguz6583 I think being a wizard is a better description for me, as I'm still pretty rough at creating stuff from scratch (hence why I'm "borrowing" ships from the X4 Foundations game files). Most of my animation time is spent looking at what I have, and figuring out if there's anything neat I can do with it. My current challenge is figuring out how to implement weapon effects such as lasers and rapid-fire guns, not only to make them look good but to also figure out how to lazily make sure that it reliably starts at Point A and stops at Point B, with Point A being a rotating turret on a moving ship, and Point B being another ship that is also moving. I though I was onto something for a laser beam by bouncing an object with a trail effect back-and-forth between the two points several dozen times a second, but the effect was immediately ruined when either point started moving or rotating. It makes a good slow heavy plasma shot effect at least, but certainly not a solid laser beam.