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New Ship Painting Mode
[p]A new painting mode has been added to the shipeditor.[/p][p]The painting mode allows you to colour the exterior of your ships.[/p][p][/p][p]What can be painted?[/p][p] - Hull / Habitation / Scaffolding[/p][p]Paint can be applied diagonally, allowing up to 2 colours per gridcell. Scaffolding can only have 1 colour applied to it per cell.[/p][p][/p][p]Eyedropper tool:[/p][p]While using the painting tool, if you press the shift key, you will switch to the eyedropper tool. Using the eyedropper tool, you can select any point on your ship, and the paint tool will select the paint applied at that spot.[/p][p][/p][p]Paint Palettes:[/p]- [p]Paints are stored in a palette, and can be dynamically altered after they have been applied to your ship[/p][/*]
- [p]Palettes can be exported or uploaded, for easy reuse[/p][/*]
- [p]Palettes can be imported from palette or ship files[/p][/*]
- [p]Arena mode will also apply a simple paint palette to each team, ensuring they have matching colours. This overwrites the standard paints, as well as the base unpainted hull colour[/p][/*]
Asteroid cracking
[p]You can now crack any asteroid into smaller parts by targetting it with Cannons.[/p][p]This will generate new mineral patches on the new smaller asteroids.[/p][p]Nb. This only works on asteroids that once contained mineral patches.[/p][p]Cannons will fire on manually targetted asteroids even when 'Battle Stations' is not enabled.[/p][p] [/p]Furniture
[p]New cosmetic furniture is available to buy from any good trading post. Crew will use this furniture to relax when they are not needed for work.[/p][p]There is also a Pot Plant which takes some time to grow. It will slowly die if there are water or oxygen shortages on the ship.[/p][p] Nb. The pot plant does not actually consume water or oxygen. [/p][p] Added Table, Chair, Sofa, Small Table, Pot Plant[/p][p] [/p][p][img src="https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/42450473/9f13707896cf640ca04cf1a10fcf7f528621dda1.png"][/img][/p]
Translation Work
[p]- Updates to German (Thanks to Michael Wäsch)[/p][p]- New translations:[/p][p] - Turkish[/p][p] - Norwegian[/p][p]- Exposed 'Accent Insensitive Search' and 'Translator Search' in the Other settings.[/p][p][/p]Small Changes
- [p]Research for Stargate Phase 6 and 7 components are slightly cheaper[/p][/*]
- [p]Research for Stargate Phase 7 is now hidden until Phase 6 is unlocked[/p][/*]
- [p]Empty tanks reset their held resource when empty[/p][/*]
- [p]Tiddlets will hop towards the port in Tiddlets 1[/p][/*]
- [p]Removed the confusing weapon FIRE/HOLD button in the tactical screen.[/p][/*]
- [p]Gatling guns will now target drones repairing hostile ships[/p][/*]
- [p]Gatling guns will now automatically fire during meteor storms, without requiring 'Battle Stations'[/p][/*]
- [p]Destroyed drones now leave behind a processor and some scrap metal[/p][/*]
- [p]Auto-trades can now be disabled per ship from the ORDERS menu[/p][/*]
- [p]The settings menu has been redesigned and categorised into Visuals / Audio / Gameplay / Other[/p][/*]
- [p]A new micro tutorial helps players to activate Battle Stations mode for the first time when required[/p][p] [/p][/*]
- [p]Exit saves - The game will now automatically create "exitsave.space" when you quit a game for any reason[/p][p] [/p][/*]
- [p]UI Highlight bounce effect - All UI buttons now bounce slightly when highlighted.[/p][p]Nb. You can disable this effect from the settings menu[/p][p] [/p][/*]
- [p]There is now a Command line tool to calculate ship stats, as requested by Zenrath.[/p][p]Run the game with the command line "--calculate-ship-stats {path to ship/folder of ships}"[/p][p]Stores results in appdata save folder.[/p][/*]
