One of my favorite moments in I-war2 was when I switched to an outside view to examine my ship, and suddenly noticed the maneuvering thrusters. Such a great little detail, that really helped build the reality and believability of the simulaiton for me. In light of my recent work on maneuvering thrusters, I suddenly took it upon myself to tackle a little point about them that never really sat well with me. Namely, that the thrusters on the Dreadnaught Corvette seemed waaaay too small to be spinning it around the way they did.
So I quickly whipped up some new thruster nozels, a more powerful animation (simulating actual engine like thrusters, rather than jets of gas), some lighting and threw them together on a Corvette. Here is the result. Kinda cool, so I may just have to release it once our coding for Unstable Space is done (crosses fingers)
Video might be a little small, but hopefully it can get the idea across.
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