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Sexier than a pair of tight-fit $1000 jeans. So much pssshhhhhh!

I'll never wash my ship again!

Unless the dirt interferes with flight characteristics. Then it's: Wash at will!

The Amarr dirt looks too intense in the preview but overall I like what I'm seeing. The dirt layers seem to give more depth to some of the more subtle details and lend some of the illumination details greater contrast.

Are you planning to eliminate texture stretching and mirrored mesh textures any time soon?

If there's something you don't like, specific feedback would be helpful.

I hope this is a precursor to a remote hull cleaning module in the lead up to a new structure that involves some sponges and nano foam cleaning booth that I can load some exotic dancers into and set a service fee.

I would prefer to keep my ships shiny. So basically all of this effort I'm just going to sit it out. Do I have another choice? I can hope you allow us to wash our ships, but so far that's only being considered as a maybe.

It's ok, once this washes over and is done with, there will be something else new. Unless you have plans to make ship stats degrade with age too. I'm going to vote 'no' on such an idea just in case.

Please, space is big, and gases spread as soon as they can, as much as they can.

I'm not against grime and dust slowly building up over time. It can look cool if you can tell how old a ship is by looking at its dirty hull. I think battle wear would be time better spent though.

One thing that really makes no sense is rust on Minmatar ships. EVE ships don't normally spend time within planets atmosphere (unless they crash) as far as i know.

Yes they spend time in dry dock in stations and yes there are traces of oxygen etc. in space. The fact that Minmatar ships traditionally has the same amount of rust (if not more) than an abandoned submarine in Murmansk is however outright stupid.

Minmatar ships are not made of steel, they are made of "A revolutionary ceramic carbide compound, much favored by the Matari both for its earthy quality and its extremely wide range of technological uses."

Does this oxidate? Well if it did it would probably not be used for ship plating.

To me the each factions ships look brown, blue, green, gold because of impurities found in any and all building materials from the nebulas the Empires are in. Not because they rust.

This is also why Minmatar faction ships should have red/burgundy camo and not green. Unless Minmatar faction ships want to be extra stealthy after they crash and rust on jungle planets.



tl:dr : dirt is ok - rust is dumb.

Afternoon... I popped onto Singularity and checked out all the new shaders, they look really good. Great work there, I can't wait to see these drop onto TQ. Is there any specific date yet? Not seen any mention of that.

Also I'd like to pick up on a comment on the first page where you're saying ships wont get dirtier yet. I thought the idea was that it would be dynamic. If not how is this going to work, updates on a monthly basis to the db to 'update' dirtyness or when it does become dynamic are we suddenly going to gain another 3months of dirt or...? Sorry if I seem picky it just seems a bit of a confusing way to go forward with it if the function is not finished yet. Or is that why there's not been a date mentioned in the posts detailing this shader update?


Thanks for your time, I am enjoying all the updates coming along currently. Bring on the next T3 dessies! :)

'As much as they can' is also dependent on other factors. Gravity, radiation, even attraction at the atomic and molecular level can keep certain gases from dispersing across the known universe. Obviously not enough to create what we recognize as an atmosphere but definitely enough to interact with material around there.

Aside from a real life explanation, gas clouds do exist in new eden so whatever physics it runs off of sure allows it to happen.