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Starmade | Docking entities causing disabled turret and dock nav icons to flicker
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Description

Note: I'm unsure of the specifics, I just know that it happens.

Ships docking to an other ship will occasionally cause all its docked entity markers to to be visible for a split second (if you had "docked" and "turrets" turned off in the nav filters). This is especially noticeable when you recall a large drone swarm to a carrier: The nav icons will constantly flicker on/off, despite the fact that they were turned off in nav.

I noticed that this happens when drones redock to a ship via pickup points. I have no idea if the same occurs with normal contact docking. In my situation there were mutliple drones docking to different pickup points pretty much at the same time (or in really close intervals).

How to recreate:

  1. Make a mothership with mutliple pickup points with drones/ships assigned to them.
  2. Turn off "docked" and "turret" nav icons.
  3. Recall fleet.
  4. Watch as the docked entity and turret icons on the ship turn on/off

Note: I'm unsure if this only occurs when you're in the Mothership, and if it's visible to people in other ships. However, I'm pretty sure that the entity flash occured even when I wasn't in the mothership (needs testing).

Details

Task Type
Bug
Testing Results
Affected Gamemode(s)
Single and Multi
Reproducible
Yes
Last tested (version)
0.19264
Category
Ingame GUI/HUD
First occurrence (version)
0.19264
Hardware/Software/System
OS-Specific
No
Hardware-Specific
No
Video Card Vendor
uncertain
Steps to reproduce
  1. use a ship that has some docks/turrets
  2. set up a simple carrier system
  3. let a drone dock to your ship when you have docked + turret nav icons disabled
  4. you should see them flicker on when the drone docks to your ship.
Tester information (Internal use only)

As mentioned in the description: If you have "docked" and "turrets" nav icons disabled, they'll flicker on and off when a ship docks or undocks to your ship (easy to see with carrier recall)

Maybe a clue but I was unable to reproduce this when I also disabled "ship" icon. So only if the ship that docked me had its icon visible, I saw my own flicker on/off.

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Keptick updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 24 2016, 7:21 PM
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Yep, easy to see when using carrier recall on drones. Right after they dock, your nav markers on your ship that should be disabled, appear visible for 0.1 sec before disappearing again.

lancake shifted this object from the S1 Public space to the S3 Starmade space.Mar 27 2016, 2:31 PM
lancake changed the visibility from "Custom Policy" to "Public (No Login Required)".
lancake changed the edit policy from "Task Author" to "Starmade (Project)".
lancake set Task Type to Bug.
lancake set Category to Ingame GUI/HUD.
lancake set First occurrence (version) to 0.19264.
lancake set OS-Specific to No.
lancake set Hardware-Specific to No.
lancake set Video Card Vendor to uncertain.
lancake set Affected Gamemode(s) to Single and Multi.
lancake set Reproducible to Yes.
lancake set Last tested (version) to 0.19264.
lancake edited Steps to reproduce. (Show Details)
lancake edited Tester information (Internal use only). (Show Details)
lancake moved this task from New / Unconfirmed to Confirmed on the Issue Navigation board.
lancake renamed this task from Docking entities causing nav icons flicker to Docking entities causing disabled turret and dock nav icons to flicker.
lancake changed the task status from Open to In Queue (Game).
lancake triaged this task as Trivial priority.

As mentioned in the description: If you have "docked" and "turrets" nav icons disabled, they'll flicker on and off when a ship docks or undocks to your ship (easy to see with carrier recall)

Maybe a clue but I was unable to reproduce this when I also disabled "ship" icon. So only if the ship that docked me had its icon visible, I saw my own flicker on/off.

Restricted Application edited projects, added Starmade, Game Development; removed Issue Navigation. · View Herald TranscriptMar 27 2016, 2:31 PM
AndyP changed the task status from In Queue (Game) to In Queue.Mar 10 2017, 5:25 PM
Restricted Application added a project: GUI/HUD. · View Herald TranscriptMar 10 2017, 5:25 PM
AndyP moved this task from Backlog / Unclassed to Beta on the GUI/HUD board.Mar 15 2017, 1:34 PM