EDIT: This has been identified as a bug. Please skip the below original post, I thought it was a normal function and was suggesting something to be done to improve the quality of life in the game. 



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Ok so first off I apologies if this was already posted. I tired to find something like this and I could not. 


So I was thinking about the research of patients and I really like the mechanic of progressing to unlock higher items like as an example from Metal to Magmium then to Vulcium. 


What confused me a bit was improving on the designs when finding higher QL materials. Having to re-research to unlock improvements makes sense. What does not is having to go all the way back though the whole chain. Like if I wanted to make an improved grav drive module, why do I have first improve my chemicals rockets? That's like going back to the first patent of the telephone and having to improve that to make the latest cell phone. You don't have to do that for mining right now and that makes sense. 

I'm suggesting that once you unlock the technology it should not be as hard to improve on it. 

Thoughts?

Would love for some method to hide all this jazz from the view on my Internal Bridge, kinda like how it's done in Rodina. Not quite sure how it can be defined, but perhaps some form of "Screen Void" volume indicator in the design? it will 'hide' the view of the external ship itself when viewed from inside out or if the camera is within this 'screen void' it will only display inside objects of ships such as room voids, rooms and all their detail.

 

What it looks like in the game Rodina: 

That's a view from inside the ship, and it doesn't draw the outside of the ship from within, without any obstruction.

The following was posted on our Patreon page. It was accompanied by a poll asking whether to keep the universe database or reset the database when we go live on Steam.

I copied it here because I prefer the UI in the forum to that of Patreon. Also, I will resume posting updates here until the transition to Steam is complete. Then it will depend on how much I like Steam's UI. It is probably nice and it would save me from having to maintain this forum.

1. Keep the current Universe when Shores of Hazeron is published on Steam.
   
2. Reset the Universe when Shores of Hazeron is published on Steam.
   

You're likely going "Oh hell, not this again" and you would be pretty right.   I'm making this in response to the news we been hearing the past couple of hours about the steam launch that contains both questions and even stuff that NEEDS to be brought up before we even hit steam.  I came back because I fucking missed this game and I was always checking in to see how it was doing. I really want people to enjoy this game as well but there's a few things that really need be brought up. I apologize for how rushed this seems as I have an interview in the morning and need sleep soon.


Let's get the two elephants out of the room.

- Limbo.

Compared to how it used to be back in the day (and the time you went on vacation that one summer), Limbo is still is a problem but not as massive as it used to be.   When we switched back to free-to-play,  There was a surge of it.   Lot of us are just worried about how it will be handled with an influx of new players?   This is also considering that majority of Limbo comes up on the weekend when your on break.   



- The Designer.

Powerful?  Yes.  User friendly?  Not really.   You said it yourself one day in chat that you wanted to do work on it to make it more user friendly.   Are you going to do something for it before the launch on steam?

-  Galaxy size.

I see various opinions about this in Discord.   Some wish the amount of galaxies was toned down.    Some wish there was less distance.    It varies.


And my own gripes

- Patreon.

You told us that the Patreon was making a LOT more than what SoH was doing when the game was on subscription based.  There are people in the community who honestly enjoy the idea of the game and want to keep supporting.  Throwing it away is a waste in my opinion and it should honestly be kept for those who wish to put a tip towards develoment.

You could legit tease future shit on it and have the patch notes posted in the steam community news section.

New user here, been in game for around a month now and have been getting into a ship build. I was inspired by the style of System Shock 1 and thought it would look alright for this game considering the graphical style. In order to get past the 15 texture limitation, I've been using multiple textures in each image. SoH caps at 256x, and SS1 textures are 128x, so I can fit 4 without resizing, which is quite convenient. The problem is as far as I am aware, there is no way to tile a specific section of an image multiple times across a face. You can either tile the entire texture across the face, or stretch a sub-section of the texture across the entire face. Let me show what I mean.

https://imgur.com/a/DDAsPvX


If I could tile that area I have selected across the entire face, I'd be able to make these rooms MUCH faster. Two additional things that would make this easier, but are absolutely side ideas, would be pixel snapping on the texture selector (something I've heard people want even without using this method) and some way to turn off the blending that seems to be happening in the textures? Though I have no hard evidence the blending is happening, I might just be insane. Regardless, if tiling in this way could be done in a less hacked way than I'm doing, you could fit 3,840 16px textures, the size Minecraft uses by default for instance. You'd still get 60 textures out of 128px, and it wouldn't cost more memory.

Hope this idea's appealing to someone out there. I don't know how difficult it would be for this to be implemented but it would open a lot of doors. If nothing else it would be much easier to add small details.

Recipe of bread is broken.

Bread only need flour and water to produce, you might have to add a little bit of salt and yeast, but definitely not milk or eggs.

Hi to all you pro's ;-)
What is the proper way to find models of buildings of different types and sizes with their fitting individual textures, that are easy to import into the format, the designer uses? There are very nice looking models to be seen on the main website, in the forums and on fb.
I never seem to find a way to use the textures of models.

Is it, because only a few formats are compatible to the designer?

How do you guys convert other data types into the fitting ones, if you do so?

If i can figure this out, I like to contribute to the exchange, so everyone can use the models, I come across.
I really like diversity in shape, size and textures of buildings in the cities. At least every type of building should have one unique model to go. Perfect would be to have these models altered, for different sizes. I liked the old system, where you could upgrade buildings. But different sized models for each type of building will do the job even better.

So please help me to understand, how this works properly :-)

Maybe it's very easy and it's just me, not understanding all the 3D modeling stuff and the magic with the import mechanics of the designer. :-)
Looking forward to maybe importing spaceship designs and making them usable for the SoH community.
:-)

I would love to be able to limit the frame rate in the scene settings, so I can enjoy Hazeron at a normal 60 frames per second and my GPU doesn't need to get unnecessarily loaded by drawing 140+ fps.

This is cool. I had to laugh at the name of the company.

https://www.orrerydesign.com/the-genesis...OWn9EJuHwo

Think like a square where if a specific category of item is in the hold the mesh appears and a player can click on the mesh and pull one of the items from the hold adding it to the Avatar's inventory. 

This would enable buildings or ships to have interactive item racks, tables, food replicator, bars, ect...