Alpha 8 Preview Live

Summary of Changes:

Art:

• New ships

• New cockpits

• New megastation hangar and re-modeled exterior

Game:

• New Transit visual effects (active when post-processing is enabled)

• Better ship thruster visual effects

• Lighting changes

• New effects system with OpenGL 3.1 support

• Ships and stations moved over to pattern based paint markings system

AI:

• New AI now handles all docking actions

• Lots of AI improvements and moving NPC ships to new AI

• Disabled piracy status on ship-ship collisions

UI:

• Better crosshair and lock reticle

• Autopilot/Comms UI changes

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue causing crash when exiting hyperspace

• Fixed issue causing messages to repeat in message log

• Fixed instability issues caused by dlls with mixed visual studio versions

• Fixed crash caused by perlin noise functions overflowing

• Fixed crash caused by NPCs trying to fly around invalid bodies