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Additionally, the puny vanilla sound and muzzle flash of the Storm Needler have been changed. If you would rather keep the original sound, use this version of the mod
Take a look:
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Please note that this mods induce a small lag before the weapons start firing to accommodate the spin-up animation.
I hope Dark Revenant-senpai will notice this and include this in Starsector+ under graphical enhancement.
Already done for his next update.
I like the Storm Needler one a lot
I have a preference for the Assault Chaingun myself, but the Heavy Needler comes close second.
For the Thumper I would like something out near the end, like on the Chaingun (also love it) – it just seems odd to have the barrels unconnected like that.
I’m a huge fan of the little dark mark on the Storm Needler that only come around once/rev. Makes it really look like a rotating cannon instead of just a repeating pattern.
For the Thumper I would like something out near the end, like on the Chaingun (also love it) – it just seems odd to have the barrels unconnected like that.
All three animations have a small marker (red for the two others) but the Storm Needler rotate much slower than the two other and is much more visible. Also all turrets versions have the barrels disconnected like vanilla, only the hardpoint versions of the Assault Chaingun and the Strorm are long enough to accommodate a ring easily.
Sadly, the SS+ version won’t have the marker: with all the normal-maps and material-maps it was a bit too many sprites to add.
I’m a huge fan of the little dark mark on the Storm Needler that only come around once/rev. Makes it really look like a rotating cannon instead of just a repeating pattern.
For the Thumper I would like something out near the end, like on the Chaingun (also love it) – it just seems odd to have the barrels unconnected like that.
All three animations have a small marker (red for the two others) but the Storm Needler rotate much slower than the two other and is much more visible. Also all turrets versions have the barrels disconnected like vanilla, only the hardpoint versions of the Assault Chaingun and the Strorm are long enough to accommodate a ring easily.
Sadly, the SS+ version won’t have the marker: with all the normal-maps and material-maps it was a bit too many sprites to add.
Actually I just use a repeating normal map pattern; the main texture still has the full animation.
