4.86 Model Issues

[michiyl]

My post is about the Heron Civilian Train:

I've recently discovered what makes this fine ship seem to randomly disappear (if this has not been already done).
NPC Heron trains.
Yep, it's that easy! Just fly one around in civilized systems (like New Berlin to Stuttgart) where many NPC trains will appear, and before you know it your ship will turn into "stealth mode" once the NPC train model is out of your view distance (this is about 2.5k on my system). And I had the "opportunity" to have a talk with another trader who told me that my "ship was gone but still there" ...

In my theory, once you're launching from a base, the model is properly initialized with all its textures. When suddenly the NPC train is in view distance, the textures of the player ship are connected to those of the NPC ship, and as soon as the NPC train disappears, your ship becomes invisible (except for equipment and lights of course)! And that's exactly what happened during my test flights!

I'll hope this can be corrected by rerouting the models textures to a new file, but as I don't have the texturing knowledge of a Freelancer modeler, I can only make guesses how to solve this problem!

Aeternus: Should be fixed in update 3.

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