"neutral mode" makes ship invisible when not inside of the ship

[skavn]

Steps to reproduce:

- (create a new creative game)

- (found a ship)

- exit into drone

- select ship

- go into building mode

- enable "neutral mode"

 

Expected:

- everything other than the ship is hidden

 

Actual:

- ship is hidden too 0_o

 

game version: 0.22.2 r15419 15a009a0da25

also happens in the beta 0.23.2

[cepheni]

Did you zoom around a bit? Sometimes the ship isn't visible, because it's really far away or off-screen.

[Hammelpilaw]

I can confirm this issue. Often had it by myself, but it does not always happen. I can not reproduce yet... Never tested if the ship appears when disabling neutral mode.

[skavn]

No, zooming around does not help.

 

Is this really that hard to reproduce? I updated the steps to include a bit more info.

 

It happens every time, but of course it's easy to avoid this bug.

[skavn]

Did a little bit experimenting:

 

- the ship does get visible when enough blocks are placed

- then if enough blocks are removed, the ship is invisible again

- camera position/zoom does not seem to have any effect

[Hammelpilaw]

Ah got it. Did anything wrong yesterday.

 

As far as I can see you can reproduce even easier. Let me describe this a bit more accurate:

 

• Have a ship with 30 blocks or less
  
• Be outside of the ship (drone or in another ship)
  
• Enter build mode (neutral)
  
• Ship is not visible
  

 

Some weird behavior:

 

• Add blocks until ship has 31 blocks -> ship appears
  
• Remove one block -> ship disappears
  
• Block type, size or material does not affect it
  

It is not related to newly founded ships or so, only to the block amount.

 

[cepheni]

Ah, I see now. Thank you for clarification Hammelpilaw!