Ship tractor beams were recently brought up again. What's the state of these and their large cargo counterparts?
TL;DRShip tractor beams are set up and working on several vehicles in the development environment, with some work remaining from another team, and sizes have moved to component sizing.
So the ship tractor beams, we've done a lot of work for them recently. We have the current implementation set up on multiple vehicles that are meant to actually have the tractor beam attached to them. The current implementation works from a vehicle setup standpoint. There's still some remaining work to do from the actual EU PU team. They're actually delivering the vehicle tractor beams themselves. But right now, in the environment we've developed it in, you can spawn the ships that have them in and use them. Another big bit of confusion is the sizing. When we did some of it, we did it to weapon sizes instead of component sizes, whereas EU PU have done their development on it, and they've decided they want to go in the direction of component sizing rather than weapon sizing. Some of the size numbers will have changed, but how much they lift is consistent with how much we've always wanted it to lift. So, for example, instead of going all the way up to, I think the biggest one we ever said was size six or size five or something, the biggest one now will be the size three. We might do size four if we ever do something for a very niche situation.
The SRV is a three now.
The SRV is a three, but three is able to move ships. Size twos can do 32 SCU containers. I can't remember how much size 1s and 0s do, but we've just reformatted it as the system's formalised a lot more. On the ships, we've got an implemented version of it working currently.
As far as the vehicle content team is concerned, we've done a pass on the artwork for ships that were supposed to feature a tractor beam. We've now added supporting geometry for them and made sure that it actually works, basically.
Caterpillar, Nomad, Cutlass, 315p. I feel like there's one more. Connie Taurus.
We didn't really do anything for that one, though. It was kind of a freebie, right, for now.
But we've done proper geometry integration for the ones where there just wasn't any, because there wasn't any on the Cutlass, there wasn't any on the 315, there wasn't any on the Nomad, so there's proper integration for them now.
There was stuff kind of hinting at it, but it wasn't legit, so to speak.
It wasn't actually a utility mount. So they're now proper turrets, so you can swap to the view and use them and move boxes and things.