I’ve known about active ship animation effects for a long time, even posted a thread in 2018 about seeing them on Probe, Slasher, Rupture and their Tech 2 versions…
However since then I’ve been running around in my Rifter and have never seen the ship animations for it until now… I had actually zoomed in the camera view just to check out the Halcyon Dawn ship skin… Which, by the way, is actually a good looking skin…
Anyway, while I was entering warp, I was very surprised to see the 45 degree angle wings on the main engine section, top and bottom, rotate into a horizontal position while the little center Command Bridge section and the two front fuselage sections retract back towards the main engine section..
Course what happened next really impressed me… Three panels opened up on the sides of the two front fuselage sections for heat to escape…
I think little things like that deserve an appreciation thread…
So yeah CCP, thank you very much for all the hard work and extra attention to detail you’ve done on the special ship animation sequence…