side effect of fighters/beams going over/under cruisers

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If a fighter goes under a cruiser… And another cruiser (at a higher height to the first cruiser) fires, say, a tractor beam at the fighter… The beam will go over the cruiser, yet the fighter is underneath it. This looks very strange :slight_smile:

I’m not sure there’s an easy solution, short of having the beams actually angled (as I suppose they ought to be), which could produce it’s own visual artifacts (a beam going ‘through’ a ship it wasn’t actually targetting.)

It doesn’t really matter much, either way, just thought you should know in case there’s some nice solution to it, that I haven’t thought of :slight_smile:

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maybe it would look like the enemy is targeting the cruiser instead of the fighter if it does that?

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It already does. It’s strange seeing enemy cruisers play beams and tractor beams over each other… Until you realise they were shooting at a fighter that happened to be flying under it :wink: