UPDATE: I changed the title to make this thread a more general discussion of bugs encountered while designing ships.
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So I created a ship last night and when I opened it up today, I noticed several problems related to grouping/exported objects and flipping.
Specifically, all of my flipped components were unflipped, I believe upon save, but possibly when I reloaded the game.
Some of my components were exported objects composed of multiple objects, and both the individual components making up the exports were flipped as well as the entire grouped object. For example, within the nacelle-like component, the wings and little triangular pieces were flipped, but the component as a whole was flipped as well.
Following are some pictures with some overlaid notes:
Also, one of my exported components was goofy--it didn't resize in every direction, but it scaled in at least two directions and moved relative to its anchor point.
And out of the ship designer, the engine components (stellar folders, I think) were elongated... but not in the ship designer.
