Read by Council Block request: fence/handrail

[Knack]

Look: Similar to metal grill.
Thin as a rod light, but displaced to the blocksides, instead of the middle.

Simple as that.

 

[HolyCookie]

Look: Similar to metal grill.
Thin as a rod light, but displaced to the blocksides, instead of the middle.

Simple as that.

got that included to my huge list of blocks and stuff.

but i think your idea should be a bit different let me suggest this:
a special code that when fences/railing are set close to eachother, they will connect.
like the minecraft fence.

 

[Knack]

got that included to my huge list of blocks and stuff.

Good

I'm not sure if you got it right. With thin like a light rod i meant the width. Length and height should stay one block-length.
So the fences wouldn't have to connect to others, they are alway the same size.

 

[HolyCookie]

Good

I'm not sure if you got it right. With thin like a light rod i meant the width. Length and height should stay one block-length.
So the fences wouldn't have to connect to others, they are alway the same size.

the problems with that is that either if you put multiple in a row it will look ugly
or if you put 1 it will look ugly.
if you use the same sort of thing as minecraft has you have neither of them.
1 looks nice and 2 looks also nice.
btw to edit my error i mean the texture will change when any block is on the side of it.
so exactly like minecraft:




but then less woody and more glassy

 

[Valiant70]

It would be tricky to implement slope handrails and make them look right, but if Schema can do it, that's one-up more thing Starmade will have over Minecraft.

I agree - put the rail to one side of the block. I say put it *exactly* on the edge of the block so that a 1m wide walkway can have rails on both sides without looking odd. To do that you would place one rail on top of the walkway, and another beside the walkway with the rail turned toward the walkway. This way you'd have two rails on the boundaries between the walkway and thin air. I will draw a diagram of this if requested.

 

[HolyCookie]

It would be tricky to implement slope handrails and make them look right, but if Schema can do it, that's one-up more thing Starmade will have over Minecraft.

I agree - put the rail to one side of the block. I say put it *exactly* on the edge of the block so that a 1m wide walkway can have rails on both sides without looking odd. To do that you would place one rail on top of the walkway, and another beside the walkway with the rail turned toward the walkway. This way you'd have two rails on the boundaries between the walkway and thin air. I will draw a diagram of this if requested.

yes please it's very confusing xD

 

[jayman38]

It would be tricky to implement slope handrails and make them look right, but if Schema can do it, that's one-up more thing Starmade will have over Minecraft.

Technically, you can create sloped handrails by using logic linking decoratively. Although, I don't know anyone who would be comfortable putting their hand on that link pipe. It looks dangerous....

 

[Minothor]

I'd be more than happy to look into modding this in, but I'm struggling to find an up to date version of the API that Megacrafter127 was putting together.
It shouldn't be too difficult though, I did something similar for an omnidirectional power pipe in minecraft, writing to lwjgl's openGL interface:

 

[psteiner]

Well, I can say that the idea of omni-directoinal rails would be great, make sure they are physical; of couse you would want to make them gray, unless...

Glass paneling:

Meshed paneling:

These two types would cover most needs in my opinion...

 

[Knack]

Meshed paneling:

That's what i meant
(Metal grill to be exact, but this would be ok)

 

[Blaza612]

I'd be more than happy to look into modding this in, but I'm struggling to find an up to date version of the API that Megacrafter127 was putting together.
It shouldn't be too difficult though, I did something similar for an omnidirectional power pipe in minecraft, writing to lwjgl's openGL interface:

There was an API released? When exactly did this happen? :P

OT aside, this idea is one I'm surprised was never suggested too often, it'll help a lot when it comes to walkways/decoration.

 

[HolyCookie]

Well, I can say that the idea of omni-directoinal rails would be great, make sure they are physical; of couse you would want to make them gray, unless...

Glass paneling:

Meshed paneling:

These two types would cover most needs in my opinion...

they better fix glass for once before they make that glass paneling

 

[Minothor]

There was an API released? When exactly did this happen? :p

OT aside, this idea is one I'm surprised was never suggested too often, it'll help a lot when it comes to walkways/decoration.

It's unofficial, one chap documenting it all, but there is a patchy, unobfuscated beginnings of an API hidden in the jar file.
Also, I've found a working decompiler, so I'll be contributing some of my free time to writing documentation for the repo too.

 

[Zaphord]

A nice aesthetic addition for sure. Now my cargo bay can have railings to keep people from falling off the gantry.