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After seeing this episode of PBS' space-time and the release of rails and rotators, I'd been jonesing to build some proper centripetal acceleration / Coriolis effect-based structures in Starmade.
ESS-Arroway:
note: this screenshot and the others below make use of plusnine's fancy starmade effects
The ship is a sort of sequel to the ESS-Olamina, which was featured in the Shroomiverse! episode Tomino_sama and I shot back in December 2014, long before rails were a twinkle in schema's eye. I do a lot of post-NASA/pre-Trek inspired builds, so this is in line with what I tend to do thematically.
I went through my youtube favorites to look for inspiration for what to do with rails, and was particularly inspired by this animator's mockup of NASA's Natilus-X spacecraft:
At first I thought about attempting crazy unfolding solar panels, but gave up due to how many logic blocks needed to be exposed to keep the panel 1-thin and how much wireless logic would be needed for a reliable retraction system.
After some experimentation, I had two internal sections docked and rotating flush to the primary hull with enough room for whatever mass enhancement and timing systems i would need.
It is worth nothing that my goal is to create a beautiful, cinematic ship rather than anything that has impressive technical starmade specs for the ship size. I know I'd get eaten alive in a combat situation, and am fine with that. I tend to build peaceful exploration ships anyway. I hope you find this thread useful, inspirational or interesting. Please feel free to post screenshots and videos of your own coriolis-style builds in this thread, I would love to see them!
Completed features:
To do:
Animated GIFs and movies:
If you are interested in making centripetal acceleration structures yourself, here's a handy tool to help you get spin calculations for your rotations to "produce" 1.0G. I take the answer in rotations per minute, then calculate 60/x to get the number of seconds per rotation and time my rotations with a stop watch until they are pretty close.
ESS-Arroway:
note: this screenshot and the others below make use of plusnine's fancy starmade effects
The ship is a sort of sequel to the ESS-Olamina, which was featured in the Shroomiverse! episode Tomino_sama and I shot back in December 2014, long before rails were a twinkle in schema's eye. I do a lot of post-NASA/pre-Trek inspired builds, so this is in line with what I tend to do thematically.
I went through my youtube favorites to look for inspiration for what to do with rails, and was particularly inspired by this animator's mockup of NASA's Natilus-X spacecraft:
At first I thought about attempting crazy unfolding solar panels, but gave up due to how many logic blocks needed to be exposed to keep the panel 1-thin and how much wireless logic would be needed for a reliable retraction system.
After some experimentation, I had two internal sections docked and rotating flush to the primary hull with enough room for whatever mass enhancement and timing systems i would need.
It is worth nothing that my goal is to create a beautiful, cinematic ship rather than anything that has impressive technical starmade specs for the ship size. I know I'd get eaten alive in a combat situation, and am fine with that. I tend to build peaceful exploration ships anyway. I hope you find this thread useful, inspirational or interesting. Please feel free to post screenshots and videos of your own coriolis-style builds in this thread, I would love to see them!
Completed features:
- rotating comm dish, angled at 45 degrees
- rotating 73m rotating torus ring timed to produce an artificial 1.0 g
- solar panel flywheel with adjustable solar panels mounted to it
- an animated shuttle undock and redock sequence
To do:
- finish sketching exterior frame
- needs more wedges
- furnishing and details
- some sort of gimballed arm or tow laser deployed from the rear hangar.
- escape pods!
- see what other kinds of toys i can rail up
Animated GIFs and movies:
- movie of the effect from outside the ship
- internal view: main ship in build highlight, docked and rotating ring in dark
- rings bevels rotating flush to the ship - this produces some mind bending vertigo when moving down hallways!
- undock sequence for my shuttle
If you are interested in making centripetal acceleration structures yourself, here's a handy tool to help you get spin calculations for your rotations to "produce" 1.0G. I take the answer in rotations per minute, then calculate 60/x to get the number of seconds per rotation and time my rotations with a stop watch until they are pretty close.
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