The_Owl's Ships.

[The_Owl]

Current list of ships and stations to be built:

Ship List.


First 2 Pages honestly fuckin suck, page 3 has actual good ships though.

 

[Calhoun]

I dunno, it's very... bland.

 

[Shaker]

Everyone starts somewhere.

Try using slabs to put some detail on the top and sides, the bonus of this is you can hide system blocks under the slabs to pad your score a little

 

[StarWars1981]

I would also go for just random structures - "access hatches", random protrusions (see Star Destroyers on any picture search ever for ideas about random boxy structures) and room-looking sections that appear to house people, weapons emplacements (even for fixed, forward-firing weapons, make it look like a bunker or something, low-lying but still obvious), random grills, dips, "shield stuff", "other technical randomness", "wings or assorted stuff absolutely pointless in space", turrets, scanner antennae, radar/radio dishes, docking bays/ports/USD ports/docks-to-temporarily-attach-a-ship-to-the-hull, and anything else you can possibly come up with. Pipes, tubing, and tanks are favorites of the community, and are pulled off in every way from garish and overly bright and cheerful to realistic-looking.
I've even seem gigantic ammo belts for, apparently, MASSIVE C-C weapons ... lol. Those ... they're interesting.
I've seen engine decorations from the absurd to the amazing to the beautiful, but all of them have their own appeals.
Experiment around. Detail can't hurt, but in this game, nice sleek lines usually don't go too well. It's just the blocks, I think, something about it just doesn't fit sleek shapes.
But hey, if you make it work, do it. It's a nice start - better than my correctly named "Mining Monstrosity". Can anybody say "Systems Cube"?

 

[The_Owl]

Yeah, i know about details. this ship already has a WIP 2.0 version ready with more details on the side and improvements to power and thrust, which i will try to release after yesterday. I've use tanks and vents and pipes before in a fleet submission, but my time is sucked up by revision and work on a battleship.

 

[Kaisaurus]

Everyone started with ships that were ... meh ...

So yeah don't worry, just keep it up and you'll progress !

 

[The_Owl]

WIP on NFD Build server

 

[The_Owl]

more work on the WIP, nearly done, just finishing off interior and PD turrets.

 

[Kaisaurus]

Definitely has more shapes than the first one, so yeah there is progress !

 

[The_Owl]

well, it's been a while, and many random, unfinished projects later, i have

the finished frigate, an almost finished cruiser, a mining drone and a thing.

these 2 things (ignore large ship top left) this ugly thing that is finished and i dislike quite a bit and this, which is my current project, and is not even close to being finished.

More pictures:

wow this was long.

 

[The_Owl]

i swear there are more of these everyday.

 

[The_Owl]

I've made a huge mistake..

 

[StarWars1981]

What's the mistake? Looks like part of a Titan or battleship to me.

 

[The_Owl]

What's the mistake? Looks like part of a Titan or battleship to me.

it's a 1500m vessal that already has 500k blocks at around 500-700m. And that's the basic hull. taking this upon may be a mistake.

 

[StarWars1981]

Lol, I hit over 10k mass (iirc) on my new large-ship-build and I'm aiming for less than 500m, but it's advanced armor and over 20k blocks, I believe. Don't quote me on these numbers; I'd have to look. The idea is to match and defeat Vaygr's stupid 142k mass monstrosities on LvD.

 

[The_Owl]

1500m in length and 1.6mil blocks later, the forward, first basic look at the hull is done.

 

[Madman198237]

Your computer is so much doomed.

So much Doom, I'm surprised it hasn't grown some shotguns already.

 

[The_Owl]

Your computer is so much doomed.

So much Doom, I'm surprised it hasn't grown some shotguns already.

I can see it glaring at me in pain.

 

[The_Owl]

First basic go at interior, no detail in yet.


And a nearly done frame for the engines at the back of the now 1.7km long ship

 

[The_Owl]

been a while since i did an update, but game now works and im back from a holiday so i can work on things again!
anyways, a as-yet-unnamed ship that is nearly finished

has no weapons and systems arn't filled, but the shape is done and all that's needed are weapons, systems, and detail.

also, side on shot of the titan, now at 1700m long and with some new hanger bays built into the side. debating whether to faff with rail doors for them, and what to put in them later on...