Who says that all Starmade factories are boring?

[Endal]

[Update 19/11/2016: Greeble]

 

[nightrune]

SO COOL

 

[Sgtwisky]

that's pretty sweet. how long did it take you to build it?

 

[Endal]

that's pretty sweet. how long did it take you to build it?

I think 13h in total, ish. The recording and syncing part took the longest honestly.

 

[Dr. Whammy]

This thread gets the Dr. Whammy Seal of Approval. Well done!

 

[Napther]

being picky, but, the walls are really too flat for me. Perhaps some detail on them will help, and some greeble/machinery on the floor in the area, but isnt nescessary. just to break up the fact that its a long hollow cuboid

 

[Scypio]

Why can't i like 100 times ?

 

[Endal]

being picky, but, the walls are really too flat for me. Perhaps some detail on them will help, and some greeble/machinery on the floor in the area, but isnt nescessary. just to break up the fact that its a long hollow cuboid

I did want to add greeble but I was sick of the whole endeavour because of rail bugs tiring me out, so I rushed out a functional gif first. I'll touch up the minor details tommorow and reupload it soon :D

 

[Napther]

I did want to add greeble but I was sick of the whole endeavour because of rail bugs tiring me out, so I rushed out a functional gif first. I'll touch up the minor details tommorow and reupload it soon :D

Aaah okay that explains that. Did have the though that maybe this was a WIP, but a little reminder after a long time building an accursed rail contraption like this wouldnt hurt.

Ironically yesterday/day before SMD Chat was mentioning a Mech Assembly station with rails that "fakely" puts together mechs infinitely. Like Skylord's station of similar design, but Bigger, cooler, and way more "animated"

 

[Endal]

Ironically yesterday/day before SMD Chat was mentioning a Mech Assembly station with rails that "fakely" puts together mechs infinitely. Like Skylord's station of similar design, but Bigger, cooler, and way more "animated"

I was in SMD chat before, during and after that. If remember correctly, SMD chat was talking about assembly stations for ships, then mechs when somone brought up Skylord's Mech Station. I decided to do tanks after asking Crusade: "Mechs or tanks?", to which he replied "tanks".
Still, a mech version would be cooler but would be much much more complicated, so I probably would have done tanks either way :P

 

[Dr. Whammy]

I did want to add greeble but I was sick of the whole endeavour because of rail bugs tiring me out, so I rushed out a functional gif first. I'll touch up the minor details tommorow and reupload it soon :D

+1

Pickup rails/pickup points and are a royal pain.

I was going to do a factory for my utility armor and station security units but I put it on hold when I realized that pickup points/contact docking ignored nearly every attempt I made to dock an object without using a rail docker beam. The best I could manage was a "cosmetic factory" which I promptly scrapped after I couldn't justify the practicality of it in multi-player.

I don't care that you didn't greeble it; you can always do that later. I'm just impressed that you had the skill and the patience to actually pull this off.

 

[Endal]

There, updated!

 

[Ultragamer2000]

Beautiful. Utterly beautiful.

 

[OMNESIA]

[Update 19/11/2016: Greeble]

how do you achive this flexible docking? Do you redock the entities or is changing rails possible now?

 

[Endal]

how do you achive this flexible docking? Do you redock the entities or is changing rails possible now?

The parts are undocked from the factory rails and picked up by a point in the tank.

 

[wizerdwolf]

Late response, I know, but I just had to tell you that THIS IS GOD DAMNED SEXY.

 

[happahappa]

Now if we could automate the process of feeding the assembly line with the required components via an automated shipyard/3d block printer , that can undock the manufactured entity right onto a rail connected to the assembly line ...