Recent content by jayman38

You recently mentioned in a post getting 3DMax or something like that. I recommend Blender. Recent updates have made it a bit easier to use than its reputation suggests. You can create moving parts, and create animations.

Zero-thickness/invisible displays could be overlaid on top of any other block of my choosing, including the in-game computer screens, so I would not really need a slab version. That would not help in cases where one wants to put a display as a slab, such as over the top of a control panel, but...

The force of gravity drops with the square of distance, so unless the Dyson Sphere is constructed at a relatively small scale, close to the star on all sides, tending towards roasting any inhabitants (plus you'll probably want some of the inner surface of it to grow produce), the Dyson Sphere...

Without wings, it's starting to look like a Vasudan ship from Freespace 2, but with a better paint job. Neat!

Wabbit Season!!!

The old gameplay suggestion for increased display block options, such as whole-block-size display lettering might perform this function in a pinch. I thought it might be fiddly to place a display block and enter the needed data for a large number, but it's only slightly more fiddly than changing...

With so much empty space, it might be time for Starmade to take a page from Elite-a-likes and put in a max-speed-multiplier, depending on proximity to objects. E.g. Supercruise, Time-dilation, Microjumps, etc. Max speed in Starmade is largely a function of avoiding problems interacting with...

We also typically want what are referred to as "half-corners" as well.

Perhaps with "weighted" thrust vectoring, via the thrust distribution screen? The game could efficiently calculate thrust "weights" for each setting. 100% efficiency: Forward thrust (should be separate from "reverse thrust") 99% efficiency: yaw/pitch/roll thrust (turning/spinning/rotating) 85%...

You may be using regular symmetry for building, which places the mirror split plane directly on the middle of a block. It may be worth your while to use even-symmetry, which places the mirror split plane on the edge of a block. That way, the two non-cardinal sections can meet at a singular point...

I could be mistaken, but I think you and MrGrey1 are discussing two different ways to classify ships. 1. Fighter/Cruiser/Battleship, etc.: effectively, a part of the ship's name 2. Power/Capability level that a server can use for player-matching, regardless of the ship's name

This is beautiful and sci-fi-sexy. I'll be in my bunk....

If the process reused the shipyard blueprint-building algorithm, or something similar, it might spread the load over a period of time, avoiding lag spikes. I'd certainly be willing to wait a little bit of time for such a "merge".

Dock your creation to a station as early as possible. Then, a trader might bump into you, but won't bump you away. You can build your own station with its own docking port if you like, but the spawn sector station has four docking ports near the open trade center in the middle. (Below it, I think.)

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