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If they were large enough, they could use 32 faces like a traditional soccer ball. I don't care much about shape either, size is more important to me.

I kind of feel like if someone wants to be a nomad, then it's their responsibility to design an appropriate ship for that role: internal maintenance tunnels, hull shapes that enable ease of access to internal systems, or perhaps slightly simpler systems than a ship that has major infrastructure...

I'm not the person who posted that, but if you could replace blocks without actually having to posses and deploy the blocks needed, it would be a bit.....off. If you could slave storage to an astrotech beam and have that replace missing blocks with stored blocks it would be much easier to...

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Hello? Am I asking for help for this in the wrong place?

For a 3D rectangular shape (any number of cubes) the I around the z (for example) axis through the centre is: mass(x^2 + y^2)/12 So it's incredibly quick to calculate, even if it's 10k blocks. That inertia can then be transposed to ship CoM with parrallel axis (one equation). Haha, perhaps...

As far as I can tell after a quick look (I could be wrong) SMEdit it a bit limited if you want to draw something from scratch. It has some automated functions, and editing commands, but it seems like drawing isn't really it's intended primary function? So I was wondering if it's possible to...

Yeeeessss! It works. It didn't the first time I tried it, but I ran it a second time from cmd to see if there were any error messages I could post, and this time it worked! (This is on my computer at work: Win7 with the latest 64 bit Java installed, for anyone in the same situation) I used...

Hi guys, I've bought the game (in Steam) but I don't have the icon under my avatar showing that I have. I did some account linking stuff when I signed up here (I signed up here after I'd bought the game), I just followed the prompts on the pages, not sure about the details, but I didn't get...

Thanks ttw, I sat down planning to follow your post in another attempt to get it going, but I'm forbidden access to the link you provided (403). I don't know why - I was logged in, and have bought the game. Is it because I'm a new member? Are you able to provide another link for it?

Calculating I for a rectangluar 3D shape is trivial, there's no need to cacluate each block as a point. Even if this were implemented by someone who decided for some unfathomable reason to always calculate every individual block, performing say 500,000 operations (an absurdly unrealistically...

I don't think it is ;) I think he's confused about either the number of calculations it will take to add a uniform group of blocks, or the number of calculations required to remove a semi-random selection of blocks. In practice both can be done cheaply. And, although I don't know StarMade very...

I don't know which paragraph of mine you're arguing with....if you let me know, I'll explain.

No, it can be done in a single calculation for any size group of blocks added to the ship. The same computational cost as adding 1 block. The location is the centre of the group (trivial for any uniform shape group), and the mass is multiplied by the number of blocks in the group. Incredibly...

So it currently works for you? You use the latest version?

Is anyone currently successfully using SMEdit? I see it was updated just a month or two ago, but when I try t ouse it ist shows the options screen but the program proper won't run - it just fails silently. The situation is the same for both my Linux machine at home and my work Win7 machine. I...

Oh, I didn't see this here...I guess I might as well: I'm Jojomo. I'm a naval architect, which is not any kind of architect but an engineer who designs ships (naval architects are to ships what aerospace engineers are to planes). The company I work for designs aluminium and steel ships from...

Good, but it's going to require 4 bytes per block. Once you go to 4 bytes you might as well add half slabs and quater slabs also, as they'll also fit in 4 bytes.

Starmade already knows where every block is, and what it is. Adding multiple blocks at once is no worse that adding single blocks (w.r.t. this suggestion) because the rotational inertia for the entire group can be calculated together as a single equation, no need to do each indivual block in the...

I may be wrong, but I think what they rejected was reducing the size of all blocks, i.e. a single block becoming 8 blocks. I'm not suggesting that, I'm suggesting an "expansion" of slabs. A slab cuts a block in half once, I'm suggesting they be cut three times, once on each axis. You're...