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Why can't we just go with the system Sven_The_Slayer is using already? Is the part with the red light part of the structure with the airlock or another structure? If there's something sticking out past the USD, two identical ships cannot dock to one another.

I just realized earlier that all three of these should fit together without issues: The docks being close together at the bottom allows the smallest one of these three to work smoothly without many extra blocks. (It's the same overall width and height as the 1x2 door frame would be standing...

Any chance you'll be putting up a new image in the OP?

Or rather, we'll get two good solutions with different tradeoffs and Schine will choose and implement the one they prefer, which is likely what will happen now if the devs consider either of these solutions feasible.

It's not bad, really, although my newer method gives the map two poles and one equator instead of no poles and two equators.

It still looks an awfully lot like a grid in the core of the galaxy. I think there just need to be more void systems in-between star systems to space them out. The arms of galaxies are like this now due to their lower star count and they look a lot better than core space. It might be a good idea...

OK, so here's the model I have for allowing interaction between outside space and the two-triangle/parallelogram map. I'll cover this in two sections: How it works, and how to make it feel right. How it works: There is no block distortion Spatial distortion occurs within the planet sector to...

It is something to be considered if the transitions from surface to building box can be smoothed out that much. As a player, I'm not sure I would like to deal with the building boxes though. I know it can be done, but I don't care for it on planets of a scale we're likely to see in Starmade. I'm...

Like I said, this works fine if the planets are full scale because no one will build anything that covers a non-trivial portion of the surface (no normal player will be able to build halfway around the planet). Two cities 10km apart could join with no issues. If the devs want to make planets...

Why limit? I'm not sure full-scale planets fit Starmade's theme. In any case, I doubt it'd be very fun to play on a planet where you would land and never find another person. Starmade seems to favor interaction a bit more than that. We'd have to get a word from one of the devs to be sure about...

And you're going to do this on a planet that's 10km in diameter?

Maybe I'm just being too idealistic again.

If you have even one vertex, it won't work. At a vertex, three or more polygons join at angles to one another. Voxels cannot join at angles to one another. If they do, they're not seamless. They're like the dodecahedron planets. If you're wanting to make the sphere large enough to make these...

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This works great for meshes. That's a cool way of doing it. It won't work very well with square voxels, though as the overall map is still a cube, and turning a cube surface into a sphere surface is bad. The point at which four triangles intersect rather than six (the corner of the cube)...

Fireshock may be right. There are ways to deal with the problem in this image, such as adding adding wedges below each of the dockers to make them look better sticking downward.

Can you draw that? I'm not sure how that's any different from having a map that is square overall. A wrapping square map has two equators and no poles (it's a torus) so it's not desirable for simulating a planet. Rendering the surface as a flat plane of loaded chunks around the player will...

OK, so here it is. This is NOT a torus world like my square map idea was. It has two poles and one equator. This has the same advantage that a squashed cube does, but eliminates the geometric impossibilities at each corner. A squashed cube tries to join three squares at one point, which is just...

That was eerie coming back and reading triagngle. I just figured out a way to have a flat map with one equator and two poles by using two triangles that wrap onto each other. I'll get the pics up as soon as I can but family and stomach are calling at the moment.

I've seen that. I think they bend their blocks.