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I think it might be nice for a menu/computer block. That way the flagship could give orders out to the ships under it's command, maybe recursively if the system supports it eventually. I do agree that we should separate being captain of a ship and admiral of a fleet. It provides some advantages...

I'm a big fan of the blocks that render minimaps inside them. Using them for navigation seems a little out of reach at the moment, but they could probably be connected with the scanner modules. The blocks would need to be group based and the image might scale with the dimensions of the box.

The source code for this project isn't that important if I recall. Doesn't it just load all of the classes from the mods folder into the runtime?

If you inherit docked ships thrust, does that apply the rotations correctly?

Maybe if the shield strength was dependent on the proximity to the shield emitter blocks.

I wonder if we'll eventually get a non-hierarchical style of docking.

Looks like there is a lot to look forward to. Here's to the next few months of development!

What about people that don't have ships to submit for the fighter phase? And how does the first phase work? Does everybody get a capital ship?

Oh man, this is gonna get good. Grab some popcorn and settle in.

Maybe it could be done like a control transfer styled block, with player commands being propagated through the levels. That would allow for cockpit modules to be put on otherwise complete ships.

What, so have it be that manually activated rotator rails only function for a set time, that way the rail speed determines how far they go?

Personally, I am looking forward to when Schema revamps the player mechanics. Thinks like smoothing out movement or making the mining laser's range more intuitive. Just simple stuff that make interacting with the world a bit friendlier.

It would be nice if things like thrust and power could go both ways. That way ships could be made modular, like having a cockpit lowered into a fighter or something.

This is getting better and better. And just stacking the rails is the perfect way to have variable speeds. It's intuitive and does not rely on a menu.

Oh man, this is going to be a good update.

But with this system you can have it be internal. Just have the pitch and yaw axes at the front of the turret, while having those be flush with the exterior hull.

So does this project require java 8?

It would be cool if schema could occasionally share some of the interesting problems he works on. I loved reading about his experimentation with planet shapes.

I want blocks that can move, I feel that the ships are too much like sculptures right now. They're just static.

Shaders for OpenGL are written in GLSL, that is the OpenGL Shading Language. The syntax is based on C, but the syntax for Java is based on C++ too. And almost the entire point of writing shaders is so that the developer CAN change how the primitives are rendered.