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When you start to spam your friends with screenshots of your wip, it's time to share it online. :p
I like to start with a picture, i'm not good enought to start something without a shape in mind. Still i build interiors and give the place for systems and rooms/halls when i design them. I'm not doing the full interior before building like some do but doing the basic shape of it. Kinda.
Basically i've 2 things on work right now. Yeah it's better to have multiple things than only one. :D
First off i've a space station ongoing. I started to go for a Ramiliess fort as basic shape then got in mind to do something less gothic and more sci-fi. For thoses who don't know what is a ramilies starfort, it's that :
The station ingame does around 600 m by 600. For the moment i just did the 4 hallway in the corners and i'm stuck with that. I don't know how to do one thing and it's annoying.
I am stuck with this. I don't know how to reach them cleanly. If someone got a idea i'll be grateful.
On second project, i got a salvager/carrier because let's be honest, you can't design a salvager without mining drones right now, even if the IA isn't the easiest to deal with and you won't be using them. I designed one before, able to get 64 drones but wasn't happy with it. Even if the drones managed to work without bumping into asteroids, when you recalled them it was just a joke. The first encounter with pirates during salvaging decided me to get rid of this design. It's the yellow and black ship you can see in some of the screens.:p
So let's take a new idea, a new design and go on. So i started with this idea in mind. Still getting my own touch to it and not just building the same.
So, here i am at this point. Almost finished planning everything in my mind, put a cupple of blocs and started building. I tried first the spheric command bay but wasn't happy with the look of the glass inside. Seeing almost all of the wedges and so on is kinda boring when you try to enjoy the view.
So i've replaced it with something more conventional.
1: I planned there to get the escape pods, each "box" containing an escape pod above and below. Each pods getting 10 seats for crew, that'll do 120 crew for a ship around 350 metters. That's gonna be enought for a civil and automated ship. You can see the pod on the right of the numer, it's the small shutle in black and grey.
2: It's there that i'm going to get the PD turrets. Each "box" are probably gonna have 2 PD turrets above and 2 below. I may have to put some on the tip of the ship to cover it, maybe in the back too.
3: Idk what to do there. Maybe a sort of gun or a turret like. Could just fill it with details too.
4: It's gonna be a spot with anti fighter turrets. Small turrets, too big to be simple PD but not big enough to be useful against ships. Probably gonna be beam-canon weapons to hunt down small vessels coming around. I'm thinking of just using the aera for a ventilation purpose. Look at it as just it'll be looking great. I feel like my ideas are more for a combat ship than just a salvager.
5: It's my prefered planned aera. Thinking of using rails to do drawers. Each of them releasing 4 drones for each holes. You can see the drones on the picture, right below the escape pods. That mean that there will be 4x4x2=32 drones. That's maybe too much. I don't know really but they're gonna be easy to replace with the drawers. Same that drones rack.
?: I don't know what to do there. I was thinking about doing something for cargo pods. Still thinking about it and how. Cargo pods are using the starsquad measure : 17x9x9. :p
If you wish to see the screen without my ugly drawings on it.
Still thinking about how to do a few things. Every ideas are worth sharing. And yes, a lot of details aren't done yet, the hull is far from being over.
I like to start with a picture, i'm not good enought to start something without a shape in mind. Still i build interiors and give the place for systems and rooms/halls when i design them. I'm not doing the full interior before building like some do but doing the basic shape of it. Kinda.
Basically i've 2 things on work right now. Yeah it's better to have multiple things than only one. :D
First off i've a space station ongoing. I started to go for a Ramiliess fort as basic shape then got in mind to do something less gothic and more sci-fi. For thoses who don't know what is a ramilies starfort, it's that :
The station ingame does around 600 m by 600. For the moment i just did the 4 hallway in the corners and i'm stuck with that. I don't know how to do one thing and it's annoying.
I am stuck with this. I don't know how to reach them cleanly. If someone got a idea i'll be grateful.
On second project, i got a salvager/carrier because let's be honest, you can't design a salvager without mining drones right now, even if the IA isn't the easiest to deal with and you won't be using them. I designed one before, able to get 64 drones but wasn't happy with it. Even if the drones managed to work without bumping into asteroids, when you recalled them it was just a joke. The first encounter with pirates during salvaging decided me to get rid of this design. It's the yellow and black ship you can see in some of the screens.:p
So let's take a new idea, a new design and go on. So i started with this idea in mind. Still getting my own touch to it and not just building the same.
So, here i am at this point. Almost finished planning everything in my mind, put a cupple of blocs and started building. I tried first the spheric command bay but wasn't happy with the look of the glass inside. Seeing almost all of the wedges and so on is kinda boring when you try to enjoy the view.
So i've replaced it with something more conventional.
1: I planned there to get the escape pods, each "box" containing an escape pod above and below. Each pods getting 10 seats for crew, that'll do 120 crew for a ship around 350 metters. That's gonna be enought for a civil and automated ship. You can see the pod on the right of the numer, it's the small shutle in black and grey.
2: It's there that i'm going to get the PD turrets. Each "box" are probably gonna have 2 PD turrets above and 2 below. I may have to put some on the tip of the ship to cover it, maybe in the back too.
3: Idk what to do there. Maybe a sort of gun or a turret like. Could just fill it with details too.
4: It's gonna be a spot with anti fighter turrets. Small turrets, too big to be simple PD but not big enough to be useful against ships. Probably gonna be beam-canon weapons to hunt down small vessels coming around. I'm thinking of just using the aera for a ventilation purpose. Look at it as just it'll be looking great. I feel like my ideas are more for a combat ship than just a salvager.
5: It's my prefered planned aera. Thinking of using rails to do drawers. Each of them releasing 4 drones for each holes. You can see the drones on the picture, right below the escape pods. That mean that there will be 4x4x2=32 drones. That's maybe too much. I don't know really but they're gonna be easy to replace with the drawers. Same that drones rack.
?: I don't know what to do there. I was thinking about doing something for cargo pods. Still thinking about it and how. Cargo pods are using the starsquad measure : 17x9x9. :p
If you wish to see the screen without my ugly drawings on it.
Still thinking about how to do a few things. Every ideas are worth sharing. And yes, a lot of details aren't done yet, the hull is far from being over.
