Shipping Containers

MChain · Nov 28, 2016

Whoah, what a nice ship you have! Btw what is the size of those crates?

Valck · Nov 28, 2016

MChain said:
Whoah, what a nice ship you have! Btw what is the size of those crates?

Glad you like it.

Valck said:
Currently I have two standardized containers in use, the TinCan™ of 19x9x9 with 15x5x5 internal volume (375m³) and a tare mass of ~50 tons, and the DoubleChest™ of 53x27x27 with a nominal internal volume of 20k m³ (actual volume is 47x21x21 , 20727m³) at ~1000 tons empty. Note that those are actual cubic meters, not cargo units, as we use custom config values, so multiply that times 100 for default.

There are a few more pictures over in that thread, too.

MChain · Nov 28, 2016

Well, I definitely love these containers.

Hmmm... Any chance I could see the docking hook on smaller ones up close? I'm working on a cargo hauler right now, would love to make it compatible with as many cargo pod standards as possible. Its base cargo containers are GW-91 by Gasboy and their automatic modification made by me, and GW's dimensions are not too different from your TinCans (9x9x25 for GW-91 and 9x9x19 for TinCan)

Also is there any chance TinCans will be uploaded to Community Content?