My current project is a double carrier with internal linkage. It\'s loosely based on the ARMD design. Each bay can hold a 400 block long ship (400x50x60ish). The current problem (7-13-2013) is that docking will be painful for such a large ship. There\'s a plexdoor at either end of the bay and the docking module is roughly 200 blocks in. Docking beams will hit the plexdoor first unless the docking ship has its ship core at the very front of the ship. You can\'t torque the ship inside the bay to point at the docking module. Camera linked docking would fix this. I originally wanted to fit a Zentradi ship inside.
Pictures (work in progress):
The front, mostly finished. The blue y is my own design. I stumbled into it as I was trying to make the front more interesting. This is also more of a SDF-1 front and less ARMD.
The front, as seen from above. The 00 will likely change to a 02. I didn\'t have the original Macross ship fonts on hand. The darker circles up front are plexdoors that lead into the skin and then into the main bays. Small ships will be able to dock in the skin.
Approach from the rear. You can see the internal linkage between bays. All exterior doors can be closed and smaller ships can still move about. Roughly at the center will be all access to the core. The \"mast\" is just the height of the flight tower that looks over both top landing decks. I will likely make the tower more SDF-1 and less ARMD.
The interior of the right \"blue\" bay. You can see the open linkage between bays. I\'m doing color coding in each bay with other color lines leading towards certain features. It\'s easy to get lost since the draw distance won\'t let you see from one end to the other. The side striping shows inside and outside walls. The curved joints of walls currently has striping as well to show relative top (two stripes in the bay color) and bottom (three stripes) which is better seen in the approach pic. The linkage is now red instead of blue and has a red line with arrows pointing in its direction along the inside wall.
The skin of the whole ship is one block thick of hull with 5 blocks of space between the outer and inner skin. The space between both arms is 7 blocks. Linked to the internal linkage is a cavity specifically designed for the Captain\'s private yacht, a stealth ship of my own design. I may do some internal passageways, but I am really bad at interior space design. Huge work in progress here and I\'m a bit burnt out right now. Any stats in pics so far are from before the shield changes. There is still an enormous amount of space in the skin for weapons/shields/power. I will likely add battleship gun style turrets on the sides. All exterior docks will be turrets, so huge faction ships will be able to dock and be used as turrets. The whole thing is designed to be a mothership for a faction. I am very tempted to add IR seeking missiles, roughly 1600 of them that will fire from different faces of the exterior. That would fill up the skin a bit more. It is very plain and flat outside, but this will change.
Dropbox stuffs for other images as progress is made.
