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Quote from: Mech#4 on July 10, 2013, 12:35:37 pm

Quote from: Squill on July 10, 2013, 11:55:06 am

Well, I just made a decent sized ring shaped ship. I'd upload pics, but I can't figure out where screenshots save. Anyway, I may upload it to the catalog and try out the server (I haven't tried multiplayer yet, because this is the first decent ship I've made.)

From my own explorations, the game keeps a number of files within "C:\Windows\System32\Starmade" For whatever reason that is. I believe screenshots are amongst those.

I found mine in the game's install directory. Maybe that directory in s32 is for the backup it claims to make while updating?

No, the backups are zip archives in the Starmade folder (where the screenshots can also be found as .png). You can also use the printscreen key, or shift+printscreen and paste it into paint, then save it wherever you want as a .jpg.

Something I'd like to share with all the large ship enthusiasts : you can use Cheat Engine to increase the advanced building box size. It could save your fingers and sanity. I just wish I had thought about it sooner now, as I lost many hours in trial & error on my damn engines that are 150 block long and triangular in shape (not to mention that I rebuilt them from scratch at least once, they use hull wedges, and I can only use symmetry in 1 direction...).

After hours upon hours of work, here is the new improved version of the ship i'm working on :

Link

The only issue so far is that it requires colossal amounts of energy for propulsion, and with the cap on energy production, it's impossible to keep up. Energy storage still makes it possible to use thrusters, but only in bursts. It has very good acceleration for it's mass, though, so maybe I should remove some of the thrusters and pack some other things in the nacelles. At first the rear part was supposed to be the main thruster exhaust, but seeing how it has already more than enough propulsion, I changed it to serve as hangar bays. It actually looks pretty nice this way, I think.

Still, the amount of time required to build this is incredible, even something as trivial as making the black nozzle things for the nacelles took several hours, especially given how the symmetry isn't even in both axes so it was "only" building left and right together (that's a direct result of the changes I made to correct the oversized-head effect).

I still have a lot of work to do, but I find this part the most interesting, since now I have all this room to play with and decorate. The interior is still very rough but I'm starting to create rooms and basic subdivisions inside the ship.

Edit : nice ship, Julius ! I love the "Aquila". I think i'll do something similar on my ship, but blue and using some kind of viking runes to write "MJOLNIR".

Quote from: Shadowlord on July 05, 2013, 03:54:28 pm

Making a ship with dimensions larger than 200m tends to cause problems. Especially if you pass 300. Double especially if someone else's ship gets near to ramming you. Triple especially if they're also flying a large ship.

Why so? Cant turn and you die? If you make a biiiiig ship, it usually has enough shields to not give a fuck about any damage from small/medium ships, and large ships are almost equally immobile as the biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig ship, so the one with better stats wins. Also if you make BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG ship you will have LOOOOOOOOOOOOOTSAAAA turrets. Or biiiiiiiiiiiiiig turrets.

No, he means that it will cause lag and assorted server issues.

Hmm I might add side weapons to balance the design, then...

I'm not 100% happy with how I made the "hammerhead", but I guess it'll be enough for now, or I would have to do a lot more geometry and drawing, and i'm already doing too much of that.

My next project might be to make a 1:1 replica of the Asgard Bilskirnir from StarGate SG1. It's 1400m long by 640m wide (my current design is "only" 450m long by 376 wide).

That, or I might try to build more of the ships that I draw in high school -the "mjolnir heavy cruiser" is one of those. Well now that I think about it, since I had played Starcraft 1, the terran battlecruiser might have inspired me...

(Which by this game standards is a titan/calibri)

Where do you get those standards from ? I couldn't find a reference of "Calibri" class.

Maybe it could be a bit further, like 15-25 or 20-30

I hope that I'm not going to lose my work in progress, the server went down as I was working on it and it doesn't seem to work when I save the design (last time I tried to buy it, it just went "nope, but thanks for the money").

An interesting concept, even echoing with some of my own game ideas, I will probably buy it if it's good enough, but I don't pledge money on kickstarter.