My first attempt at a balanced ship

dragonsbane · Post by **dragonsbane** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:29 am

http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... s/Star.shp

Not sure the best way to get a screen shot on here, but this is my first attempt besides a stable of god ships.

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TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:49 am

http://www.wyrdysm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=679This should help.

Zancloufer · Post by **Zancloufer** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:02 am

Don't like the stretched sections, and the Parenting looks off.

dragonsbane · Post by **dragonsbane** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:10 am

Parenting?

These are not so balanced

DarkenShroud · Post by **DarkenShroud** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 9:10 am

Parenting is where you ensure sections are connected to there proper hosts. And also ensure your modules and weapons are connected to the right section they rest on.

Parenting?

Kingoomieiii · Post by **Kingoomieiii** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:42 am

To work with parenting, select a section, and then place a new section. The new section will be a Child of the section you had selected.

When a piece is destroyed, all of it's children, and it's children's children, etc, are destroyed also.

Children don't necessarily HAVE to be placed on their parents, but doing so allows a ship to be destroyed as one might expect; i.e. taking out a wing's support structure destroys the wing as well.

Don't worry, my first ships were a parenting NIGHTMARE.

In shipmaker 2.x, there's no way to change an object's parent after it's been placed- you have to delete it and make it again. When 3.0 is finalized, I'd suggest switching to it, as it allows parent switching.

Also, in the shipmaker, pressing P toggles the parenting lines (not the structure,just the dislplay), which can be handy for screenshots.