Uh, hi! This is my ship... ((very much a)work in progress)

wolfy · Post by **wolfy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:37 am

This is just it's frame- i've yet to add in the interior segments and the weapons...

It's pictured here in a sandbox 20480x20480 (yes, not a 2048x2048, this map is 100x bigger than default)

2x longer than the ship builder's build area (so far, i figured out how to virtually indefinitly extend the ship till you run out of RAM), it's also currently ~1.4x as wide.

I've got my work cut out for me to finish this one...

Kinda experimenting around with color gradients, which is why there are shades of grey, red and green there

derekiv · Post by **derekiv** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:38 am

This is well, unique.
I like it!

osilus · Post by **osilus** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:40 am

Looks cool, course its goina be hard to properly fill that entire thing out properly.

EDIT: rawr used properly twice...musta forgotten what I was typin mid sentence...

wolfy · Post by **wolfy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:44 am

osilus wrote:Looks cool, course its prolly goina be hard to properly fill that entire thing out properly.

no doubt- it took several hours to simply pick a design! then several more to make the frame, and half an hour to begin filling in the core section. If i'm lucky i might finish in a month

Fuiste · Post by **Fuiste** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 6:48 am

Jesus, man! That's a hell of a big ship! can't wait to see it finished, though that may take quite some time.

Commodore111 · Post by **Commodore111** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:01 am

WHAT?!? Someone accually made a ship BIGGER than my huge ship! WOW!!!

Nice ship, but... it might take a while to finish

TormakSaber · Post by **TormakSaber** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:02 am

I have concerns as to if the parenting will work properly once the interior is filled in.

wolfy · Post by **wolfy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:07 am

Commodore111 wrote:WHAT?!? Someone accually made a ship BIGGER than my huge ship! WOW!!!

Nice ship, but... it might take a while to finish

well, that answered my question in your thread

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I'm not too worried about parenting- I'm redoing it as I go along since SB3 allows the parenting to be easily changed. This is merely the frame. The frame peices will connect to the pieces directly inwards of them which connect down like that till it reaches the heavily armoured skeleton which is where all the stuff will be connected to. The skelton in turn will lead to the spine which is even more heavily armoured and runs horizantily along with the core dead center.

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:32 am

I just want to say that it's cool, but it sort of looks to me like it's made almost entirely of railguns. Anyway, good luck with the parenting, it ooks like it's going to be really annoying to do.

wolfy · Post by **wolfy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:16 am

Bad Boy wrote:I just want to say that it's cool, but it sort of looks to me like it's made almost entirely of railguns. Anyway, good luck with the parenting, it ooks like it's going to be really annoying to do.

railguns!?!?

There arn't even any weapons on there! just a few aegis deflecters in the very center. must be the poor resolution...

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:20 am

It just looks like that to me, also the idea of a ship made of weapons is mine, I've patented and copyrighted it so there.

If anyone wants to steal it, they can go right ahead, I won't mind.

wolfy · Post by **wolfy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:24 am

hmm, yeah, zoomed so far out it does look a little like it was made of railguns...

but no, the outer shell is mostly module #25 slightly increased in size (about 1.2-1.4x in size)

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:27 am

I see, well it looks cool, and it's pretty damn big, keep up the good work.

wolfy · Post by **wolfy** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 12:45 pm

lol- read the fav. defence thread! It's death throws in it's current skeletal form killed an attacking ship!

AllStarZ · Post by **AllStarZ** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:07 pm

From what I can see, it will fall apart if you punch it in the nose.