Big Ship Block Limits

[Huntn]

I've seen some older threads on this. I've been working on a big ship (approx 2km long) and finally ran into the Can't Place Block Ship Would Exceed Regulation message. :( I know how to fix it, under settings remove the check from the "block limit" box, but I'm coming to the realization that I'm probably building a huge static display.

Is there a way to get a reading on the number of blocks in your ship?
Anyone know what the default max limit is for a ship?

Has anyone built a ship so large and removed the block limits, that they were faced with gridlock game performance? I've got a fairly new computer with 48GB ram. I might consider continuing it if I can equip it out, put some movable hanger doors in and such, just so I can show it off. :)
Thanks!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=797209027

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

Snap a blueprint and then hit F10, select it and hit details. There is the block count for that grid.

Personally i never built anything this big. 15,000 blocks was my largest and even two of those doing battle creased performance lol. These days i try to build FPS friendly stuff to use myself and battling my buddy. But i say go for it....push the limits! :D

[Huntn]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

Snap a blueprint and then hit F10, select it and hit details. There is the block count for that grid.

Personally i never built anything this big. 15,000 blocks was my largest and even two of those doing battle creased performance lol. These days i try to build FPS friendly stuff to use myself and battling my buddy. But i say go for it....push the limits! :D

Thanks! I knew from the start it would be too big to really be flyable. And the reason it's so big was to overcome to some degree the minecraft blocky nature of the building tools.

I'll have to research how to do the blueprint, unless there is an easy way to describe it here :), and will report back when I find out the current block size.

[Karmaterrorᵁᴷ]

To take a blueprint you look at any ship and press Ctrl+B. Use this often as if your wold becomes corrupt you can drop the ship into a new world. You acces your list of blueprints with F10.

I blueprint my stuff every 10 mins incase something goes wrong haha. Its also how you upload your ship to the workshop for people to see and how you build it from a projector in survival.

I notced you have a planet in the background aswell. If you blueprint your ship, load up an empty world and paste it in you will probbably have a huge performance increase as planets eat a lot of FPS :)

[Le Mad Rooster]

my largest ship is the HMS Leviathan

600k blocks last i checked and its not finished but the fps is 10-15 and when i try to move it it slams down to 5fps and the sim speed hits a brick wall

so im just resigned to the fact its a show piece
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=414939162

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=414939313

thats it next to the red stock ship for scale

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=256558884

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=256558907

also you can check the block number by just jumping in a cockpit and looking at the info tab, has it listed right there

[Huntn]

Originally posted by Karmaterrorᵁᴷ:

To take a blueprint you look at any ship and press Ctrl+B. Use this often as if your wold becomes corrupt you can drop the ship into a new world. You acces your list of blueprints with F10.

I blueprint my stuff every 10 mins incase something goes wrong haha. Its also how you upload your ship to the workshop for people to see and how you build it from a projector in survival.

I notced you have a planet in the background aswell. If you blueprint your ship, load up an empty world and paste it in you will probbably have a huge performance increase as planets eat a lot of FPS :)

I'll try this today and report back. Do you know where blueprints are kept? The planet in the background is just a skybox. Thanks.

Update: 156,000 blocks and growing. :)

[Huntn]

Originally posted by Le Mad Rooster:

my largest ship is the HMS Leviathan

600k blocks last i checked and its not finished but the fps is 10-15 and when i try to move it it slams down to 5fps and the sim speed hits a brick wall

so im just resigned to the fact its a show piece
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=414939162

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=414939313

thats it next to the red stock ship for scale

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=256558884

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=256558907

also you can check the block number by just jumping in a cockpit and looking at the info tab, has it listed right there

Cool looking ship. I'll let you know how big mine is. I don't think SE is designed to handle something like this other than a static display.

[FunChaos]

Originally posted by Huntn:

I've seen some older threads on this. I've been working on a big ship (approx 2km long) and finally ran into the Can't Place Block Ship Would Exceed Regulation message. :( I know how to fix it, under settings remove the check from the "block limit" box, but I'm coming to the realization that I'm probably building a huge static display.

Is there a way to get a reading on the number of blocks in your ship?
Anyone know what the default max limit is for a ship?

Has anyone built a ship so large and removed the block limits, that they were faced with gridlock game performance? I've got a fairly new computer with 48GB ram. I might consider continuing it if I can equip it out, put some movable hanger doors in and such, just so I can show it off. :)
Thanks!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=797209027

I am currently trying to build the first Death Star to scale. While creating survey markers, I found a length limit of 8191 (8192?) large blocks. I hope this helps

[Le Mad Rooster]

since this popped up again i might aswell comment.
ive noticed massive increases in sim and fps on my large ships world since the optimisation patches really got going. i can even fly my ship around with high sim and fps. capital ships ftw

[Huntn]

Originally posted by Le Mad Rooster:

since this popped up again i might aswell comment.
ive noticed massive increases in sim and fps on my large ships world since the optimisation patches really got going. i can even fly my ship around with high sim and fps. capital ships ftw

Thanks for the info. I might get back into this game. :):)

[BaneBlackGuard]

used to be able to build massive stuff like this in Starmade but you can't anymore. Never really could build them in Space Engineers. that was the trade off, you get cool collisions and better graphics than Starmade but you were always limited to relatively small constructions. both Starmade and Space Engineers have dramatically reduced the size of ship you can successfully use. as they've handed cpu time to other things, the size of ships the game could handle has decreased.