Spaceship designs

[📈Business Woof📈]

so i'm struggling alot with buiding stuff.. it always ends up looking like a flying block if i build something, same goes with base's etc. Any ideas of how i can improve my bulding skills since i totally suck in it...it would make the game way more fun and other sandbox games too.

[📈Business Woof📈]

just anything i build looks crippled...and my motivation of the game is now gone because i suck at bulding everywhere.

[MozoTyce]

Don't get disheartened, just don't expect it to be perfect. Given there are only a few shapes of block you have to sacrifice the aesthetics a little. Imagine you are using Lego bricks.

Step by step:
place an SV starter block on the floor
add 7 (or whatever) blocks in front and behind and 2 (or whatever) blocks left and right to form a long rectangle
add 1 thruster to front/rear/left/right facing in each direction (doesn't matter where we'll remove them in a minute)
add 1 thruster pointing up and another pointing down (doesn't matter where we'll remove them in a minute)
stick an open cockpit on somewhere near the middle
place a generator and a fuel tank on behind the cockpit seat
add 1 fuel pack
sit in seat and switch on
lift the whole platform by about 5 blocks in height
leave it hovering and jump out of the seat
point at the sv with the mouse-cursor and press P
switch off the power using the main menu switch (in the P menu)
your platform is now hovering above the ground
remove the generator/fuel-tank/cockpit/thrusters

At this point i switch to drone as it's easier to 'fly' around than walk.

Looking from the top (with the drone) start to build the rough shape of the 'plan view'.
Once this is starting to look like you want it move to the side
Looking from the side start to build the side profile

As it progresses you should get an idea what type of cockpit you can use and where the thrusters can fit etc
Start with one of the prefab cockpit modules, you can progress to using glass/pilots-seats once you nail the basics.

A tip: blocks that were designed to 'fit together' are in the same orietation. For example on the top row there is a small pointy one, call that number 1 working to your left there is a number 2 then 3 then 4. If you align number one and lay 2,3 & 4 next to it you will form a four block point. This also occurrs with some of the other blocks so look for it in your building.

Good luck :)

[Shame on you]

Originally posted by Donut Games©:

i kinda want a long ship..but...i end up not forming the ship at all because i don't know how.. and the bridge looks crippled later

There is no "right" way.
Make some ugly ships (PVE) and learn the rules of shipbuilding
Then learn to build shapes that look not bad
Then build again ugly PVP Ships
and then start in the kings disziplin and try to make nice PVP ships

And never take the optic of good looking Workshop ships as measure.
They are nearly all full of flaws and mostly not usable in a game with hard difficult settings

[📈Business Woof📈]

i just deleted my ship it was over 3000 blocks it tooks an hour.. now i started a new one and did the flooring first...but now i have no clue how the sides rear front and sealing will be...i wish i knew how to give you the ship build i started so you can see..

[Shame on you]

You know how to make screenshots ?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1421642640

[📈Business Woof📈]

Yeah but I'm on my phone right now...

[Goddess Ilias]

we are the borg , we have flying cubes ;D

[Shame on you]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1430103724

[gigastephan]

Originally posted by Admiral-Pain:

If you finaly still struggeling with Design and end up with a Block Ship again, regardles of the very good Help here, then perhaps the Block Style is your Hidden way of natural Art, who knows. :D

So if you always end up with a Block Ship, no matter what you do, then make it a beautiful Block Ship like a Borg Cube or something.
Yes, even Block Ships can be a beautiful Design. :D

Or you have the "minecraft virus" .

[📈Business Woof📈]

okay here are 2 screenshots how the flooring.. but like i said i have no clue how to make the sides rear front and sealings..

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1430430148

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1430430111

[ɃƵ Crazy Cat Lady]

There is a program on here where you import 3d obj. files and it turns it into a cv ship for you........ then you just hollow it out and put your things. Don't know if that would help you?

Ok, if you don't want it to be a cube use the angle blocks when you right click, and angle it up in the front, or sides.

[📈Business Woof📈]

i don't know what you mean...sounds like lots of work ;-;

[ɃƵ Crazy Cat Lady]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/383120/discussions/8/343786195673053843/ Here it is, you import 3d ships and it turns it into a CV for you....... for some it may be harder, but if you do 3d modeling it is much easier to make huge ships this way.

Maybe you can draw a ship, and someone will make it for you, and put it in the workshop? XD

[📈Business Woof📈]

hmm..

[📈Business Woof📈]

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/956335559742809575/D8A43EB85E0FD92CB1A572AE4BF907CF531F75BB/
now how can i do the sides and rear..