Ship designs

[SomberFlight]

my ships always turn into a brick at the end. there is not much wrong with it they're like a turtle ship... but.. i would like to create something that looks nice.. any ideas how to build a.. ''sci-fi sick af'' looking kinda ship? and also .. bigger guns/turrets? i feel like the turrets are too small to be on size i build.

[SimpliG]

I recently started the game and faced a similar problem like you, but today I finished my first properly crafted ship! I installed first the systems that I needed and after that I covered it in titanium hull to look nice. all slopes except for the edge parts that are flat. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864450318
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864450306
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864450341
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864450328
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864450358

[Enablin]

super star destroyer [still in Work]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=863570860
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862858340

[SomberFlight]

i actually built a ship in one of the npc shipyards a more symmetrical one. converted her into a warship and she's pretty good. lol

[VogonPoet]

I did a version of the ship Koonschi made in his video showcasing the ship builder. Has a pretty nice streamlined look to it. Ship file is on the official forums HERE[www.avorion.net]

[Blaze Deval]

I find that roundness or sharp corners or multiple edges/layers tend to make things look real nice.
I'm a pretty ♥♥♥♥♥ builder, but I have enjoyed my little Scrapper Class ship that I made.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=863160135

Then I upgraded her to this.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=863358286

And my Ramming Class ship is just, well.. this.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=863433163

[KIADevil]

Originally posted by KIADevil:

Snoweh you know that you can share them right

what do you mean? Share the ship xml's or something else? Like a better way to share screenshots? [/quote]
yup staring the XML

[SpeedKiller.txt]

you have to put some effort and love into your design to make it look like something, keep trying it will happen.

[Ragnaman]

I find it difficult to resist the urge of practicality. In the end a box design is the most optimal. A straight-train-like box.

A single armor block will break off much harder than many smaller blocks.

If integrity fields would work as before, it would allow for some beautiful designs, making hull points actually matter on internals, not just an external tiny shell of armor.

[SomberFlight]

Originally posted by Ragnaman:

I find it difficult to resist the urge of practicality. In the end a box design is the most optimal. A straight-train-like box.

A single armor block will break off much harder than many smaller blocks.

If integrity fields would work as before, it would allow for some beautiful designs, making hull points actually matter on internals, not just an external tiny shell of armor.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=865719768 (Minus my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ building skills) this type of ships are both practical and.. they atleast don't look like train cars.

[Blaze Deval]

@Alexander Looks like something straight out of Wipeout.

[SomberFlight]

Originally posted by Blaze Deval:

@Alexander Looks like something straight out of Wipeout.

lmao

[Dex]

bumping to ask for assistance. I'm messing around with my first ship trying some different things and I can't figure out how to make flat pieces go flush with another angled piece.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=867270578

I want to put some pieces on my cockpit area that follow the angle from top to the bottom of the cockpit (if you can imagine where the glass might be) but I can't figure out how to do it. Any weird tricks I can use? Other angle pieces maybe? Or do I basically have to block out the entire shape first using single small scale pieces and then fill it in?

[Nozerone]

When I first started playing this game, I was making ships that wouldn't have even been let into a beauty pagent, let alone win it.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=851490241

That was the ship I had made, and used for probably the first 50-60 hours I played the game. I worked up my resources/money, and finally decided I need a new ship. So I spent a little time and I made this.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=853587354

Looks much better than the other, and I have been using that ship since.

Since building that ship though, I have spent a lot of time in the free-build mode. Making various ships, some of which I didn't like and deleted.

Like this
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=855145435

I had an idea of where I was originally going with it, but near the end felt as though it was all wrong. So I destroyed it.

After that I built a few other ships. Each ship I built a bit more intricate than the last.

This was the first ship I built for style
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=858235467

And this is a ship i built with the intent of building a massive ship
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=866017036

Size difference
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=867287797





Now i'm not posting these to be all "Look what I can do!". I have seen ships that were made that blow my builds away. Hell, I'm jealous when ever I see someone's ship with round engines. For the life of me I can't seem to create a round engine that doesn't look like a person with turrets drew up the design.

I'm posting this stuff as a means to say, you just have to play around in the ship builder. You can get inspiration from seeing other people's work, but sometimes the best inspiration comes while you're building. You also learn things while building that you wouldn't figure out just by looking at pictures. For example, those arches on the red/black/white ship. Doing those took up the majority of the build. Looking at that picture, you would never know the frustration those arches caused me, or what I had learned/figured out while making them.

One thing that helps me build though, is when I start a build I only have a rough idea of the shape. Again with the red/white/black one. I went in to that build wanting two things sticking out from the main body with some space inbetween (was literally my thought process). Those arches, and how the back part came to be wasn't really planned. I just started building, and that happened to be the result.

[Blaze Deval]

Originally posted by Dex:

bumping to ask for assistance. I'm messing around with my first ship trying some different things and I can't figure out how to make flat pieces go flush with another angled piece.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=867270578

I want to put some pieces on my cockpit area that follow the angle from top to the bottom of the cockpit (if you can imagine where the glass might be) but I can't figure out how to do it. Any weird tricks I can use? Other angle pieces maybe? Or do I basically have to block out the entire shape first using single small scale pieces and then fill it in?

Not exactly sure what you are asking,

[SpeedKiller.txt]

Originally posted by Dex:

bumping to ask for assistance. I'm messing around with my first ship trying some different things and I can't figure out how to make flat pieces go flush with another angled piece.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=867270578

I want to put some pieces on my cockpit area that follow the angle from top to the bottom of the cockpit (if you can imagine where the glass might be) but I can't figure out how to do it. Any weird tricks I can use? Other angle pieces maybe? Or do I basically have to block out the entire shape first using single small scale pieces and then fill it in?

left one is what i suggest, right thing is what you got

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=867451340