Delvar

Glad you like it :) I spent a long time on the front, all the different slopes made it very difficult. i went though about 10 complete rebuilds till i was happy with it. im currently resizing my one (making it twice as big!), but im playing though the game not creative so its taking a while :) making it out of titanium and just now updating after the latest patch to include gyros etc. doesn't handle as well as i like so still tweaking. might drop it on here anyway and let people play with it.

Been there since i started playing, im on stable not beta. :)

I thought you could change the material of a template by using the drop down in the top right corner of the block picker?.

im trying to take the poll but it just sits on what i assume is the loading page.

do you have a suggested template for the layout/images/links/xml etc? which of the shipyards is best? :)

Really pretty love the nacelles, can I get the XML? was thinking of building some StarTrek ships of my own, but so many of them are rounded making it quite hard to work with.

To make editing easier i was thinking for these, [*]Orthographic Camera!!! [*]The ability to load an image as the background/sides of the build space, with 1. would allow easy layout of ship designs. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/editors/3dview/display/background_images.html [*]split view showing 4 windows that can be set to different focal points or angles http://www.bspquakeeditor.com/images/bspfull2.gif [*]Ability to modify blocks that have been placed down, having to copy/delete paste just to slightly resize a block is annoying [*]Grouping of parts, so we could select some blocks, group then move them around, as if it were solid [*]Allow pulling blocks off and let them float, not connected to your ship, currently modifying the insides of a ship is very time consuming requiring deleting chinks of the hull to get at the inside, Reassembly Game has a nice 2D editor that shows these ideas (this is just the first video i found) [*]First person camera so we could 'Fly' around the ship with WASD instead of the turntable we have now. [*]Camera light, so we can see dark areas of the ship without having to exit edit mode then turn the ship to get better light [*]Edit mode doesn't modify the live ship until you 'Apply changes', I get fed up of being attacked part way through a build and have to quickly drop in engines or guns to deal with it, with the edit mode separated we could build whatever we like, get interrupted we still have a working ship, also those annoying times where you delete your cargo hold and drop all your stuff in a cloud of boxes! [*]Ability to 'Hide' selected blocks/Groups so we can get into the core of a build, maybe a filter selection to hide only hull blocks [*]Visible Grid lines, maybe just around the cursor [*]Auto grid, so as you zoom in the grid/block size shrinks to match meaning we could zoom in, make tiny changes, zoom back out and continue blocking out the ship without having to adjust things manually [*]bind the block size and grid snap, so snap is always 1/2 the block size

really good work, lots of inspiration there. really like the different styles, i usually end up with a lot of ships that look the same :)

lol, oh well, great minds and all that :) at least its fixed now.

Here is my rendition of Galactica from the original series, bit on the small side and iron (iv only had the game a week so still quite early though a play through) though it should be easy enough to scale up. http://www.avorion.net/forum/index.php/topic,2166.0.html

really nice, i was thinking of doing enterprise as my next ship.

SO i made this, Galactica from the original series, this is a Small early game Iron ship. The nacelles are mostly empty only have some integrity blocks in there, the blue is hologram blocks just for looks. Tried to keep as close to the model as I could but its not 100%. Stats: More Images: Galactica.zip

Im not sure this is exactly the right place for this but as it related to the creations + screenshots i figured it was ok. Iv noticed a lot of very large images that get cropped off by the width of the page, so i created a little CSS fix for it which limits the image max-width. i wrapped it in a grease monkey script and uploaded it to pastebin for others to use. http://pastebin.com/iJK4KWnf all it does is change the CSS from .bbc_img { border: 0; } to .bbc_img { border: 0; max-width: 100%; }