Well, obviously the Library isn't working, but you could try http://www.i-mod-productions.com, they are still up (although rather quiet as of late...)

@ragaril: Your Rebel & Space Marine ships are picture perfect! I absolutely love your designs. A guru of starship engineering.

This was the very last ship I designed before I created my own version of Kryo's Hull Mod. Kind of ugly, but that was sort of the point - my personal Krynn design ethic is not very streamlined or attractive to humans, but hey, aliens think differently.

The Wrath of God class battlecruiser

thanks for your kind words. glad you like them. it feels like back in the old days when i used to build space ships with lego bricks 

here are some of my star trek ripoffs

talarian style

federation style

tamarian style

WOW!

I really like the Redeemer Class ship. Very nice one! 

Mandrall

Ah. Here we go.

Guess who....

Took a break from my new project writing seditious fan fiction to knock together a new ship. This one verges on being playable.

For the mid-20th-century visionary who had given it its name, the "Roddenberry"-class colonial transport could only have been called a wagon train to the stars: this massive vessel is home to up to 500,000 men, women and children seeking a better life offworld, on any of the newly-established Human colony worlds. Crewed by 1,500 civilian Space Services personnel accompanied by a small contingent of Navy and Trooper Corps soldiers, the Roddenberry-class is built for extreme range, endurance, and the carrying capacity to hold all the building blocks of a functioning frontier outpost.
The power to move such an enormous mass does not come easily. The aft section of the vessel is comprised of four massive plasma propulsion blocks, each fed by a dedicated toroidal fusion reactor. These reactors are capable of dumping almost their entire energy output into the main FTL core to bend space around the Roddenberry's titanic bulk. Most of these ships are encountered while fully laden with passengers, cargo, and raw materials: they possess an incredible range, but are far from the fastest vessels in the cosmos. One interesting side effect of this level of thrust is that unladen Robbenberry ships on return trips are among the speediest vehicles of their size in realspace and at FTL speeds, although they remain notoriously difficult to maneuver.
The two massive colony rings surrounding the vessel's central cargo bay bring to mind the rotational gravity rings of earlier space vessels. However, these rings are entirely stationary, designed merely as an efficient means of packing the maximum amount of equipment into a stable, acceleration-resistant arrangement. Each vessel comes equipped with four heavy cargo pods containing building materials, while three massive civilian service centers house medical facilities, classrooms, residential facilities, and commercial centers to cater to colonists en route to their new destination. Six sustainable supply pods provide food and oxygen through intensive hydroponic growth, and three high-density stasis pods house some colonists more efficiently, without requiring excess oxygen, food, or living space. Lastly, the ship is equipped with six large biosphere-duplication domes: these provide a relief from the monotony of shipboard life on sometimes year-long journeys, as well as slowly altering gravitational, temperature, and atmospheric conditions to better acclimate colonists to their new home.
The fore section of the Roddenberry is reserved for crew facilities, which are kept largely separate from the colony rings. Although civilians are common in the crew sectors in the form of scientists, VIPs, and government bureaucrats, the "general public" is largely restricted to the outer areas. The vessel's command facilities are divided into three parts: a forebridge which directs navigation and some aspects of the engine system, a systems bridge that manages most shipboard operations, and a colonization command center that directs the initial settlement project until a local governorship can be established. The ventral surface of the fore section is home to a number of high-definition sensor and communications transceiver dishes to select an ideal location and coordinate ground operations through the colonization command center.
The purpose of the vessel is not exploration- Roddenberry transports are only deployed once official survey ships have declared a prospective colony world free of any unpleasant surprises and economically viable. Since the ship's titanic bulk precludes it from ever entering a planetary atmosphere, it must rely on a small army of landing shuttles stored in six aft launch bays to ferry people and light equipment to the surface. Heavier supplies are retained in the transport's detachable cargo pods, which upon landing and unloading double as basic accommodations while more suitable structures are assembled. In an emergency, all of the vessel's civilian-habitable pods can detach from the colony ring and await rescue. Designed for peaceful expansion, Roddenberry-class vessels are completely unarmed, and boast only light armor surrounding the rings and umbilicals. Officially, Earth counts on the red warning lights surrounding civilian areas and the acceptance of the Y Yarvoq Accords by some of the more civilized races for protection. In actual fact, of course, no politician would dream of sending so many innocent men, women, children, and potential voters into space unprotected- Roddenberry-class transports are never seen in transit without a heavy military escort.

OMsG.. This is just insanely beautiful ;-]

WOW

pretty kools stuff..but far too many wings on spacecraft...those things would be shredder by micro meteor impacts and the like. In space you dont need wings or symmetry since there isnt any air flow or drag unless you are traveling for super long periods. 

But yes. Winged starfighters (by definition short-range ships) seem rather awkward.

Although I do prefer to use winged fighters just for visual aid to say that "this ship is a fighter" and so forth.

Much like the X-wings in Star Wars.

In terms of actual thrust, a certain degree of symmetry is necessary, actually.  Think of your ship as a lever, and its center of mass as the fulcrum.  No, there's no drag per se to affect the ship's handling, but there is inertia.

Positioning an engine off-center or a maneuvering thruster off-axis without an appropriate compensating engine or thruster opposite it would result in a nearly uncontrollable craft, or at the very least a very energy inefficient one.  For instance, most of the ships in EVE should not be able to fly in a stable fashion at all (to say nothing of the fact that all but a handful are beyond ugly).

That said, the wings are likely to be more of a liability than anything, but they can have their uses.  Remember the Star Furies from Babylon 5?  They'd need some tweaking but it's really a very sound concept.  Going back to the lever concept, the farther outward the thrusters are from the ship's center of mass, the less effort it will take them to "nudge" the ship into a particular orientation.  Conversely, the longer or bigger the wings, the more of a liability they become.

Also, to clarify for anyone who might become confused by previous posts...traveling through "normal" space at high sub-luminal velocities could result in wing-like structures tearing away from the ship under their own inertia as the vessel's mass increases exponentially toward infinity with acceleration.  They wouldn't experience drag, but without proper reinforcement, the structures wouldn't be able to bear the forces of acceleration due to their increased apparent mass.

Attempting to achieve super-luminal velocities or even exploiting an FTL "loophole" such as hyperspace or the like, would likewise have dire consequences for ships with improperly supported outboard structures.  Likewise, asymmetrical vessels without proper compensation and reinforcement would suffer the same issue.

For a good website with information about theoretical and scientifically plausible spacecraft design concepts visit:

http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/

Yet another Krynn ship: the Alora-class attack carrier. Here, I wanted a big, well-armed ship that was intended to draw enemy fire with its fleet modules. While not designed to be particularly realistic (as far as the conversation above goes), I did intend the big blue spiky things to be heat radiators.

Basic view

Top view

Side view

Close-up of the command center

Rear view

Another close-up

While it may not be obvious from the pictures, the large ring in front is rotating.

Gladius, Cruiser. Posted prior then modified.

Harbinger, Planetary Assault ship.

WOW.

Nice interleaving on the engines!

Makes me think of the Spirit dropships from Halo... same forked design.

Magna, Corvette.

Rogue, large hull, WIP

hello to everyone

i just discovered galciv (i know, pretty late), and i'm loving the ship design thing.

i've been looking at posted designs and some of them are impresive, and doing this i've noticed that some ships (carriers for example) have like a "flat" runway for small ships or something like that.

what's that bloody flat ship part????? i can't find it in the extras tab

if anyone can help me do it, please

thnxs

sorry for any mistake done, i'm from Uruguay and here we speak Spanish

Hmm it's possible that what you're looking at is a set of repeated parts which seem to fit together seamlessly.

@ Rafaj:

As MarvinKosh pointed out, any ship designs you've seen with a flat flight deck isn't just one part.

Nearly all of these designs and others are mostly composed of repeating overlaps of identical parts with other parts for positioning.

So my advice is to use the flat side of the long, straight plank about half a dozen times or however many you need it for.

MarvinKosh and Tharios:

thanks for your answer. I thought of that but I'm pretty lazy to try that and I wanted a quick way out haha.

thanks again and I will be posting some ships later.