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Below is a screenshot of a ship I created. Pretty neato stuff If I can float my own boat. Trouble is it wasn't... easy. Certain peices have to be used here and there, other odd pieces there and here.
The legs were the killer. They're not right and I can't make them right because of the pieces just don't work the way I want them to. I would have liked for the legs to be angled away from the bow and stern, like you would see on a real spider. At the moment they run parallel to the ship hull as you can see.
This is because when you stick one piece to another, it takes on the orientation, or something, of the first piece. This is handy sometimes, but can also result in some very whacked out (and potentially cool) designs.
SO!
(Er, before the fanboys flame my constructive critisism, kudos for creating an editor allowing ship designers to get even this far though!)
However if there is time before finalisation, I'd like to suggest some additional features for the ship designer. Firstly the red dots... They get mighty crowded sometimes. Can something be done about that? Perhaps a size reduction. Secondly some red dots are misaligned when compared to the opposite side of the ship (I've mentioned this before). Thridly I think the designer would allow some real way out and cool designs if components could not only be resized, but also re-oriented.
The legs were the killer. They're not right and I can't make them right because of the pieces just don't work the way I want them to. I would have liked for the legs to be angled away from the bow and stern, like you would see on a real spider. At the moment they run parallel to the ship hull as you can see.
This is because when you stick one piece to another, it takes on the orientation, or something, of the first piece. This is handy sometimes, but can also result in some very whacked out (and potentially cool) designs.
SO!
(Er, before the fanboys flame my constructive critisism, kudos for creating an editor allowing ship designers to get even this far though!)
However if there is time before finalisation, I'd like to suggest some additional features for the ship designer. Firstly the red dots... They get mighty crowded sometimes. Can something be done about that? Perhaps a size reduction. Secondly some red dots are misaligned when compared to the opposite side of the ship (I've mentioned this before). Thridly I think the designer would allow some real way out and cool designs if components could not only be resized, but also re-oriented.
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