SilverbellsDev
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Mar 20, 2020 11:35 AM
SilverbellsDev
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charliem
I love it, I could do something like this in c++, maybe I should
cyno01
I think if the first things your procedural spaceship generator makes are a Y-wing and an X-wing, youre def on the right track.
SwedeOnAnIsland
What are you gonna do with it?
Ben0910
Ev nova. You should remake that
Odmanra
Now do starwars style capital ships!
SilverbellsDev
I intend to someday!
Odmanra
I can't wait with your program if will be kickass! These ships designs are epic!
evildrfrog
Just brilliant! I'd love to play around with it if you made it public! Ofc I understand if you don't want to.
chrismofer
soooooooooo can i export STLs or OBJs or other mesh or STEP that i can mesh so i can 3d print em??????
SilverbellsDev
Yeah it's .obj export-ready.
Sensino
AWESOME! :D
PrincessWillard
Gummi ships!
tmutrmn
AWESOME
dmil103
Polyphony Digital (Gran Turismo Devs) made a similar program for spaceships and cars. The results were very very interesting.
evbrew
Nice. want to write some boring business logic instead?
Thothshai
You should adapt this for 3D printer packing builds and then sell it especially if it’s as fast as you say.
EvilKrikkit
Holy shit. Well done.
ClaudeKenny
That ship with all the greeble looks familiar... well done! https://imgur.com/ZMJh5qD
vahnn
Cool, but uh... what up when them space turbines? lol
Quontex
You might wanna get in contact with the guys from space engine. This is exactly the kind of thing they do.
WangJohnsson
Where might one get this script? Looks line Blender?
Sensino
The script seams to run in the Unity engine, using whatever compatible models you provide, in this case Blender models.
ProxyPlayerHD
now throw this into an FTL like game where the enemy ships are randomized for every fight based on the species and systems they have
ProxyPlayerHD
this would be really fucking awesome... especially if the ships were shown in 3D and you could spin them around and stuff...
PictureArchiver
Technologically impressive, stylishly ‘meh’, also what does a space craft need with fan blades? To push out the air?
fuzzydadbod
Well hey there! I followed your stread on SA back in the day. Glad to see you're still working on this.
DidYouKnowThatCashewsComeFromAFruit
Makes me think of No Man's Sky
TimDungeon
What is a greeble?
dnebdal
IIRC it was what the called the ... surface stuff they added onto surfaces of ship models in e.g. star wars to make them look interesting.
TimDungeon
Cool thanks!
beaverdog
I will play any game this goes into
kellyfriedman
This is sick! Call up the folks at No Man's Sky, these would be great for that game!
FortressCraft
This is literally identical to the NMS procedural ship generation tech.
Sensino
What game? Name? Where can I buy/download it or follow the development?
PenisOfDeath
No Man's Sky does something like this with their ships. You could try that.
SilverbellsDev
I appreciate your kind words nevertheless.
Sensino
??
EvilEkips
https://store.steampowered.com/app/445220/Avorion/ might be a close match.
SilverbellsDev
Hey, I'm not making any game with this. Maybe I'll do something with it someday, if I don't I'll make the script public.
ImAfraidYoureAllPsychosSoIMadeThisAccount
Consider selling the idea to Avorion? Their ships could use some improvement..
Saelael
I really hope it does go public. Running a science fiction RPG, and coming up with cool ships on the fly is a bear. :) Would happily pay.
YummyDigital
If you decide to publish it for everyone let us know, we are thinking of making mobilegame and that would be cool to have in it :) great job
FortressCraft
If this was on the Unity store for $10, I'd grab it just to have a closer look.
JLaP01001
It looks like a ship you’d make in in Spore. Did you borrow some assets?
SilverbellsDev
Hey. Not really. There are about 300 parts and they're fairly simple, I modeled all of them manually.
JLaP01001
Ah. That’s why. Same basic principle. Simple shapes to make complex designs. Very smart. Good work.
ssjb234
I thought of Gummis from Kingdom Hearts. Also similar.
Sikiki1313
This is only for unity not for unreal?
SilverbellsDev
The code should be easy to port, but so far yes.
VesuvianPrime
That's fantastic OP, I am truly envious.
SilverbellsDev
Thank you!
wyrmbear
Bruh............ I got no words. Nice work. Adding this shit to my list. One minor critque....fans don't work all that well in space.
ilhares
What? Fans? Naw, man. Those are just rotating magnetic impellers, to gather interstellar hydrogen.
Rogahar
CLEARLY they're dark matter fans. Yeah. That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it.
photoshopbot01
Perhaps they could be to get you into orbit?
Odincdaj522004
Square: *laughs in Gummi ship*
SilverbellsDev
Oh, definitely. The fans were the first thing I could think of that would be fun and easy to animate, and I wanted to go for whimsical.
dieselfury
You can always replace the blade part of the fan with a spinning blue particle generator
RedBeardedGentleman
can i suggest instead of fans glowing orbs? i know nothing about programing but i would imagine it would be easier to animate.
mrdralixx
You could always fine tune your "wings" to be more streamlined and modify parts behind them to be fins. Then they work in space & atmosphere
vipe650r
Maybe an option to position them laterally in space, rotating to be functional in atmosphere?
UnluckyScarecrow
Even if fans worked in space, they'd work especially poorly if they're blowing things directly into a different piece of the same ship
JonPerson
Maybe they’re FTL drives that are spinning to generate a field of gravity and “spool up” space around the ship.
RPhoenix
Ey boss, dis git's speaking all crazy loikd. A'course fans iz gonna work in space, how else an ork suppozed ta waaaagh across it? Dum 'ummis
Astro13655764
And yet I still attempted to get to orbit with them in KSP.
Ruhig
Hey, could be a dual-role space/atmospheric craft, which has... uh... other reactionless propulsion that only works in spaaaace?
nezo
Could be for atmospheric flight
GhostGoop
Does depend on what you're flying through though.
wyrmbear
I honestly can't tell if you're being serious or not.
leechdemon
I mean, if the ship enters an atmosphere or goes under water, they'd be helpful. But then it's less of a spaceship. :)
GhostGoop
As long as its moving through space, and it is a vessel, it's a spaceship.
leechdemon
If it's underwater then it's not moving through space, lol. ;)
OliverClothesoff70
Imagine if you're flying through a particulate like a cosmic dust cloud. I wonder if the fans would "pull in" the particulate and eject (1)
Natural20orBust
You need to be in some sort of fluid (e.g. gas) that's dense enough for the fan blades to push against, creating low pressure that the (1/2)
Natural20orBust
Surrounding fluid pushes into. This allows the movement of fluid through the fan, generating force. Nothing in free space is close to (2/3)
uzerok
Even the densest nebulae are expected to have only 10^4 molecules / cm^3. Air near sea level for comparison is 2.7*10^19 molecules / cm^3.
ENCHANTMEN
while a fan clearly wouldn't work in that case, it would be worth noting that at a fast enough speed you would still be hitting a lot of
GhostGoop
I would assume that flying through a gas giant would utilise the fans at some point.
ENCHANTMEN
It'd need to slow down a lot, if it's on a course that intersects it and then exits it's gonna be moving hypersonic
ENCHANTMEN
it would be useful if it intends to fly around a lot at low speed on a planet with atmosphere, though.