To all SSC Station occupants
Thank you for the donations over the past year (2024), it is much appreciated. I am still trying to figure out how to migrate the forums to another community software (probably phpbb) but in the meantime I have updated the forum software to the latest version. SSC has been around a while so their is some very long time members here still using the site, thanks for making SSC home and sorry I haven't been as vocal as I should be in the forums I will try to improve my posting frequency.
Thank you again to all of the members that do take the time to donate a little, it helps keep this station functioning on the outer reaches of space.
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I wanted to check, just how large the ships in the game side by side. So I made this little wallpaper sized simple chart, if anyone's interested. 🙂
Deep Space Miner was behaving strange with blender, so that's left out for now.
I've just lined up them in blender, reseted the size where needed, and then eyeballed these with the model viewers 1m grid to check if they are correct. It seems to be correct, but I'm not really sure about the Wave for example.
Press "p" in the modelviewer to get some measuring help. Its useful:
I think your diagram is accurate, but I think our sizes are probably all over the place. Wave is probably too big. Pumpkinseed feels like it should be much bigger. Natrix is one we've had the most discussion about in the past, and we're pretty sure its about the right size (it has a roughly human-sized door on the side).
If that chart is accurate, then the wave seems to be way understocked on cargo space... 😆
Yeah, but it's quite flat at the same time, so...
Wave is very beautiful, but is for pilots very, but very small... or zipped. :O
Somehow she always seemed to make more sense a bit scaled up as an ASP-equivalent...
No, neither did I. Love what you made out of my little Idea and bugy code, by the way!
There are some things in the works, but nothing too developed on that direction right now. I could make a box though. 😀
You are right. The Wave had already been shrinked to about 75%, that old chart is off. That's the smallest it can be resized to be able to accommodate a pilot, however uncomfortably.
There's an updated comparison chart on the wiki:
Something like that: (The larger is the original, smaller is the new size)
It won't be comfortable for sure. The Girl is around 170cm high with a bit funky proportions, but the guy from makehuman is 185cm. And they could even ride the ship like a motorcycle for an even smaller cabin.
The fun thing is that the capacities of the craft were spot on for the rescale.
Oh, I see. I don't think a fighter should have any of those. 😀 Some capsule hotel kind of one might fit if you rotate them so the bottom points toward the engines and the door to the side of the ship:
I don't think these weight 5 tonnes though.
That is exactly what i was thinking for crew cabins. I think passengers would demand something more luxurious though
Maybe there could be different tiers of cabins, so passengers could be picky. Lua equipment might be make it possible, when it arrives.
i've always think passenger cabins are just Box of sensory insulation , ( maybe some cryo system ?) that explain the weight (5tons) of the system ,
but its not take necessary a large place in the ship ...
I always thought that the Wave - has the size of the Soviet aircraft - TU-160, or even more. I want, what would it be - a large missile launcher.)
Since it's name has Fighter in it, I think a smaller size fits it better. Even if it's a heavy.
It seems too big for me if it's as long as a tu-160 (third one, 54m long):
(And this way, the door on the back is way oversized 🙂 Might be too big for a starter ship too ) It's an interesting idea though, but that would at least asks for a rethinking of it's landing gears in my opinion.
I''ve got some sketches for extending this line of ships. The idea is that the manufacturer produces these fighters in the spirit of harley choppers and such.
You can't judge the size by the length of the Tu-160 alone. It's shaped like a needle with wings. The Wave is a lifting body with most of the volume in the wings. The scale of the ship should be the size required by the ship's specifications. That's what everyone's trying to do. As for the cockpit, couldn't it be in the middle beneath the hatch-like ovoid in the texture? No physical window, just a view-screen.
Just a little render of all ships and two upcoming one lined up. 🙂 I was curious, how they all look among each other.
You can find the hi res here. (the original is 1920*1080)
Nerodia seems a bit too big vs dsminer and dsminer is right vs others, scale down nerodia by 1/5 mek it a just size, but that is only my opinion ...
I think it's scale is good, but we will see to that when the craft is ready for inclusion.