My first orbital defense platform.  It is a medium sized one.  They have no engine or life support. 

Thanks. I struggle with tiny ships though, In Gal Civ 2 I made some pretty neat Macross rip-off fighters, but I just haven't been able to make a nice looking one in GC3.

Rand Johnson tis different and way awesome, that would be a wicked mini.  What's cool is we both went with new concepts today.

Thank you Ed, Sometime a trip off the beaten path is good for the soul. Thanks Thecw for the inspiration with your design.

mmeh, I feel like I could make better fighters with some smoother and simpler shapes, but most small components are quite intricate.

It'd be awesome if you could animate ships with keyframes, and determin when and why they play, like for firing you could have a recoiling cannon barrel, for turning you could have thrusters that fire, engines that tilt and move. Because then I really could make macross rip-off verifighters

Rand,

Thanks, i have downloaded them, but the design does not show up in the available ship designs (in the game). Does the design contain custom parts? If so, those are then also needed for the design to show up in the game.

So if i might intrude on your kindness again for (if) any missing parts or advise, i would be grateful.

Files are uploaded now. Make sure to get all the parts. There are several warp engine designs I made.

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/xumv14ljk6051/GC3_Custome_Star_Trek_Warp_Engine_parts.

Still no joy. [e digicons]:'([/e]

I can see the parts in the designer, but not the ship. 

I even went as far as to completely disassemble the files. The ship files only reference to the "WarpNacelle_0010_D3CCE64ECEC94AA9ABFEB5C5D41EEF67" component, which i now have. I know that when receiving ship design files (and placing them in the Designs directory) the game does not care for the stored path inside the design files, but maybe that is only the case for designs completely made up out of standard parts.

Rand (or anyone), do you know why this is happening? Or has anyone experience with importing a ship design with custom parts and got it working in the game?

I am baffled.

Rand Johnson I'll try renaming and see if your fighters show up.  I'll just add the FF- prefix.

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy

The renaming did not work, but the striped version does.

My 2 cents why there might be problems with the transfer of ship designs with custom parts:

1. It seems that internally (in the design and component files) absolute paths are used, instead of just the file names.
2. Whether this is a bug or by design i do not know, but in everything the game saves (game saves, ship designs, component designs) the "External attributes" property of the "Central Directory" key in both block 2 and block 3 is not initialized and default to (4 byte integer with the value of) -1. This results in that the internal data is seen as a volume image instead of a file; even while in block 0 and block 1 those blocks are stored with a "Local File Header" type .

These observations might have nothing to do with the actual problem, but they are there nevertheless.

Bug/flaw reported on steam.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/226860/discussions/2/624076027736796923/

Until Stardock fixes this flaw do not share ship files of fully equipped custom ship designs if your having a problem with ships not showing up in shipyards and ship designer.

OOPS POST!

This is why I asked! Omnibus Battleship had no Arms no Shields NO Added Engines or Life support. it was just a Hull. The game Kind of saw it but could not build

it. there was no thumbnail. He just change something minor. re name it and it show up and works now. I think if you try to use the same name the game think

there are no changes and does not save it right. but it still show up OK on the Builders PC. What Rands is saying is that one or more of the working Parts may not

be saving right when you add all those Parts. which I think is another Problem because the game does not show the ships at all.By changing a part remove or add 

and renaming the ship the game goes threw the ship and add the parts to the file under new name and then should work.This is why I ask Rand to do this to the

two fighters to see if this works.  All of EDs ships work for me  3 of the 8 fighters that Rand sent me work. and now all of Omnibus ships work after he did that

minor change and rename. This may only be a work around I don`t know.