Really wanted to say Gauntlet, as an old kitbasher and modeller from back in the days of the Starfleet Command.  You do damn good work.

Very fine shipsets with excellent thematic presentation and I love how all your ships are not only cohesive to themselves with just the right number of small details but they each remain an important part of the whole shipset.  That kind of cohesive design vision shows more skill and artistry than some folks may realize.

Frankly I am floored that this kind of high quality design can be done just using Gal Civ's in game ship builder.

You show real talent and I cannot wait to get my hands on these!

Hello

I am slowly learning the system when designing my own ships. Something came up while I was starting to put together a Turret. what do you do with the module for said turret. I have design a tri canon laser turret, what happens when I add the laser module to the ship? does it matter where the module is?  Like your race with the art deco designs, cant think of the name at the moment, their ships wouldn't have the modules sticking all over the place. i am just curious what your solution is.

BTW Love your ship designs

PS: does it matter what ship hull you use to design components? like starting with Tiny to build something for Large?

Thanks and keep up the good work

Yep! the reason why your offsets are different values on the heavy fighter wing components is because the top peace is only moved in the Y direction and the lower wings are  moved in the X as well as the Y.

So for instance the wings need to be at a radius of 3 units offset from the attach point of the parent piece. The top piece only needs to move in the Y direction 3 units, since the piece(s) attached axis will have the same axis as the attach points normal axis and that match's the direction you want to offset it.

The lower pieces need some X movement as well as Y, so to get to the radius of 3 units(h) at an angle of 45 deg (A) for example, then distance X and Y (a) = CosA x h = a.

 So: Cos45 x 3 = 2.12 (rounded)

 X and Y need to move 2.12(rounded off) units to get to a radial distance of 3 the same distance as the top piece has move only in Y. 

Well, sorry if I didn't explain that too well. I guess the thing to remember is that any piece attached, will inherit its axis from the normal of the attach point and not have its own local axis.

It would be a nice addition to the ship designer if we could toggle to local space of selected pieces for translation (offset), like it does for rotation and scale. Maybe since rotation and scale do go to local space, perhaps the offset is supposed to as well and it could be a bug.

Great work as always Gauntlet03

Hey! Just posting to say that I loved your mod in GalCiv2 and am super excited for this release!

Of course!

Once 1.1 is out, I'll be working hard on making the mod files work well and release.

UPDATE! Wooo

Zerhan Nexus!

Very impressed by everything you've done here and finishing off watching your videos! When I got this game I felt like a kid with a new toy box! Glad I wasn't the only one! Can't wait to see everything in action in game.

I'm working on some stuff myself and have been exploring all the xml files and wondered if anyone had any ideas on the "ShipBlueprintDefs.xml" - is this considered the 'average' for all ship types with regards to how many components ships of different types should have? For example, if i make a tiny ship with 10 torpedo tubes, will the game overwrite the probable ineffective yet hilarious glass cannon that I've created with a standard weapon component list? 

Thanks in advance!

Say hello to the Ronar Confederacy, AKA, the Narn ships from Babylon 5!

Come for the Spoo and stay for the Gquan!

The Ronar Confederacy

Lookin good! I can't wait to play with all these. The galaxy is about to be a much more interesting place to be.

haha

Not for a while. I've over-reached as it is with the number of shipsets now, and I've been copping out and not making enough designs per ship set as I should. (I have this other addiction called miniature war-gaming, and Dropzone Commander specifically)

So its time to go on back, and flesh out things some more, and maybe even PLAY the GAME???!!!