Here's a scout ship:


The program uses One Solid Block of UV texture information, with no fragmentation. This allows intuitive, fast-and-easy texture mapping...

(on Stargate Atlantis: when they first met the Genii, Colm Meaney's character complained that clearing land was slow and difficult, and Shepard responded by saying "what if clearing land was fast and easy")...

will you include a detailed tutorial on how to use this when you are finished?

seems good, keep it up.

Yeah, then someone besides Helioforge can write the detailed tutorial. If Helioforge is writing tutorials, he can't be working on this nifty little tool.

Cool, working my way down the list...

If you click on a button, the effect is either applied or lifted, and I hope to rewrite the interface to make all the active buttons glow green or something so that you know which buttons are active. Also, there are modifiers that can be applied to each button, making each one more powerful, and I'll highlight this part too...

Since each effect is applied right away, it will be visually intuitive (in addition to any words written in an explanation or tutorial)

Of course, there are two buttons labeled Sphere and Cube, along with lots of other things like cones, cylinders etc... If they are highlighted, they are applied ...And if you are making the BORG, I'll make sure the scaling feature will handle all the right sized ships Hurray for the BORG!!! I want it to have faint red lines that show it's scale relative to things like the KOL battleship (and it would be cool if those faint red lines were in the shape of a KOL

I'm only importing to SINS in the program, since my computer completely resets any time I try to run things like XSI (my system is outdated, etc...) Also, in patching my meshes to remove previous texture artifacts, I did some things to the point/triangle data that may ruin them for other Mesh programs... ...and I can't check to make sure...

If you know how to get UV data to leap from the far right hand side to the far left hand side without encompassing all the texture data in between (on the last set of points in the row), then I'll be able to use meshes that import more cleanly into those 3D programs...

Otherwise, I fixed it in a way that SINS likes, but other programs will hate (sorry in advance)...

I'm so glad you want this, if Ironclad were to write this, they would put in their good 3D interface and it would run super-fast because there's only one mesh running, and it would look super-good!!!

It wouldn't take too much to make a gravity-well sized object, and if it had an inside too, maybe it could be a Dyson Sphere! (I know you want those, Danman! ...and if I'm really lucky, it could have ports where you are "supposed to" enter and exit!!!

question. can i generate a ship with this? like weapons and all?

aww, a dyson sphere would be soo cool!

No, no they don't.

What, I was just pointing out that my mesh belong to me. Thak Ya Vera Mush!

Now then, some one set us up the bomb.

Does it introduce any lag?

A lot more can be done if I work outside the structure of the program, and use the programming language itself as the mesh generating tool

Here's part of the interior:

In attempting to do a Borg Sphere, I accidentally sized the infrastructure to be larger than the sphere, instead of the other way around... As it stands, it looks more like a Berzerker from Fred Saberhagen's series of books

(I wonder if small frigates will get stuck in all those tiny little spaces?)