hey
i started working with Sketchup about six month ago, and now i want to show my first real Ship^^
(sorry for mistakes in English, im from Germany:))
ItA’s supposed to be a big Carrier(about 2100 m long)
with a mixed weaponry(railguns, torpedos usw...)
PS. please comment and post ideas if you have some
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Where do the planes take-off and land?
but they are not final. Acctually i donAât know any other place on the ship where the fighters and shuttleAâs could start
1) What setting is this? Star Wars? Startrek? your own?
2) The location of your hanger doors are problematic. The fighters would have to fly between the big to arms and also have to watchout for fighters entering/exiting the arm behind them. Move the doors to the outside edge of the arms instead of the inside edge.
Hehe, Two wrongs don't make a right. Why would you arrange hangers so fighters are flying at each other leaving them? Not very efficient. It means you have to slow down operations of the opposing hangers in order to coordinate safe operations.
If you place your hangers so they are facing away from each other they can operate at full capacity without worry of what is happening in the other hanger.
sojourner is right though, the hangar arrangement isn't too good. The fighters wouldn't be able to use full acceleration right away. They'd have to come out, fire engines in the opposite direction to stop, and then accelerate again. But this way they are a bit more protected as they come out I guess. It also depends if inertia is of any importance in this universe
ok at the moment it is my own Universe but it uses a FTL engine that looks like the engine from the Destiny from SGU and maybe i will use some weapondesigns from another Scifi Universe but everything else is completely out of my head:D
Ok, i think i will move the Hangars on the outer Arms, they lose some protection but the fighters and shuttles can start at full thrust.
Regarding to the shape:
This is my first ship i am creating with some Ruby-scripts. For Example to Bevel edges. And its intended to lock that flat
(damm i im pretty good at english in school but when iAâm writing here i fail, sorry for that:()
(P.S.) its damn not damm 'kay?
I stoped working on it long ago, it was kind of boring and I didnAât liked what i "made".
At the Moment I am doing some other Stuff, maybe is start another Thread where I post all my Work(WIP).
regarding to the problem with the hangarbays:
-in my mind, the fighters would be like the ViperAâs from Battlestar Galactica (RDM) but i never thought about the way they would start.
If they would start from the hangarAâs they could turn around right after leaving them