About ship's moving parts

[Ymenoa]

Will we be able to have moving parts while flying ? For example, if I have fixed thrusters on a rotating part of the ship, will we be able to make this part move when controlling our ship instead of sending an order straight to the thruster ?

 

[kay1010100]

Yes, in some videos you can see moving doors

 

[Variabug]

Will we be able to have moving parts while flying ? For example, if I have fixed thrusters on a rotating part of the ship, will we be able to make this part move when controlling our ship instead of sending an order straight to the thruster ?

You will not be able to put thrusters onto turntables. I asked. Apparently it doesn't work. I was sad because I wanted to make a space V-22 Osprey.

 

[kay1010100]

You will not be able to put thrusters onto turntables. I asked. Apparently it doesn't work. I was sad because I wanted to make a space V-22 Osprey.

Well... this just crashed my plan

 

[Melon]

Well... this just crashed my plan

Just rotate the whole ship around the thrusters
Take that physics!

 

[Benno]

We have to worry about structural integrity though, too much stress on a hinge will probably make it break

 

[Melon]

We have to worry about structural integrity though, too much stress on a hinge will probably make it break

There's always the option of adding more hinges, but at what point does it take away from visual look? Especially with a VTOL like craft

 

[DirtyBoyFrey]

Well, about the point of thrusters on turntables. *Directly* adding thrusters to turntables is a no go. You'd need to have a small support structure that can be quickly bolted and unbolted automatically, such as by using the robot arm with a bolter attachment. The thruster would not be able to activate while it is being moved, because if it does odds are it will rip the entire turntable off.

Though, that's not exactly guaranteed. I'm not entirely sure if it would work, and odds are they'll probably make it more possible to do stuff like that in the future.

 

[Kenetor]

Devs have said the engines need to be bolted to the main framework of the ship, while disappointing as i wanted rotating thrusters too, I can see why they are doing it from a design aspect

 

[Morrgard]

moving parts, yes
Can you move all the parts? No, not thrusters and surely other things too.
Will you be able to eventually? Maybe?
You can do a bunch of things though, except ospreys, at least for a start

 

[Mci]

Rails on a turn table with the thrusters on the rails.

 

[DrunkRussianBear]

It'll be interesting to see how people use moving parts.

 

[Ymenoa]

You will not be able to put thrusters onto turntables. I asked. Apparently it doesn't work. I was sad because I wanted to make a space V-22 Osprey.

Sigh, I wanted to make something looking like Kruger's Raven ship from the movie Elysium, thanks for your answer

 

[Saltylelele]

It'll be interesting to see how people use moving parts.

I am just imagining some sort of ship with like retractable stuff and maybe rotating beams etc

 

[DrunkRussianBear]

I am just imagining some sort of ship with like retractable stuff and maybe rotating beams etc

I'm imagining some auto-dock systems, cranes etc.

 

[Morrgard]

If anything I would like to create a nice hangar system where you walk on catwalks and get in vessels left and right and have like a... hanging hangar so to speak, could do this with moving parts I imagine, drop em by the hangar doors

 

[Metal]

Yeah, the moving parts seem kind of weak for cool stuff.

 

[Commissar Awesome]

Would it be possible to have a platform on rails that can disconnect from a power cable and reconnect with another cable at a different location?

 

[Sendall]

Would it be possible to have a platform on rails that can disconnect from a power cable and reconnect with another cable at a different location?

I hope so. Especially as the modular crates require power. Else moving crates efficiently could end badly.

 

[Morrgard]

Would it be possible to have a platform on rails that can disconnect from a power cable and reconnect with another cable at a different location?

I'm not entirely sure how you mean, you should be able to connect the cables perfectly fine without having to disconnect them.

If you mean different grids though I'm fairly certain you would be able to, it would just be to unlock whatever is on the rail and move it over with maneuvering thrusters.