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[tired bloom]

thats awesome

[soft moon]

anyway i can improve this

[lunar eagle]

Learning 1/2 and 1/4 step spacing opens up a lot of flexibility in your builds, and lets you put more parts in a tighter space.

Just 1/2 step can be done at any time and is easy to learn

I just made a new build, and by using 1/2 step, I could fit 9 reactors in the space you can normally fit 4

Since I prefer to hide them usually, this was great

1/2 and 1/4 step also lets you align wings and other covers in better ways

The YT tutorial I posted above covers 1/2 step since it uses it. It's a good starting point

That and, up to you, try mixing a bit more color? Using the reverse palette at least for some contrast is something I do a lot.

I'd like to use some of the Aeron parts for the shape, but the mostly locked-in color palette is very limiting

The color palette scheme for base parts in the game is already pretty terrible

[soft moon]

you got that tutorial

[lunar eagle]

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it's a build tutorial that includes the 1/2 step tricks

[soft moon]

where in the video

[lunar eagle]

pretty early. The first 3 minutes of this next one outlines how to set up a 1/4 grid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COLg8HU4meE

About 5 minutes in to the first video, it shows how to use a small vent or radiator cover to offset 1/2 grid

thn it follows with how to use a Rockhopper to move forward or backward a 1/2 step

Those two techniques are how to do 1/2 step spacing. 1/4 step is something you need to set up at the very beginning

I have not done the forward/backward 1/4 grid on a build yet, only the side to side. And not on too many parts.

[lyric oyster]

HG decided we shouldnt be allowed to drive freighters, so i said "fine then, ill do it myself"

[soft moon]

anyone know an easy way i could hide these reactors

[verbal kite]

@soft moon could try putting the round one above your cockpit and overlapping with the cowling

[thorn ridge]

small freighter

[spark peak]

Does anyone know why I can’t get in the driver seat for my corvette ?

Maybe I placed something wrong

[young tapir]

Any of y'all actually make a vertical corvette? if so, is it as much of a pain to navigate as I assume it will be? 😅

[verbal kite]

Sounds like a neat thing to experiment with

[verbal kite]

Yeah probably

[young tapir]

Glitch building goes hard I just wonder if it's worth it with my limited funds

[verbal kite]

I can take you to some planets I found that are great for digging up parts

No aggressive sentinels

[dark juniper]

Build interior stairs to traverse up and down levels

[raven rover]

yes

theres 3 options for this

1. You place the cockpit at the 1st level so you dont have to go up stairs

[soft moon]

how do i hide these like is there a way to do it like how the shield things can be hidden

[raven rover]

2. You place the cockpit at the very top and the landing bay too

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[raven rover]

3. Glitch in a short range teleporter

Which is pretty hard to do afaik

[young tapir]

very fair ideas

[raven rover]

Just bury em

[young tapir]

i imagine 2 would be easiest, and just have a sort of open landing bay facing inwards (slightly glitched) towards cockpit

that way no visible landing bay

[raven rover]

Yep

but you do have to jetpack up every time

thats the main drawback

[young tapir]

fair

[raven rover]

Or

[young tapir]

so stuff like stairs and whatnot doesn't work quite as easily?

[raven rover]

If you dont land

You can still teleport

[young tapir]

true

[raven rover]

Only if you dont land

[raven rover]

Tbh i hate them goddamn stairs

[young tapir]

lmao fair enough

[raven rover]

I cannot fathom going up more than 2

[young tapir]

i more mean like physically does it work

[raven rover]

Gets stuck, no railings etc etc

[young tapir]

or does being vertical mess stuff up

[raven rover]

Nope

lemme get a pic real quick of my vertical one

[young tapir]

I appreciate your effort

[raven rover]

I dont have another example

[nimble stirrup]

dang

[raven rover]

Its pretty "vertical"

[young tapir]

ayo neat wtf

[raven rover]

You can see the landing bay

[young tapir]

can i though

[raven rover]

It flies normally 😂

[young tapir]

oh i can

i see

interesting, cool build

i hadn't even thought of the idea of adding legs

[raven rover]

🙏

[young tapir]

wild

[raven rover]

yeah that particular one is just a mech statue 😂

I dont usually add legs to mine

[young tapir]

❤️
-# in leiu of react perms

[raven rover]

but yeah, vertical ship is possible, and it flies just like any other ship

the most important thing is only the cockpit placement

[verbal kite]

Preach. Stairs suck

[raven rover]

id rather we get ladders instead

Fully vertical

Or both options would be nice i guess

Or actual working short range teleporters without glitching them in

[soft moon]

how's this look\

[merry vortex]

It looks cool. For me, it reminds me of an Osprey VTOL crossed with an old Corvette Stingray

[tepid arrow]

I sorta wish we could make custom cockpits without needing to use any of the preset ones, maybe with a Pilot Seat item or something

[charred tree]

is it cool if i post a photo of a corvette i'm working on in blender?

i needs advice

[charred tree]

i'm really proud of this hunk a junk

[granite umbra]

Try finding a snap point that overlaps with a part on your corvette, if you can't, try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSuytnUyjZE

You still get the bonuses from the reactor you deleted

[soft moon]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyUnlimited/s/QOxLhsn96t what pieces did they used for infront of the cockpit

[lunar eagle]

I don't even like to do 2-level Corvettes anymore. I've done 3 and I hated it. My newest Corvette has a visual cockpit (Window) at the top and an actual cockpit mostly hidden underneath, right next to the Walkway in

[young tapir]

fair lol
I Don't mind it! I have a tiny normal ship rn (not vertical, just 3 normal levels) and it's solid for my purposes

First floor is essentially just a ladder as soon as you walk in door, so if you w-key from the hatch you'll end up in cockpit on 2nd floor
Anything other than this direct line is just storage stuff, with more important storage containers accessible during the walk and everything else spread around

[lunar eagle]

It gives me "hearse" vibes with that back end. 🙂

[lunar eagle]

This is my daily driver Corvette, though I usually fly around in a Sentinel Interceptor. It is a single level. exterior: #nms-corvette-discussion message interior:#nms-corvette-discussion message
And this one I just built yesterday. It is also single level. I have tweaked it a bit since, but it's 90% the same. #nms-corvette-discussion message

[soft moon]

What parts are this

[lunar eagle]

Vesper Diffusers with 1/4 side spacing, and Aeron Cowling down the middle (the black stripe)

[soft moon]

Maybe I could do that for my corvette

[lunar eagle]

I also gave the 4 VDs a slight downward tilt with a Basebuilding tool. Otherwise, it is all 1/2 step built in a space station

There are 4 VDs there, 2 facing forward, 2 back, then a half step to another 2+2

it was the only solution I found to make a nice, raised narrow center line with sloped sides

I saw this used on someone else's build and they told me how it was done

[soft moon]

God this sounds complicated

[lunar eagle]

1/4 step is a little complicated, because you need to set it up at the very start. 1/2 step is just a basic technique to me now, it gets easy after you use it a bunch

The thing is, to get good part placement, you need to place a lot of temporary parts, move them, then put down the one you want, then remove the temp parts. It's a LOT more building steps, just to shift things slightly, but the end result speaks for itself

Like, say you have a 2-level Corvette and want to place one of the big Kineostream Thrusters at the back. If you snap it, it centers on the back of one of the two habs, so it either sticks halfway above or halfway below the block of habs

With 1/2-step, you add a walkway or hab, pop a small vent, shift it vertically, and use a Rockhopper to make it flush with the other habs. Then you can attach the thruster so it is halfway between them, and lines up the same as them top and bottom. Then you delete that temp walkway and vent/rockhopper.

Just learning that technique will add a lot of flexibility in your builds

Like I said, my first corvette is built only using that technique, and 1/4 step is only used for that center line of Vesper Diffusers to get them positioned tighter.

Second Corvette, I didn;t even use 1/4 step, though I am sure I could improve it if I did. I set it up in the beginning, but then never used it

[dark juniper]

should i keep using beeg sheep or go back to sleek ship (it's been 1 day of beeg sheep)

[lunar eagle]

I like the big one better, but I am not a fan of the Aeron parts, so take that with a grain of salt. I also don't see the point in Starship-size Corvettes -- if they don;t hold at least Storage Containers, a Mi9ssion Radar, and optionally Refiners/Deco, I'd rather fly my Sentinel Interceptor

[dark juniper]

my sleek one is still absolutely colossal, not starship sized at all

it has all 10 storage containers and like twice as much space as I use

[lunar eagle]

The center fuselage has good lines, too. Creative use of parts to get a pretty cohesive shape (on the smaller one)

I would maybe try a different wing layout on the small one. Rockhoppers are a must for Dropship-style Corvettes IMHO 😛

This thing is living rent-free in my head since yesterday #nms-corvette-discussion message

WE WANTS IT

[dark juniper]

idek where I'd put rockhopper wings

well, I had them at the back before

I always debate going back to this, especially since it has more blue

More examples of what that looked like

[short herald]

So, I was just swapping some parts around, and added a couple 'defense fiels' modules - I had forgotten I didn't have any open tech slots, but they were added 😄 ... Is this a known thing? [Switch 2 version]

IOW I now have 2 more tech slots than I did before

[runic bluff]

Interior cargo elevator when™

[granite umbra]

Oh hey this is my build!

I can send you a closeup of the cockpit later

But it’s a combination of these 3 parts

The arcadia wing is flipped 180

[raven rover]

bros famous

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[granite umbra]

LMAO

[young tapir]

nooo

Ladders always just take away control from the player in favor of some clunky unintuitive animation that you can't exit from, especially in No mans sky

i think minecraft is the only game I've seen that does ladders in a way that doesn't suck the character into essentially an unskippable mini cutscene

[granite umbra]

Or yknow

[young tapir]

I'd rather have a hole in the floor with no ladder

[granite umbra]

Just make the damn short range teleporters work

[young tapir]

valid

[granite umbra]

Or make a corvette version of it

[young tapir]

'shorter range teleporter'

[granite umbra]

Similar to the one used in the Anomaly and freighters

Only takes up floor space

[granite umbra]

LOL

[verbal kite]

I wonder if there’s a way to use the landing bay as an elevator

[sand fulcrum]

hii i just did ny first corvette :D

but the rooms arent conected

there is one on top of another but idk how to conect those

[young tapir]

interior stairs! just enter build mode (z is the hotkey on PC I believe by default, though you can check your settings) after walking into the ship

[sand fulcrum]

oh-

like it remove walls?

[young tapir]

it will remove part of the floor, yea

[sand fulcrum]

im dumb then

[young tapir]

not walls

took me a second to figure out truth be told, when i first built my corvette I couldn't figure out how to make it connect upwards so i made it one story, then started decorating and found out I could make stairs at that point and had to redesign ship lol

[sand fulcrum]

what if idont have stairs..

[lunar eagle]

It's more of a ladder, in the very first tab of build options

next to the windows

[sand fulcrum]

i just dont have them unlocked

[lunar eagle]

if it's still not there, go to the anomaly and unlock them

[sand fulcrum]

platform?

[sand fulcrum]

this one?

[jaunty mural]

i wish there were more options than the tiny fire exit stairs for corvettes

short range teleporters working would be neat but i can see the issue of getting thrown out of your ship while it's flying

[wispy tartan]

no there's a corvette specific staircase that you have for free - it's in your build options when you're just standing inside your completed corvette

She's basic, but has all 10 storage racks hidden above and below the main walkway.
And enough reactors to get a good base warp range and mobility.
Two full ambasador habs long, and the staircase to stand on top of the cockpit.
I think I've finally got my "utilitarian" ride figured out.

[tribal bluff]

Is my first real built corvette good

[nimble stirrup]

not bad

I like it

[granite umbra]

Looks pretty solid

Venator inspired I take it?

[edgy nymph]

Anyone got ideas for a corvette to house two people, i have some of my own but i’d like some other ideas if anyone has some

[timid otter]

is my first ever corvette decent? whats some tips and advice for making it better

[lunar eagle]

No. Second row, left

[elder iron]

It looks nice. My only concern, even though it literally doesnt matter, is how those massive boosters look like theyll snap off the moment you turn

[timid otter]

they do lol

idk how to build sleek

[lunar eagle]

Trial and error, lots of playing around moving things around. My latest build, now on version 2.5 (second build from scratch, then more modifications)

[granite umbra]

@soft moon arcadia wing right in front of the cockpit (part of it goes inside the cockpit itself), the grey parts is the speedbird nacelle, then the red parts on the side are vesper diffusers

[peak dragon]

Anyone have any customization tips for a custom cockpit on a small scale corvette

[young tapir]

Thought this was my ship for a second

[edgy star]

my corvette after daily tweaking for a couple weeks

[bleak aurora]

is it possible to make a U shaped corvette that I can travel between?

I wanna put a compartment or two in the back so they're connected and I can walk to my storage lol

[bleak aurora]

is that a corvette????

[peak dragon]

There’s a glitch where you can put landing pads onto a corvette,does anyone know if legacy starships still work if landed on the pads while the corvette is flying/moving/landed

[peak dragon]

There’s a glitch to putting base parts on corvettes

You can use it for short range teleporters

Or you can make 45 degree angles really easily; make them with habs around the back which connects both parts

[dark juniper]

the non-corvette starships do not move with the corvette-class starship

as this functionality is not intended

[lost moss]

You can also just put a series of habs between the two sections

[bleak aurora]

can you walk through those habs?

[lost moss]

Yeah. Habs that are next to each other automatically have walkways.

[peak dragon]

Someone should make a gundam ship as a corvette

[bleak aurora]

what oh my fucking god

I thought you could connect them only in a straight line

[lost moss]

Nope! They can go next to each other, or even on top of each other if you use stairs

[bleak aurora]

that I knew but I didn't know they'd connect sideways

brb

[random grail]

icl i've been sitting here staring at the corvette shit and how do y'all build these pretty ships😭

[random grail]

i love this

[lost moss]

Lotta practice and messing around, at least for me
Just gotta dive in and see what you like

[verbal kite]

^^ good advice

[glass surge]

A lot of these Gundam builds are modded but they exist

we Have Gundam Unicorn here
https://www.reddit.com/r/NOMANSSKY/comments/1pcx7h2/someone_made_a_whole_ass_gundam_corvette/

Another RX-78
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQlB9dxCz-A

The Strike Freedom Gundam here
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/1qf9mc5/saw_this_mega_gundam_corvette_in_the_anomaly_the/

and White Base here
https://www.reddit.com/r/NMS_Corvette_Design/comments/1pyogqz/mobile_suit_gundam_white_base_bis/

[raven rover]

Yep

here ya go

[raven rover]

The nu gundam is not mine and its vanilla

The stark jegan is mine but its a blender build

[gaunt slate]

Could somebody gift me the aeron blades? I haven’t played in like 2 years n missed the event

[dark juniper]

I could give you them, yeah!

[gaunt slate]

For real???

[dark juniper]

Yes, for real, I have like 70 of them that I stockpiled for this purpose

[gaunt slate]

Thank you so much!!!

[dark juniper]

I can also just give you one and you can make more yourself

[gaunt slate]

Idk how to do gift things like that

[gaunt slate]

Sweet

[dark juniper]

We just add each others' friend codes, then one of us can join the other

[lost moss]

Also looking for those Breach expedition parts, I joined too recently to have gotten them :)

[dark juniper]

@gaunt slate You can make more by copying them in the corvette editor, which lets you place more using the required resources despite lacking the blueprint, then deleting them.
⚠️ MAKE SURE Options > Difficulty > Crafting = Standard when deleting the modules, or else they won't go into your inventory

[dark juniper]

I could give those!

[lost moss]

Neat

Adding as friend due to my own messaging settings lol

[dark juniper]

I'd also need to add your friend code too

[lost moss]

Yeah, is it fine to post those here?

[dark juniper]

Yes, they need to be added both ways anyways

[lost moss]

Like, dunno if that counts as self-promotion or whatnot

just checking

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[lost moss]

3Y9B-NS8K-7QE8M�

[dark juniper]

K, if you added my friend code then you should be able to join me now, or vice versa

[lost moss]

ye

I am loosely familiar with the multiplayer

I don't think I have your friend code though

[dark juniper]

Oh crud I thought I sent it above but ig not, it's RER3-HTWB-9FG6R

[lost moss]

no worries haha

Thanks, much appreciated

[dark juniper]

To make more, see this post #nms-corvette-discussion message

[lost moss]

aye

that's pretty convenient

so it's like the windows and stuff, once you have one / the "blueprint" you can make more

[charred tree]

glitch builds and blender builds

[lost moss]

Even without those, you can make some good looking stuff

[charred tree]

oh yeah

my first corvette is still quite dope

more angular though

[daring aspen]

Made a super destroyer from hell divers : )

[verbal kite]

Long boi

[charred tree]

The Leatherback, in all its weird glory

[verbal kite]

Looks like it wants to eat me

[daring aspen]

Me trying to figure out how to decorate the interior of it now 🧍‍♂️

[misty ether]

I got my cheeseburger finally!

[fickle raven]

Custom corvette color combos would be nice

And more parts

But I'd kill for a whiter color

[random grail]

i need this in my life

[twilit crescent]

Mfs be building anything except corvettes 💀☠️🙏🥀

[fickle raven]

I was tryna go with a white, green and black look to match my outfit but the "white" is just grey that lowkey makes the ship look unfinished in a way

Also I added red and green lights for port and starboard just for extra detail

Her name's Titan Nova btw

3 decks and can accommodate at least 3 players

[lunar eagle]

SO MUCH THIS

[hard radish]

I have a corvette I nicknamed the “Helldiver”. No it wasn’t because it’s based on anything from the helldiver games, it was nicknamed the helldiver because the first planetary landing after being built was an extremely superheated environment.

It accommodates a huge crew and has all the amenities for maintaining life aswell

And I was planning on making a MK2. Any ideas??

Oh and I also have a single person planet-cruising corvette solely made for a single crew member to traverse across my home planet

[peak dragon]

Can anyone check how Aresmar on yt makes their corvettes? I think they might be modded but Idk

[hard radish]

I can have a look

I was watching a vanilla version of this guy making a pretty dope star destroyer, might wanna check it out

[peak dragon]

It’s either he’s some insane builder or he mods which is still pretty cool

I’m just asking cuz he uses a ton of base parts and there’s a lot of rotated parts, custom cockpits, and his interiors look non-glitched

[hard radish]

Weird

I’m still wondering as to if I could make a small ass shuttle corvette

Literally like a walking bay and a hover landing under the cockpit

[peak dragon]

I did that yesterday, I can show you a screenshot when I get home

I took inspiration from this guy https://youtu.be/ndEAoYSwDuU?si=z5RVn1HByCGX24Lt

It’s a really cool build

[hard radish]

Escape pods are my kinda thing, I have one in my storage lmao

A small vessel with stuff for survival

[alpine girder]

Hey i have a question, is there any chance to get the Deadeye Cannon and the 9 Aeron Modules? ☺️

[peak dragon]

They need to add drop pods to corvettes

Or freighters

[drifting perch]

Does anyone have any spare Aeron parts, I didn’t get the chance to get my hands on them. I’m not 100% sure if they will bring it back.

[alpine girder]

Same

[lyric oyster]

You can get them when the HG re-runs the breach expedition

[tired bloom]

I can give u a few of each and u can do the glitch that allows u to build as many of them as u like

I dont have any deadeye cannons and im being lazy atm so dont wanna get any

[drifting perch]

I just found out I think I’m behind in an update so I may have to wait for one.

[alpine girder]

Can do for me the same favor? 😅

Of course not just like that—if you want something, I’ll gladly give it to you.

[bleak aurora]

Anyone have examples of treasure planet esque Corvettes?

[bleak aurora]

How do people get angular like this?

[alpine girder]

Through creative thinking. I'm actually already planning to build a Babylon 5 station as a corvette. 😂

[bleak aurora]

I'm a professional designer and use programs like zbrush and blender, but the corvette system has been wracking my brain because I wanna move things a certain way and it won't let me without glitching things.

So the question being asked is quite literal

[raven rover]

Blender

I dont think modding can even achieve those

He uses wires etc2 and scaled parts

[raven rover]

i mean you could use blender to make vettes

[charred tree]

I made the Leatherback using blender. my other one, the Astro Balrog, is a vanilla build

[raven rover]

also you do kinda need to do glitchbuilding if you want to achieve certain angles

Or flip stuff that cant be flipped

[bleak aurora]

I saw that as an option but I feel like I'd break my game

[raven rover]

naa ive been making blender vettes for 4 months now

As long as you have backups its fine

[bleak aurora]

I got too close to one of them in the wild and uh suffice to say their condo-vette lagged me out a bit lmao

[raven rover]

Condo vette doesnt mean blender tbh

Vanilla glitchbuilding can place normal base parts too

Also the lagging thing is bcs of the part count

Not the act of using blender

base parts tend to load slower than normal vette parts

[charred tree]

the vanila build

[bleak aurora]

Oh I see. I mean I'd love to use blender for this because I have two ideas that the normal way can't build it

[raven rover]

you do need a save editor tho

And the nms base builder plugin

[charred tree]

go for it. i began blending corvettes like 2 days ago

[raven rover]

But i think its worthit if you like it

Lets you scale up corvette parts too

[bleak aurora]

I said I use blender but it was in limited capacity (product rendering)

Love the game enough to do a deeper dive

[tribal bluff]

Star destroyer class Venetor

[raven rover]

The nms thing is even simpler i'd say

You only need to know basic navigation

No need for render, lighting etc2

[bleak aurora]

Ooh

[dark juniper]

It's just object manipulation and scaling in 3D space, no custom models or anything

Just moving stuff and resizing stuff to build the illusion of what you want to exist

[charred tree]

i dont think we can load in external assets, can we?

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[dark juniper]

Not without putting those into mods on PC, and the custom model program/plugin is outdated atm

[charred tree]

kinda want to make a blisterback model

[dark juniper]

And their file types and stuff is super duper strict and undocumented publicly

We can't make new animations, we can't make deforming models on skeletons, lots of wacky limitations

[charred tree]

makes sense, the game's stretched pretty thin with all the proc gen

[tired bloom]

I can

[jagged aspen]

Whats a good way to find varied corvette parts?

(Im on Xbox if that helps)

[alpine girder]

Thanks, that's really cool! Is there anything I can do for you in return? ☺️

[tired bloom]

nope ive got everything i need

[alpine girder]

Ok ☺️

[lunar eagle]

Looks pretty basic, the 3-4 videos I saw. Probably uses the NMS Base Builder mod that lets you change the axis on rotation for base parts. Other than the angles parts, his stuff looks pretty basic.

[lunar eagle]

There's a base building mod that lets you change the axis of rotation on parts. You set a window at an angle, attach a hab, then you have a new "plane" to build off of.

[lunar eagle]

Just farm farm farm, then trade for the ones you want. Or turn on free crafting and use whatever you want.

[tawny mural]

Hey guys, just got a ship built for me via the nms app, I’m trying to get rid of some technology from the ship my it won’t let me discard any of it

[lost moss]

Cosmetic modules in corvettes cannot be discarded

[tawny mural]

Ahh

Kinda feels like cheating given the extra stuff

[lost moss]

Did you also know that phase beam damage on corvettes scales with the number of beams in the animation?
It's hilariously stupid

even with not-great SC slots you can hit over 25k per damage tick

[tawny mural]

Nvm I managed to get rid of it

[lost moss]

ah ok

[eternal star]

spruced up my little merchant nook and swapped the big ugly cargo dock ring for a nice awning

[ebon wraith]

All fun and games until you warp drive and realize that you left all your stock in orbit of the previous planet

[eternal star]

"Wait did i bring that last shipment into the cargo bay" looks back to see it all floating into space

[ebon wraith]

Good thing you have back facing windows

[eternal star]

this is actually the side your looking at lol

[ebon wraith]

Wow I never though to put the elevator thing on the side so I just assumed it was in the back

[eternal star]

thats the whole thing

[ebon wraith]

Love the design

[eternal star]

cant take all the credit for it. not sure who originally made it but this design has been change modified so many times by different people lol i just got a basic template and modified it to my needs/liking

[ebon wraith]

It's the autophage way

[eternal star]

yuuup! heres a peek at the interior.

[ebon wraith]

It looks exactly like it should look

[eternal star]

even has an onboard soundsystem so you can always have your bytebeats with you

8 modules. so you can basically make anything

[ebon wraith]

I'm just imaging a DJ autophage character

[ebon wraith]

Puts some headphone on them and crank up the beatbyte

[eternal star]

lol i dont think autophage even have ears

[ebon wraith]

They might have an audio processor or microphone

Otherwise how would they hear the DJ?

[eternal star]

but where is it located is the question

[ebon wraith]

One off the many mysteries of the autophage

[lost moss]

It probably depends on the Autophage, since they make their own bodies

[icy kraken]

Question, which looks better? Should I keep the side thrusters on the prongs?

[lost moss]

Personally I think it looks better without, but the final call is with you
Corvettes are reeeeally subjective

[icy kraken]

Fair. I like to look at my corvettes with a "Would this make sense?" approach to the design

My personal reasoning for those side thrusters is "What if the lifted cargo is heavy?" and also for mobility sake

[ebon wraith]

I like the one with the rock hoper parts it looks more practical

[low saddle]

the version with the side thrusters also has more mass forward, it would make sense if you're taking off as you'd want that extra forward lift - it also gives you the benefit of the realistic concept of some RCS Thrust at the extreme end, which would render it, in space, more agile. The clean version has practically no mass out on the end, and it kinda looks like one huge railgun/mass driver TBH.

[icy kraken]

I was thinking on that the more I looked at it, yeah. Now it looks more feasible in design, with both more maneuverability and better lift.

[icy kraken]

Tyty !

The overall whole design is meant to be a modified industrial mining/hauling ship

and those forward prongs are to be maglock clamps for various cargo

[low saddle]

For a hauler, put the Rock Hopper Fans back on, that way it's got symmetrical lift and isn't trying to lift a heavy cargo with zero lift-thrust at the heavy end.

[lost moss]

yeah if it's a hauler then the hopper fans probably make sense

[low saddle]

they definitely make sense at that point

[icy kraken]

Yep, it makes a lot of sense in my mind for it to be a mining ship that then can haul all those materials to various stations, along with being able to do hauling missions from station to station and planet to station

[lofty dome]

Do you have current Screenshot?

[icy kraken]

Man, I love this ship

[lost moss]

very good

[icy kraken]

Fun fact, my ship is also amazing at bounty hunting

[lost moss]

You might already know this, but Phase Beams are hilarious in that they scale in damage with the physical number of beams in the animation

so if you have three Phase Beam Arrays and three Photon Cannon Arrays you do some giga stupid damage

going higher doesn't help since you max at 6 pairs of beams in the animation

[icy kraken]

Imagine being some space pirate who gets hunted down by, and losing to, a modified industrial mining field hauler ship lmao

[lost moss]

yup

[icy kraken]

and bet

[lost moss]

lose to a sleek fighter, ok no shame

but losing to some dumb cargo hauler is a bit of an L

I say "dumb" but I mean it from the perspective of the pirate, not me

[verbal kite]

Imagine being a space pirate who gets hunted down by, and loses to, ME.

[lost moss]

the ship looks great

[verbal kite]

Couldn’t we say Darth Vader lost to some dumb cargo hauler?

[lost moss]

He did and that's an L, he should've felt the disturbance in the force

even if the Falcon is heavily modified to be more effective in speed and combat

got tunnel vision trying to shoot down Luke

smh

[verbal kite]

Trench vision

[icy kraken]

"Bro is that a damn mining ship?"

"Why did that mining ship just take out my engines? WHAT THE FU-"

[lost moss]

hehe

[icy kraken]

It also makes sense imo to use and modify an industrial hauling ship as your go-to home away from home, both for work and combat

[lost moss]

Yeah, usually pretty spacious ships
It turns out if you have a lot of cargo space, that space can often be retrofitted into other stuff

[icy kraken]

cause A, industrial grade equipment is always gonna be more solid than mass produced military equipment, and B, it's multi-purpose. It's bound to be designed to do a damn good job after all.

[verbal kite]

That’s why real world terrorists use Toyota pickups

[lost moss]

ah you're talking about technicals and stuff right

[icy kraken]

Speaking of the internals,

Don't mind my textures being wonky lol

[peak dragon]

Does anyone know how to rotate parts up and down

[icy kraken]

A mix of both visual and technical yeah

[lost moss]

No I meant technicals as in "modded civilian vehicles meant for war"

that's the name for e.g. slapping a machine gun on the back of a pickup truck and adding armor plating

[icy kraken]

Ohhh

gotcha

[lost moss]

ye

[icy kraken]

Still, I think it makes sense to modify an industrial ship for multi-purpose use rather than just a military ship

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[verbal kite]

I didn’t think you could. Some people talk about using Blender, but idk how that integrates.

[lost moss]

Yeah I gotcha

I'm more of a military aesthetic person myself though

but I think there is realistically more value in modding a robust civilian craft

[icy kraken]

Yepyep

and man, is this ship pretty

[lost moss]

I posted my corvettes in #nms-showcase-corvettes

[icy kraken]

I just witnessed the coolest ship in the anomaly, the interior was so huge and well decorated like a FULL full ship

[lunar eagle]

Reminds me of the Machariel from EVE Online

which is a ship I want to replicate

[lunar eagle]

It is nice. I made something a little similar last weekend #nms-corvette-discussion message

[lost moss]

whale

[icy kraken]

Ohhh that's a pretty solid design ngl

[lunar eagle]

It's based on the Vulture from Star Citizen.

I think I want to try making a Machariel next

[lost moss]

Also for those who are intimidated by corvettes but want to build one
Just dive in and mess around

your first attempts may not be good but think of it as a WIP

[lunar eagle]

I don;t even like flying Corvettes, but I have a lot of fun building them

[lost moss]

my first attempts were definitely not very good lol

I still don't consider myself a great builder or anything but I think I got better

[lunar eagle]

ABSOLUTELY. My two corvettes are on their 3rd and 2nd complete rebuilds of their current design

With a lot of smaller teardowns and reworks between

[lost moss]

the first version I posted of my first corvette (posted in a different server)

[lunar eagle]

Nobody is just spitting out a AAA Corvette from the start

[lost moss]

yeah this, exactly

[lost moss]

and the latest

I still haven't tried using glitches or anything

[worthy notch]

I feel dumb, building circles seems hard.

[lost moss]

I have no idea how to do a circle yet lol

[worthy notch]

🤝

[lost moss]

never looked into it

[lunar eagle]

Like, this was Version One of my Corvette #nms-corvette-discussion message
Then I rebuilt it into Version Two #nms-corvette-discussion message
Then Version Three #nms-showcase-corvettes message
Until I finally tweaked it to its current form #nms-corvette-discussion message
With interior #nms-corvette-discussion message

[lost moss]

so far I've been building long triangular shapes, inspired by fighter jets

[worthy notch]

Well, I've been using the Boundary Herald since I started playing again, so I'm trying to replicate its Disk shape.

[lost moss]

yeah that's a big glowup

[lunar eagle]

Version Three used 1/2 and 1/4 step spacing. I tweaked the final using an external tool to tilt the Vesper Diffusers at the top front down slightly.

But it was 99% built in station

[lunar eagle]

Yeah, I am pleased with how it ended up. But like you pointed out, there is a lot of learning, experimenting, and work to get to that point

[lost moss]

I like flying them but mostly because Phase Beams on corvettes are omega broken, I got spoiled by obliterating everything really fast

Like so

[hasty shale]

hey, i was curious, has anyone done a boba fett ship corvette?

[lost moss]

I've seen a couple takes on it

[hasty shale]

i suck at building, but would drool over some screenshots 🙂

[nimble stirrup]

oooh

that would be neat

[hasty shale]

wondered if it would be possible to pull, and i'm really not an expert at it, but i really think i'd fly such a ship haha

[lost moss]

#nms-showcase-corvettes message

[hasty shale]

thanks! that's cool hehe

[lost moss]

Some builders go really hard yeah

[hasty shale]

hearted it

too big for me, but heck of a job

[lunar eagle]

Here's a vertical design in the same vein #nms-showcase-corvettes message

[hasty shale]

oh nice! love it 🙂 ty for sharing the link

[lost moss]

CC @icy kraken for a relatively tame example of how stupid corvette phase beam gets

[icy kraken]

[lost moss]

I like it, but remember that this channel is for discussion, not just for posting screenshots

[tranquil walrus]

👍

[nimble stirrup]

indeed

[lost moss]

Posts with just screenshots go in #nms-showcase-corvettes

[icy kraken]

what do y'all like most about corvettes?

[lost moss]

Building them!
I considered playing Starfield solely for the ship builder

[lunar eagle]

This. I have built two, working on a third. I almost never fly them, I prefer my Sentinel Interceptor 99% of the time

But I will sit, tweaking a design for hours to make a cool one

I just started working on a new one tonight

Gonna try to make one similar to the Machariel from EVE Online

That is such a badass ship, but it will be hard to replicate in NMS I think

[crude ravine]

ADV-Gemini Version 2 (Left) and coparision to the Previous Design (Right)

[lunar eagle]

It's nice. There are elements in the first I like better, but some areas in the second are a definite improvement IMHO

[crude ravine]

By all means, please let me know what you like and dislike about both designs, it'll help me improve on ship builing xD

@lunar eagle

[lunar eagle]

I like the overall shape on the first, especially the "wings" and how they are a little back from center. I liek the cockpit and coverage on the newer one

The Ambassador Wing modules at the outer wings on the first one are nice. They bulk it up well

[crude ravine]

Ah, I see

The newer version is a combination of 3

The Ambassador, the Arcadia Sublight thruster and Ambassador Wing Module xD

but i guess, too much combination does ruined the overall shape xD

And oh, the slightly backed from the center side wings, does it give you a more sleek feeling ?

or better overall look ?

[lunar eagle]

IMHO yes, but taste is subjective

[crude ravine]

It's fine xD

i'm always delighted for honest opinion xD

[lunar eagle]

I also think the parts on the first transition into one another a little better from the Arcdia Stabilizers to the covers behind them

the lines are cleaner

It's good. Liek I said, I liek elements of both

I went through 3 major revisions and a ton of minor ones to get my build looking good

See here #nms-corvette-discussion message

[crude ravine]

I'll keep refine this ^^)

Thanks for your comment ^^)

[crude ravine]

Looking really good ！

[worthy notch]

so i just followed a YT short (for the most part) it worked, but if anyone has any ideas about hiding the reactor, I'd be grateful

[granite umbra]

My Atlas builds so far (in chronological order). I personally think the third one is my best work but curious what yall think

[granite umbra]

You can delete it entirely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSuytnUyjZE

[runic bluff]

I forgot this exists, I may do this in order to trim down my existing design... 9 reactors is a lot to work around.

[raven rover]

I like the 3rd and 5th one

but all 6 is really really nice

[granite umbra]

Love how with this glitch you can basically just have a flying cockpit LMAO

[granite umbra]

Ayyyyyeeee thanks gng

3rd one is my golden child

[raven rover]

[raven rover]

yea i can see why

The shape is so good

i dont think i have a golden child 😂

I be like that toystory 1 meme

I dont want to play with you anymore ahh

Once i make a new vette

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[granite umbra]

Yea cause all your ships look so damn good

[raven rover]

[raven rover]

Naaa bro 😭 😭 😭

some of em are a mess

[granite umbra]

The one you just posted on #nms-showcase-corvettes is really making me wanna go to the dark side (blender)

[raven rover]

shit wrong one

join us~

[granite umbra]

No this is def the right one LMFAO

[raven rover]

😭

[granite umbra]

I alr have ideas for like tilted modules and shid

[raven rover]

you gotta try scaling parts with blender man

That shit is like drugs

[granite umbra]

Scalable aeron wings sounds like crack to me

[raven rover]

It sure is

wings blades pillars etc

[twilit crescent]

Love the 4th one 🔥

[eager sky]

Half offset or reverse it, you'll be able to clip it through other non-reversed or offset pieces

[granite umbra]

Thank you! She started as an ugly duckling but she grew on me

[hollow garnet]

those are very sleek! Like #3/6 best. well done!

[dark juniper]

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[marsh fern]

mb

[lunar eagle]

Is it not possible to place an upside down hab/walkway, even if you have an upside-down window to attach it to?

[grizzled stream]

I think Habs aren't able to be upside down, last time I checked i couldn't

[lunar eagle]

First attempt at a Machariel-inspired build

probably need to restart on a 1/4 grid to make the center channel narrower

and work out better top plating layout

but this already gets close to the part limit (95?)

Maybe I will tweak it in the external app instead of restarting, idk

[verbal kite]

https://youtube.com/shorts/NjOtaz7wQYg?si=zfLgXZNB5_hmoNLQ

^^ Came across this just now.

[granite umbra]

Thank you man! Funny how I can see how much progression there is from build 1 to build 6 when I see the images side by side

[timid otter]

looks rly great, did you use duct outlets to move the parts around?

[lunar eagle]

Yeah, it's got a lot of 1/2 grid parts. I set up a 1/4 grid at the start as well, but never used it.

[timid otter]

cool, im still learning doing that

[lunar eagle]

It lacks the arc-liek overall bend that the original has, so I am not too happy with it yet

[timid otter]

looks pretty accurate to me now that i searched up reference

[lunar eagle]

I will probably first tweak it in the Basebuilding App and tilt some parts. See if it improves it. But then I will probably do a complete rebuild from scratch as well.

[timid otter]

good idea ig

[lunar eagle]

It's not bad given NMS' in-station editing capabilities

[timid otter]

i usually like to make an extra save with no crafting costs to learn abt building

[timid otter]

yea you pretty much have to do small glitches and placement methods to pull out a decent build

[lunar eagle]

I just turn crafting costs off when building corvettes, mostly because I often need to build liek 10-20 walkways to set up 1/2 or 1/4 grids and temporary parts for spacing

[timid otter]

i rly hate that you pretty much have to use duct outlets to "merge" to keep the landing portions of the build compact

[timid otter]

i do that sometimes, but always destroy appropriate amount of money afterwards

like 100 or 200m

[lunar eagle]

Here's a few more angles

[timid otter]

i rly like the middle that leads directly to the cockpit, and you did a great job with adding parts on the sides

[lunar eagle]

Here is what I mean by the "arc"

the front and back point down, so the overall shape is more rounded like a bean

[timid otter]

well the glitch building required would be like an hours work

atleast for me

looks advanced

[lunar eagle]

There was a Youtube video on another ship that had a nice, smooth wide shape like this, that I got some ideas on how to space and link parts from

[timid otter]

could you send link

[lunar eagle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJDmOgIlAsc

[timid otter]

im tryna learn building

thanks

[lunar eagle]

This one is also great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COLg8HU4meE&t=173s&pp=ygUMbm1zIDEvNCBncmlk

[timid otter]

thanks

ill watch those tonight and practice

[lunar eagle]

In this Machariel build, I hid 9 reactors in the center, underneath the center line. With 1/2 spacing, you can fit 3 each Medusa, Zenith, and Ceto in a 2x2 Walkway space

3 wide in left, center, and right, and if you put the ceto at the back, front, center, and back

if you use 1/4 spacing, you could fit 25 parts in that space 😛

[timid otter]

nice muy build does used 1/2 spacing and i can fit all those too

[timid otter]

holy

[lunar eagle]

OK, did a quick bit of adjustment to the front in the basebuilding app, and... This is gonna work. 😄 I can definitely make it a lot better by adjusting some angles. I might even cheat and scale some parts

just tightening up the nose and tilting it down makes such a huge difference

[timid otter]

wow looks great

nice job

[quiet robin]

Does someone have B2 corvette tutorial? I saw once amazing one based on B2 spirit but I couldnt find exactly it

[tired bloom]

https://youtu.be/ODrq45puujo?si=aZX8QlHsy6Q0VFk1

[icy knoll]

is there any way to scrap ur corvette for all its parts or do u have to just trade it to a npc

[nimble stirrup]

you can dismantle it piece by piece

but that won't get rid of it fully

[glass surge]

Currently to get ride of a Corvette you have to take off all the pieces until it meets the basic corvette requirements then possibly trade any remaining pieces for ones that you don't like or not at the level you like if you want to go that far.

step 2 is trade it to a npc and then scrap that ship to free up the slot

[upbeat tundra]

Does that channel have a SR-71 Blackbird corvette too? Really love those planes

YouTube keeps showing completely different videos when I look for the channel

[tired bloom]

https://youtu.be/o3xHSMmrcDA?si=6IkUD_htv6t_YB9P

[upbeat tundra]

Damn that’s sick! Thanks a lot man 🙏

[tired bloom]

np

[upbeat tundra]

Looks really complex icl

[lunar eagle]

Version 2 alpha

Messed up the editing a bit tbh, Still trying to figure the proportions out

[stark crane]

AGONY

all the walls in this game hate ladders!!!

[lost moss]

Ladders

[stark crane]

these things too steep to be steps

climbing em

[edgy nymph]

what do yall think of my corvette (first ever corvette build w/o tutorial)

[stark crane]

sleek

das alot of snout

[edgy nymph]

i wanted it to taper off to make a triangle and also theres a habitation module in there

[stark crane]

ah ya wanted alotta room

[edgy nymph]

yup

[stark crane]

fair

[lunar eagle]

We all start out making pretty basic builds. Keep gathering parts, rearranging them, and finding what works for you. Watch some YT tutorials that teach you how to use the small vent and rockhopper to do 1/2 grid offsets and the world will open up before you.

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[haughty dagger]

I really want to go back to a classic ship but the ability to get out in space is really cool

[lunar eagle]

Watch tutorials on 180 degree flip, 1/4 grid, and angled placement with windows and you have all the tools you need

[haughty dagger]

but corvettes are so large :-:

[lunar eagle]

If you don;t want the internal space, you can make a VERY compact corvette using 1/2 and 1/4 offset techniques to make things overlap a lot

[haughty dagger]

this is like my sixth corvette you're fine

[lunar eagle]

But personally, I prefer Starships as I fly first person view, and the Sentinel Interceptor is pretty much unmatched

[haughty dagger]

WHY

[haughty dagger]

I play creative so I don't care for stats but still
I'd love the ability to have a solar-style corvette

[haughty dagger]

here's a better screenshot

kinda wish my brain could comprehend anything other than a pizza-shape

I'd say it looks amazing on the interior but

[crude ravine]

A test design for a Light/Medium Freight type ship

[granite umbra]

Great starter ship man!

[worthy notch]

I.. have been busy lol, It looks like a beetle or something, imo. Maneuverability is not great tho 😂

Kinda wanna go back to the flat build & learn clipping/offsetting

[lost moss]

Trying out some 1/2 stepping, let me know what you all think! Previous version: #nms-corvette-discussion message

[tender torrent]

I got lost

[lost moss]

Turtle

[lost moss]

What is this, Kowloon Walled City?

[twilit crescent]

Tbh you are an absolute corvette god. All your builds are peak

[twilit crescent]

Little Atlas accidentally gave birth to one million children, so he built this with galvanized square steel and screws borrowed from his aunt to ferry his kids to school

[lost moss]

Continuing on my 1/2 and 1/4 stepping journey

With a tiny Rockhopper corvette

[lost moss]

This is giving me some Halo vibes
Mainly Pelican

[granite umbra]

Another addition to the Atlas-series ships soon inspired by the amazing EoY-14. Also my first knack at 1/4 offsets

[halcyon sky]

that's no moon...

[granite umbra]

Thanks man! Corvette building is my new creative outlet LMAO

[slim ruin]

Does anyone know if same platform corvettes are less buggy for multiplayer than cross platform? Anytime me (steam) and my friend (Xbox) leave the anomaly or warp someone goes to oblivion

[granite umbra]

NMS instancing in general is nutty

More so recently

[lunar eagle]

Solid. This is close to where my First design started too, though it eventually became a bit sleeker and more fighter-esque later. I am a sucker for this shape though. 😄

[lunar eagle]

Looking good. 1/2 step is a HUGE visual boost, as it adds so much capability. Even aside from the more precise placement of parts, it's the ability to overlap them more that is the game changer

[azure belfry]

i think that shoud be the infinite Castle from demon slayer

[drifting mesa]

how do corvettes compare to starships in combat capability?

[twilit crescent]

I'd say 50-60.

By that I mean 50-60 minutes until the corvette turns to face the opponent

[drifting mesa]

already used to insanely bad turn radiuses, so let's assume it's already facing the opponent

[spiral garden]

WHAT is that 😭

[azure belfry]

looks like the infinity castle from demon slayer

[honest mural]

They're about as good as any other starship, if you set it up well.

I usually go all-in on infra-knife accelerator - the Q-resonator, 3 upgrades and 3 corvette infra-knife modules. It can absolutely shred any opponent.

Same with shields - the base tech, blueprint, 3 upgrades and 3 corvette shield modules.

[drifting mesa]

so the only real drawback of a corvette is initial expenses?

[spiral garden]

I’d say the best part about a corvette is potable storage

[raven rover]

really good, put 6 phase beams and wherever you look, shit just dies

[raven rover]

no, they can be free

100%

just salvage all of the required parts

[spiral garden]

only reason I use corvette is storage and decoration

portable base

which is neat

[raven rover]

Id say the main drawback is their humongous size, so you might find it hard to find a place to land or to summon it (even the average sized vette is still huge)

But ehh you can just beam down anyways

[raven rover]

i use mine for aura

[spiral garden]

same 👌

[raven rover]

[spiral garden]

a genuine gem

[raven rover]

🙏

[spiral garden]

hey check out this beautiful planet I found yesterday

[raven rover]

Oooh thats cool

[spiral garden]

it’s a paradise icy planet smth

and there’s a planet IN the horizon

which looks six

SICK*

[raven rover]

yea

Would be cool for pics

[spiral garden]

have you made a settlement yet?

/ base

[raven rover]

yes

[drifting mesa]

i'm aware, that's opportunity cost, still an expense

[raven rover]

i dont like bases tho tbh

[spiral garden]

same

[raven rover]

thought you meant units mb

[spiral garden]

I’m usually NEVER somewhere for more than 30 minutes

[lunar eagle]

Ditto. On my third rebuild from scratch on my 3rd Corvette. I almost never fly them, except to the ano9maly to show off and look at other people's corvettes

[raven rover]

ah yeah i wish i can fly mine into the anomalu

but theyre too fat

not part count wise but size wise

😔

[lunar eagle]

This is my current project

[raven rover]

Ooooh thats siick

I like that middle section

[lunar eagle]

I did two builds using Speedbird parts, to get the rounded look of the ship its based on. Now trying angled parts

[raven rover]

angled parts is easier tbh

We dont have much curved/rounded parts

😔

[lunar eagle]

This is what I am going for

This is my second attempt. #nms-corvette-discussion message

And my first #nms-corvette-discussion message

Getting that long, smooth, pointed nose is SO DANG HARD tho

I keep starting at the front and workign backward. Maybe I should start in the middle and work out or something

try some different things to get the proportions better

but yeah I think I am gonna trash version 3. It's just not looking nearly as nice as the earlier ones IMHO

[raven rover]

fr

you kinda need the 1/4 step glitch

[lunar eagle]

absolutely. I do start the build setting that up. Then some scaffolding for the angles needed for the front parts in the speedbird build

I might try a shallower angle on the next try

[granite umbra]

Sexy ass ship man

Loved seeing it in person in a previous meet

[raven rover]

tysm fam

[raven rover]

hell yea!

the phat phuc wideballs ship

[granite umbra]

LMFAO

[timid otter]

my next build is gonna be me making a slightly trash milano

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[timid otter]

🤤

[granite umbra]

She’s not fat, just really healthy

LMFAO

[raven rover]

[granite umbra]

Oh man this would go SO HARD with 1/4 offsets, even without the curve

[lunar eagle]

My two main issues building this are getting a smooth curve, and the 100 part limit. Both my builds are in the 90s for part count

[granite umbra]

Atm tho the design is way above my paygrade

I just started 1/4 building yesterday

LOL

[granite umbra]

Yea smooth curves are achievable with offsets

[lunar eagle]

to an extent

[granite umbra]

1/2 is enough sometimes but to get that reeeaaally smooth c u r v e s you’ll need 1/4

I was thinking of how you can achieve that mid section with the spine

[lunar eagle]

it kinda sucks though that the back of the narrow Vesper Aerofoil does not smoothly match the front of the Speedbird Diffuser

[granite umbra]

Maybe something like the mid section of this build I did, only you have to do it twice since it has 2 spines it seems

[lunar eagle]

1/4 offsets for the narrow channel with is half a hab wide. If you have the part count, you can use a 1/2 x 1 part like a casing, sideways

[granite umbra]

The spine from that image you sent reminds me of a Talosiano build

Like this

The spine on the top

Not even gonna pretend I understand wtf is happening there

I just know that’s definitely 1/4 offsets

[idle dragon]

what are some tips for not making my corvette look ugly

[granite umbra]

Look up inspirations and start from there

Pinterest, NMS Corvette Design subreddit, and even the Starfield Ship Builds subreddit are a great go to personally

[stark widget]

ok ppl im dumb ur smart lets tell me whati can build with 600m

i got given stuff worth 600m as a noob and idk if i should build one of these but sounds fun

[granite umbra]

You can buy the basic parts with that amount I think

But most of the parts you get from salvaged scrap on certain planets

[jaunty mural]

you can build about
three fiddy

[lost moss]

Also don't be afraid to experiment with stuff and see what you like

[lunar eagle]

Go to YouTube. search for NMS Corvette Build
Find a tutorial for a ship you think is cool
Go build it. Do it in creative mode, start a new save, whatever.
Most of them teach a few mid-level techniques like 1/2 offset and 180 rotation
Use what you learned to build your own design
Look at cool ships in other games for inspiration

My first corvette (aside from the super basic one in the questline) was from a YT video.

[lost moss]

So what do we think of the little guy? Also, 1/2 stepping enables soooo much power for small corvettes

[granite umbra]

Cute little hovercraft. I like it

And yes I agree. Micro corvettes are so fun to build

This is mine

Literally just a cockpit in that thing

[lost moss]

I was inspired a bit by https://vortexgaming.io/en/postdetail/729986 and adjusted heavily for stuff I disliked

[tough plank]

How do you quarter step?

[granite umbra]

Check out MaverickNMS’ video

He has a 1/4 step guide

[hybrid magnet]

Wow I think I might've made the ugliest corvette known to man

That said!! I like it.

[lost moss]

If you like it, that's all that matters
Corvettes are so subjective

[hybrid magnet]

She's a beat up, mazelike, slightly asymmetrical, slow-turning wreck
But darn it, she's MY wreck

[lost moss]

can we have pics? :>

[woeful surge]

chat, i was wondering something, i saw the banshee medivac few days ago
https://nomansapp.com/?corvette=1846347271

and now i'm curious, are there pieces to create more lore accurate replica of SC 2 medivac?

mostly the wings and the tail is what's bothering me, are there pieces like that or no?

[lost moss]

Blender can do anything
Making some like that with vanilla would be more challenging

Resetting for a corvette with better SC slots
Roll one called The Claws of Madness
Yeah that seems about right

[lunar eagle]

Not... really. You need to get creative. The tail you can kind of do with some Vesper Aerofoils and Arcadia Aerofoils. The proportions would be off, but similar overall shapes. The front wings you can kinda do by stacking some Speedbird Diffusers backwards or sideways. Or try something else. There's a lot you can do, just depends on how creatively you can look at parts and play LEGO with them.

[hybrid magnet]

Sure! Be warned though, lol

Ahem...
It is with some embarrassment and a great deal of begrudging love that I humbly present to you, the kind people of NMScord...

The AGA-011 "Dawn of a New Age"
My first step into corvette making after a whole 103 hours and a LOT of saving

My brick, my baby, my pride and joy.

[lost moss]

flying pile of bricks

[hybrid magnet]

Yep

Listen I told you it'd suck

[lost moss]

it's yours and that's what matters

I think the idea of the shaping is good, just needs to be uhhh

[hybrid magnet]

Not even pangalactic poverty can stop me for long

[lost moss]

rounded out a bit maybe :P

[hybrid magnet]

Maybe if I came upon a bounty if resources lol

Of*

[lost moss]

salvageable scrap is your friend

[hybrid magnet]

True,,

[granite umbra]

I can see the general shape

[lost moss]

yeah, I think the rough shaping is a good base to work with

[lost moss]

ball

[sharp pecan]

Is that a ship?? 🤣🤣

[edgy star]

his and hers gaming stations on my corvette.

[lost moss]

Epic

[raven rover]

Restart your game

[lone cliff]

My Tantive IV and small recreation of the opening to A New Hope with my freighter ofc

[unborn mulch]

After bit of technical struggling, I made an observation balcony to facilitate hunting for freighters

[austere token]

That's.. a whole lot of modules you got there

Space pirates are eating good with this one

[hybrid magnet]

Pirates have never gotten a crumh out of me

Crumb*

[tired bloom]

would you like some more wings or some decorative peices....

[edgy star]

whats up with some windows being so dark you cant see through them?

[dark juniper]

Just how they work unfortunately, most likely a bug. This mod fixes that https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/4050

[weak bloom]

rate the new corvette

[hybrid magnet]

-# yeah igxcitxyco

[lunar eagle]

Machariel-inspired Corvette v4.0. I still need to do the internals and add more reactors, etc. But I think this is 99% the design I want to go with. Any comments or ideas appreciated.

[tired bloom]

when im home, if ur on i can give u some spare peices

[hybrid magnet]

That honestly sounds lovely

[lunar eagle]

99% in-station built. Used a basebuilding mod that lets you rotate windows in all axes to make some ~45-degree tilted parts. I used an external app at the end to very slightly angle down 8 parts that make the top rounded center in the front. It looked fine before that but this looks better.

[zinc wren]

does anyone know where i can get aeron parts? i missed that expedition but really want some of them for building a corvette, im pretty new to the game

[hoary agate]

They are tradeable. Ask in #nms-lfg-or-trades

[summer cedar]

Why is it so hard to make cool corvettes

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[stark widget]

rate the corvette (my first any advice appreciated)

[lunar eagle]

It just takes experience and patience. No one makes cool ones at the very beginning

[lunar eagle]

Advice: 1) post more pictures at multiple angles. 2) Don;t use pics facing the sun if you want feedback, because people can;t see anything if all the details are dark and shadowed. 3) I like to take pics flying or landed on the daytime side of a planet so the ambient light lights everything pretty well. Not as pretty as some pics, but more useful for feedback and understanding the structure

[stark widget]

ok ty

[lunar eagle]

Like, pics liek these #nms-showcase-corvettes message are pretty useless. The ship is tiny and mostly all you see is a silhouette

[lost moss]

Practice, patience, experimentation
And a lot of 1/2 stepping sometimes

[lunar eagle]

Sure, it's a nice photo, but you can;t see anything to provide feedback in a picture like this

[lunar eagle]

Also, liek the new Corvette I posted earlier today. It is my 4th rebuild from scratch of this general design. I went through 3 earlier versions that I was not happy with. I went looking for new inspiration, found a cool ship that used a part I had not considered in a way I had not considered, and it was a game changer.

[granite umbra]

It’s hard at first, like any other skill. But keep at it and you’ll see yourself progress!

[lost moss]

I think the biggest advice I have is to start somewhere, even if you think it looks like crap
It's not going to be perfect at first

[lunar eagle]

It looks SO MUCH better than earlier versions. I finally got close to my vision

[granite umbra]

For reference, this was my first corvette. Looks booty cheeks to me

And this is my most recent

[lunar eagle]

Like, this was my first try: #nms-corvette-discussion message
This was the second #nms-corvette-discussion message
Third, I trued using angled parts instead of the rounded ones. I did not even finish because it was garbage, but here is the one pic I took #nms-corvette-discussion message
And finally, after a few days, many hours, I finally made this: #nms-showcase-corvettes message

[twin hollow]

Does anyone have any of the breach corvette parts, if so please dm me I am a new player and saw them and are interested in trying to get my hands on them without jumping through hoops to get them.

[lost moss]

Tbh your first corvette is still better than maybe about 60-70% of corvettes I see lol

[lunar eagle]

For a first corvette, it is very good. But you've obviously improved

[lost moss]

my first corvette was this block lol

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1411919451724582933/1503912514335805591/image.png?ex=6a085eec&is=6a070d6c&hm=19203083f3f396cd2758d52ce724f3ed070858b1bef45aa11a95fb746c208022&

[runic bluff]

I'm thinking of redesigning the hull components on my current corvette

Try and make it a little smoother

[lunar eagle]

And this is my Third distinct Corvette, not counting the super-basic one you do in the questline

[lost moss]

and here's that first corvette after many rebuilds

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1411919451724582933/1504370904636063765/downloadfile-3.jpg?ex=6a080f95&is=6a06be15&hm=ba29385967aacd69927872a9a23ef61df19240c4dd4549170b0e304869667a8e&

it's not as clean as other people's but it's still an improvement

[granite umbra]

Flat as a pancake at the bottom tho LMAO

That would be a cool build theme for me tho

Refit my first corvette

[lunar eagle]

As much as I would like to raise my builds up higher to give the bottoms of ships a nicer look, the way the entryways work and my dislike of a bazillion flights of stairs to get to the cockpit prevents me from doing so. That and the fact that landing gear have to go on the absolute floor

[granite umbra]

You can do what I did with my previous Atlas builds

[lost moss]

bury the cockpit under all the layers of 1/2 stepping :>

the cockpit doesn't need to actually be able to see anything

[summer cedar]

How do U get the good corvette parts

[granite umbra]

Real

[lunar eagle]

Less of an issue if I flew 3rd person view, but I don;t liek to so I need to see out with as much unobstructed view as possible

[lost moss]

salvageable scrap

[lunar eagle]

Either farm randoms a LOT, and trade for them, or turn crafting on to free.

[summer cedar]

Ty

[lost moss]

look for planets with this property

[hoary agate]

U dig them up on planets with scrap

[granite umbra]

The cockpit on one of my ships btw

[lost moss]

lol lmao

[summer cedar]

@lunar eagle @hoary agate ty

[vagrant lake]

I cant find media channel

[lunar eagle]

I don't like to fly 3rd person. Or switch back and forth between it if I fly corvette vs normal ship

[lost moss]

I fly 3rd person so nbd for me lol

[hoary agate]

U can barter unwanted parts in corvette terminal on space station

[lunar eagle]

https://discord.com/channels/146101654981312513/1023351820120231956

[vagrant lake]

ah

[vagrant lake]

thank you

[granite umbra]

This is the amazing view from that cockpit

[summer cedar]

Cool thanks for all your help

[lunar eagle]

it's below the voice channels in the channel list, not surprising

[vagrant lake]

okay

[lunar eagle]

I suggest doing a few things to really improve your Corvette-building skills.

1. Follow a YT tutorial for a cool build you like, and build it. Use Creative mode or turn crafting on for free if you have to. Most of them teach some of the easier techniques like 1/2 step, rotated parts, etc.
2. Watch a tutorial on setting up a 1/4 step grid.
3. If you are able to use mods, I sugegst the Basebuilding mod, as it lets you rotate Windows and stuff, so you can create angled habs, giving you more flexibility

Not all at once, but progress at your pace

Doing #1 will really set you up for a lot of new possibilities and guide you on how to match parts, how you often need to build temporary "scaffolding" parts to attach parts to, etc.

God, the amount of times I have to place a walkway, place a small vent on it, move the walkway a 1/2 step diagonal, add a rockhopper to it, then use it to shift it 1/2 step forward or back...

Then see the part I placed doesn;t actually line up how I want, so I gotta do more adjustments...

Anyway, it takes a LOT of time, patience, and planning to build a nice, clean, cool-looking corvette

[fallow jasper]

What can I add to the back of this to give it more flair or something

[lunar eagle]

Thrusters, Vesper/Hardframe/Speedbird Diffusers. Nacelles pointing backward. Any of the structural parts you like really

[fallow jasper]

I'll consider everything but the thrusters because the thrusters aren't supposed to be in that specific spot

[lunar eagle]

Then I would maybe do Diffuser cowling cowling Diffuser, then same on bottom only flipped

or four Diffusers left right left right

Using Nacelles to taper back is an option too

[chrome tangle]

I’m so done bro I spent hours making my corvette just to discover that the nose won’t fit bc it’s out of range so I need to reconstruct the whole thing

[fallow jasper]

Is there any way to do like a snap fit thing for the base builder When I change up the ships

[fallow jasper]

@lunar eagle how's this look?

[delicate prairie]

is it possible to build this?

[lunar eagle]

That's a lot of thrusters lol

[fallow jasper]

Looks cool tho

[fallow jasper]

Also

[lunar eagle]

how do you mean? Some things snap (the corvette internals liek radar, storages, etc.), others adjust to attach to the surface inside (other normal base parts)

[fallow jasper]

Kind of like how they work in the official editor inside the game

[delicate prairie]

How do i flip a hab vertically?

So it will be like the entrance is facinh upwards

[lunar eagle]

oh, you mean in the base editor.

I honestly do not know. I don;t build there, only tweak things a bit, usually at the end

However, you CAN build on the station, export to editor, edit it, import it back, and then continue to edit

[fallow jasper]

Ah

[fallow jasper]

I know that

[lunar eagle]

so new parts will snap to the new, modified ones

[fallow jasper]

What if my eyes are worse than the other (damaged i mean) So I kind of have ok deaph perception is iffy and it doesn't work well in blender like programs

[lunar eagle]

I prefer to be 100% in the ingame editor if possible. I only use the editor if I need to rotate or scale something and doint in the game itself is not possible or extremely hard

[fallow jasper]

Alr

[lunar eagle]

my vision sucks too. I had cataract surgery a year or two ago, and while my long-distance vision is now pretty much 20/20, my close up vision sucks and i use reading glasses

[fallow jasper]

Damn

Yeah, i'm scheduling laceik at some point to see if they can do anything.Because mine's like bleach in detergent, damage, cause when I was younger, a tide pot exploded into my eye yeah, my mom refused to take me to the hospital to make sure my eye was okay

[lunar eagle]

i was super nearsighted before

how parents do not take kids to the ER when there is a severe problem is beyond me. sorry to hear abut that

[fallow jasper]

My dad would have taken me in a heartbeat. But indiana judges are extreme man haters and hate the fact of single fathers actually trying to make a difference for children

And that's not a joke for both of those. I cut my foot on a peice glass in our kitchen one time.There wasn't any glass stuck in my foot, but he took me to the e r anyway to make sure I was okay

Anyway let's get back to corvettes

Do you think there's someone who's made an actual corvette like the car

[lunar eagle]

would not surprise me. I saw a pretty nice formula one car

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1411919451724582933/1413528710577000582/image.png?ex=6a087cb2&is=6a072b32&hm=daabf7e1b3699a48b3f8a1acea46f3bc2846b97b75b703a916bd0c0cd223769f& and #nms-corvette-discussion message

[fallow jasper]

Hey, I was wondering, can I send you fq

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[fallow jasper]

HAHAHAHA

[glass surge]

in Vanilla No, modded on PC maybe

[lunar eagle]

fq? friend request? sure

[delicate prairie]

Which mod?

[lunar eagle]

Beyond Base Building maybe -- it lets you do 3-axis rotation so you could use it to get some of the angles. Or use the external NMS Base Building App

[delicate prairie]

How do i get them

And also, if i delete the mods will my ship disapeer

[glass surge]

This one https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/2598

also try asking in #nms-modding for the blender plugin etc

[lunar eagle]

https://www.nexusmods.com/nomanssky/mods/1096

[lunar eagle]

No, the mods just let you edit values you normally can't with the default tools (like rotation, scale, etc)

[jaunty mural]

wondering if it's possible to make a ringworld or ring station as a corvette
do the habs direct gravity downwards individually or is there one single direction for the whole corvette?

[glass surge]

one single direction for gravity in the whole corvette so there is no floating within your corvette

[glass surge]

also Vertical habs etc do not really work well normally due to the one way gravity; so if you're going to make a corvette with vertical bits make sure the entrance ramp and cockpit are normal as well as any storage etc you want to use and vertical habs etc are purely decoration

[balmy cedar]

Orville fan!

What's good homie?

Here's my daily driver

A wonderful workhorse of a ship

[lunar eagle]

Pirate ship / barge / animal corvettes are not to my taste, but that looks well-made. Just don;t bring it to the Anomaly. 😛

[golden bridge]

I play offline and play alone

[lunar eagle]

I also play alone, but I have MP turned on. I like going to the Anomaly and seeing other people's ships and corvettes, and occasionally doing group missions for the more tedious ones (like planetary scans that need a bunch of flora, fauna, minerals, and hotspot scans)

[golden bridge]

I dont open the mp like literally i dont play with people and i don't play expedition

[lunar eagle]

Honestly, I wish the game had more player interaction, but after visiting the planet for the Starbirth quest line, I understand why they don't. My game glitched so hard there. But liek I said, I like to visit check out other players' corvettes and show off my own

[golden bridge]

My friend told me to visit this Corvette thingy I don't because i feel awkward to people i dont know and 2nd I don't want to destroy there file i got a person who wanted to see my build so bad that he crashws his ship on ps5 5 times and I don't want to do that again i wanted to play solo because i can do whatever i want

[lunar eagle]

Maybe the weekly "Corvettes and Coffee" Stream. I was thinking of going in the past, and with this new Corvette, I think I will finally go. I still need to do last tweaks and finish the interior first tho.

[zinc wren]

just finished my first ever corvette, thoughts/improvements i could make?

[lost moss]

Big triangle
I like it, but maybe you want to try adding a bit of variety to the shape

[verbal kite]

Make it blue

[lunar eagle]

It's mostly Aeron parts, they mostly stay black, no matter what color you pick.

[zinc wren]

It’s more like a V, the camera angle doesn’t show it that well, my inspo was the B-2 Bomber if that makes sense

[zinc wren]

This^^^

It’s a pretty simple build but I don’t think it’s bad as my first, I like it a lot

[lunar eagle]

Yeah, it's why I almost never use them. That and the red glowing lines. They have their place, but I don;t really like them.

It's a good first corvette. Did you use 1/2 step placement or any other techniques?

[zinc wren]

Yes, I used the cargo capsule and rockhopper to offset some parts, before I started building I watched a couple videos of people building their own corvettes so I could learn some techniques

Was really just trying to learn the building system with this, I hope to create a lot more corvettes in the future

[lunar eagle]

This is the way. For my first "real" corvette, I just followed a YT tutorial, which taught me the 1/2 offset and maybe the 180 degree rotate tricks.

Later, I learned how to set up a 1/4 sideways grid, which helped even more

I also use a mod that lets you rotate in all 3 dimensions, without which my newest corvette would not look as good as it does

This what I built today #nms-corvette-discussion message
It's version 4 -- I built 3 others from scratch that I was not happy with until I reached this point.

I have tweaked it a tiny bit since then, but this is 99% how it is

right now I am working onthe interior decoration mostly

[zinc wren]

Yeah it was fun, I still have no idea how some things work, and i accidentally removed parts a lot which sucks because then i have to figure out how to put them in the right spot again

Didn’t realize how complicated the ship building in this game could get, was so confused at first because everyone had sleek ships and I didn’t know how, so I just went and watched videos of people building and collected a ton of corvette parts

[zinc wren]

Wild to me that something like that is possible

[lunar eagle]

IIMHO, the hardest part is getting a smooth transition from one part to another, so I look at a lot of builds for inspiraiton

[zinc wren]

Yeah I can’t use mods cause of my device I play on 😭

[lunar eagle]

It was almost entirely built in a station. I just tilted a few parts downward at the very end (with an app)

[zinc wren]

That’s sick; still figuring out how people do the really smooth rounded edges like that, looks so clean

[zinc wren]

Yeah I gave up on some parts of mine because I couldn’t make it smooth, might play around with it to get straighter edges some other time

[zinc wren]

Ahhhh that’s cool, I’m very far off from creating anything like that 😭

[lunar eagle]

It just takes practice, learnign techniques, and some creativity (or looking for other ships that do something you like and adapting it)

I could not get the front end how I wanted it in 3 prior iterations. Then I found this build and saw how he used some parts I had not considered, and it was better than everything I tried https://www.reddit.com/r/NMS_Corvette_Design/comments/1p7wj9p/after_i_made_the_expanse_ships_i_had_to_try_a_new/

[zinc wren]

So I take it that inspiration is really important? Like looking at other builds and just seeing what other players have done? That way you can just incorporate bits and pieces to your own

Or is that wrong 😭

I’m extremely new to this whole thing yet but loving it atm