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Hey I got a question, could you fix the bricks? For some reason I am getting this problem:

Quote from Korten »

Hey I got a question, could you fix the bricks? For some reason I am getting this problem:

Use the MCPatcher download link she posted along with the textures. It will fix that right up for you.

Quote from GSKashmir »

Quote from Korten »

Hey I got a question, could you fix the bricks? For some reason I am getting this problem:

Use the MCPatcher download link she posted along with the textures. It will fix that right up for you.

alright I shall try that.

Well, as I already promised, there's another three wrenches by me, hope they look better to you (I personally think I failed)



of golden one I thought as of something comlicated and fragile, if you wanted to ask.

haven't yet tested them, so they may be fail.

You're welcome)
I wish I could do more, but I have no idea what to do)

So, here are pictures of my (currently unnamed) airship; thought you might appreciate them. They are over a week old due to the holidays and recent updates (I was waiting on minecraft to stabilize a bit before reinstalling mods and diving back into it, and the server has to wait on hey0 to update after each patch that breaks it).

The airship is 101 meters long and 21 in diameter. It floats above the southern shore of Lake Aether, which borders Retrotopia (my little "city-state" on the server). There are navigation lights in the horizontal fins, controlled by a redstone circuit inside the hull (none of the fins are done yet but the outline is in place for three of them. The addition of falling damage is going to make the lower one more difficult to build.) I have also built a lighthouse of sorts on an island near the lake and airship.

Much of the construction is made with resources harvested normally, but before I got heavily into the envelope, animals were disabled, so cloth was mostly available only from the ops or a Craftbook cauldron (sheep weren't seen much before that anyway). I wound up making several hundred cloth that way (slooooooooow, and required a lot of gravel and cobblestone), and got a bunch more from the ops. The clay I've started using for the lower envelope was mostly harvested naturally, but some was made in the cauldron, along with a few donations from other players (not ops).

The first several pics are regular images:

[*:3p61yxvi]This was 10 days ago
[*:3p61yxvi]From the tail.
[*:3p61yxvi]This is how she looked three days later, as seen from the lighthouse.
[*:3p61yxvi]Sunrise on the construction site, about three hours after the previous pic.
[*:3p61yxvi]Another vantage point.

The last few are with 3D mode turned on, for those with red/blue glasses:

[*:3p61yxvi]Looking along the port hull an hour and a half later.
[*:3p61yxvi]Inside the hull, looking aft.
[*:3p61yxvi]Looking starboard and down toward Retrotopia's Wardenclyffe District , with the Lake Aether lighthouse peeking out from behind the superstructure.
[*:3p61yxvi]View from the lighthouse.

More recently than these pictures, the upper envelope is complete, and the bow of the lower envelope as well as the ribs are in place. Barring one of the ops magicing up a bunch of clay for me, the lower half is likely to take longer than the upper, even with the cauldron, as it only gives clay pieces (so 1/4th as many blocks for the same size recipe), and I don't want to add too many chunks to the world by wandering around to find tons of it, so natural supplies are limited. I've also started on the internal decking (there will be two decks).

(Hm. That's a lot of parenthetical statements...)

Quote from Glimmar »

@ Dyne: Fantastic airship work! All the better I think for showing us work in progress like that. Very interesting to see how you started and the progression. I'm sure that's going to be helpful to others. Love all the names and the buildings in the background in your part of the server world. I'll pick one of your pics for the top of the thread, if you don't mind. :smile.gif:

No problem, go right ahead :smile.gif:

What'd likely be even more helpful is if I told people how I calculated the circular patterns for each part of the ship.

To start with, I grabbed MCPlanner (didn't know about the cube program mentioned upthread, at the time) and drew the ship's profile along its lengthwise axis. This told me the radius I needed at each section. Something similar to the following snippet (an airship like mine would be a hundred blocks long, so I'm not putting a complete example here, and this isn't the real pattern). This represents a forward upper hull ...

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In this example, the bow would be the block in the rightmost column, and the rest of the ship's length would continue off to the left. The orange line is the axis of the ship, as seen in my early screenshots. The part above the orange line should also be mirrored below it (in blue, to represent the clay), but I only put one row here to save space. Just for contrast, I made the blocks that fall inside the hull glass (it's only for this diagram; they are actually empty air)

So, column 1 above would have a radius of 5 counting from the orange axis, the 2nd through 4th columns have a radius of 4, and so forth.

Now, for the circular bits. I was actually just looking for a method of calculating it myself, but I found a comp sci course site, which had applets demonstrating various circular pixel drawing algorithms. Using the last (i.e., most refined) applet on the page, I drew a circle with each radius that I needed, and used the resulting pattern on the ship. The results might look like this for columns 2 - 4:

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(Didn't bother coloring the interior here, as it's more obvious.) I did this for each radius band on the ship. In my case, they went up to radius 10. (Twice that is 20, plus the 1 block at the axis gives my previously stated diameter of 21 m.)

In my early screenshots, you can see "spokes" sticking out from the axis. These measure how far out I have gone (start with the horizontals).

As you can see in the screenshot you embedded, I built a "rib" every ten blocks on the upper hull, since I'd already marked those distances to measure the axis. On the lower hull, I switched to doing a rib only when the radius changed. This makes the pattern easier to follow while wandering back and forth inside, and occasionally stepping away to get more materials. Once you have the ribs in place, the rest of the hull comes together fairly easily as long as you have enough materials.

Occasionally you will have holes in the envelope where one radius doesn't make a perfect transition to the next, but you can just fill those in as needed. In my case, I stuck lightstone in them and said they were lights embedded in the hull.

I wouldn't bother just yet; it's 2D (though it has layers for 3D constructs) and doesn't yet support loading and saving your creation, so Cube Kingdom is likely to be a bit more helpful. I was merely using it as a convenient grid to guide what I was doing. You could get similar functionality by making a post here like I did with the block smilies, and hitting "preview".

The program is here, though. I'm sure it'll improve.