2023 ended weirdly abruptly for me, but I got the shot in the arm I needed in order to hit the ground running in 2024. This year's going to be absolutely crazy, but for me personally, I feel my worst years are finally behind me. I'm ready to stop drowning in a sea of...
This is a general update and not project specific. To start, I've been pretty sick the last couple of weeks. That nuked almost every end-of-the-year plan and goal I had for 2023, including the Yamato project. Even as I write this, I'm only just 'recovering.' There's...
Okay so the Cosmo Messers aren't 100% compatible with the Yamato, so I wanted to modify one to be close to spec. I somehow wound up making a full-blown Cosmo Falcon. There I go, makin' replicas again I also did some side by side comparisons on an old request and Good...
Oh my goodness ... well, things may have slowed down exponentially compared to the first 24 hours of working on this thing, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been major progress. Check this out. The exterior is nearly finished (minus coloring) The catapults work...
Uh ... yeah, I'm not sure why I started making this yesterday. I'll do 'inspired' builds, but I never attempt actual replicas. For some perspective, this is sixteen hours of work crammed into about a day and a half. It took me a year to get the Admiral Hipper slapped...
One of the most annoying things about fleshing out these World War II inspired factions is that there isn't enough territory in the setting to go around. I mean we've got America, the UK, Germany, France, Japan, etcetera. There are only a handful of habitable worlds,...
Today was a little different. I was hoping to put the final touches on the Cosmo Messer.
So here’s how everything started going in circles.
If you’re familiar with Space Battleship Yamato, you’ve probably seen that pair of carousel storage platforms it uses inside its hangar. It maximizes internal capacity by shifting and slotting fighters onto their launch points instead of relying on a lane or an elevator.
I wound up making a simplified prototype on my Admiral Hipper rebuild, and frankly, I can’t believe this is actually working!
It only took a few hours, but roughly two of them were spent figuring out how to get everything working with Coren’s Easy Automation script.
It’s bigger than I wanted it to be initially, but the Cosmo Messers’ wings were a bit too long for the original build. This version is only one block wider, but that makes a difference; the hangar space I have to build around this thing is going to have to be significantly larger to avoid collisions.
On the bottom of each platform you can probably spot the hydrogen tanks. They don’t need to be there but they fit, and the idea here is to store the fuel with the fighters rather than needing to draw it from deeper in the ship. I’d put some welders on these too if I thought it was a good idea, but an actual maintenance area sounds better.
Maybe I can finish the Cosmo Messer tomorrow.
Or maybe I’ll get distracted and churn out another weird contraption. Personally, I’m fine with either outcome.
I don’t play this one much anymore, partly because I’m trying to make the switch from using a ps4 controller to just my mouse and keyboard for most games and it’s especially painful in PSO2. FFXIV also hits everything except the ‘feel’ of combat better, so more of my free time goes there.
I decided to log on earlier just to see if I could slap together a certain look that’s been floating around in my head. I got stuck in the salon for around two hours trying to get it working only to hit the maintenance wall right as I was putting the finishing touches on it.
“That is true pain.”
~Lord Ozunu
Anyway, I’m trying to remember the important things I did because sometime after maintenance I need to go back, do it again, and save it this time.
What a day this was: An incredible success followed by a classic failure.
2023 ended weirdly abruptly for me, but I got the shot in the arm I needed in order to hit the ground running in 2024. This year's going to be absolutely crazy, but for me personally, I feel my worst years are finally behind me. I'm ready to stop drowning in a sea of...
This is a general update and not project specific. To start, I've been pretty sick the last couple of weeks. That nuked almost every end-of-the-year plan and goal I had for 2023, including the Yamato project. Even as I write this, I'm only just 'recovering.' There's...
Okay so the Cosmo Messers aren't 100% compatible with the Yamato, so I wanted to modify one to be close to spec. I somehow wound up making a full-blown Cosmo Falcon. There I go, makin' replicas again I also did some side by side comparisons on an old request and Good...
Oh my goodness ... well, things may have slowed down exponentially compared to the first 24 hours of working on this thing, but that doesn't mean there hasn't been major progress. Check this out. The exterior is nearly finished (minus coloring) The catapults work...
M.A.S.S. Builder - What’s Next 0.11.0 - Steam NewsFirst of all, before anything else, we must announce that we’re shifting our development engine to Unreal Engine 5 for the next version. Now now, we must ask that you don’t panic and assume the game is going into a...
Project Wingman - BETA BRANCH UPDATE #1: Platform Update 2.0 - Steam NewsProject Wingman Beta Branch Major Update This is big news, but it didn't show up in my feed until well over a week ago. Toss in how busy I am and I'm only now getting around to writing about it....
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