It's long since past its functionality. Whether through updates or whatever, this ship not only has incredibly low roll/pitch/yaw (0.3-0.5) it also doesn't have any dock blocks. meaning it can't actually grab anything. Needs a huge update to be useful.

This ship doesnt work as intended. Looks cool tho.

Hardly moves itself let alone anything else

Thank you Lightmare for your kind words, This lore is in fact an early part of a larger collaborative lore effort in the community, let me know if you have any interest!

Great lore that has been created for this craft, I subscribed partly for that and because it is a good design.

Nice one!

Looks fantastic!!

I do think many of the most prominent Avorion artists have gone to art school, or have considerable experience with 3D. A commonality among all of us seems to be our childhood fascination with lego, I remember spending hours per day with them!

Thank you again, feel free to message me if you'd like to chat again. Cheers!

Thank you so much StarryWisdom, 65~75 hours is a really really long time! I spent some of my time looking closer at the GD-72, and it continues to amaze me. I particularly like the fine detailing of the cockpit with its multiple terminals. It's the little things that show the love and care put into the model.

I've mostly used Blender for creating 3D models for papercraft projects. I imagine Avorion models could be converted into .stl files for 3D printing, but I think Avorion ships are particularly suited for papercrafts. Having physical models (plastic or paper) of these creations would be wonderful to have.

I know quite a few people who are into ship building and space games, many of them are into Stellaris. Some probably play Avorion too. It's a small world...

I would say many of the people making really good ships on the workshop probably have at least some artistic sensibility, talent, or training. At the very least probably some of them built a lot of lego creations as a kid, raises hand.

Thanks Icemourn. The GD-72 took somewhere around 65-75 hours I think.

Some of that is just running into design issues where I have to figure out how to do something that would have taken far less time in a conventional 3D program like Blender. But then I don’t have to UV map, normal map, and texture, anything so there are advantages too. The two are probably somewhat comparable.

I have some experience with SketchUp, Blender, Maya (a long time ago now in art school), and 3DCoat, but I’m not an expert by any means, more a hobby, but I too dabble some with 3D from time to time. I just generally never take them to a finished state, fully textured and all that. Certainly nothing like Paul Pepera.

But I have used some of my models as references for some of my creations in Avorion. Like my Andromeda, that had a fully modeled 3D version in blender that I made a while back for a potential Stellaris mod that will probably never be finished. But that model came in handy regardless.

Wonderful work! Thank you for introducing me, and the rest of the Avorion community, to the work of Paul Pepera. Their sci-fi designs are jaw-dropping, and am pleased to see their work appear in Avorion. Whenever I look at the excellent ship designs on the workshop, I always believe they're the work of professional 3D modelers. I've only dabbled in 3D art, mainly through Blender, and these kinds of works inspire me to get more serious with 3D modelling.

I'd love to hear your response, how long did modelling the GD-72 Heavy Tug take?

I ask because these creations parallel professional 3D models (quad/polygon based ones) in quality. I'm comparing the time/effort spent on artistic Avorion ships to conventional models found in other media.

Thank you!

It’s a fine idea, Rio, and fairly simple to do but unfortunately I’m kind of out of the ship building “game” for the time being. Haven't touched Avorion much at all in the last few weeks.

They changed how scaling works, specifically using the A, S, D, keys while using templates or just copied and pasted selections. It scales it along every axis x, y, z even ones I’m not altering to the nearest scale step. It changes the overall dimensions and causes misalignments.

There are ways to avoid it but they are either time consuming or require me to use a consistent scale step and not use numbers with many decimal places.

Long story short that change has made it nearly impossible to build things the way I have for most of my ships. So all of my planned builds are on hold and I have for now stepped way from Avorion. Sorry

This ship got extra utility with docking update. StarryWisdom you should add docking ports to those arms

I'd say you succeeded. The handling is unreal, it's like i'm using the starting drone, but bigger.

Thanks Mr. Bear glad you are enjoying the ship! Yup it's how I like to build small ships and where block stacking at least for me makes the most sense. I like to have small ships be faster than larger ships (at least as much as I can), thus giving them some added survivability even later in the game when ships will outclass it in DPS, Hit Points and Shields.

This ship is such a joy to ride. I use it to explore new sectors without having to worry about blowing up into bits by pirates as i can just get away effortlessly.

Thanks Gatt

i have seen this concept art and always wanted to build this ship, but i doubt i could ever make it look as good as yours, good job

That seem like a lot of work, and sounds cool! So yeah go ahead and use it.

I rewrote the games Ship and Station generation engine. I adjusted scaling, and added Global faction packs which uses pre build designs instead of random generation. There alot more to it but thats the main parts of it.

Sure you can use it, credit Joexer and me, though out of curiosity what you doing with it? What's the mod?

Hey StarryWisdom, I'm currently creating a mod and I'd like to include this ship in it. Would you mind? Credit will be given.

Thanks LegionOfPenguins, glad you like it

Incredible build, I love the detail work as well as the maneuverability in game. I'm impressed.