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Zarn
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 7:04 am    Post subject: A fun little toy... Reply with quote

Generates random modules to build a ship based on the random seed (name) you give the application.

Fun if you want to just look at some shapes. Seems to be a hash function, because there's no direct correlation I can find between the size of the seed and the resulting ship.

I suspect you could download the VRML and hand-remove modules you don't like, but I haven't played enough with it to check that.
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cheshire
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh wow. Now THIS could be the start of something great. If you need a unique ship for a campaign, this looks like an easy place to start designing.
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atgxtg
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's neat, but any idea how you get/save the ship so you can use it later?
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Zarn
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Note the 'save as VRML' in the bottom right corner.

Also, the same seed generates the same ship.

Or, you could just do a screen capture, of course, but then you're left with a static image.
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atgxtg
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, Ghostery was covering that up. Very Happy
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Cadet
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PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been having fun this weekend starting with this thing. Cycled the page a lot until it generated something I liked and thought I could work with, saved the vrml, imported that to blender just to change it to a format I could import into Sketchup where I've been playing around with the results. Here's a few examples, but I've got a bunch more in various states of modification. I never have any luck getting images to show up in forum posts anywhere, but here's a few links to show...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/csclxwz21hxwkh3/Archivaelo%20Trident%20III.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jy7722rtz03h02d/Archivaelo%20Trident%20IIIb.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7oxwjnjaojwv7q9/Margaz%20KLR-Scorpion.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/syczl4575pd2ly6/Margaz%20KLR-Scorpionb.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o17s4wqq1bx3rsg/Sidereal-509.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9q5ezoafjdinwx/Sidereal-509b.png?dl=0
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jmanski
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is so kewl. I tried character names.... fun stuff
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Merrick
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 8:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow! You can import that file type into Blender (After enabling an import plugin) and re-export/modify it as an .stl for 3d printing!

That is way cool, Thanks for sharing.
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Thx1138
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay now this is awesome, it would be even cooler if the ships could be edited and modified and a color scheme add on.
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