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Type: Mod
Mod category: Block
Tags: NoScripts
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4.378 MB
11 May @ 2:21pm
11 May @ 7:44pm
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Darkstar Very Long Armor Ramps

Description
This adds Large Grid, Light Armor long ramps of even length up to 16 blocks.
Each ramp is made of 2 blocks, so it can be meshed with half-blocks, uses vanilla light armor material/texture and is fully colorable and skinnable. It has fully modeled 3 build stages (like vanilla armor) and is survival ready, costing steel plates as light armor 2x1x1 slope base/tip, multiplied by their length (and with proportional build time increase).
It has no LOD (too simple), but build stages currently have no LOD either, so finish your welding to save those triangles !

Future plans:
+ add heavy armor version
+ add small grid version
+ add build stage LOD

Not planned:
- any corners/transitions, etc.
- custom textures
- odd-length ramps that cannot be cleanly split into two parts

Additional notes:
1. Since my main purpose for these was to make smoother ramps for vehicles, I adjusted the textures so they use parts where concrete skin has no holes/chipping to avoid repetitive pattern. It's unfortunately still visible, since it's not possible to make modded joint textures block (at least SE wiki says so, and given that this is my first time modding SE,I'll believe it).
2. If I find out the need, I may add even longer, extreme ramps, split into more than 2 parts (to avoid too long blocks), most likely in only few select lengths, like 24 and 32 blocks, but currently not planned.
3. I'm thinking of making heavy armor build stages significantly different than current ones, with chunky, square beams instead of the thin, triangular beams used in the current ramps. You may note that the build stage beams are significantly more lean than vanilla blocks, since they were made from scratch and I think vanilla light armor build stages are too chunky for how thin light armor actually is.
4. Current collisions are 1cm smaller on each side than the block. It seems they can fit into appropriately sized holes without any issues/clang or if aligned properly (on a hinge on same grid for example), even without friction. May test if smaller size reduction might be okay/better in the future.
1 Comments
Corki99 15 May @ 11:35am 
Welcome back Armor Ramps [by UncleSte]