it is supposed to be enterprise D, not A

realy nice ship
I love it

For all the improvements the hull received for the 3.1... i still think the old Nacelles looked better.

*pet's the 3.0 and goes back to work*

http://i.imgur.com/WClUXFo.png
In this piscture the concept is clearly seen as you can see the deflector is not illuminating any blocks around it. The light there is ambient light from the background.

the impulse engine and nacells arent lit. their slef illuminating blocks, they stay the same color and shade reguardless of light levels and angle viewed. in reality they produce no light on their own.

Looks great! But be wary of overloading your system with lighting. If the upper left corner starts displaying "Render Overloaded" shut it off, it eats computers.

http://i.imgur.com/1uqt5Rt.png
a pic of what ive done witht he nacells and the main impulse engine. along with some color change on the ship's spine

That goes untested.

Nah, i meant FPS and UPS :)

I havent flown her yet, shes still a station. Largely im not building her to fly (though she will be able to if my PC can handle it) shes mostly being built so ill have a starfleet ship to play with. Im using several mods to make her function, she will have impulse, manuvering thrusters and warp drive.

Oh dear. How's the engine doing?

its too late to modify on my version, ive already built up a large portion of the saucer.

Yeah, it's been bugging me for weeks now.

That saucer does look better

Maybe a little less "soon" - i wasn't happy with the FPS and decided to cut back a little which inevitably ended with axeing about 75 percent of the interior already present, at which point i decided to reduce the Saucer Rim hight too. It now looks something like this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ2HEnCWgAAWS9l.png:large
As a bit of a bonus i reimplemented Saucer Separation and am currently trying to figure out a nice pressurized corridor to connect both sections. Looks nothing like on the canon design but it seems to work which is always nice. Crew Quarters shouldn't be much of a problem with the now-finalized quarter blueprints.

(And don't forget to post it on the workshop when you're done!)

@ Renic Hm, not really, unless you use a Letters Mod. Problem is that letts with Catwalks need to be huge, otherwise you can't read 'em. Maybe you could remove the registry from the top and have only the name (in two rows) on the top and only the registry on the bottom side of the saucer? I got "U.S.S. Lord Mirdalan" onto the Saucer, so "Sword of Truth" should be feasable... it just looks ugly. We NEEEEEEEEED a proper Lettering Mod.

A second idea would be to use the square-shaped LCD panels. It looks nice when you get the right angle and saves on space, but i found some weird display-problems with them.

So, I am using your shell, its awsome but of ocurse its my own ship so I have to replace the name on it, the registry number is easy enough, but the name itself is hard, my ship has a much longer name, got any good advice on how to ge tthe name on there? the letters will have to be smaller but i don't want too much smaller. the name there is USS Galaxy, mine is the USS Sword of Truth

Yeah it is

I prefer worlds because you got mods at the ready (if you use them - most of what i do is kept vanilla) and because i want people to try the ship out in it's own enclosure first. I don't want anyone to lose their progress only because they pasted a blueprint in that crashes the game without saving beforehand. It's a fairly large ship for SE, even if the empty versions run quite nicely these days.

Aha! Thanks I found it wiht your help. It is much appreciated. Been a long time since I downloaded a world rather than a blueprint

Restarting the game might be a good idea as well. SE's kinda... special sometimes.

Ah, check if you accidentally clicked the subscribe button a second time, that unsubs you. Happened to me twice, damnit. For the file you need to look under your Workshop tab in the main menu (you won't find it in the blueprint tab ingame), with the name given above, "Workshop: Galaxy Class 3.0 Project: USS Galaxy NCC-70637-A (Empty Shell Variant)". You might need to refresh once or twice.

lol I know what you mean, I am next in line in the fleet to command my own ship and it will be a Galaxy

I am actually having difficulty finding it in my world list, and its not that large, where might I find it?

Serious lack of Galaxy going on there! (i kid ^^)

We don't RP here on SE, but my ship is a Nova Class, the group opperates 5 ships, each with a full bridge crew of players. We have the USS Spirit of Phoenix Soverign Class, the USS Mystic Nova Class, USS John F Kennedy Intrepid Class USS Gallman Intrepid Class and USS Bouddicca Norway Class

What ship you guys using?

That does help i might need to reboot the game cause I was having trouble finding it and yes, once built (with mods of course) there will be a posting on the Keen Forums. Currently I do hold a Starfleet Rank in a Star Trek RP group. I am Captain Renic, First Officer USS Mystic, Star Fleet Role Play Group. (SFRPG)

You do that :) Be sure to post a screenshot on the Keen forums, Sir! (the download here is a world, if that helps, it's not a blueprint.)

Ah Awsome. Well If i can find it (its nto showuing up in blueprints or as a world) then ill be building my own ship the USS Sword of Truth NCC 76522

Yes, the measurements in the description are from the ingame ship, not the canon stats. Don't worry, i've read the TNG manual upside down several times ^^

So you have her at 642 meters long? thats good enough for me then. Also, at standard hieght and with room in between, according to the ST Tech Manual she is 42 decks from top to bottem. i can get you further information from the tech manual if you would like. It is based on Enterprise D

Very close to 1:1. Length and width are pretty much spot on but she's not high enough because i couldn't find a way to fit more blocks in without breaking the silhouette. There's also a bit of a problem with widely different hights given - most sites seem to think the Galaxy Class to be as tall as almost 200 meters, which is... an interesting approach to measurement, to say the least. I assume it's some kind of conversion error that got pick up as "fact"; my own measurements support the second most cited hight of about 138 meters, give or take. The hight may, however, go down by a few meters in the future: i've come to deeply regret the thicker saucer rim i gave her and want to refit her to be thinner again. Problem is all the interior i'm currently working on. For a budget version with only four decks in the Primary Hull it's surprisingly packed in there.

Is she full scale or not?

Soon.

I don't expect the 42 Deck version anytime soon :/ but the "Theme Park Version" might be possible. Basically an empty ship with the most important sets you'd see in a show and a bunch of crew quarters. After calling the last one "Ultra Budget" i need a new superlative... "Black Hole"-Version?

I hope you're right, but my experience tells me that it's unrealistic to expect that size builds to run well in a physics and operations processing heavy game like this. But hey, I might be way off on my estimate, wouldn't be the first time.

@Malware: depends on whether or not they get a grip on the interior - compared to a year ago an empty ship of this size is juuuust this side of playable. Since my last post i actually manage to (at least partially) track down where the freezing comes from and it appears to be the Conveyors.
Which explains why the freezing starts happening a few decks in - because every room needs a connecting for Air Vents. I have now started a new interior design attempt (the FOURTH one at this point) where i basically pressurize rooms with armor-block tunnels. Works remarkably well in terms of performance though it takes a while to fill the room with oxygen (and i haven't built too many rooms yet but when i first ripped the Conveyors out of the ship via SE Toolbox the FPS and UPS skyrocketed like silly). I have a fairly good feeling about this try.

Holy... While extremely cool, I severely doubt projects of this size will _ever_ be viable in Space Engineers, even if Keen are perfect experts with optimization.

SO.
DX11 runs even worse. Guess that's been that for interior design. Who want's an empty Nebula? Because empty shells are apparently all this game's good for these days.

Just a little heads up; apparently performance has decreased to the point where even the budget version is starting to stutter now. Seeing how DX11 is around the corner i'm going to take a break from SE and come back once DX11 is in. Until significant performance increases have happened i won't waste my time working on a ship that causes a freezed frame every two seconds.
May work on empty ships for a while but frankly - releasing empty hulls isn't what i play SE for, that was more or less just planned as a teaser.

On that note - Survival Players out there, what are your opinions on Thrusters inside the ship? (Encased in a box big enough to allow Thruster Damage to be turned on - i currently don't see any way to make the ship maneuver without mods. Grav Drive really only works for moving in a streight line.)

I wish i could offer more right now but after attempting both a 42-Deck and a 20-Deck version i had to go back to the drawing board on interior design because the engine can't handle it yet.
(no idea if it ever will, either. Probably a bit of a pipe dream, but it's still early days.)

Working on a "budget"-version right now to keep performance and deck count as low as possible.

This is awesome. Thank you so much for sharing this. :)

Implying

I don't care enough to continue this conversation.

No, I know of no major English dialect that uses commas.

@Illuminati: both are correct, the use of comma or point on the line depends entirely on the region you live in and neither one is more correct than the other.

In English we use periods for decimals.