Hey guys, I'm so sorry to do this to you, but I need to work on my future for concern of not having one if I'm not careful. Please check out the video added to the description discussing me going on hiatus from modding Space Engineers.

It needs a little bit of love but, it should still work just fine.

My Enterprise will be happy with this dish.

Ok thanks ! :D

It's just a normal antenna that may be broken due to code changes.

is it always working ?

ah ok

It's the thing in the picture. It's the name that someone came up with for the block when I made the mod back in 2015. It's just an antenna designed after a star trek deflector dish.

what is a "giant magic disk"?

That was the original inspiration/suggestion. :P

makes a good deflector dish for star trek ships :)

Eventually. I'm still raising money to replace my dead PC and waiting until Black Friday to buy the stuff.

Have you thought about a laser Antenna? Keen's is lacking range, and I haven't found one that actually looks good. Cheers.

I don't see why it wouldn't be.

is this ok to use for decoratioj

Yeah, but either way, still good to hail a captain in non roleplay in a public server

I think what you're wanting is more of just a role-play thing that people agree upon.

Well that sucks

I don't think there's anything you could really do that's focused like that.

Ah, that makes sense, but my thoughts were the hailing a captain or something

They have to work in Space Engineers, that's the problem. I only have so much accessible to me. Which is why the Force Field mod is still lacking in a lot of features :(

I could throw a few ideas

It's just a glorified antenna. This is a really old block, back in 2015 is when it was originally made. I might be able to add more functionality now but, I'm not sure what I could add.

About the Comms, can multipule ships have one, and would be ab,le to connect to a certin one to talk to the captain? Or is just a glorified Antina?

UPDATE: October 28, 2016

WARNING: Sometimes mods corrupt when updating. Locate the 9digit number in the URL that corresponds to a 9digit.sbm file in the AppData/Roaming/SpaceEngineers/Mods folder. Delete that SBM file and it will force a redownload.

Finally! It took a while for me to get the update out since I got home from Florida but, all is well! My cousin's brain surgery went fantastically and he's returned to work. It's lovely to be back in Washington and have everything back that I missed. IE: My computer, bed, and amazing well water. :P

Thank you everyone for your wishes and being patient during that difficult time.

-This update brings everything to the current Stable SE version.
-Steam thrusters were quieted and white box shouldn't appear.
-Glass should be fixed.
-Many texture fixes to be in line with the new renderer.

hope the surgery went well and i understand family is always first take your time

Sorry to hear that about your cousin. Good luck and Godspeed.

UPDATE:
-Steam Thruster 'should' be fixed and quieted down.
-Added support for the new variants system. (4000+ lines of code later)
-Cleaned up some code.
-No errors beyond "None File Extensions" present on release. I was able to place, grind, and weld all blocks without crashes.

The mod was released via the development branch, however no code changes took place that will break it for the stable branch. You will get a prompt about this, but you should have no issues.

XD... nice... hey you should make more modles of this so its not the one dish... make multible ones with different colours and shapes

That's what it is. :P

I think it was this one I based it off of. http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww9/BedaOfBorg/newdish.jpg

It started off as an idea that got mentioned a long while ago, I was like, I'll make it! Then when it came to naming it, the dude said he didn't care, so it got the name giant magic disc.

am i the only one that thinks... " did Shaostoul make a deflector dish from the star trek 2009 movie?" XD its really great but thats what its reminding me of

Thanks. Only got SE a few days ago and I'm hooked already. Although in June No Man's Sky is released and it looks pretty epic.

It's an antenna presently. It's been around forever.

See? Sexy again. It must be, because I don't know what the hell that thing is supposed to do, but I want it.

SMALL UPDATE:
-Glass texture changed temporarily.
-Many textures fixed, were behaving very weird, still more to do, lemme know if you see anything specific.
-Catwalk Stair should no longer be crashing

@McCloud, sure, when I can add a few more blocks.

Can we get a little more info for the Comms in the description?

BIG UPDATE:
-Near every single texture has be reworked to be better designed for better compression and smaller size.
-SLANTED FORCE FIELDS! I know, I know, took forever.
-DisplayName changes. Viewing block names in game should be significantly more pleasant.
-Assembler/Refinery storage capacity tweaked.
-New Gravity Generator
-Airlock door reworked a little bit to stop clipping issue.
-Airlock collision reworked slightly to hopefully stop so many explosions from unmerging.
-Hollow rotor is a little less explodey... Use with extreme caution.
-Many block position fixes, blocks finally showing up in block menu properly.

As with all big updates, if you have corruption errors. Delete the 9digitmod.sbm file located in appdata/spaceengineers/mods and redownload. No SubtypeID's were changed, so no blocks should vanish.

Essentially... yes. :P

I plan on doing more communication array sorta stuff, but in time. It's not exactly customizable beyond look.

I may even revisit the dish and give it LOD models so I can make a even more high poly detailed one.

@Shaostoul ok i understand. It looks totally amazing. Thought it was supposed to be a stand in for an Enterprise deflector dish. Great work.

I think it's sort of limited right now, there's only so much on the antenna that I'm allowed to mod, without getting into source mods, which I couldn't do as a mod like this.

It's mostly just an aesthetic change from the other antenna. Someone asked for a disc like antenna ages ago in the style of one of the Enterprise deflector dishes.

Looks pretty but antenna type?
range?
power needed?

I got it fixed, but I've been unable to finish updating SE the last week or so, so I can't upload it. Poor internet and lots of updates do not go well together. After I get it updated, I'll be able to test the things I've made, then see about getting everything updated.

I cant place this thing on any surface, and i want it soo bad

Got the antenna fixed, will be uploading a fix tonight.

Thank you for letting me know.

It doesn't stay fixed to any surface anymore.

NOTICE:
So, I'm not sure what just happened. The computer I'm borrowing just crashed in a strange way. Everything shut off, but not completely. After waiting a few minutes I had to force shut down the computer by holding the power button. After booting it back up it claimed that it BSOD'd, but there's no BSOD file to view for information about what happened. I can't upload mods with it as it just BSOD's again, so I transferred them to a friends computer and am uploading my fixes through that computer.

I'll try to figure something out, but as of this moment, I'm not sure what the issue with this computer is. I'll keep trying guys. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause for anyone.

LAST UPDATE
-Attempt to fix the long tab loading issue
-Added small ship variants to the ShaoCorp Misc mod
-Final force field fix hopefully
-Some other minor changes