Space Engineers

Space Engineers

P.O.M - XL Blocks [Slopes Update!]
ribera1945e 19 Mar, 2023 @ 4:03am
Deal with Physical Shapes
There is Physical Shapes as a size constraint for large grids.

Vanilla armor blocks have the ability to combine simple shapes (such as plates and squares) that consist of nearly 50 blocks into a single physical shape. This contributes to the realization of large grids with simple shapes.

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949121243

Blocks in this mod do not benefit from the functionality of this vanilla armor block. For simple shapes, the number of blocks can be reduced, but for Physical Shapes, the number will increase.
However, it makes a lot of sense to have shapes that cannot be simplified even with the functions of vanilla armor blocks, such as triangle corners and slopes, as a single block. Slopes made up of tons of blocks are one of the major contributors to Physical Shapes consumption. If you can make 5x5x5 sized armor corner blocks into 1 block, you save 45 Physical Shapes per block. This makes a lot of sense.

I have high hopes for this mod in dealing with Physical Shapes. Even if it's just a simple shape, I'd like you to add armor variations such as corners, triangular corners, and slopes. This can be a game changer.
Last edited by ribera1945e; 19 Mar, 2023 @ 4:04am
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_jo.nat_ 2 Apr, 2023 @ 4:59pm 
I wonder if it's worthwhile having the armour panel blocks represented in 5x5x1? Would certainly help with adding actual "armour panels" to stations and ships
ribera1945e 2 May, 2023 @ 5:34am 
We got the slope block variation. wonderful!
Next, I want some variations of the cube. A 5x5x5 cube block saves the number of blocks, but it does not save PS in simple shapes. For simple shapes like 25x25x5, 25x5x5, 50x5x5, you will need blocks that can save a lot of PS and number of blocks at the same time.
BlazingImp77151 11 Sep, 2023 @ 2:26pm 
Do you have an alternate explanation of what you mean? I cant really understand (like how does the combination work?).
I don't think the mod creator is very active (no updates since the day after you sent this, and no newer mods), so if you also know what needs to be changed in the code to fix it, it would be nice to know so that I can edit my own copy to work.
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