MA HeavyBridge

Heavy Bridge is a split-level interior set containing a full-featured bridge for 4, and additional blocks to trim it to the rest of your ship.

The pilot's seat features live indicators and navigation ball. The other seats are standard support cockpits, and the command podium is a 16 button control panel. All surfaces are LCD panels, and a set of textures for them is included. There is also a front facing camera for rangefinder / scouting purpose, air vent, lights, and door. The coffee maker will refill your suit and health, but it is not a spawn point. Cost: It is heavy on Cobalt, which provides rigid strength. The average block has as much mass as heavy armor, making this double density. Additionally the glass is triple-thick. This provides durability advantage.

Should you decide to make your own set of textures, I've provided templates and gimp (.xcf) working files here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjs9ih50ijocpjr/HeavyBridge%20LCD%20Templates.zip?dl=0 (The included LCD texture is a mishmash of images of which none are original) Any complete theme sets I will be happy to include for all to enjoy, this gives a much better resolution and performance compared to monospace images. And script output would work too of course. For more information on making custom LCD textures, find Shaostoul or myself on Keen’s discord chat server.

Setup:

The bridge is a 5x5 set of blocks which fit together closely and overlap in areas, and the naming scheme follows a grid, much like playing battleship. Letters A-E across, and numbers 1-5 for row. B and T for bottom and top respectively. All of the bottom row is grouped, and all of the top row is grouped. This way you should be able to plop them down efficiently with the mousewheel. The LCD textures follow the same naming scheme, everything should line up. That said, it is still over 30 blocks to arrange so please expect it to take some time.

For a 3x3 bridge, use the "shorty" blocks to close it off right behind the support seats. This variant is a 3 man bridge.

These two variants should accommodate most ship designs.

Pre-assembled blueprint of the 5x5 bridge: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1655791461

Extras:

This kind of snowballed into a full interior set. There are windows, stairs, railings, tables, workstations, etc. As you can see in the screenshots, enough to make an entire building. Enjoy! There may be additions to the extras in the future, maybe better stairs for multi-floor and a ceiling light set. But split level variants of other functional blocks does not interest me, the idea is to transition to normal block space for the rest of the normal ship area.

All models have constructions and LOD stages of course. If things look kinda chunky, turn up the model quality setting! SE seems to turning that down automatically sometimes. Lowing the model quality setting causes it to use LOD model up close.

Special thanks to Shaostoul for helping with the support cockpit animations, Whiplash141 for the Navball script (again), Vicizlat for the cockpit HUD readouts, and Sixdice for the camera overlay. And the general assistance of Nukeguard, Darkstar, Mattacon, Kreeg and others.

One last note: You are free to use this mod as you like, but you may not re-upload this mod or any part of it without my permission.

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