Rotating Stations

[Sugar Spice]

posted on April 10th, 2006, 3:52 pm

Last edited by Sugar Spice on April 10th, 2006, 3:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Please, as many stations in star trek rotate on their axis.

Minor exceptions are shipyards and mining facilities

posted on April 10th, 2006, 4:37 pm

Well if yes, then REALLY REALLY SLOW barely detectable. But I have a hunch that it would look very strange if most of the stations in your base rotated, that looks good in shows cause the stations are barely very close together so you only see 1 at the time, now imagine like 10 of them spinning on their own :-S

posted on April 10th, 2006, 6:34 pm

lol an upside starbase spining on it's side axis

posted on April 10th, 2006, 11:18 pm

I'm sorry but the word Nausea comes to mind...

posted on April 11th, 2006, 9:04 am

this is just a bad idea any way you look at it. but nice try.

posted on April 11th, 2006, 9:14 am

It might look cool for lone stations and stuff but otherwise a group of stations would look a bit naff.

Its impossible anyway if you want any hardpoints or other weapons on it because hardpoints cannot be animated even if the models can.

posted on April 12th, 2006, 1:23 am

besides that, it could cause bad performance on weaker machines.

posted on April 12th, 2006, 6:29 am

Well thanks for the mean words people, all I needed was a "its not possible".

posted on April 12th, 2006, 6:55 pm

ha ha sorry for the neg news, it is just that... well imagine a field with polker dots, different sizxes and that swurls arounds it's own axis... it is very... hmm disorientating

posted on April 12th, 2006, 6:59 pm

possible yes, but it is not to be recomende as it will cause other complications, would be good with research stations though

posted on April 13th, 2006, 7:17 am

Yeah the research stations of all races except the Noxter can rotate, dunno about the Iconians and the Dominion.

posted on April 13th, 2006, 4:01 pm

yes the models can be animated to rotate but any hardpoints on them can't. And is just peoples opinions to whether something looks good or not dark angel ppl arnt being nasty

posted on April 15th, 2006, 3:35 pm

yeah, sorry for bringing the rain on your parade, but it's just our opinion, i think we wre preety nice aboot it too ^_^

posted on April 18th, 2006, 12:06 pm

Is it possible to have a station rotate then once it begins to attack to stop rotating?

posted on April 18th, 2006, 12:51 pm

I dont think so, but hey, what do I know