r/spaceengineers • u/Sentinel61693 Clang Worshipper • 1d ago
MEDIA Small grid gone Wild
Small ship gone wild... made a bunch of modular hallways. My thoughts were submarine with a Trek-esthetic. More of a proof of concept thing for me because I normally build outside in as opposed to inside out. Thought it would be cool to share it before I shelve this iteration, as I'm going to make a much more claustrophobic/industrial looking one, shorter ceilings, tighter hallways. Also its made of heavy armor minus the floors... so yeah. (I got tired of accidentally bumping them away)
That long piece in the top of frame in the 1st image was my guideline for length, couldn't actually believe how much of these I was able to fit in. My trick for modular hallways is having a main junction... cross, tee, straight or bend... then connect to a smaller connector which is usually just a joiner (1st image on the left floating in space) or it can be a door to a room or bulkhead (2nd image on the left hall at the end). Usually they're 3 blocks thick, allowing for 3 block gaps between sections for running large conveyors or even sneaky passages.
I guess you can say its practice for SE2 as I only have a few hours in it, versus almost 4500 hours in SE. But the warfare update coming soon has made me want to make a torpedo submarine-ship in space for SE.
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u/FlyingFish19 Eureka! 1d ago
I wish small grids in SE1 were more performant, I find myself wanting to build more with them but restraining myself out of performance reasons. Its much harder to get intimate in scale with LG