Moving Parts?

Schmuff

Something I've always wanted to be able to do was have moving parts on my ship. Being able to have an Ion Cannon in the middle of my ship, and have a sort of 'mouth' that closes to protect it would be really cool. I would think the only two methods of moving necessary would be hinge movement and sliding movement, and you would assign one (or multiple) moving parts to a hotkey to move them.

Walt

Yeah, I've been wanting something like this, too. The code for it will be tricky, though. No promises or ETA, but I'm thinking about how to make it work.

Schmuff

Walt Something that I forgot about when writing the main post, and that would probably be easier to implement, was detachable links. Probably a 1-block structure that when a key is pressed, will detach from what is connected to on one side of it (or just destroy itself). Such a structure would make it easier to utilize the ship-splitting mechanics that already exist.

Walt

Yeah, detachable ships would be super-cool. I'll probably do that when I do ship docking.