Suggestion: Armor Layer Rotation Mechanism

pokington
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Suggestion: Armor Layer Rotation Mechanism Sept 25, 2016 14:02:08 GMT

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Post by pokington on Sept 25, 2016 14:02:08 GMT

For armor, the radial widget lets you armor layer be an arc around your ship. By reducing the radial armor percentage you can have a ship with a 50% armor coverage on the port(?)-side only.

I think it would be helpful to have a layer rotation widget that lets you rotate the layer itself -- I have found myself wanting to armor the port and starboard sides of my ship differently. It lets you create some interesting bilateral designs like the sentinel.

* - Port and starboard don't really make any sense for a ship anyway.

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Suggestion: Armor Layer Rotation Mechanism Sept 25, 2016 15:11:44 GMT

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Post by argonbalt on Sept 25, 2016 15:11:44 GMT

All you have to do is radially move your desired modules to a 180o difference of angle to the side away from or onto the armour to do what i think you are trying to do, alternatively you can simply stack two layers and rotate as desired.

I would agree that a rotate armour section button would be nice.

pokington
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Suggestion: Armor Layer Rotation Mechanism Sept 25, 2016 17:34:38 GMT

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Post by pokington on Sept 25, 2016 17:34:38 GMT

That wouldn't work for what I'm envisioning, so let me explain a little better.

Imagine a ship that has weapons on only the "front" side. Using the radial armor widget you get a half shell of armor material A on the "front" side. What you can't do is get a half-shell of armor material B on the "back" side without also adding it as a layer under the "front" side as well.

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Suggestion: Armor Layer Rotation Mechanism Sept 25, 2016 19:09:12 GMT

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Post by argonbalt on Sept 25, 2016 19:09:12 GMT

Sept 25, 2016 17:34:38 GMT pokington said:

That wouldn't work for what I'm envisioning, so let me explain a little better.

Imagine a ship that has weapons on only the "front" side. Using the radial armor widget you get a half shell of armor material A on the "front" side. What you can't do is get a half-shell of armor material B on the "back" side without also adding it as a layer under the "front" side as well.

Ah ok yeah that makes more sense.