Making out of this world stations in the Space Agency game by @Nooleus
Showing posts with label Blueprint Designer App. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blueprint Designer App. Show all posts
February 2, 2019
No Connection? No Problem!
Station Blueprint Designer is now a fully functional progressive web app. That means that not only can you copy it to your home screen of your phone, but you can also use it offline. This way you can design stations anywhere you go.
January 1, 2019
New Part for the New Year
Happy New Year from Centauri Spaceworks!
To celebrate the new year, two new custom parts have been created: corridor bend left and corridor bend right. These two parts let you offset parts with without the sharp corners for a more streamlined appearance.
The part is just slightly larger than a large station module, but narrower than the Voyager X body. This allows it to be launched with a standard fairing.
You can access these parts by using the Centauri Part Pack for Station Designer.
December 15, 2018
Holiday Update
There is a new release of the Station Designer app. The big feature in this release is the ability to load custom parts. This opens up possibilities for new stations designs. Use the 120° Hub to create hexagonal stations. Make a grappling station with the CSgtarm. Build a refinery station with the fuel conversion plant. The limit is your imagination!
As a second present to everyone, Centauri Spaceworks has released a holiday part pack with two new parts: Holiday Xmas Module and Holiday Hanukkah Module. Both parts pair nicely with the new Ion Drive part, but can be enjoyed with any of the existing parts.
Right now creating custom parts is a bit of a technical process. However if you want to give it a try, join the Station Designer Discord. You can find a link to the how-to there, as well as get any questions you may have answered.
As a second present to everyone, Centauri Spaceworks has released a holiday part pack with two new parts: Holiday Xmas Module and Holiday Hanukkah Module. Both parts pair nicely with the new Ion Drive part, but can be enjoyed with any of the existing parts.
Right now creating custom parts is a bit of a technical process. However if you want to give it a try, join the Station Designer Discord. You can find a link to the how-to there, as well as get any questions you may have answered.
Happy holidays and happy designing!
November 13, 2018
Station Blueprint Designer Updates
The team at Centauri Spaceworks has been busy updating the Station Blueprint Designer app with new features since its initial release.
There were some tricks going on as the app got dressed in a new Halloween themed costume.
Snapping also had a small improvement. Now snapped docking ports are indicated by a circle with a ring around it instead of just changing color. This should make it easier to identify when a docking port is snapped.
There is now also a Discord server if you want to share your creations, post suggestions, be a tester, etc.
Theming
There were some tricks going on as the app got dressed in a new Halloween themed costume.
Happy Halloween from Centauri Spaceworks! It is the last day to experience the spooky side of #stationblueprintdesigner app 🎃👻https://t.co/SJWGWSW6lm pic.twitter.com/4iSwCdGLPp— Centauri Spaceworks (@CentauriSpace) October 31, 2018
Snapping
Snapping also had a small improvement. Now snapped docking ports are indicated by a circle with a ring around it instead of just changing color. This should make it easier to identify when a docking port is snapped.
New snap indicator makes it easier to see when the docking ports are aligned in #stationblueprintdesignerhttps://t.co/SJWGWSW6lm pic.twitter.com/nk3EunUUDj— Centauri Spaceworks (@CentauriSpace) November 1, 2018
Discord Server
There is now also a Discord server if you want to share your creations, post suggestions, be a tester, etc.
If @discordapp is your thing, there is a #stationblueprintdesigner Discord server for questions or discussion! Just in case 280 characters isn't enough. Plan on 🚀🚀🚀https://t.co/KnUQen7MjL— Centauri Spaceworks (@CentauriSpace) November 8, 2018
New URL
The biggest news is that the app also got a new URL: https://stationdesigner.app/. The new URL and hosting service should make for better looking tweets and easier indexing on search engines.Station Blueprint Designer has a new home with a shorter name! Go build some awesome stations and wow @Nooleus 🚀🚀🚀https://t.co/sdqwP7YXvl— Centauri Spaceworks (@CentauriSpace) November 10, 2018
Future Features
- Support for running the app offline
- Categories for parts
- Including custom parts such as the 3-way hub and paint shop.
- Ability for users to add their own custom parts.
October 23, 2018
Image Export in Station Blueprint Designer
Station Blueprint Designer now has the ability to export images! This new feature allows you to save your design as an image.
To access, open the menu and choose 'Export Image'. It will download a blueprint style image of your entire plan for you.
As always, share and tweet your plans @CentauriSpace! Happy planning.
To access, open the menu and choose 'Export Image'. It will download a blueprint style image of your entire plan for you.
The export contains the full plan, even if it is too big to fit on your screen at on time. This one is for you, mobile users.
As always, share and tweet your plans @CentauriSpace! Happy planning.
October 4, 2018
Station Blueprint Designer Updates
Recently, all of Centauri Spaceworks resources have been dedicated to improving the Station Blueprint Designer app. There have been numerous updates posted to @CentauriSpace on Twitter. In case you haven't been following here is a summary.
Improvements include a custom app icon if you save it to the home screen. Normally there is an option in the mobile browser menu to "Save to Home Screen" or something similar. Very handy if you use the app frequently. It also lets you run the app in full screen mode without the browser URL bar.
Thanks to everyone who pointed out that some parts were missing from the original release: Lunar Module, Transponder, Stand-Alone Laboratory. These have been added.
The ability to export to an image is currently in progress. Further in the future considerations are to add the ability for custom parts.
Improvements include a custom app icon if you save it to the home screen. Normally there is an option in the mobile browser menu to "Save to Home Screen" or something similar. Very handy if you use the app frequently. It also lets you run the app in full screen mode without the browser URL bar.
Functional improvements include cargo and power statistics for station designs. This is in the upper right on phones and lower left on tablets and desktops.
Thanks to everyone who pointed out that some parts were missing from the original release: Lunar Module, Transponder, Stand-Alone Laboratory. These have been added.
The ability to export to an image is currently in progress. Further in the future considerations are to add the ability for custom parts.
September 6, 2018
Station Blueprint Designer App
This is a very exciting post. Not only is it the 100th blog post, but it is also something that has been on my mind for a while: a station designer web app.
Commander Oz did a great job starting it off with the Station Planner Kit. He traced out all of the Space Agency parts at scale so that you could move them around in Inkscape. This worked really well if you knew how to use Inkscape and weren't trying to use it on your phone.
CptArcheron took this idea even further and made a station designer app that didn't require knowledge of Inkscape. Anyone who had a computer and Java could use it. But it still needed a computer.
Centauri Spaceworks! is taking the next step and making a web based app for designing stations. Since it is web based it runs anywhere you have internet: Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac. It is touch friendly and responsive so you can use it on the same phone or table that you play Space Agency on.
Here is a demo of the app that shows the basic usage. It shows adding and editing a few parts as an example.
There are more features that I though about adding but haven't gotten around to yet including:
Happy editing and launching!
Launch Station Blueprint Designer
Commander Oz did a great job starting it off with the Station Planner Kit. He traced out all of the Space Agency parts at scale so that you could move them around in Inkscape. This worked really well if you knew how to use Inkscape and weren't trying to use it on your phone.
CptArcheron took this idea even further and made a station designer app that didn't require knowledge of Inkscape. Anyone who had a computer and Java could use it. But it still needed a computer.
Centauri Spaceworks! is taking the next step and making a web based app for designing stations. Since it is web based it runs anywhere you have internet: Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac. It is touch friendly and responsive so you can use it on the same phone or table that you play Space Agency on.
Here is a demo of the app that shows the basic usage. It shows adding and editing a few parts as an example.
There are more features that I though about adding but haven't gotten around to yet including:
- Export to PNG/SVG
- Power statistics
- Bulk selection and editing
Happy editing and launching!
Launch Station Blueprint Designer
July 31, 2018
Station Blueprint Kit Updated
With the release of Space Agency 1.9, the blueprint kit has been updated to include the new ion drives. As with all the parts, these new parts are compatible with Commander Oz's SVG kit as well. The link-able ion drive has a link icon so they can be identified on station drawings.
You can download the blueprint kit. It is an SVG file that you can edit in Inkscape (or any other SVG editor).
There are some parts that the blueprint guide doesn't have (like fairings) because they aren't typically used in Centauir Spacework's construction. If you need to use one of those, here is a guide for how to convert parts from the Commander Oz style to the blueprint style.
You can download the blueprint kit. It is an SVG file that you can edit in Inkscape (or any other SVG editor).
There are some parts that the blueprint guide doesn't have (like fairings) because they aren't typically used in Centauir Spacework's construction. If you need to use one of those, here is a guide for how to convert parts from the Commander Oz style to the blueprint style.
- Select an existing blueprint style part and copy it.
- Select the Commander Oz part.
- Ctrl-Shift-G
- Ctrl-Shift-+ (the plus/equal sign on the keyboard)
- Ctrl-Shift-V
July 17, 2018
Trade Station Omega
First, an apology for no blogs last week. Centauri Spaceworks has been diversifying into Tiny Space Program. A significant portion of resources has also been devoted to developing an asteroid mining game. And everyone in the Space Agency division decided to take their vacation last week.
Here is preliminary design of Trade Station Omega. It isn't complete but it is close. The design doesn't have the locations of the oxygen gardens, med bays, and control rooms placed. It also doesn't have the power calculations, but with 4 nuclear generators and 12 large solar panels it should be enough to power it.
What suggestions do you have for it? Tweet @CentauriSpace. Maybe your suggestions will make it into the final design.
Here is preliminary design of Trade Station Omega. It isn't complete but it is close. The design doesn't have the locations of the oxygen gardens, med bays, and control rooms placed. It also doesn't have the power calculations, but with 4 nuclear generators and 12 large solar panels it should be enough to power it.
It does have 4 major docking ports (the airlocks), 4 minor docking ports (modules at 90 degrees off off the air locks), and two high security docking ports. That is a total of 10 docking ports for ships.
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