Author Topic: TITANIC (Latest update pg. 38. Current as of 13 Mar 15)  (Read 80418 times)

The steering gear is complete!



Titanic needed a 3-crank steam engine just to move the rudder, and she had two on board in case one failed and they needed a backup. However, only one of these would be hooked up to the steering gear at a time.



Here you see the steering quadrant, and how the active engine links up to it to spin it. The seemingly reflective dark gray things inside the quadrant are springs, designed by Bones. Historically, these springs would ensure that if something suddenly hit the rudder, the springs would absorb the impact and prevent it from being transferred to the steering quadrant and thus prevent the engines from being destroyed thanks to a busted gear or a broken crankshaft or something.

Also, in the background of the second image, you can see part of a staircase. That staircase was directly below the docking bridge's staircase. This is related to how in the first image, you can see a white pipe rising from in between the two steering engines and going into the roof: on the other side of that roof is a similar pipe coming down from the wheel on the docking bridge. The docking bridge had a more direct connection to these engines than the wheels in the wheelhouse and navigating bridge!
« Last Edit: August 23, 2013, 06:43:55 PM by RMS Gigantic »


I can't believe this thread died. It's killing my inspiration to continue.

I can't believe this thread died. It's killing my inspiration to continue.
people are depressing
I like how you're building all the stuff that was in it originally. I think you should continue with it because I haven't ever seen a build like this get finished.

To keep this thread alive, we should start a joke competition. All jokes must have something to do with the titanic.

On the Titanic the captain calls a meeting of his officers:
'I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?'
'The good news', replies an officer.
'We'll get eleven Oscars.'

I can't believe this thread died. It's killing my inspiration to continue.

This Titanic is your jewel and your masterpiece. You know, i did a build called BlockoSeattle, i needed 2 years to build it, and i gave a lot of my time and lot of love and dedication in it, and after some weeks, the topic died. It pissed me off, but, what do you expect from blockland? really. Keep doing your Titanic, not because the topic isnt very active mean people forget and lost interest about it, i can assure you that i hear people speaking about it every days, yes.

I personally wonder if we could keep the activity up by dividing each major sub-build into individual gallery topics? For example, the steering machinery I built (with Bones doing the springs on the steering quadrant) was something like 400+ bricks when all was said and done, and its workings are incredibly intricate, which I believe is enough to qualify for its own thread.

To keep this thread alive, we should start a joke competition. All jokes must have something to do with the titanic.

On the Titanic the captain calls a meeting of his officers:
'I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?'
'The good news', replies an officer.
'We'll get eleven Oscars.'

11 Oscars for what, a remake of a national socialist propaganda film? James Cameron's movie certainly has a lot more in common with that than it does any actual history.
« Last Edit: August 27, 2013, 09:59:27 PM by RMS Gigantic »

tell everyone your gonna release the save once its done and I assure you this thread will stay alive.  :cookieMonster:

I often check the topic to see what progress has been made, I just never post any of my thoughts on it.

I'll start doing so.

when you finish this you should build belfast to launch it from

the faq says there's an iceberg you guys have
can we see it

also what's the brickcount

when you finish this you should build belfast to launch it from
We have a part of the Southampton dock, but it's not currently loaded because we still need to correct how the boundary between the red and black parts of the hull are painted. Once that gets resolved, though, work on the port side of the hull will be finished, so it should be safe to load the Southampton dock in again.

the faq says there's an iceberg you guys have
can we see it

also what's the brickcount
As of this very instant, 98,358. Hugums heard that modifying an INI file can increase the brick count. If this information turns out to be false, or leads to game crashes, though, I am certain that we could always make a plea once construction officially stalls due to the brick limit, that resources be put into increasing the brick limit with the probable increase in sales that comes with being added to Steam (barring some kind of rejection from Valve, or the game not increasing in popularity as much as one might anticipate, or Badspot not getting as much development money due to being put on Steam because Valve demands something like 20% of the money from each sale of the game through Steam, etc.).

As for the iceberg, it was more of a placeholder to show how big the iceberg would have been. it was 3 64× cubes side by side with 32× cubes on top of those. The iceberg had a translucent paint scheme, and was roughly 1,500 studs in front of the ship. These dimensions gave the approximate size above the waterline of the iceberg that sank Titanic, the distance at which it had first been spotted, and the transparency that the newly rolled over iceberg had (instead of white). Unfortunately, Bones4's new color palette does not yet have a translucent, window-like color.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2013, 11:55:28 AM by RMS Gigantic »


That last screenshot is so mighty. Can we have a high res one with water underneath for wallpaper use?

Maybe tomorrow. I just closed the server.