The Exploded View, an altogether less attached airplane.

[sal_vager]

Discussions on part clipping invariably turn to the limits of the offset tool, and I believe those limits should be disabled, as it'd make things easier to build

For your enjoyment and horror, here's a little plane I made using the rotate and offset gizmos, the Exploded View...

It flies pretty well, and I like disabling the limits

Craft file

[Yukon0009]

WHAT

+Rep for you.

[pellinor]

Beautiful! This is how a proper aircraft should look.

How do you disable those limits? I haven't found an easy way around them yet.

[Guest]

I endorse this service/product.

[sal_vager]

Why thank you Regex

Pellinor, it's a little tricky to get parts even that far out, it involves rotating, then translating, then rotating again to trick the editor.

[inigma]

Agree.

Been frustrated with limits. Have had to get creative or compromise.

Once saw a vid a guy offset 5 aircraft for formation flying on takeoff. Sweet.

Sal, with that kind of plane, it'd be a bit difficult to shoot it down though. heh. I can already imagine a missile flying between the wing and fuselage and the MP player crying foul play.

Edited January 30, 2015 by inigma

[bakanando]

This reminds me of one of the Nazca drawings.

[Deltervees]

Glorious, just glorious. I did not know I wanted this but now I do.

[Rune]

I actually would like some cheat tool for it, not to "cheat" with it or whatever you want to call it, but because of the buginess of certain parts. The Mk3 cargo bays, for example, move everything out of whack when you try the offset gizmo on any part attached to them in the inside. And sometimes on the outside too, just for kicks. Makes building something with them that doesn't have a gap, actually difficult.

Rune. You obviously use field technology like the Culture, just have them set to transparent to the visible spectrum. Either that, or a General Products hull...

[BoomShroom]

This gives me ideas. Ideas for less attached futuristic SSTOs...

[Parallax]

good ol' antigravity rivets

[panzer1b]

Made a hovertank this way, by offsetting the wheels to way below ground. Although teh actual way i did mine was editing the craft file and changing the z position of each part.

[Gaalidas]

Similar effects could be produced by editing the parts so that their attachment and/or stack nodes were placed further away from the surface of the part. Amazing stuff for a non-edited set of parts though.

[2001kraft]

I have officially given up on attempting ridiculousness.

This is too weird and cool at the same time..just like this thing: