As the title says: An elegant solution to carrying large objects around, such as beds. Meet the Mk1 Crate. [image] I’m sure @Tom , @Ponder and @Sdee have probably looked at this obvious solution before, I’m just wondering why they didn’t go with it. While I do like the small icon approach I thin…

crates can have icons on their side right? You can design little pictogram stamps for different items

oOOOH. Lemme see if it works…

[image] Froggy: And just to clarify, I do not believe the miniatures are scaled down. If you look at the carpenter workshop live stream (15:43) the bed on the outbox is clearly a model on its own, and not scaled down. This solution requires about 1000 less models to be created. The beds are …

[image] Froggy: I do not believe the miniatures are scaled down correct, the miniatures are just that… second, entirely new, smaller versions of the larger item… crud, did i say they were scaled before? edit: yup… [image] SteveAdamo: correct, thats how Cthulhu was handled. but i was…

I wonder if they go in reverse for the worker size models? They like to build the models that the workers directly interact with to scale of the workers and then maybe when they shrink them for a “new” model they lose some of the detail. That’s what it looks like with the beds.

You’d still have to remodel it though. While there is a “stretch” option in Qubicle, as far as I know there is no way to shrink them to scale… Still, the crate is awesome (though my first thought was also “how can I see what is what”), and if having the icon on the side of the crate (or somewhere o…

Exactly. Thank you. You can shrink it using stretch but you lose all resolution.

im not i completely understood your question, but @Tom literally makes (for example) the full-sized bed, and then makes a "one square " version of the same model… both are distinct assets… [image] Froggy: Hmmm now this is promising… but how would that “read” when zoomed out (borrowing from @…

It depends on how its implemented. A type would be a better solution. A bed for all furniture A sword icon for all weapons A shield for all armour etc. Especially as the idea was to SAVE on creating models.

An elegant solution to carrying large objects

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Froggy June 29, 2013, 8:00pm 15

Hmmm

Show icon on crate to portray contents (idea revisited from stream)

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