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A mecha frame created to be used as a potentially lighter or higher performance replacement for the default Icarus one, as a base for mecha armor developpement.
Provided here with an all ceramics chassis plus some blue matrices, optimised for cost and weight, for deployment in the very beginning of the game, offering 40% energy consumption reduction when most needed. It however has minimal HP.
Important to know if editing :
Provided here with an all ceramics chassis plus some blue matrices, optimised for cost and weight, for deployment in the very beginning of the game, offering 40% energy consumption reduction when most needed. It however has minimal HP.
Important to know if editing :
- This frame was designed to minimize the number of part slots used as well as using the least useful ones to leave as much expansion room as possible.
- All parts have been split in multiple material slots between components where it makes sense even if using identical materials on the version provided here, to make it as easy as possible to customize and adapt to addons.
- The red and dark grey materials used for some details can be easily swapped back to the default black or grey ones on the parts using them to free 2 material slots. 2 others are unused. On many parts the first slot using the black material is meant to black at all times, and is a good candidate for swapping to nanotubes.
- A lot of parts have free material slots and extra space within their max bounding box and can be built upon further. Some use squeeze advanced curving that will break if their bounding box is extended so either don't or keep track of how it was set up to remake it after editing. (Fully delete the squeezing and re add instead of pressing reset or it won't work.) A few are hollow and can be filled with nanotubes or whatever if your own custom addons don't provide enough space.
- All joints are perfectly aligned to the default icarus frame ensuring perfect animations. The rings that support the knee and elbow joints will extend through and beyond the limbs when flexing, this must be accounted for in armor design. (They were originally meant to be hydraulics connecting across the joint but i had no way to make it animate at my quality standards so i chose this instead, hopefully it's more original.) They can be easily removed if needed.
- Pilot pod can be fully removed with no ill effects ; Head and engine pack are meant to be potentially fully replaced. If replacing the latter the RCS in the legs will probably have to be swapped to match. The engine supports are already lined up at the angle of the thruster effet and should therefore be able to easily be used as is.
Other information :
- Has real, animated custom hands unlike many mechs here. Only 4 fingers because i only figured out how to make 5 after the fact and replacing the whole hand palm woud have been required, for minimal gain.
- Icarus core is kept, with custom housing.
- Uses stock Icarus beam with forearms built to carry it as replacing it didn't feel necessary on such a barebones frame. Easily replaced.