At this point, I want an easy-mode editor too.
Had to re-do that basic shuttle I'm working on from scratch. I had made the cockpit and rear sections as separate hull pieces which, looking at my previous designs, may or may not have done. Likewise with the room parts. No matter what I did, trying to create a path between both resulting in an ugly patch of wall blocking the way out from the cockpit, whether that was from one of the hull walls, room walls, both, or
something.
Tossed it out, started anew, using a singular, slightly more complicated extrusion. Got the cockpit to a really good shape, both the hull and room, almost got the window the way I wanted it, but satisfied enough with what I got. Now I'm trying to add the access door. A basic door is simple enough(relatively speaking), it's raised off the ground enough that I want to put a ramp that deploys when the door is open. Or rather, give the illusion that part of the door becomes the ramp. By default, the door simply disappears when "open". Now, the wiki says, in multiple places that you can add geometry(and collision) for the door with it's open(like, the door is swung open), but at no point does it say
how.
PRE-EDIT: Well, I did just figure out a way to do that. Was not intuitive.
Explanation: You have to select the door(and put it in the correct state), activate Face Mode(which lets you select and edit individual corners, edges, and faces). The go, on the drop-down menus, Face->Add->Extrusion (or one of the other parts). The reason it's not intuitive is that normally Face Mode does not let you create geometry that way.
EDIT:
Well, mostly. The back half or so of the interior I just blocked off, to be filled in for modified designs. Right now, the basic model is just designed to carry two TEUs(2731 items) of cargo. It's also not FTL capable, despite what look like warp nacelles. That took over 2/3rd's of the volume just to be
barely capable.
Dimensions: 20m long, 11m wide(not counting the door, which
does work), 6m tall. Crew of 3. Unarmed. Manufacture time is rated at 25 seconds.
And yes, it was inspired in part by Star Trek.
Now the most difficult part of design process: coming up with a
name.