Nice use of your professional skills for the game. I think you've captured the feel/design of the SC universe with those structures. I would totally want to use something like that as my home base.
I like the little touch of having its number stenciled on the side. Obviously, customization would be cool, but the idea that you have say unit 54 because there have been literally 54 units produced in the game at the time you purchased one is extremely appealing.
And maybe have larger, more expensive designs for either people who simply prefer a larger place to stay, or orgs to have as a land-based HQ. I'd also adore having the ability to change the themes of the interior and purchase/craft different things to fill the inside - rugs, couches, chairs, beds, non-standard lights...that kind of stuff.
@@z-beeblebrox From the images he showed, I think it is more likely that the number is in reference to the Hab style, rather than a unique ID. However based on the upcoming Ship naming/ID method, it wouldn't surprise me if they used the same logic - so you can name your outpost, but it also has a unique ID, maybe even one linked to it's co-ordinates
Chris Roberts has said this project is much more than just a video game to him. It's honestly his life's work. He can take all the time he needs in my opinion
This is where star citizen really gets interesting to me....I would love to see homsteading a major feature in the game. Many, many hours building our own star home or homes...
Many many hours spent until someone rams your home with Hammerhead. Or ORG will take over your home. You know nobody is save in SC with invisible wall right? No separate server for homes and such. P.S this is waste of time surely.
@@TesGon What's stopping homesteads from having massive building class shield generators and automated point defense systems from keeping your home safe? Obviously though, if an entire org targets you, you'd be screwed.
@@TesGon if you're in a safe system you should be relatively safe because of security and stuff flying around. The game eventually will be completely different from now, right now people just respawn, eventually death will be a big deal, and with things like reputation you shouldn't even be able to get into a system like Stanton or approach populated planets without being shot down (cleaning your criminal records itself is too easy right now imo) We could see something in this direction once they implement Pyro and they have both a lawful and an unlawful system
Absolutely. I mean damn, if I was Chris Roberts I´d offer Morphologis a Designer job no questions asked. I would have taken that render in as an official trailer even though its only some (highend) fan-art. Too bad you don´t get to install mods on SC, I would MYSELF code a mod that ads these habs.
I personally have no need of the enormous Pioneer however, I would definitely preorder the hell out of that design. CIG if you're listening make this happen.
Just because if CIG does see this, I want to say that I agree with the above statement, but ALSO love the Pioneer. It reminds me of the Mobile Construction Vehicle (MCV) from Command and Conquer, and that's awesome.
You don't have to own a Pioneer to get structures built for you by a Pioneer. In X3 for example you can build stations, but you don't have to own a TL-freighter (which transports and builds the station). You can just hire them to do it for you.
I'm hoping that eventually CIG will let us assemble ships, stations and homesteads in game with assets they currently use to make them. For those players who want to have their own ship companies and what not. If they do, it'll be one of the last things they add
As a Pioneer owner, planning to provide advanced outpost construction services for players across the verse some day, I’d love to see this sort of more standard base building available conveniently for all, and then much more advanced and bespoke type construction accessible via the Pioneer that can include larger, more interesting structures with flair etc. Overall from having enjoy V’s apartments across Night City so much this past 6mths, it has really hit home to me how much I value a place (or places) scattered across the verse that I can decorate and call home. Personal habs will add immensely to that experience, no doubt. An important aspect of this for me, just as with vehicles are windows - the ability to look out and take in a view is a crucial thing not to be underestimated, so please ensure the higher end habs can have these - it will make placement all the better and more important. By the way Morph, I’m late to this video but want to say I absolutely love the final concept of the ‘home in the verse’ you constructed, right down to the closeable parking garage for a pair of hover bikes. Great touch, as a ‘basic’ hab it’s beyond what I had hoped, but it surely does remind me that even the basic home building need not be boxes on stilts as we see in the current outposts.
@@Muireachgaming8957 they tried doing something similar with "The Next Great Starship" context, and it was a mess, it sounds good on paper but it's actually not that easy, because they have a certain way to design stuff, they have to be within certain parameters, they have 100 different considerations to make (gameplay, ship size, whatever), so when they want to use something designed by an outsider they have to spend more time fixing it than designing a completely new one, like the Redeemer I'd like to see this specific design in the game as well, I hope they can make it, but it's not necessarily that easy
@@Muireachgaming8957 I love this kind of design by the way, 100 times better than the generic metallic prefab outposts we have right now, so I hope they at least take inspiration from this. The guy who design planets and stuff said they watched Morphologist in the past so I guess they still watch him
@@Marco-zt2jj Yeah man I agree, though the prefab outposts are industrial in philosophy so it makes sense that their looks would be ubiquitous and repetitive... Homes should definitely be customisable, to a degree!!!
Marco , at this moment, if not done yet, CIG should propose a kind of open source dev kit that shared their design culture with fans, so that when a fan decide to design a concept, like this home, one would it with specific boundaries that you mentioned...
Absolutely beautiful, would love to see future houses being built like this, and if it could be scaled for industrial manufacturing it would also be way cheaper than conventional building replacing brick wood and concrete.
I really just spent 10 minutes watching a 10/10 architect explain the concept of a Tiny Home trailer but for space. also I have my doubts on the flotation of that house, ESPECIALLY if you take into account the force he rendered it deploying with. Still, yes I look forward to my space cargo container house to keep all my war trophies or pico dolls in.
finaly. my irl interests collide in this wonderful game. space and a homestead Edit: damn its really been a month since i posted this comment. This is unacceptable 2020.
Right? Star Citizen is seriously like the best sci fi movie or art maker. I can just imagine it now some sleak small prefab shelter on a hellish dust scape or insane rocky blizzard world.
I want a breathable atmosphere around mine! My considerations are things like gravity... How quickly will landing and leaving take? And how well can it be hidden.
Wonderful idea, I'd love to see more blueprints you might think of and I think a mobile wheeled base you can deploy is also a great one! Not like a weapon but one you live in and explore the planets with.
Me too man, I loved how you could move stuff around on the interior to your exact preference. There was a whole sub-community of interior designers for homes. They made some really amazing things, rearranging things to make stuff you wouldn't think possible, like custom furniture, new walls and rooms, fireplaces etc. It truly was a sandbox as much as a structured MMO can be one.
@@Morphologis I remember seeing someone create a podracer inside their home out of furniture parts in that game. The building and the player economy from SWG are sttill things I chase today.
I remember not realizing you could move the object more than one pixel at a time. the command was something like /moveup and it would only move it one pixel. when I found out you could do /moveup100 (or any amount) it was a total facepalm and relief at the same time haha good memories customizing my house and guild hall for sure
I really really hope the star citizen devs see this and pay you for that design and put it in the game, it looks so cosy and modular for different purposes.
Loved seeing the start of this on you stream and am loving the result even more. I really hope the CIG developers see this. I'm really looking forward to something like this being available in the game. I know its about ships, but a homestead...well, it's a 'safe place'!
These concepts are amazing Morph. I really love the way you've gone in-depth into the functionality, not just the design. I could see my org and I dropping one of these planetside in a C2. It looks incredible. 10/10
As one of the crazy persons that bought a Pioneer, I love the idea of these modular homesteads and I'm hoping that we'll be able to create/deploy a variety of them with unique styles.That said, I feel like this could be either very good, or very bad for Pioneer owners. If players can purchase these homesteads or deploy them with something like a Hercules, I think most players would opt for that rather than pay someone with a Pioneer to construction one.
I personally think the Pioneer should be for medium to large scale projects, not just dropping a tiny home on a planet or moon. It doesn't make much sense to me that you'd need to fly around such a massive ship just to set up a small home. There definitely needs to be some options in between, but ones that won't devalue the others.
@@ugrena7419 My thoughts on this are evolving and I actually agree, that makes sense. I just hope that if player are able to purchase a homestead (of any size) that they can be worked on by a Pioneer to add amenities like clinics, defenses, labs, etc.
I see your point, albeit a bit differently? IF the Pioneer is a "prototype" initial design of a whole "Star Citizen Economy" of types of ship, then it isn't too far a stretch to imagine YOU as a construction company that "delivers" homes such as @Morphologist suggests in this video. Home Depot Delivers. And YOU are whom I pay to have my modules delivered. New ship, like the Pioneer that is designed to supply-chain homestead module deliveries... I can hope...
We also need some sort of defensive system against intruders be they wheeled or winged. Don't think pirates or griefers will leave you alone for long without that. I love the idea. It would be great for it to evolve into your own industrial site as well. There you could refine your own building materials and supply your ow empire.
@@SolusWhite not really, despite being scaled down compared to their real life counterpart planets are still huge in Star Citizen. The total surface area of what we have in the game right now is already more than the surface area of the Moon in real life Even if every single account registered to robertsspaceindustries.com built bought 1 plot of land to build his home they would have like 16 square km each. In order to fill everything every single of the almost 3m people would need to build dozens of homes This is the current situation, once they implement Pyro the total surface area could likely double, and as they keep introducing new systems it will basically be impossible to fill everything
Yeah, I do think people underestimate the scale of the universe. Let's say for the sake of argument that only the Stanton system is ingame. According to the website there are 2,762,975 registered accounts. Let's say for the sake of argument that each person has 1 square kilometre to themselves. We currently have 2 planets (I''m Ignoring arccorp due to it being entirely covered in buildings already) There are 12 moons, and (and we currently have levski in the Stanton system, which it shouldn't be, but whatever.) How big are these planets though? I don't have exact measures, but I know from trips I've done that Hurston is easily 2000 km in circumference. We'll assume for the sake of argument that this is correct, and that Microtech is similar in size, and that the moons are 500 km in circumference. The surface area of a sphere is 4*pi*r^2 The relationship between the circumference of a circle and it's radius is C = 2*pi*r So a 2000 km circumference planet has a radius of roughly 318 km While a 500 km circumference moon is roughly 80 km. This means the surface area of each of our two planets is roughly 1,270,761 km^2 And each of the moons is 80,424 km^2 Since our numbers aren't exact anyway, we'll make this 80,000 and 1,250,000 respectively. Taken together this means the available surface area (excluding arccorp) for the stanton system alone is: 960,000 km^2 across 12 moons, and 2,500,000 km^2 across the two planets we can reasonably build on. for a total of very roughly 3.5 million km^2 This means that if every single player account registered to the game decided to build something, player housing would average about 1.25 square kilometres each. That's with JUST the stanton system available, and literally everyone choosing to do it. Now, that's quite a high density in a relative sense, but... Does it seem likely to you that everyone would choose to do that? Keeping in mind we are meant to have 50+ star systems, this drops to somewhere nearer to 1 housing lot in about 75 square kilometres, which, if evenly distributed across the entire verse would certainly look pretty weird... But it's hardly the worst thing imaginable. And a lot of this rests on some very loose calculations of surface area that might be well off from the actual sizes
@@KuraIthys it's even more than what you found, 2000km is the diameter of planets iirc, not the circumference, so 1000km in radius, which means approximately 12m square km in surface area for each planet, so even just the combined surface area of the 3 terrestrial planets in Stanton is close to the Moon's surface area in real life (38m square km) The radius of the moons instead (what you see in game if you point your ship towards the center by being on the rusface) is usually around 2-300km, so approximately 500k to 1m square km each, x12 it goes from 6m to 12m additional square km, so in total it's 40-50m square km of explorable surface right now, so like 15 square km each even if all accounts tried to colonize the entire system
The *Caterpillar* is already a pair of ready made frontier city building modules in one. You could emplace a bunch of them as market streets facing each other to create a sort of old world Bazaar (especially if you place fabric awnings between them as sun shields) and take the command modules off to be local transport or to serve as housing. Just remove/sell the flight components and you've got a two story trailer park house. Same for old *Starfarers* , which could perhaps be reworked as water treatment plant/ brewery for a settlement and a grounded *Crucible* as a sort of town blacksmith / repair shop.
I think we need more "An architect works as an architect in Star Citizen" Though, I would also understand if that would start to get way too much like work.
Scene at 0:12 is amazing, all that rain draining out through that roof opening is so freaking real. The weather elements are amazing. I wish SC had more crystal clear weather elements like that. And that home and world you made is just fantastic AAA quality.
Just imagine CIG creating a program that allows true player designed homesteads in the game after approval. The idea of creating an organization or Design Firm in the PTU that can design other players and organizations Buildings and Homesteads for UEC/Ship Value Trades would be amazing. Providing service to other players to have their dream homes in the PTU while taking some of the load off CIG to solely create the verse. Allow approved 3rd party Organizations/Design firms with actual working experience to create content that can be implemented into the game after approval. As a fellow designer this truly excites me. CIG has a very lofty goal for their end product. Creating a system that allows the player community to help contribute to building and designing the game they already love would be an awesome opportunity.
How would that work? Would you have people build their houses in Blender and then send them to CIG for the addition of materials, small details, foliage, etc. or would you have CIG build an in-game editor for this where you could put together modular housing and add the materials and details there?
@@matth3601 Not sure really. I would imagine having software supplied by CIG itself to create the buildings. Almost like Unreal had the Unreal editor for people to create their own maps in game. I imagine it would have a data cap so you cant have an overload of polys that would kill your FPS but you would be free to build and design anything you wanted or hired a in-game "design firm/design org" to build for you. The approval part by CIG would be more less to make sure it abides by the rules they set and no one makes giant penis towers etc. To be honest, I have no idea really. I just think with the level of immersive game play they have been giving us it would be a fun way to start truly having a functioning economy in the game with orgs that serve other purposes than protection/piracy.
@@JuiceBoxBuilds I think all of this is a really good idea and I would love for CIG to implement some version of this. Even if it's limited to some sort of modular building blocks, being able to design habitats or even industrial buildings, hangars, etc for your org would be beyond amazing.
They tried it with the TNGS contest and it didn't work out very well. If you don't know it, the Redeemer ship was designed by a backer, and they still haven't released it, because they needed to make it meet their standards or whatever I think that's the main reason why they haven't done anything like that since, because they have certain standards, they have their own way of designing stuff, a certain feel and so on, so they can let backers design stuff, but then they have to spend time "fixing" it Still, if they found a way to make it work it would certainly help with the amount of content they need to implement, and I also personally like this home way more than their prefab outposts
@@Marco-zt2jjIm aware of it sure. But thats a ship with certain attributes to hitpoints, creature comforts, docking, firepower, etc. Having player designed ships would be, and is extremely hard to balance. A static home which is more aesthetic in its nature would be far more managable. Theres an extreme difference in ships compared to a home with a simple landing pad and storage. And Im only discussing single player homes at the moment, not the eventual pirate bunkers and org fortresses.
Morphologis always raising the bar & redefining what content creators are capable of. glad to know you are one CIG takes note of, Keep up the Spectacular work.
This is EXACTLY what I've been wanting since I was made aware of Star Citizen existence many years ago. I'm not one for PvP combat, I'm here to scour the universe looking for incredible natural sights and to set up camp in the places that make me think "wow, just wow".
I really want a place to truly “Live” in star citizen, and not have to pay $1000 to get a base that “may or may not be there next wipe, something that you could save up with AUEC and purchase higher tier establishments depending on your price range. Just my few thoughts
Not only is this an amazing concept for Star Citizen, but with cheap housing moving more to, essentially large containers packed with amenities in the real world I think this kind of design could literally be implemented in real life like in a couple years. You are very talented dude, very, very talented!
I think these concepts are gorgeous because they aren't over detailed and covered in greebleing just for the sake of being detailed and greebled. they have simplistic yet unique shapes.
This is exactly how I picture living in game. I want a small house that I can step out, hop into one of my rovers if needed and be able to have a farm and raise some cattle (if and when it gets into the game) i hope they take a look at your video and implement this.
Great video and I'm really digging your design choices. This is very much something I hope CIG is paying attention to and plans to provide diverse options for wannabe homesteaders. I bet a lot of citizens would love to have a very simple shelter to slap onto an empty corner of the verse where they can rest, explore, and make use of all those hangar decorations sitting in their accounts.
The things that excite me the most rn for the future is the ability to have your own "small station" (station-like ships with shops like the kraken privateer), but I do like homesteads too. Being able to come down in a nice place is an idea I really like. I'm kind of the shut-in kind irl, but in game, I really like simple things, even if I don't even experience them myself, like eating / drinking out with friends & taking a stroll. There's some kind of nice thing about doing things that are technically as good or better irl but somehow are enjoyable in-game.
1. Congratulations on the amazing project in Taiwan. Gorgeous! 2. Thanks for recognizing and including Star Wars Galaxies in this discussion. It had a great community and the ability to decorate was awesome. People got very creative. 3. I hope CIG pays attention to your feedback. It’s genuine, valuable and visionary. Thanks you for your time making these.
Are you playing Star Citizen? I am and while I agree, a lot of it is not realized yet, this game is already offering much more than many other space games. For reference, I have played EVE Online and Elite Dangerous but SC is a completely different beast.
@@dvf1736 I disagree. The game is clearly still in alpha but there are a lot of things to do, like mining, bounty hunting (NPCs and players), PvE missions, cave climbing, trading, PvP, small story missions etc. On top of that, you can do a lot of things with other players such as organising races, escape from prison together, rescue players that are stranded in space or on the surface etc.. I have played both EVE and Elite for quite some time and I do enjoy Star Citizen in its current state (3.10.2) more than those games. And with over 30k players online every day, I'm not the only one.
Going back to your home after along time away would be so cozy. Instead of taking your car out you're taking your parked ship out front and maybe your rover with it to explore the stars. Seems so nice to do that
Having a little home in a frontier town or out in the middle of nowhere is exactly why I loved the idea of this game. I'd even love a ship that could, in a sense, plant roots where it lands, and turn into a sort of a home itself. I like the thought of running some backwater business, too. Some little general store in the middle of nowhere. The only place around.
I think it goes without saying, that your creation and presentation of this idea is incredibly well done. I love that on top of an amazing design that is extremely well thought out, you presented the habitat in several environments, and in several different weather conditions. This was a pleasure to watch and hopefully catches the attention of CIG. Great job!
Wow. This is incredible! Im transitioning into a career in IT and cybersecurity and its very difficult to study and develop a completely different skillset from what you've done all your life but when i watch this video with your two worlds colliding it weirdly gives me a lot of motivation and hope to keep at it. Thank you
underground hanger that connects to the dwelling as an upgrade feature. i.e. build a basement under the structure that then can be upgraded further (think bunker, armory. scu storage akin to having a under ground vault at base for a rainy day, etc) into a connecting hanger with varying sizes / capacities and other useful ship side features where you'd park your ship. hanger doors level with the ground and with a view from above look like a landing pad where then visitors could park if they drop by. tall ask, perhaps but would be a dope addition imo to homesteads and the question of ship storage from the elements as well
That would be pretty cool to have access to. I can imagine small communities of homes popping up near larger centers, kinda like suburbs. Could even expand into a player based real estate market, where a player or organization could setup an area with a bunch of homes and sell them to other players, especially since not everyone would have access to something like a Starlifter or Pioneer to fly a purchased home around.
Morphologis, I hope you can see this comment. I think it's amazing that you are now creating your own miniature projects based on Star Citizen, there's something a little 'Thunderbirds' about the deployable pod design which I really like. I am starting an interior design course at a university in the UK in 2 weeks time, and your videos (along with star citizen as a whole) are a great inspiration for me as I am a massive fan of neo-futurism and Syd-Mead-esc designs. I wish you the best of luck in Taiwan and wish you all the success you and your designs deserve.
I'd love for constructible habs to be used as public buildings too. The whole way SWG allowed you to make your structures public and allowed you to place terminals to sell inventory worked extremely well. It was wonderful to see it fold out, players started to 'zone' their structures into commercial, social/entertainment and residential. Heck, there was even player-run cities with elected mayors. The whole housing system was one of the best I've seen in any game.
I have always admired star citizen from afar, and the passionate community that makes great ideas and designs like this is why I will continue to watch even though I have never played the game.
Great design, fantastic job of rendering. Modular CONEX is the way to go. Something that would fit in a Carrack or so. You could have a different pre-assembled CONEX for different purposes and stack them as you need them. In this way pilots could get together and build whole complexes. As much as I like Architectural design, this is mostly about survival and functionality. It's something I've thought about for years for building a place in the mountains. Unfortunately I lost the property but I used Chief Architect to design my mountain home and then realized how much it would cost to actually build it.. like $750,000, probably more now. I have a friend who built an add-on to the family house using hay bales. It worked better than you might think, and it got me to cogitating and I came up with placing CONEXs on a slab and then stacking hay bales around them. It gets pretty cold in them there hills. For those thinking about it, no, hay bales don't burn easily. The tightly bound fibers have a lack of oxygen. The problem with hay bales is you need to coat them with something like stucco. So then I remembered when I worked on 2 "golden domes" in Fairfield, Iowa. These beautiful domes of 20,000 sq ft each were built entirely of wood Then we sprayed 2-part insulation foam all over the top 2 ft thick, thus the golden color. I think this would be a better way to coat the CONEXs which can be sculpted in a number of ways into a more pleasing aesthetic. This isn't really a vote, it's more of observation/suggestion.
I just got into SC and stumbled upon your channel. I love the way you design your videos, very clean and polished. Really look forward to what you have coming next!
This is almost an iteration of IRL ISO container homes. The ships and transportation systems exist on a bigger scale so the modules are on a bigger scale. I like how the concept leads to a logical conclusion of space, air, ground, and water vehicles that attach to home modules to move them. You could easily use the module on the surface of a water world with a floating/anchored platform or on a desert world with a foundation. There should be airlocks for security and environmental safety. There should be interior configurations for homes, shops, garages, workshops, offices, labs, and warehouses. There could be specialty configs for submarine deployment bays, surface boats bays, etc. The foundations should also be interconnectable with a tube/hub system for extremely drastic environments. As pretty as your renders are, it might make more sense to have them be cube/frame based for easier transportation standardization. Or have several standards. For those of us that like to play merchant/shipper, I love the idea of being able to transport players' bases for them and I could see forming a company/faction/co-op to do this. I could see this leading to players bases with specializations in fishing, mining, traditional agriculture, research, water reclamation, air filter production for ships, etc. Once they start deploying enough systems for us to hop between them, frontier bases could lead to very interesting economic models.
I would love small deployable habs, especially if there is a system to connect different modules together across the surface or even stacking upward to build up a home or base over time and basically be able to arrange to your own tastes. Including such things as some light industrial modules.
Very cool to see personal passions mix like this with a game. I believe you got really good ideas for a homestead approach! I would like to see more videos like this! Thanks for sharing
This reminds me of a post that I put on one of the Start Citizen forums a couple of years ago about being able to have/ build your own place, somewhere you can invite friends back to, that represents your style, your tastes. This would bring me back to Start Citizen. Just hope it doesn't end up costing players a fortune.
I logged in to SC last night to have a look around at what's new. What I saw was great, and the frame rate much improved. I lasted 10 minutes in total. After I sat down in one of the cafes in New Babbage I couldn't get up again. Tried "Y", tried "backspace" ...nothing worked. Tried re-logging twice, but each time something else wouldn't work ("F" no longer worked). Logged out. I will probably log in once a month just to see what's changed and how long it takes before a bug makes playing difficult. Compared to other games I play where, with limited time to play, I can jump straight in and do a couple of missions and then jump out again, SC is just too difficult and too random in terms of bugs to be worth going through the pain of logging in more than a couple of times a month. I am a very early backer of the game, and a lot has really changed for the better, so I'm never going to give up on SC. At 61, I still have a few years up my sleeve to wait for the dreamed of virtual world that SC has the potential to be.
What I would love to see is some sort of a underground bunker that you can use as a home. You would just have a small entrance on the top, but a pretty huge house underneath it. I think this concept could also solve some planet "clipping" problems because you don't need as much space on the surface.
Can’t wait for this to be a reality in Star Citizen, and a long time coming. I believe this game will be around for a long time and evolve where we will be able to travel to exotic places and set up homes all over the Vers. Thanks Morphologis, love your work.
OH yes.. Love the idea of a Small Tough HAB. I would also love to have some small portable HAB's like we think of tents that can fit into maybe a few SCU of cargo space and be deployed and taken up quickly.
As soon as CIG added procedural planets into the game I immediately thought of the possibilities of homesteads. Normally, I like bigger complexes, but I really like your design and practical elements you've come up with. Definitely want a few of these sprinkled around the verse now. I am really excited to see more of this series 😊
Some wonderful concepts and thoughts you have there Morphologis! CIG should definitely hire you as their "Director Homestead design" Maybe we wouldn't have to wait another 6 years before finally being able to have this gameplay.
What I would like to see in these habs; is the ability to customize the interior furnishings of said habs. What would also be neat, is to have modules that the player could connect up to one another to create their own unique homestead.
Yes I need this in game. My idea was always to leave all the space stuff behind and enjoy a home at the beach and a garden. I think there is a big part missing if I don't have this opportunity. And to have this in a game is good enough.
Hey morph! loved this and love the idea of seeing things like this in SC. Also love hearing about your job venture and seeing your highly skilled talents come through in unique ways like this. Keep up the good work and stay safe in Taiwan!
Player housing has to be one of the things I'm most excited for when it comes to Star Citizen. Being able to have my own little home where I can customise the inside with furniture to make it my own, have friends over to hang out, come back to it every day as a way to signify the end of my day playing the game. We need this stuff for the game so badly.
I like the 3D renderings. You have a nice polish on these renders, especially with the people walking for scale and movement and the weather effects. I do 3D art for a living so it was fun to see. I would LOVE to have my own hab in the game, especially if it's modular and I can add to it over time. It's also a good money sink for the economy. As usual, your videos are top notch!
Next level free idea giving for CIG, love the video. I bet CIG would be more than happy to have you as a freelance contractor working for them or as a consultant. Would be a nice little side income next to your actual day-to-day work :)
This homestead is so good i would want to live in it in REAL LIFE. I think you could be able to pay npcs / friendly players to haul their pioneers / builds to a planet, then create a base zone for expanding into, and then have upgrades over time eg. Min of 5 HabX-Units - Medium Hangar. 5 FoodFarm - Units - 5 Floored apartment block.
Hey Morph, There's a game you absolutely need to Try! A game Called Dual Universe just entered open beta and it has many of the same goals of star citizen but comes at it from an entirely different angle. The game features a space engineers/Minecraft esque build system, but with greatly increased depth and customization. The games main pillars are building and flying ships, houses, or whatever you can think of. You can build houses on planets, space stations, or even massive ships. I already know multiple SC fans whom are recreating SC ships just to experience them in this game. As an Architect, I think its imperative you play this game and try it out.
Love the mid-century Palm Springs meets Star Citizen vibe. I really hope they include habitats like this as it would add to the sense of coming home and having a place in the universe.
man this is beautiful. these houses are the main thing i am waitiing for to be implemented in star citizen. i think then i will really be playing this properly
Once they’re fleshed out, the construction and maintenance/repair industries are gonna be where my interests lie. Videos like this one instill some hope that this will one day be realized.
I very rarely hear anyone reference Star Wars Galaxies anymore, much less the housing aspect. I love that you brought that up because Galaxies remains one of my favorite gaming memories of all time.
Honestly a brilliant idea, that would be ideal for people who want to go rough it on the frontier and explore more than they want to get into dogfights and massive ships battles.
Nice use of your professional skills for the game. I think you've captured the feel/design of the SC universe with those structures. I would totally want to use something like that as my home base.
I like the little touch of having its number stenciled on the side. Obviously, customization would be cool, but the idea that you have say unit 54 because there have been literally 54 units produced in the game at the time you purchased one is extremely appealing.
And maybe have larger, more expensive designs for either people who simply prefer a larger place to stay, or orgs to have as a land-based HQ. I'd also adore having the ability to change the themes of the interior and purchase/craft different things to fill the inside - rugs, couches, chairs, beds, non-standard lights...that kind of stuff.
@@z-beeblebrox From the images he showed, I think it is more likely that the number is in reference to the Hab style, rather than a unique ID.
However based on the upcoming Ship naming/ID method, it wouldn't surprise me if they used the same logic - so you can name your outpost, but it also has a unique ID, maybe even one linked to it's co-ordinates
@@QuotidianStupidity I like that idea, it's a lot more versatile
In CIG's case, "just around the corner" is probably 3 to 5 years.
I’m just hoping that the game comes out before I turn 18 when I get a job
Chris Roberts has said this project is much more than just a video game to him. It's honestly his life's work. He can take all the time he needs in my opinion
@@P0l1ux I’m just hoping that the game comes out before I turn 85 when I get dead.
@@P0l1ux most of the people who play a lot of SC do have jobs, otherwise they wouldn't be able to afford the ships
Pioneer owner here: I approve this message, and it is aging well.
This is where star citizen really gets interesting to me....I would love to see homsteading a major feature in the game. Many, many hours building our own star home or homes...
Many many hours spent until someone rams your home with Hammerhead. Or ORG will take over your home. You know nobody is save in SC with invisible wall right? No separate server for homes and such. P.S this is waste of time surely.
TesGon If you have fun to built it, it is not waste of time!
@@RAVPower- I guess so. Just afraid griefers will ruin experience and call it " emerging " gameplay.
@@TesGon What's stopping homesteads from having massive building class shield generators and automated point defense systems from keeping your home safe? Obviously though, if an entire org targets you, you'd be screwed.
@@TesGon if you're in a safe system you should be relatively safe because of security and stuff flying around. The game eventually will be completely different from now, right now people just respawn, eventually death will be a big deal, and with things like reputation you shouldn't even be able to get into a system like Stanton or approach populated planets without being shot down (cleaning your criminal records itself is too easy right now imo)
We could see something in this direction once they implement Pyro and they have both a lawful and an unlawful system
Morphologis: "I need money"
Also Morphologis: *Literally gives CIG free content*
Morphologis.
Man.
YOU HAVE MORE SKILLS THAN YOU THINK!
in game money..
Yea, just call CIG and get a side gig designing things.
Absolutely. I mean damn, if I was Chris Roberts I´d offer Morphologis a Designer job no questions asked. I would have taken that render in as an official trailer even though its only some (highend) fan-art. Too bad you don´t get to install mods on SC, I would MYSELF code a mod that ads these habs.
I personally have no need of the enormous Pioneer however, I would definitely preorder the hell out of that design. CIG if you're listening make this happen.
i was waiting for that one !
Just because if CIG does see this, I want to say that I agree with the above statement, but ALSO love the Pioneer. It reminds me of the Mobile Construction Vehicle (MCV) from Command and Conquer, and that's awesome.
You don't have to own a Pioneer to get structures built for you by a Pioneer. In X3 for example you can build stations, but you don't have to own a TL-freighter (which transports and builds the station). You can just hire them to do it for you.
@@T0ghar also those are their designs he just took a shot at it in his interpretation
I'm hoping that eventually CIG will let us assemble ships, stations and homesteads in game with assets they currently use to make them. For those players who want to have their own ship companies and what not. If they do, it'll be one of the last things they add
As a Pioneer owner, planning to provide advanced outpost construction services for players across the verse some day, I’d love to see this sort of more standard base building available conveniently for all, and then much more advanced and bespoke type construction accessible via the Pioneer that can include larger, more interesting structures with flair etc. Overall from having enjoy V’s apartments across Night City so much this past 6mths, it has really hit home to me how much I value a place (or places) scattered across the verse that I can decorate and call home. Personal habs will add immensely to that experience, no doubt. An important aspect of this for me, just as with vehicles are windows - the ability to look out and take in a view is a crucial thing not to be underestimated, so please ensure the higher end habs can have these - it will make placement all the better and more important.
By the way Morph, I’m late to this video but want to say I absolutely love the final concept of the ‘home in the verse’ you constructed, right down to the closeable parking garage for a pair of hover bikes. Great touch, as a ‘basic’ hab it’s beyond what I had hoped, but it surely does remind me that even the basic home building need not be boxes on stilts as we see in the current outposts.
the star citizen devs should use this
or they can offer him a contract to design more
@@Muireachgaming8957 they tried doing something similar with "The Next Great Starship" context, and it was a mess, it sounds good on paper but it's actually not that easy, because they have a certain way to design stuff, they have to be within certain parameters, they have 100 different considerations to make (gameplay, ship size, whatever), so when they want to use something designed by an outsider they have to spend more time fixing it than designing a completely new one, like the Redeemer
I'd like to see this specific design in the game as well, I hope they can make it, but it's not necessarily that easy
@@Muireachgaming8957 I love this kind of design by the way, 100 times better than the generic metallic prefab outposts we have right now, so I hope they at least take inspiration from this. The guy who design planets and stuff said they watched Morphologist in the past so I guess they still watch him
@@Marco-zt2jj Yeah man I agree, though the prefab outposts are industrial in philosophy so it makes sense that their looks would be ubiquitous and repetitive... Homes should definitely be customisable, to a degree!!!
Marco , at this moment, if not done yet, CIG should propose a kind of open source dev kit that shared their design culture with fans, so that when a fan decide to design a concept, like this home, one would it with specific boundaries that you mentioned...
Absolutely beautiful, would love to see future houses being built like this, and if it could be scaled for industrial manufacturing it would also be way cheaper than conventional building replacing brick wood and concrete.
I really just spent 10 minutes watching a 10/10 architect explain the concept of a Tiny Home trailer but for space. also I have my doubts on the flotation of that house, ESPECIALLY if you take into account the force he rendered it deploying with. Still, yes I look forward to my space cargo container house to keep all my war trophies or pico dolls in.
Buoyancy only have to do with displacement, that's why we have cargo container ships that weight over half a million tons.
It doesnt have to be bouyant in its normal configuration, it could deploy flotation balloons to increase its bouyancy when it's an emergency.
The Carrack has 3 Big Containers. So we can drop 3 Houses? I hope for "Ready too use" Houses, Outpost, Refill-Stations, Work-Camp, Tiny-Defend Bases.
I can see living spaces like this being dropped as part of Caterpillar modules.
have the CAT be able to drop all of its modules to be able to pick up a larger hab
finaly. my irl interests collide in this wonderful game. space and a homestead
Edit: damn its really been a month since i posted this comment. This is unacceptable 2020.
Based Baron
@Miles yes yes
My dream is to have an irl home like this
@@YoungBloodyBlud id just be happy with a house at this point. Doesnt evn gotta be anything halfway decent.
@ no
Please walk us through the architectural choices you made for your custom hab in detail like you do with ships?
I too would like a tiny home on the least hospitable planet I can find
"This is a hell hole, why would anyone even come here?!"
"Precisely"
*approaching dropship sounds intensify*
I do have a fable for ice planets like micro tec.
Right? Star Citizen is seriously like the best sci fi movie or art maker. I can just imagine it now some sleak small prefab shelter on a hellish dust scape or insane rocky blizzard world.
I want a breathable atmosphere around mine! My considerations are things like gravity... How quickly will landing and leaving take? And how well can it be hidden.
Wonderful idea, I'd love to see more blueprints you might think of and I think a mobile wheeled base you can deploy is also a great one! Not like a weapon but one you live in and explore the planets with.
I really liked swg housing , do miss that game
Me too man, I loved how you could move stuff around on the interior to your exact preference. There was a whole sub-community of interior designers for homes. They made some really amazing things, rearranging things to make stuff you wouldn't think possible, like custom furniture, new walls and rooms, fireplaces etc. It truly was a sandbox as much as a structured MMO can be one.
Aye, too bad Sony ruined it with the NGE, I remember that overnight most the population quit and I started playing Eve for a decade.
@@Morphologis I remember seeing someone create a podracer inside their home out of furniture parts in that game. The building and the player economy from SWG are sttill things I chase today.
I always played swtor, but that sounds really cool
I remember not realizing you could move the object more than one pixel at a time. the command was something like /moveup and it would only move it one pixel. when I found out you could do /moveup100 (or any amount) it was a total facepalm and relief at the same time haha good memories customizing my house and guild hall for sure
I really really hope the star citizen devs see this and pay you for that design and put it in the game, it looks so cosy and modular for different purposes.
Dude, You should be hired. Period.
Seconded. CIG, are you listening? This is the man who brought me to your game to the tune of a buttload of money I put in your pocket, hire him :D
These renders are absolutely beautiful! Such talent and detail!
Loved seeing the start of this on you stream and am loving the result even more. I really hope the CIG developers see this. I'm really looking forward to something like this being available in the game. I know its about ships, but a homestead...well, it's a 'safe place'!
They watch Morph A LOT they have even invited him to meetings among the artists and interviews with him.
These concepts are amazing Morph. I really love the way you've gone in-depth into the functionality, not just the design. I could see my org and I dropping one of these planetside in a C2. It looks incredible. 10/10
Star Citizen Homesteading is a great idea and something I hope they entertain.
Its been a Plan since the pioneer was introduced and they sold the land claims.
I just read the title and I was like "Oh, yes, please do." Now, watching.
As one of the crazy persons that bought a Pioneer, I love the idea of these modular homesteads and I'm hoping that we'll be able to create/deploy a variety of them with unique styles.That said, I feel like this could be either very good, or very bad for Pioneer owners. If players can purchase these homesteads or deploy them with something like a Hercules, I think most players would opt for that rather than pay someone with a Pioneer to construction one.
That's really cool that you did that. Also yeah you make a really good point. I really hope that as well.
I personally think the Pioneer should be for medium to large scale projects, not just dropping a tiny home on a planet or moon. It doesn't make much sense to me that you'd need to fly around such a massive ship just to set up a small home. There definitely needs to be some options in between, but ones that won't devalue the others.
@@ugrena7419 My thoughts on this are evolving and I actually agree, that makes sense. I just hope that if player are able to purchase a homestead (of any size) that they can be worked on by a Pioneer to add amenities like clinics, defenses, labs, etc.
I see your point, albeit a bit differently? IF the Pioneer is a "prototype" initial design of a whole "Star Citizen Economy" of types of ship, then it isn't too far a stretch to imagine YOU as a construction company that "delivers" homes such as @Morphologist suggests in this video. Home Depot Delivers. And YOU are whom I pay to have my modules delivered. New ship, like the Pioneer that is designed to supply-chain homestead module deliveries... I can hope...
We also need some sort of defensive system against intruders be they wheeled or winged. Don't think pirates or griefers will leave you alone for long without that. I love the idea. It would be great for it to evolve into your own industrial site as well. There you could refine your own building materials and supply your ow empire.
Player Homesteads would most likely be per-built houses in the world, where as the pioneer would create player made bases
Probably, otherwise some planets would end up covered in homes.
@@SolusWhite not really, despite being scaled down compared to their real life counterpart planets are still huge in Star Citizen. The total surface area of what we have in the game right now is already more than the surface area of the Moon in real life
Even if every single account registered to robertsspaceindustries.com built bought 1 plot of land to build his home they would have like 16 square km each. In order to fill everything every single of the almost 3m people would need to build dozens of homes
This is the current situation, once they implement Pyro the total surface area could likely double, and as they keep introducing new systems it will basically be impossible to fill everything
@@SolusWhite by the way, I didn't understand how calling them based rather than homes would improve the situation
Yeah, I do think people underestimate the scale of the universe.
Let's say for the sake of argument that only the Stanton system is ingame.
According to the website there are 2,762,975 registered accounts.
Let's say for the sake of argument that each person has 1 square kilometre to themselves.
We currently have 2 planets (I''m Ignoring arccorp due to it being entirely covered in buildings already)
There are 12 moons, and (and we currently have levski in the Stanton system, which it shouldn't be, but whatever.)
How big are these planets though?
I don't have exact measures, but I know from trips I've done that Hurston is easily 2000 km in circumference.
We'll assume for the sake of argument that this is correct, and that Microtech is similar in size, and that the moons are 500 km in circumference.
The surface area of a sphere is 4*pi*r^2
The relationship between the circumference of a circle and it's radius is C = 2*pi*r
So a 2000 km circumference planet has a radius of roughly 318 km
While a 500 km circumference moon is roughly 80 km.
This means the surface area of each of our two planets is roughly 1,270,761 km^2
And each of the moons is 80,424 km^2
Since our numbers aren't exact anyway, we'll make this 80,000 and 1,250,000 respectively.
Taken together this means the available surface area (excluding arccorp) for the stanton system alone is:
960,000 km^2 across 12 moons, and 2,500,000 km^2 across the two planets we can reasonably build on.
for a total of very roughly 3.5 million km^2
This means that if every single player account registered to the game decided to build something, player housing would average about 1.25 square kilometres each.
That's with JUST the stanton system available, and literally everyone choosing to do it.
Now, that's quite a high density in a relative sense, but...
Does it seem likely to you that everyone would choose to do that?
Keeping in mind we are meant to have 50+ star systems, this drops to somewhere nearer to 1 housing lot in about 75 square kilometres, which, if evenly distributed across the entire verse would certainly look pretty weird...
But it's hardly the worst thing imaginable.
And a lot of this rests on some very loose calculations of surface area that might be well off from the actual sizes
@@KuraIthys it's even more than what you found, 2000km is the diameter of planets iirc, not the circumference, so 1000km in radius, which means approximately 12m square km in surface area for each planet, so even just the combined surface area of the 3 terrestrial planets in Stanton is close to the Moon's surface area in real life (38m square km)
The radius of the moons instead (what you see in game if you point your ship towards the center by being on the rusface) is usually around 2-300km, so approximately 500k to 1m square km each, x12 it goes from 6m to 12m additional square km, so in total it's 40-50m square km of explorable surface right now, so like 15 square km each even if all accounts tried to colonize the entire system
Drake need to make a slow/robust "trailer-trash" ship.
Can't wait for trashy trailerparks on planets and dito floating in dodgy clusters in space...
Spaceballs™ The Mobile Space Home
The *Caterpillar* is already a pair of ready made frontier city building modules in one.
You could emplace a bunch of them as market streets facing each other to create a sort of old world Bazaar (especially if you place fabric awnings between them as sun shields) and take the command modules off to be local transport or to serve as housing. Just remove/sell the flight components and you've got a two story trailer park house.
Same for old *Starfarers* , which could perhaps be reworked as water treatment plant/ brewery for a settlement and a grounded *Crucible* as a sort of town blacksmith / repair shop.
I think we need more "An architect works as an architect in Star Citizen"
Though, I would also understand if that would start to get way too much like work.
Scene at 0:12 is amazing, all that rain draining out through that roof opening is so freaking real. The weather elements are amazing.
I wish SC had more crystal clear weather elements like that. And that home and world you made is just fantastic AAA quality.
Just imagine CIG creating a program that allows true player designed homesteads in the game after approval. The idea of creating an organization or Design Firm in the PTU that can design other players and organizations Buildings and Homesteads for UEC/Ship Value Trades would be amazing. Providing service to other players to have their dream homes in the PTU while taking some of the load off CIG to solely create the verse. Allow approved 3rd party Organizations/Design firms with actual working experience to create content that can be implemented into the game after approval. As a fellow designer this truly excites me. CIG has a very lofty goal for their end product. Creating a system that allows the player community to help contribute to building and designing the game they already love would be an awesome opportunity.
How would that work? Would you have people build their houses in Blender and then send them to CIG for the addition of materials, small details, foliage, etc. or would you have CIG build an in-game editor for this where you could put together modular housing and add the materials and details there?
@@matth3601 Not sure really. I would imagine having software supplied by CIG itself to create the buildings. Almost like Unreal had the Unreal editor for people to create their own maps in game. I imagine it would have a data cap so you cant have an overload of polys that would kill your FPS but you would be free to build and design anything you wanted or hired a in-game "design firm/design org" to build for you. The approval part by CIG would be more less to make sure it abides by the rules they set and no one makes giant penis towers etc. To be honest, I have no idea really. I just think with the level of immersive game play they have been giving us it would be a fun way to start truly having a functioning economy in the game with orgs that serve other purposes than protection/piracy.
@@JuiceBoxBuilds I think all of this is a really good idea and I would love for CIG to implement some version of this. Even if it's limited to some sort of modular building blocks, being able to design habitats or even industrial buildings, hangars, etc for your org would be beyond amazing.
They tried it with the TNGS contest and it didn't work out very well. If you don't know it, the Redeemer ship was designed by a backer, and they still haven't released it, because they needed to make it meet their standards or whatever
I think that's the main reason why they haven't done anything like that since, because they have certain standards, they have their own way of designing stuff, a certain feel and so on, so they can let backers design stuff, but then they have to spend time "fixing" it
Still, if they found a way to make it work it would certainly help with the amount of content they need to implement, and I also personally like this home way more than their prefab outposts
@@Marco-zt2jjIm aware of it sure. But thats a ship with certain attributes to hitpoints, creature comforts, docking, firepower, etc. Having player designed ships would be, and is extremely hard to balance. A static home which is more aesthetic in its nature would be far more managable. Theres an extreme difference in ships compared to a home with a simple landing pad and storage. And Im only discussing single player homes at the moment, not the eventual pirate bunkers and org fortresses.
Morphologis always raising the bar & redefining what content creators are capable of. glad to know you are one CIG takes note of, Keep up the Spectacular work.
I'm getting a certain "Hadley's Hope" from the buildings... and yes, I want bug hunt missions !
This is EXACTLY what I've been wanting since I was made aware of Star Citizen existence many years ago. I'm not one for PvP combat, I'm here to scour the universe looking for incredible natural sights and to set up camp in the places that make me think "wow, just wow".
I really want a place to truly “Live” in star citizen, and not have to pay $1000 to get a base that “may or may not be there next wipe, something that you could save up with AUEC and purchase higher tier establishments depending on your price range. Just my few thoughts
Bro, AUEC is alpha currency, when the alpha is done (and beta) it'll just be called UEC. Just be patient.
by the way, wipes are gone! SC wont have anymore wipes for alpha as of right now
@Max I’m just trying to say that I enjoy the idea of homesteading, Bro
@@thestoryteller2332 I live in my 890 Jump. Better quarters and views than anything planetside can offer!
Not only is this an amazing concept for Star Citizen, but with cheap housing moving more to, essentially large containers packed with amenities in the real world I think this kind of design could literally be implemented in real life like in a couple years. You are very talented dude, very, very talented!
I don't even have the game yet and I think this is a fantastic idea
I think these concepts are gorgeous because they aren't over detailed and covered in greebleing just for the sake of being detailed and greebled. they have simplistic yet unique shapes.
This is exactly how I picture living in game. I want a small house that I can step out, hop into one of my rovers if needed and be able to have a farm and raise some cattle (if and when it gets into the game) i hope they take a look at your video and implement this.
Yes. We need a little more Firefly in the game.
space cows
Great video and I'm really digging your design choices. This is very much something I hope CIG is paying attention to and plans to provide diverse options for wannabe homesteaders. I bet a lot of citizens would love to have a very simple shelter to slap onto an empty corner of the verse where they can rest, explore, and make use of all those hangar decorations sitting in their accounts.
600 man gaming company: Year 8. We have made some sketches.
1 Morphologis: Week 1 - ok guys the model rendering is done.
The things that excite me the most rn for the future is the ability to have your own "small station" (station-like ships with shops like the kraken privateer), but I do like homesteads too. Being able to come down in a nice place is an idea I really like. I'm kind of the shut-in kind irl, but in game, I really like simple things, even if I don't even experience them myself, like eating / drinking out with friends & taking a stroll. There's some kind of nice thing about doing things that are technically as good or better irl but somehow are enjoyable in-game.
Oh my gosh, this is my first time seeing Morpholis' face. He's handsome as hell.
If you watch his streams or interviews he gives, it's there front and center.
1. Congratulations on the amazing project in Taiwan. Gorgeous! 2. Thanks for recognizing and including Star Wars Galaxies in this discussion. It had a great community and the ability to decorate was awesome. People got very creative. 3. I hope CIG pays attention to your feedback. It’s genuine, valuable and visionary. Thanks you for your time making these.
This is what this game is, just talk and talk what it's gone be in the future.
Are you playing Star Citizen? I am and while I agree, a lot of it is not realized yet, this game is already offering much more than many other space games.
For reference, I have played EVE Online and Elite Dangerous but SC is a completely different beast.
@@derkatzenfuerst6077 sc rn is just a glorified demo of 3D models that you have to pay to visit
@@dvf1736 I disagree. The game is clearly still in alpha but there are a lot of things to do, like mining, bounty hunting (NPCs and players), PvE missions, cave climbing, trading, PvP, small story missions etc.
On top of that, you can do a lot of things with other players such as organising races, escape from prison together, rescue players that are stranded in space or on the surface etc..
I have played both EVE and Elite for quite some time and I do enjoy Star Citizen in its current state (3.10.2) more than those games. And with over 30k players online every day, I'm not the only one.
@CIG for the love of the UEE please hire Morphologis to design player homes.
Less the floating functionality (of course), how much would that hab (the structure) cost to build for real in say... Texas?
Going back to your home after along time away would be so cozy.
Instead of taking your car out you're taking your parked ship out front and maybe your rover with it to explore the stars. Seems so nice to do that
Bored Gamer's gonna be raging when he sees you've broken his NordVPN monopoly.
Lot's of youtube channels are sponsored by NordVPN, what monopoly are you talking about LOL.
@@subbsstrue, but not among SC content creators. BG plugs the company so much on his channel they nicknamed him Nord Gamer 😂
I never even thought that it was possible to actually do something like that. I am so glad that I you are here. Thanks for what you do.
0:16 someone has definetly seen Archive (thats the movie by the CIG concept artist) and Ex Machina
Having a little home in a frontier town or out in the middle of nowhere is exactly why I loved the idea of this game. I'd even love a ship that could, in a sense, plant roots where it lands, and turn into a sort of a home itself.
I like the thought of running some backwater business, too. Some little general store in the middle of nowhere. The only place around.
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CIG should hire u that design is sick
Fans are so fed up with the devs they've started to just make the game themselves
Star citizen : made by the community
Implementing it in a game is completely different than a pet project
I think it goes without saying, that your creation and presentation of this idea is incredibly well done.
I love that on top of an amazing design that is extremely well thought out, you presented the habitat in several environments, and in several different weather conditions.
This was a pleasure to watch and hopefully catches the attention of CIG. Great job!
Wow. This is incredible! Im transitioning into a career in IT and cybersecurity and its very difficult to study and develop a completely different skillset from what you've done all your life but when i watch this video with your two worlds colliding it weirdly gives me a lot of motivation and hope to keep at it. Thank you
underground hanger that connects to the dwelling as an upgrade feature. i.e. build a basement under the structure that then can be upgraded further (think bunker, armory. scu storage akin to having a under ground vault at base for a rainy day, etc) into a connecting hanger with varying sizes / capacities and other useful ship side features where you'd park your ship. hanger doors level with the ground and with a view from above look like a landing pad where then visitors could park if they drop by. tall ask, perhaps but would be a dope addition imo to homesteads and the question of ship storage from the elements as well
That would be pretty cool to have access to. I can imagine small communities of homes popping up near larger centers, kinda like suburbs. Could even expand into a player based real estate market, where a player or organization could setup an area with a bunch of homes and sell them to other players, especially since not everyone would have access to something like a Starlifter or Pioneer to fly a purchased home around.
Your proposal is pure genius! I have been asking for such habs for Star Citizen, thanks.
Morphologis, I hope you can see this comment.
I think it's amazing that you are now creating your own miniature projects based on Star Citizen, there's something a little 'Thunderbirds' about the deployable pod design which I really like.
I am starting an interior design course at a university in the UK in 2 weeks time, and your videos (along with star citizen as a whole) are a great inspiration for me as I am a massive fan of neo-futurism and Syd-Mead-esc designs. I wish you the best of luck in Taiwan and wish you all the success you and your designs deserve.
I'd love for constructible habs to be used as public buildings too. The whole way SWG allowed you to make your structures public and allowed you to place terminals to sell inventory worked extremely well. It was wonderful to see it fold out, players started to 'zone' their structures into commercial, social/entertainment and residential. Heck, there was even player-run cities with elected mayors. The whole housing system was one of the best I've seen in any game.
I have always admired star citizen from afar, and the passionate community that makes great ideas and designs like this is why I will continue to watch even though I have never played the game.
This is a very cool concept for the game, and imagine larger structures that can join to create an HQ, landing pads or an underwater base
this future is just behind the corner like Squadron 42 since 2016.
That does look like a cool concept, especially the slide-out portions that add to useable external areas.
Great design, fantastic job of rendering. Modular CONEX is the way to go. Something that would fit in a Carrack or so. You could have a different pre-assembled CONEX for different purposes and stack them as you need them. In this way pilots could get together and build whole complexes.
As much as I like Architectural design, this is mostly about survival and functionality. It's something I've thought about for years for building a place in the mountains. Unfortunately I lost the property but I used Chief Architect to design my mountain home and then realized how much it would cost to actually build it.. like $750,000, probably more now.
I have a friend who built an add-on to the family house using hay bales. It worked better than you might think, and it got me to cogitating and I came up with placing CONEXs on a slab and then stacking hay bales around them. It gets pretty cold in them there hills. For those thinking about it, no, hay bales don't burn easily. The tightly bound fibers have a lack of oxygen. The problem with hay bales is you need to coat them with something like stucco.
So then I remembered when I worked on 2 "golden domes" in Fairfield, Iowa. These beautiful domes of 20,000 sq ft each were built entirely of wood Then we sprayed 2-part insulation foam all over the top 2 ft thick, thus the golden color. I think this would be a better way to coat the CONEXs which can be sculpted in a number of ways into a more pleasing aesthetic.
This isn't really a vote, it's more of observation/suggestion.
Awesome concept! Thanks for trying to raise the bar for in game concepts
I just got into SC and stumbled upon your channel. I love the way you design your videos, very clean and polished. Really look forward to what you have coming next!
It's nice to see that your career is going on! You deserve it, keep with the good work, both in-game and outside of it.
This is almost an iteration of IRL ISO container homes. The ships and transportation systems exist on a bigger scale so the modules are on a bigger scale.
I like how the concept leads to a logical conclusion of space, air, ground, and water vehicles that attach to home modules to move them. You could easily use the module on the surface of a water world with a floating/anchored platform or on a desert world with a foundation.
There should be airlocks for security and environmental safety. There should be interior configurations for homes, shops, garages, workshops, offices, labs, and warehouses. There could be specialty configs for submarine deployment bays, surface boats bays, etc.
The foundations should also be interconnectable with a tube/hub system for extremely drastic environments.
As pretty as your renders are, it might make more sense to have them be cube/frame based for easier transportation standardization. Or have several standards.
For those of us that like to play merchant/shipper, I love the idea of being able to transport players' bases for them and I could see forming a company/faction/co-op to do this.
I could see this leading to players bases with specializations in fishing, mining, traditional agriculture, research, water reclamation, air filter production for ships, etc.
Once they start deploying enough systems for us to hop between them, frontier bases could lead to very interesting economic models.
I would love small deployable habs, especially if there is a system to connect different modules together across the surface or even stacking upward to build up a home or base over time and basically be able to arrange to your own tastes. Including such things as some light industrial modules.
Very cool to see personal passions mix like this with a game. I believe you got really good ideas for a homestead approach! I would like to see more videos like this! Thanks for sharing
This reminds me of a post that I put on one of the Start Citizen forums a couple of years ago about being able to have/ build your own place, somewhere you can invite friends back to, that represents your style, your tastes. This would bring me back to Start Citizen. Just hope it doesn't end up costing players a fortune.
I logged in to SC last night to have a look around at what's new. What I saw was great, and the frame rate much improved. I lasted 10 minutes in total. After I sat down in one of the cafes in New Babbage I couldn't get up again. Tried "Y", tried "backspace" ...nothing worked. Tried re-logging twice, but each time something else wouldn't work ("F" no longer worked). Logged out. I will probably log in once a month just to see what's changed and how long it takes before a bug makes playing difficult. Compared to other games I play where, with limited time to play, I can jump straight in and do a couple of missions and then jump out again, SC is just too difficult and too random in terms of bugs to be worth going through the pain of logging in more than a couple of times a month. I am a very early backer of the game, and a lot has really changed for the better, so I'm never going to give up on SC. At 61, I still have a few years up my sleeve to wait for the dreamed of virtual world that SC has the potential to be.
What I would love to see is some sort of a underground bunker that you can use as a home. You would just have a small entrance on the top, but a pretty huge house underneath it. I think this concept could also solve some planet "clipping" problems because you don't need as much space on the surface.
This might be my favorite video you've made. I think features like this would really turn this game into a titan in the MMO world.
Can’t wait for this to be a reality in Star Citizen, and a long time coming. I believe this game will be around for a long time and evolve where we will be able to travel to exotic places and set up homes all over the Vers. Thanks Morphologis, love your work.
gorgeous renders! Love the way water flows during rainstorms
OH yes.. Love the idea of a Small Tough HAB. I would also love to have some small portable HAB's like we think of tents that can fit into maybe a few SCU of cargo space and be deployed and taken up quickly.
Great ideas Morph, thanks for taking time to put this together for us. I'm sure the CI devs will keep these points in mind for future development.
As soon as CIG added procedural planets into the game I immediately thought of the possibilities of homesteads. Normally, I like bigger complexes, but I really like your design and practical elements you've come up with. Definitely want a few of these sprinkled around the verse now. I am really excited to see more of this series 😊
Really amazing visuals on this video. I love the design for the hab as well as saying it in many different environments and weather situations.
I’m not really sure what the point is; if you put all your valuables in a static target it’s easier for raiders/pirates to take
Some wonderful concepts and thoughts you have there Morphologis! CIG should definitely hire you as their "Director Homestead design" Maybe we wouldn't have to wait another 6 years before finally being able to have this gameplay.
What I would like to see in these habs; is the ability to customize the interior furnishings of said habs. What would also be neat, is to have modules that the player could connect up to one another to create their own unique homestead.
Yes I need this in game. My idea was always to leave all the space stuff behind and enjoy a home at the beach and a garden. I think there is a big part missing if I don't have this opportunity. And to have this in a game is good enough.
Hey morph! loved this and love the idea of seeing things like this in SC. Also love hearing about your job venture and seeing your highly skilled talents come through in unique ways like this. Keep up the good work and stay safe in Taiwan!
You're so talented! Love your videos, especially ones like this where we get to see more of the architect!
Player housing has to be one of the things I'm most excited for when it comes to Star Citizen. Being able to have my own little home where I can customise the inside with furniture to make it my own, have friends over to hang out, come back to it every day as a way to signify the end of my day playing the game.
We need this stuff for the game so badly.
now this is the kind of content i subscribed for
Surprisingly simple & impractical geometry for Morphologis' own work
This here is what I look forward to the most. Nothing like coming back home after a big mission.
I like the 3D renderings. You have a nice polish on these renders, especially with the people walking for scale and movement and the weather effects. I do 3D art for a living so it was fun to see. I would LOVE to have my own hab in the game, especially if it's modular and I can add to it over time. It's also a good money sink for the economy.
As usual, your videos are top notch!
Next level free idea giving for CIG, love the video. I bet CIG would be more than happy to have you as a freelance contractor working for them or as a consultant. Would be a nice little side income next to your actual day-to-day work :)
the most subtle sponsor if ever seen XD and nice job on the vod i had no idea how you could have made the stream into a vod
This homestead is so good i would want to live in it in REAL LIFE. I think you could be able to pay npcs / friendly players to haul their pioneers / builds to a planet, then create a base zone for expanding into, and then have upgrades over time eg. Min of 5 HabX-Units - Medium Hangar. 5 FoodFarm - Units - 5 Floored apartment block.
Hey Morph, There's a game you absolutely need to Try! A game Called Dual Universe just entered open beta and it has many of the same goals of star citizen but comes at it from an entirely different angle. The game features a space engineers/Minecraft esque build system, but with greatly increased depth and customization. The games main pillars are building and flying ships, houses, or whatever you can think of. You can build houses on planets, space stations, or even massive ships. I already know multiple SC fans whom are recreating SC ships just to experience them in this game.
As an Architect, I think its imperative you play this game and try it out.
Love the mid-century Palm Springs meets Star Citizen vibe. I really hope they include habitats like this as it would add to the sense of coming home and having a place in the universe.
man this is beautiful. these houses are the main thing i am waitiing for to be implemented in star citizen. i think then i will really be playing this properly
Once they’re fleshed out, the construction and maintenance/repair industries are gonna be where my interests lie. Videos like this one instill some hope that this will one day be realized.
I very rarely hear anyone reference Star Wars Galaxies anymore, much less the housing aspect. I love that you brought that up because Galaxies remains one of my favorite gaming memories of all time.
Honestly a brilliant idea, that would be ideal for people who want to go rough it on the frontier and explore more than they want to get into dogfights and massive ships battles.