Calvin, how do you determine which parts can be recycled from the Idris and which need to be unique?
TL;DRThey fit recycled Idris pieces against set corridor-length metrics, build bespoke pieces to fill gaps, and rely on some trial and error, with the second deck bringing unexpected fitting problems.
It's all a matter of actually just getting it in and seeing if it fits. We have metrics that we work to, and that carries through to each ship. So we know how long the corridor can be with the pieces that we've got, and we just fit it in and then build bespoke pieces around that if we need to plug up any gaps. So it can be trial and error sometimes. You can plan it though, it's not too bad.
The concept for this was quite handy, because the concept artist who made it was given those pieces from those ships, so we had a fairly good idea what was going to work. But as I say, adding that second deck, we went through some curveballs to how stuff fits together that simply wasn't there in the concepts.
Yeah, you just have to get creative with it. That's what we have these jobs for. We have to solve those problems, and I think we've done a good job.