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This is for brain dumping ideas about how to make stations have more variation.

My first instinct is to have a type of station that can be built from sections/pieces both internally and externally.

What I mean by that is that the process would work something like this for the external appearance:

1. Picks a docking area section (Model)
2. Optionally attaches a ring or other surrounding piece (Model)
3. Move backwards and attaches other segments (Models)
4. Repeat for some number of sections/segments perhaps depending on population and tech level.
5. Decorate by attaching models to tagged locations on the models chosen above

The interior would work in a similar fashion with the basic docking area having all of the bays setup, collision etc, but them loading in cosmetic only models to match the tech-level, population, and possibly theme.

This would require rendering many more models for a single station externally and internally but I don't think it would be too burdensome

Elite Dangerous references
https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Station

https://www.tumblr.com/procedural-gener ... hats-a-bit