Allow Replace Command to Mirror Blocks

[Edymnion]

Common Scenario (for me at least):
Get to work on a big ship, work on one side for half an hour, get everything perfect, zoom out... and realize you forgot to turn on mirror mode. There's no way to easily mirror what you just did, so you go back and start deleting and replacing the blocks you put down so that they'll mirror over to the other side.

We already have a tool for "delete this kind of block and replace it with this other kind of block", problem is, it won't mirror. I make a cube over here on the left, turn on mirror mode, and activate the replace tool from advanced build, and I can change what the left cube is made of all day long, and never get a right cube. However if I manually remove the left cube blocks and replace them, then I'll get a right cube.

For those forgetful people amongst us like myself, can we have the replace tool also be picked up by the mirror axis, so that when we forget to turn it on we have an easier way to correct the problem?

 

[FullMetalFox]

There's no way to easily mirror what you just did

Us the Template System: Turn on mirror mode, copy the area, delete the area, paste it, done, now you have it on both sides.

 

[Creeper__God]

Us the Template System: Turn on mirror mode, copy the area, delete the area, paste it, done, now you have it on both sides.

I would like to point out that this doesn't actually solve the problem if it is a larger section of the ship (larger as in larger than the servers max build mode dimension). Also you have to figure out the right size to make the selection and then where to copy it to, which can be harder than it sounds if you have an irregularly shaped ship.

 

[Edymnion]

Yeah, the template system is, quite frankly, broken beyond all hopes of repair in my book.
It is just FAR too cumbersome to actually use in any real manner.

Even on my server where we've got the build area cranked up to 40x40x40, trying to copy and line back up all those chunks would be a nightmare with the current system. Just setting it to Replace with the same dimensions and spam clicking across everything would be much faster, much easier.

 

[Malacodor]

Yeah, the template system is, quite frankly, broken beyond all hopes of repair in my book.
It is just FAR too cumbersome to actually use in any real manner.

Advanced build mode needs an overhaul.

 

[FullMetalFox]

Yeah, the template system is, quite frankly, broken beyond all hopes of repair in my book. It is just FAR too cumbersome to actually use in any real manner.
Even on my server where we've got the build area cranked up to 40x40x40, trying to copy and line back up all those chunks would be a nightmare with the current system.

Only thing thats annoying in my book, is the way how the copy select and paste point is always the same corner of a box, so i sometimes have to make some floating block just to align a copy or paste. But other than that, i only build in SP, with a 500 build area, so unles the ship is longer than than, i can copy/paste the whole thing, if there are to many blocks i might have to do some manual replacing, but ive used this multiple time to move the core in a ship.