Free Floating Block Placement tool

[Winterhome]

Exactly what it says on the title. You know how the Create Dock tool allows you to place a core in front of the camera, rather than being forced to put it on an existing block?

Let's get a tool in the editor for that kind of thing.

Press a hotkey and it places a selection box a bit in front of the camera, with 3 lines running through the X, Y, and Z Axis so you can align your floating block tool with other parts of your build.

I would also recommend using hotkeys to move the selection box back/forth, up/down, and left/right in relation to the cursor, and permit mass block placement with advanced build mode

Bonus points: Floating placement of Copy-Pasted objects, rather than being forced to paste from a corner

 

[papachabre]

Yes please. I have such a tough time using copy/paste the way it is.

 

[Parameter]

Bonus points: Floating placement of Copy-Pasted objects, rather than being forced to paste from a corner

Yes this. Always this.

 

[Lecic]

This would be extremely useful. Support.

 

[spunkiethefirst]

Yes the copy paste would benefit from this immensely.

 

[Zaphord]

+1
About friggin time someone thought of this.

 

[Ithirahad]

Yesh.... This would help so much with my stations. Seeing as they are usually supposed to be composed of multiple structures, this would allow me to skip the spamming-block-towers step of reaching the location I want to build my shipyard or habitation facility or whatever at.

 

[FatCobra]

Great idea please do this.

 

[zircher]

How about adding ALT QWEASD keys to paste so that you can finely position it? Having to build a scaffold so I can add a part to the rear of my ship is pretty stupid.

 

[Magrim]

Too soon for this to fall off the front page BUMP!

Oh, and council members, please acknowledge you will stress to the devs this is sorely needed.

 

[PizzaPress]

this please
all of my want

 

[StormWing0]

Yep this'd be useful since we wouldn't have to build out to an area just to place a single block or paste something.

 

[Gunmetalmonk]

As zircher says. we already have the functionality. wasd key behavior in the galaxy map. Should be a snap to implement.