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I'm posting this here since no one pays attention to the Steam forums. 
There's a few tool ideas I'd really like to see implemented that would be incredibly useful and cut construction times down considerably.
First off: a "build to me" tool. Pretty simple, you stand at some point in space and it builds off the face you're looking at to your position in the relative XYZ axis. So standing at 34,600,5 looking at a block at 0,0,0 on the X face would build a line of blocks from 0 to 34. Has to work with symmetry.
Next: an easier to use copy paste: It's a pretty simple concept, and could even be a little check box in the advanced build, or whatever. The way it works is you bring up the copy, click on one block with left click, the other with right click, and the cube created by the vectors is now the copied area. Paste wouldn't have to be changed. No more having to pick a precise box using the sliders.
And last but not least: a curve building helper. Much like the circle/donut/ellipsoid helpers, but with 3 points. The start, the middle, and the end. And adding the functionality of all 4 helpers being able to have their points be picked by where the user is standing instead of by clicking on an existing block. It could be another checkbox and possibly use the middle mouse button? It's not for me to decide the details.
In fact, maybe an additional functionality could be the ability to use the middle mouse button to indicate "where I'm standing" instead of having to click on an existing block for many of the Advanced Build tools.
Anyway, I really appreciate this game and all it's efforts. A few more ease-of-use tools always go a long way to improve quality of life, though. Especially in a game where creative building is vital. Just thought I'd start a thread for tools ideas since I didn't see a reasonable and up-to-date one. I have many other tool ideas, I just thought I'd list the more basic ones first.
I have many other, often more complicated, ideas that I could share, but I thought I'd start here and see what people think. Stacking being one of them, which would be super useful for long halls.
There's a few tool ideas I'd really like to see implemented that would be incredibly useful and cut construction times down considerably.
First off: a "build to me" tool. Pretty simple, you stand at some point in space and it builds off the face you're looking at to your position in the relative XYZ axis. So standing at 34,600,5 looking at a block at 0,0,0 on the X face would build a line of blocks from 0 to 34. Has to work with symmetry.
Next: an easier to use copy paste: It's a pretty simple concept, and could even be a little check box in the advanced build, or whatever. The way it works is you bring up the copy, click on one block with left click, the other with right click, and the cube created by the vectors is now the copied area. Paste wouldn't have to be changed. No more having to pick a precise box using the sliders.
And last but not least: a curve building helper. Much like the circle/donut/ellipsoid helpers, but with 3 points. The start, the middle, and the end. And adding the functionality of all 4 helpers being able to have their points be picked by where the user is standing instead of by clicking on an existing block. It could be another checkbox and possibly use the middle mouse button? It's not for me to decide the details.
In fact, maybe an additional functionality could be the ability to use the middle mouse button to indicate "where I'm standing" instead of having to click on an existing block for many of the Advanced Build tools.
Anyway, I really appreciate this game and all it's efforts. A few more ease-of-use tools always go a long way to improve quality of life, though. Especially in a game where creative building is vital. Just thought I'd start a thread for tools ideas since I didn't see a reasonable and up-to-date one. I have many other tool ideas, I just thought I'd list the more basic ones first.
I have many other, often more complicated, ideas that I could share, but I thought I'd start here and see what people think. Stacking being one of them, which would be super useful for long halls.
