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In case you missed it the Dev team posted new info yesterday and this was included:

 

 

We will introduce a set of advanced voxel tools to help building more complex shapes: copy/paste tool, undo, smoother, voxel elements (blueprints for small parts of the voxel structure, that can be used to copy/paste it later), visual aids like lines, frames, and possibly mesh ghost “holographic” import to give you a reference. We will try to add as many tools as possible at release, but some of them may have to wait until a later expansion.

 

So I wanted to break it down a bit:

1. Copy/Paste Tool - This would be interesting in a live environment but there would need to be some sort of limitation if you want to incorporate it without a build mode.

2. Undo - Yes please, if not undo then a way to easily remove recently placed blocks without a resource deficit

3. Smoother - With Voxels this will be a must otherwise there will be some janky ships out there as well as frustration.

4. Voxel Elements - This would be the limitation of the copy paste, would need to see it in action depending on the types of things you can make.

5. Visual Aids - As I stated in another post it would be great to have an overlay of information that you can access as a "New View" type of thing. With Voxels not sure how a grid will look, but with frames and even holograms this would be cool. Also I really want a block count for your structures, both for the overall and as you place rows of blocks would be awesome!

 

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For the 5th point though, it's great new, as lot of buddies wanna have their meshed imported, this solution of holograms is the perfect one: it's not cheated, but of course I expect of the machinery to project this kind of holograms to have a cost (I always talk about costs, but I believe it's obvious they are needed always, maybe you don't).

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In my defence I am on my phone and that stuff is hard to read.

 

But I was mostly joking...as you know. ^^

I know. No colors is a good thing though. I didn't have the will to change the text color and twerk's posts were just standing out much. I have to change my font though...
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"I wonder whether it will be possible to smooth edges on a large scale. It could work as an alternative for curves. "

 

what has been annouced is a great step, getting close enough to Landmarks build tools.

So if you hang on youtube Landmarks building tutorials, you might find a very accurate answer

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