Now Available: Reactor/2D+ Voxel Planner

[JayleBreak 186]

Continuing on beyond the original 2D Voxel Planner, I'm releasing today a new in-game building tool: Reactor/2D+ Voxel Planner. It extends the original 2D Voxel Planner's limited layer support with a Layer definition screen while adding a tool to design the 3 dimensional shape of a single voxel.
To support these features, a new XS Dynamic core construct has been built with a unique Voxel stack (derived from the NRD Voxel Cube which also inspired some aspects of the interface). The construct also has new Reactor frame
The blueprints (at nominal cost) for the construct and the original 2D Voxel planner are available at the Objective Driveyards headquarters at the open space location which will hold their future sales office. There is plenty of parking! In game location: ::pos{0,2,23.2925,73.1635,9.1008}
Also available is a limited number of blueprint+elements+voxels from a dispensor. These will cost 100 000 quanta and are limited to 1 per player.
More information can be found on this short  Video tour.

[SpaceBird 0]

This looks amazing!  I thought I might get there in time, but both the bundle and the blueprints are completely out!  There's a few of us camping out now like it's a new console release, lol.

 

edit: Thanks for getting it sorted out!

[JayleBreak 186]

Sorry, I messed up the dispenser. Everything is working now.

[X__E__N 0]

Massive thank you for spending the time making the 2d planner , really appreciate all the hard work that has gone in to this.

 

[fiddlybits 18]

Thank you for the voxel planners. They are a great resource.

[Bennor 0]

Love the work you done, this tool makes a lot of voxel work much easier.
Thank you soo much for making this.

 

[JayleBreak 186]

On 1/1/2021 at 3:11 PM, Bennor said:

Love the work you done, this tool makes a lot of voxel work much easier.
Thank you soo much for making this.

 

Your welcome. Also, I created a new video which shows the Reactor Builder in action (which I skimped on in the Tour): 

 

[CptFilip 3]

Thx for sharing this

 

 

[IvanGrozniy 33]

This is really cool that you did this but also bonkers, sad, and frustrating... game should have voxel editing tools that work well already... 

[Mamba_Lev 12]

Found it, looks good thanks for your hard work.

[TobiwanKenobi 1]

Hey, thanks for this wonderful tool! It has revitalized my interest in building. I'm now able to produce almost whatever I want. Such as these badass catwalks/floor grates.

 

However, I think I've run into a couple errors in the voxel stack. While trying to produce those catwalks, I discovered that some of my vertices weren't quite in the right place. For example, when trying to make this bar of the catwalk, two of the vertices appear to be at different heights. It doesn't seem to be a visual artifact, as the difference persists when I exit build mode. I'm rather clueless about how to go about repairing these apparent errors, so I thought I would bring it to your attention. I'm not sure which voxels are non-standard.

 

Thanks again for your amazing work. I hope you have some insight into this weirdness.

[JayleBreak 186]

4 hours ago, TobiwanKenobi said:

Hey, thanks for this wonderful tool! It has revitalized my interest in building. I'm now able to produce almost whatever I want. Such as these badass catwalks/floor grates.

 

However, I think I've run into a couple errors in the voxel stack. While trying to produce those catwalks, I discovered that some of my vertices weren't quite in the right place. For example, when trying to make this bar of the catwalk, two of the vertices appear to be at different heights. It doesn't seem to be a visual artifact, as the difference persists when I exit build mode. I'm rather clueless about how to go about repairing these apparent errors, so I thought I would bring it to your attention. I'm not sure which voxels are non-standard.

 

Thanks again for your amazing work. I hope you have some insight into this weirdness.

Using the picture of the Reactor design for the bar as a guide, I took a careful look. There does appear to be a slight variance between the two sides of the bar of about 1/32 of a voxel  or less (the bar is 1/8th voxel thick).  This is a problem I can't fix. As far as the second image of the thicker voxel, I used the coordinates in the stage 2 build instructions, and that voxel looks correct as far as I can tell. But I'm not sure if that is the one corresponding to the issue you point out. PM on discord me with a clarification if you can.

[TobiwanKenobi 1]

13 minutes ago, JayleBreak said:

There does appear to be a slight variance between the two sides of the bar of about 1/32 of a voxel  or less (the bar is 1/8th voxel thick).  This is a problem I can't fix.

So from where does this deviance originate? Was it a mistake in the creation of the original NRD voxel cube? Is it some strange bug in the game?

 

15 minutes ago, JayleBreak said:

As far as the second image of the thicker voxel, I used the coordinates in the stage 2 build instructions, and that voxel looks correct as far as I can tell. But I'm not sure if that is the one corresponding to the issue you point out. PM on discord me with a clarification if you can.

Sorry I didn't show this very well. The second image is just a 'front' view of the bar displayed on the screen in the first image. The gray voxel there is the end of the bar. The red voxel is the end of another bar, offset in a different way so that they meet. The blue is a normal voxel. I was just visually comparing the end of the bar with the variance to another bar that had no variance so that you could better see the issue.