[Ship Builder] How to rotate ship modules?

[Schutzengel]

Hello all,

it isnt obvious. Pan (Mouse3) does nothing. (Mouse2), as per its keybinding, does not rotate anything either.

Please help me so I can rotate ship mopdules.

Help would be appreciated, Sincerely.

[Sharanga]

press z when holding parts

[Schutzengel]

Thank You! It works only when holding a module, moving around and with Z it rotates. Just selecting a module and pressing Z doesnt rotate it.

[Biscuit Tim]

Originally posted by Sharanga:

press z when holding parts

This only flips the selected part, it doesn't rotate it

[Martin]

Yeh it's a janky system, i was in and out of upgrade ship and ship builder for 2 hours rebuilding my ship, now it tells me i need more engines, but that adds more mass... and there's not enough engine designs, only side thrusters, no top or bottom thrusters, it's pretty lackluster tbh and it's a very difficult system to use, you can't move stuff up or down it only snaps to certain parts, you have to buy the part only to find out it doesn't fit.. horrible horrible design. Think i spent about 60k on 30k worth of upgrades.

[L00]

Originally posted by Martin:

Yeh it's a janky system, i was in and out of upgrade ship and ship builder for 2 hours rebuilding my ship, now it tells me i need more engines, but that adds more mass... and there's not enough engine designs, only side thrusters, no top or bottom thrusters, it's pretty lackluster tbh and it's a very difficult system to use, you can't move stuff up or down it only snaps to certain parts, you have to buy the part only to find out it doesn't fit.. horrible horrible design. Think i spent about 60k on 30k worth of upgrades.

Agreed that the Ship Building UI is very wonky.
However there's a workaround for what you mention (until Bethesda, or not, decide to allow X+/X- movement of parts in Ship Building).
If you look in Key Bindings you'll see that R & F determine the height level you're at before placing a part (if you prefer placing the part without having to start on a node). Granted, it won't tell you at which height you actually are & my 1st few attempts showed me I was way lower than my perception.
It does, however, allow placement (at correct height) of parts outside of nodes for assembly after hence, all parts are available.

[BEEP!]

I would expect that to be modded in rather fast even though the ship biulding is very big it's also very restricted in how you can place things like why can't I place a cargo upside-down it's only left ir right.