rotate

[cgwildwolf11]

how do i rotate items i want to put down , i have an xbox controller and it tells me to use the R button but when i do try to use the R button all i can do is crouch , pleas help

[morgoth13]

I managed to figure this out today... sort of. If you hold the left trigger, then the right stick will rotate things. It will only rotate by a chunk at a time this way.

If while holding LT, you also hold in the R stick button, then you can do fine rotation - but on top of it being awkward to hold the button this way it's also extremely finicky and glitchy to do this. It works but it's extremely unpleasant and takes forever to get kind of close to what you want.

Using the mouse wheel will also rotate but it's also a bit funky with the controller taking over the controls, and I didn't find a way to do fine rotation with the mouse. A controller being connected should not be cancelling your other inputs. Controller controls for building in general need a LOT of improvement.



Unrelated but I'd also really like a better way to get below decks without having to grapple off the edge of the ship. Can't build a flat deck to land on, it only builds a cube and puts a deck on top. And even then you can't put stairs close enough to the deck to not fall through the crack. Hopefully the building system will get a good bit of refinement in the future.

[cgwildwolf11]

thanks lots and i so agree with you . also a get unstuck button would be grate.. i fell down a hole that had 1 grapple spot but that was not high enough to get me out and i could not climb the walls ether so i had to respon and lose all the things i had picked up .

[thoth]

Yeah, the shipbuilding appears to be based on a deformable "rectangular" lattice. Not only are floors and ceilings mandatory (and walls are impossible), the UI for adjusting vertices and edges appears to suffer from Z fighting.
Even if it is a demo, the build interface is so unusable that they should have delayed until it was fixed. Although the pressure of getting into NextFest was probably overwhelming.

[ikkonoishi]

Walls are made with the build menu like placing the furnace and shipyard. You can destroy decks with the prism equipped, and then build a half deck to let the ladder work better.

[Stelar Seven]

This game thrives on mouse and keyboard, I can't even imagine the struggle building with a controll stick.

[morgoth13]

The rest of the game plays great with controller. I'd much prefer to build with m/kb but the game won't let you do that if a controller is plugged in.

I knew you added walls later but since the builder automatically puts the floor/ceiling in I'm not sure I ever tried deleting them later. And when I tried building a deck myself the only place it would try to apply it was on the walls so I figured it just wouldn't let you.