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Build Vision 3.0

This is a quick access context menu, based on the original Build Vision by Jimmacle, designed to supplement the game's terminal. Most of the time, the terminal works just fine for setting up blocks, but sometimes, it's cumbersome. With BV, you can just point and click at a block and have immediate access to its settings, no need to go find a button panel and search for a name you likely can't remember.

This menu opened by aiming at the desired block and pressing either Ctrl + MwUp or Ctrl + MwDn. The first opens the wheel menu; the second opens the older list-style menu. Holding Ctrl (peek) will show a summary of the target block's current status without opening the controls. Pressing the right mouse button (Back/Cancel) will close the menu.

By default, the menu will close if you move more than 10 meters 4 large blocks from your target block. The exact distance can be customized in the settings.


Selection:
There are two ways to highlight properties: scrolling or by gesturing with the mouse. To select with the mouse, hold Ctrl (Peek), and move your mouse either clockwise or counterclockwise, like you're tracing a circle.

Pressing Select/Confirm will open the highlighted property. Pressing that bind again will confirm any changes. Pressing Back/Cancel will close the property without saving changes; pressing it again will close the menu.

Note: The list menu only supports scrolling with the mouse wheel (or scroll binds).

Changing Settings:
Properties can be changed using the scroll wheel in conjunction with the multiplier binds listed below, with text-only fields being the only exception.

Alternatively, holding Ctrl will allow you to use your mouse cursor to change settings. Depending on the use case, this is often easier.

Text:
Text fields are opened/closed with chat (Enter) and support the usage of the usual Ctrl+A/X/C/V binds to select, cut, copy and paste text. Fair warning: you'll only be able to copy text within Build Vision; it won't work with the terminal or anything else.

Opening chat (pressing Enter) while a text field is highlighted will open text input automatically.

Note: Most numerical fields also support text input.

The multiplier binds are used to change the speed a selected property will change with each tick of the scroll wheel, 1/10th normal, 5x normal, 10x, etc. The base rate is proportional to the maximum value of the selected property. If you have a thruster override selected (probably with a maximum in the millions) that’s going to change in much larger increments than the targeting range of a turret (with a max around 800 meters, usually).

The MultX bind, Ctrl by default, can also be used to scroll through the list faster. Just hold it down while scrolling.


Property or settings duplication, as the name implies, is used to copy settings from one block to another. The binds below can be used to quickly copy settings, but there are buttons for these controls in the wheel menu as well.

The paste bind can be used while peeking, meaning if you've already copied properties, you can paste them using the shortcut below w/o reopening the controls.


When selecting properties from the list, pressing the back bind will take you back to the wheel menu to finish copying.

The settings menu, by default, can be opened by pressing F2. This menu allows you to configure block targeting, change UI settings, configure your keybinds, and allows you to enable/disable legacy mode.

Legacy mode reverts the control scheme to the one used for v2.5 and changes the peek popup to match the old appearance.

The chat commands in this mod are largely redundant; the functionality they provide is also provided by the settings menu. If you prefer to use the chat commands for whatever reason, here they are:

All chat commands must begin with “/bv2” and are not case-sensitive. The arguments following “/bv2” can be separated either by whitespace, a comma, semicolon or pipe character. Whatever floats your boat; just make sure there’s something between them.


Example: "/bv2 bind open control shift"

If you're having trouble getting this mod to work, see the Troubleshooting Guide.

If you have a bug to report, see the instructions for submitting bug reports in the discussions section.

The source code for the mod is available on GitHub[github.com] under the MIT license for anyone interested.