CRAZY IDEA : Blueprint system REDUX

[DKPuncherello]

@Goblinounours

how come they don’t recruit more people? Can’t they?

Ykno, money

[Cuetzpalomitl]

@Goblinounours

Of course they can’t. But 6 years and no ladders, though. ^^

I’ll use Minecraft again as an example.

It’s been around 10 years and they don’t have chairs or tables.

[Xaldafax]

I still have the same response as last time -

CRAZY IDEA : Blueprint System or Moving Box

Actually yesterday morning I was talking with him during a call about blueprint options. One of the ideas I actually did pitch is mostly what you said - a new plotter or paper object that was used to snapshot a set amount of plots and save the data there. It would then get a number (like 1). Then you would use another to grab another set of plots - it becomes 2. Repeat… Then you go to the area you want and start pasting things in the order you want - 1 2 3… etc. Most of the conversation I …

I’ve had many conversations and a lot of the tech for this isn’t still in place. Beyond the time to code, the big issue was moving the data between planets (in the case of trying to grab a blueprint and move). How would that data move, etc.

Now that we have reclaim I can see that helping a bit at least in gathering and moving things. The next step is how do you understand a blueprint that is super huge. Or do we set limits on the size of them. Lastly how will they built afterward… Are people wanting manual or automatic building? Personally I like an automatic method of slowly building it over the course of a few hours (to help server).

I am a fan of game assets so would like a Designer Table or something as one of the assets related to Blueprints.

[molav]

What if they started just like with a non-collision/see through/able to walk through mode and you could build it one block by one block. Then later add an automatic ability with skills or profession.

That way you could hire builders to follow templates

[Cuetzpalomitl]

If you could import designs from magica voxel and other programs like that it would be amazing

[Goblinounours]

@Stretchious

I also like the blueprint idea, but as mentioned in some of the other posts, due to the size of some of the builds out there, it would probably be better suited I think to player managed blueprints with a size restriction in place (possibly skill related to make bigger blueprints - turn it into a profession).

That’s kinda the entire point of the suggestion, though. Have you read the part with the beacon saver item?
The way I see it, it would only be able to save up to like 20-40 plots or so. Clearly NOT biiiiig builds.

@Xaldafax Yeah, I mostly re-wrote it to re-think how it could work and also because the original thread I made wasn’t clear : all the big points weren’t in the first message, which is not something I like to do.
If the blueprint takes like 10 seconds per block or 10 minutes per plot, honestly, I’d be fine with it : the system would exist anyway.

@molav Thought about it in the original thread I wrote (the one Xal linked), BUT I thought the whole “ghost preview” thing would be a tad too complicated too pull off, on top of the rest of the blueprint system which is already hard to tackle.
Though the idea of linking the blueprint system to an epic skill to make it go from manual building by following a template to automatic sounds interesting.

[Xaldafax]

@Goblinounours

I mostly re-wrote it to re-think how it could work and also because the original thread I made wasn’t clear

Yeah I think it was nice to centralize. This topic is obviously something I am VERY much interested in and will continue to fight for it whenever I can - I’ve talked in person many times about this with the Devs on ideas and ways to accomplish… I believe it is critical to the game to give players some form of ability to MOVE their builds or get away from conflict situations or areas they no longer like. When private rental planets hit people will likely want to move to them and not take the time to rebuild. So we need a move. Same thing if a person wants to move off their rental back on to public, etc.

This would be a complicated system so I am willing for us to go through phases. Even moving a few plots and repeating it would be ok. Not ideal at all but I think the win of the “feature” is better than how it works initially.

[the-moebius]

i think we will get it sanctum is basically a blueprint builder in discuise
not sure if discuise is a word lol covert/camouflaged

[Goblinounours]

In disguise?

But to me, the Sanctum looks more like it the prototype of a prototype of a creative mode.

[DKPuncherello]

I think it would be really helpful for building if there were a way to place X by X blocks in one click, for floors and walls

Also AoE chisels

[Goblinounours]

@DKPuncherello

if there were a way to place X by X blocks in one click

Kinda like Creativerse’s burst-fill, then?

Creativerse Customize a Blueprint

[DKPuncherello]

Yup exactly like that. That would be nice.

[majorvex]

1.We will be getting blueprints in the future.

2. Cv has some neat things, but there are many things Boundless has that they don’t. Cv has lost a lot of players over the past years…they had 5k-10k players for awhile. They are at 300-1500ish now.

I don’t know how Boundless will add blueprints…it would be cool if you don’t have to scan your build…if it could just save the whole thing and place it like how the blueprint system in Fallout works.

[majorvex]

@DKPuncherello

I think it would be really helpful for building if there were a way to place X by X blocks in one click, for floors and walls

Also AoE chisels

I hope they add both of these in the future haven’t heard anything about it, but it would be a nice QoL update

[kasaisaru]

Catching up on the thread a bit took off a lil

@Kal-El

I do wonder how practical it is to select individual plots. .Since plots are 3d and not 2d how would I know which plots are being saved?

I think if it’s saves in individual layer I can see it being saved as a 2d plan and not a 3d model

@AeneaGames

But what about all the the empty spaces? Those do not need to take any space in the blueprint data at all.

Back in my Minecraft day I used a mod called Schematica. If I remember right, it was a client side and not server side that allowed you to save and load projections to guild your builds. If it was the correct block and spot, it would be seen regularly if not you would be a glowing ghost of the block(sorta like force ghost from Star Wars)

@Goblinounours

Kinda like Creativerse’s burst-fill, then?

This looks like a copy of the that Minecraft mod I mentioned.

Schematica