Description

Never build the same thing twice again!

Tired of repeated work, building the same stuff over and over again? This admin tool will be your second best friend forever!

With the Modular Building Tool you can place any structure (building part) right where you want it. All copied building parts will end up in de button editor (the pencil icon) and can be assigned to a position on one of the 9 tabs in the UI. Clicking right mouse button will open the UI. Select a building part and fire the tool at the building block you want to paste it on. Simple as that!

Steps to add your own parts

1. Copy any structure in game  and assign the file (building part) to a button in the UI.

2. Use the modular building tool to select the part you want to paste.

3. Click on the building block you want it to connect to.

4. Repeat

Features

• Copy and add any building part to your collection
• Categorize your buildings parts in the UI
• 9 tabs with each 48 slots for parts
• Undo function to remove last pasted part
• Remove mode to remove parts in between
• Almost everything done in UI
• Easy to master, very user friendly controls

Permissions

zmodularbuilding.admin --> Required to use the plugin and the tool

Commands

/mb tool --> give yourself a Modular Building Tool
/mb copy <part name> --> copy the part you look at, part name should be unique and will overwrite if already exists. See section Copying for more info about this command.
/mb updatedata --> update all available building parts, use this after adding files manually or when you miss building parts
/mb paste <part name> --> paste a building part at the spot you're looking at, useful for editing parts

Less used commands (debug or available in UI):
/mb list --> print all building parts
/mb updatedata --> update all available building parts, use this after adding files manually or when you miss building parts
/mb undo --> remove last pasted part
/mb close --> close UI
/mb destroyall --> destroy all pasted building parts

Copy building parts

Copying new building parts can be a bit tricky at first. The direction of the floor / foundations (those 2 are recommended to use as start- and end blocks) is important to keep in mind.
When pasting a part, the direction of the block you aim for will be used to position all other entities of the building part. The direction of all entities inside a part is based on the part you look at while copying the part.
My advise is to always make sure you are copying ‘forward’ going blocks (floors/foundations). If you connect a block with it’s back to another block, the empty side of the block is the forward. In this image I just placed the upper foundation. Now I’m sure the side at the end of the arrow is the ‘front’ of the block.

If there’s more than one surrounding foundations/floors, make sure to really aim for the block you want to connect you new block to. In the image below, the new foundation’s front side will be on top of this image.

Here’s another example, the green arrows show the ‘directions’ of the building blocks. In the second image the same structure is pasted on the twig foundation:

Example building parts – Race Track

In the download I included the basic parts I used for creating the race tracks. Simply copy them over to /oxide/data/copypaste/modular_building/ and use command /mb updatedata to start using these example parts. These track parts are made with crazy precision, they all follow a 5×5 grid which results in perfectly fitting race tracks. Hit me up on Discord if you’re interested in some more, less perfect race track parts.

Required plugins

The CopyPaste plugin found on uMod is required to use this plugin.

Support / Contact me

If you encounter any problems or if you have any suggestions, feature requests or questions, please message me on Discord (josh.z) for the fastest response.

I’d love to discuss your ideas for it on my Discord server here: https://discord.gg/KveEUQhGsZ
There’s also a cool dude there (Nexus) who always sees your questions quicker than I do. If my response takes too long, find Nexus!