NITROtbomb Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Hi Everyone, so I am trying to paint my ship... which is to be honest really frustrating because I have to wait about 4 seconds for an individual block to be painted..... keep in mind my current project has 20297 blocks at the moment... Is there anyway to make painting such a huge ship easier? I have put all the graphics settings on the lowest and it still doesn't work. Regards, Nitro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splutty Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Just ignore the delay and keep painting, the blocks will catch up, or at least that's my experience :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NITROtbomb Posted March 25, 2017 Author Share Posted March 25, 2017 I try ahah, but a lot of the time if I go to fast they get missed completely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splutty Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 I always try to put in the block already painted :) But I guess that's a little late for you. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NITROtbomb Posted March 25, 2017 Author Share Posted March 25, 2017 Ohh it is so late aha, getting through slowly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pob Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 One thing I've found to help sometimes is to exit and re-enter build mode, this clears the undo cache. Also try to minimise intersecting blocks. When painting you can hold down the mouse button and drag it about you don't have to click on individual blocks. However my biggest tip, is make a note of which colours you are using, as there's no way I've found of seeing which exact colour a block is painted, so if you paint something the wrong colour by mistake you might not remember what the correct colour was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splutty Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Another tip: If 90% of your ship is the same colour, do a search and replace in the XML file instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masyaka Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Select all > merge blocks saves both ram, fps and your time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Savage NDMF Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Select all > merge blocks saves both ram, fps and your time. I don't see how having to touch all my blocks to merge them would take less time than having to touch all my blocks to paint them. And about this having more than one color thing... Not really a time saver if everything is one giant cargo container. Even if you group like minded blocks together, you still have to touch and color every one, or build them the color as you go. This may help FPS, but it does nothing to help the current coloring issues. The only time savings options you currently have are build with the color selected or use the XML method. Hopefully the new and improved build mode coming later will help this. Like adding a little user palate so I don't have to keep digging through all the colors I'll never use trying to remember the one or two I actually want to grace the hull of my beautiful, beautiful flying brick of explosive mayhem and wonderment... Cheers..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedamngod Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 There is a shortcut to select all blocks: Ctrl+A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalX Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Or you can use the selector tool, if there are parts of the ship you do not want merged, like a section of the ship that contains multiple thrusters of same sizes but different directions, they will all merge into one thruster of ONE direction. So avoid those if you can, the click and drag selector tool will help you avoid selecting them while still allowing you to select multiple blocks elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neospud Posted April 11, 2017 Share Posted April 11, 2017 Also if you have nothing selected and click the merge button it'll behave as if you had everything selected. And if they're different colors they won't merge so you can assign odd colors to stuff you don't want to merge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colibru Posted April 22, 2018 Share Posted April 22, 2018 A "Paint-All"-button in the "change whole ship"-window would be nice or is there a other opportunity to paint the whole ship at once? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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