Noob question, how to invert selection to copy / past ?

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  1. wagfeliz

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    I could not open this topic in the building section ( permission denied for some reason ).
    So, I copied an left part of the ship, but I cant paste in the right part because its inverted, is this not fully implemented yet or there is some magic key to press ?
     
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    Did you try the ROTATE ?
     
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    Rotate doesn't give you mirror symmetry, which is what I suspect he's asking.

    Speaking of which, *is* there a way to paste for mirror symmetry?
    Consider a wing pylon, weapons on the front, fuel tanks underneath. Can I use the copy/paste functions to get a second wing on the other side of the ship without having the fuel tanks on the top, or the guns pointing backwards?
     
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  4. wagfeliz

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    Yes, mirror symmetry, otherwise the copy paste is really useless...
     
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    +1 for mirror symmetry!
    @Hummel-o-War please add this to the suggestion list!
     
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    I can't get rotate to work, I create a selection box, and click and drag the curved arrows but it doesn't move.
     
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    Now i got it.. you want MIRROR + BP Parts paste :D
     
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    Please!
    If we can choose between mirrored building, copy/paste/rotate and copy/paste/mirror, it would save a lot of fiddling about and duplicated work on larger builds.
     
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    Maybe we "just" need to make the current mirror planes work with the bp part placement. So when you place a bp part on the one side, all the blocks that this bp part contains, are mirrored on the other side.
     
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    Yeah, if you could "just" make that happen :D
    Though I'd also be over the moon with a mirror button to hit in the paste preview.
     
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  12. wagfeliz

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    You guys know that is not possible to invert the pasted content right ? And its something you need to code right ?
    Maybe some checkbox in the past screen like "invert" will do. Obs: Other games have this feature with an checkbox to invert the pasted content.
     
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    I agree that mirror would be awesome! I put it under tedious tasks, because it's something that is quite tedious.
     
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    What you mean is to select a cube and then say "select everything that is not inside this cube"? If so, then this is already on the list.
     
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    Yeap!
     
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    It would have been nice if they tested and finished the feature and THEN added it to the game for minor modifications only.
     
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    That would be extremely helpful!
     
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    Has this found into the game already? I am right now fiddling with some half of a ship I want to build and honestly don't wanna mirror it one by one myself.
     
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    give me an A.
    give me an L.
    give me a P.
    ...

    What's it mean? Not finished.
     
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    It's a high rugged mountain.
     
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