How to use the Copy & Paste Tool | Spanj's Build Academy | Empyrion Galactic Survival | #3

In this episode we cover the copy & paste tool available in Creative games only. Let me know in the comments if you know what the 'Fill Selection' button does.
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[@WdyWP]

Thanks much for this tutorial. I was in the middle of a build and felt I needed/wanted to move and entire area to a different part of the CV. This tutorial was just what I needed.

[@Bedevere]

Fill selection lets you fill the selection with blocks. Its great if you are making long or wide sections of flat blocks like a landing pads or want to create a solid block or something like that.

[@Spanj]

Excellent - You go to the front of the class :)

[@one_tlives8067]

These instructions saved me a lot of hours during construction.

[@RollinShultz]

Thanks A bunch. I'm building my first SV (T4) and I found after some time that I wanted it longer and wider so these techniques came in very handy.

[@jgboyer]

Thanks for these valued tips, I am new to these Strategy / Building games and already lost hair on Space Engineers but this Empyrion is superior! Much better logistics. So glad smart people like you are willing to make these tutor videos.

[@kobalt63]

Thank you Spanj - very useful clip. Your last copy and flip example of the cargo pod would have worked if your pod was symmetrical in 2 axes ...grins ....all good - we understand what you are trying to say. The devs will fix the mirror function soon i hope ... Love your work.

[@TheGrewl]

You rock bro, thank you for posting this. The Double paste click eluded my dumb a$$ for Hours.........HOURS

[@luckyx16]

Thanks for this video. Even thought it is 4 years old, it has helped this new player quite a bit. I have been trying to build a CV for days, that did not take a ton of rare resources. Unfortunately, you have to put a CV pilots seat in it. I had an epiphany while building it though and it looks like it will work. (if I can figure out the logic for that stupid loading ramp)

[@operatorhoot470]

Nice one, that should cut my build times in half :)

[@TruthforSecondLife]

Grateful... I play with Chilimeat under the Unknown Skies.

[@douglswelsher6212]

as always love the videos. I am having a hard day. peace to everyone

[@pear7869]

thanks for this one! tho Im still derping with this, this is so counter intuitive to use! wouldnt have been able to use without this tutorial :P

[@Spanj]

You're Welcome :)

[@prozachseven]

Sadly unintuitive. But you saved me having to remake my ship because I went over the CPU limit for tier 1 (we don't have access to materials for t2 on our starter planet). Now I can just chop the middle out and shrink it. Thank you

[@iknowyourname36]

A good idea for an episode is showing people how to reverse a ship that has been built backwards.

[@TheInvertedCow]

Hell ya I got one of those.... Confusing as f*** to fly!

[@iknowyourname36]

Inverted Cow Plays theres a simple way to fix it now. This way your compass wont be all f'd up lol

[@Spanj]

except i still don't know how to do that lol

[@iknowyourname36]

I will make you a short instructional video tn. ;)

[@iknowyourname36]

Then you can make one on it as well and people will actually see it lol

[@stevek6921]

Cheers for another good video, mate.

[@danielwalker6298]

thanks Spanj, great vid

[@CJICantLie]

They still haven't fixed the symmetry with paste. Imagine that cargo pod selection was something less rotationally symmetrical, the paste tool is of no use, have to build the feature again for the mirror image.

[@mikecobalt7005]

Hey Spanj, another great video for learning Empyrion. What about "Large Builds"? Copy everything save to list and when time to rezz/paste (Green) it shows correctly but the second phase (Blue) it only rezz's/pastes "Part" of what was copied? Is there another process between the 1st and 2nd/ Green and Blue stages?

[@BeornsThunder]

A huge help, thanks so much! :D:D

[@donvlad2908]

Finally i have understand it, but know my problem is can i and how copy a piece from on SV and past it into another totally differnet Sv?

[@clownbaby7224]

The arrow thing is typically called a "gizmo" in 3d software :D

[@xxcobxxtoffelk1620]

very helpful

[@General_Turian]

Is there a way to use the copy and paste but either change the block types (say from combat steel to regular steel), or would you leave that silhouette there that you get from the first time you select paste and treat it as sort of a fill in the blanks deal and just rebuild that entire piece with the desired block types?

[@rickherrin5364]

Question Spanj, I am trying to build a huge landing pad for some of the newer long CV. Can I only have the landing pad so long? Right now I have a "Block count" of 34185. Thanks to your vid I have been able to Copy & Paste but I can't paste anymore on the length.

[@khamseen]

I noticed you had the "You cannot place this block on a capital vessel" message... it's the reason I came looking for tutorials. What causes this and how did you get it to paste regardless? I'm working on a capital vessel for the first time with a friend and we realised we want a particular part about 3 blocks further forward but even though I'm copying the selection of blocks from said capital vessel, it wont let me paste them and is giving that warning... makes no sense to me at all.

[@mootan2]

Just discovered the "N" cut copy paste function , was working now its not. Everywhere i read ; the answer was reboot , restart so forth an its still not working , wish i had some hair so i could pull it out. Will wait a couple of days as one person stated , hmmm wheres a wig

[@DennyPhantom]

I tried figuring this out myself.. I managed to copy the thing i needed, and then i pressed Paste. It just put down the hologram. And i didnt think to then... press it again... And this i came here.. to be told, to press Paste twice, to paste.

[@wozadamada]

Thanks Spanj

[@bryan_hilo6263]

That’s quite useful

[@martinmeyer9564]

Thanks a lot Spanj :)

[@ronniepaulinc]

this game is so inconsistant, i dont have the same options. I cant keep my sumentry plane open so when I copy paste it disappears. This game is awful on my ram...

[@donparker1]

Can you remove sections of a CV, SV, or base then select another part to move on an existing BP?

[@Spanj]

yes! copy & paste is a beast

[@donparker1]

@@Spanj Thank you, I'm only 200+hours into thr game and learning new things daily. Server size for MP has restrictions(sadly) and I want to create a mobile base/carrier

[@VendonJura]

As always. You need to know something? Spanj is the person who is gona teach you that. Guess you are the best Empyrion KZbinr in my opinion. Thumbs up ;) . I just hope you would stop using swear words in combination with gods name. Just don't get it why people are doing it. PS: Greetings from germany

[@ProxyZeroPlayer]

Thanks a lot man. Subscribe.

[@alekseibird]

плохо что нет инструкции, но игра хорошая)

[@MillionairesDiary]

i'm so angry at the devs because they took this away from survival games. Like, wtf? So many hours wasted because I can't just copy and paste blocks. Fucks sake

[@andersbohansen]

I could kiss you right now, been frustrated with this for hours Thank you Thank you thank you :)

[@W1se0ldg33zer]

Not very many games have a 3D paint program included. Just wanted to point out the awesomeness of this game. Nice tutorial.

[@spacemanspifff839]

Fantastic tutorial Spanj. I'm really finding all these useful. Looking forward to Signal logic tutorial (nudge nudge wink wink)