Welcome Novean!
Below you can find information on the construction tutorial, it's functions and a walkthrough to assist you with your first steps as builder, or should you get lost following the construction tutorial.
Table of contents
- Tutorial access
- First platform - Basic tool usage
- Second platform - removing voxels
- Third platform - introduction to shapes
- Fourth platform - selecting, rotating, copying and deleting voxels
- Fifth platform - voxel placement and fine adjustments
- Sixth platform - Basic building - Summary of previous lessons
- Additional tutorials
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Tutorial access
To get started with the construction tutorial, all you have to do is to find a VR tutorial station at any of the Markets or districts, on any of the planets / moons. Once there, interacting with the VR station or floor pad will provide the option to select all available tutorials including the Construction tutorial.
First Platform
Basic build tool usage
- Head to the dispenser
- Collect resources from the dispenser
- Enter build mode by pressing [B] while pointing at the core
- Select Voxel Tool
- Equip Voxel from inventory
- Pull voxel to quick access
- Place 8 voxels
- Removing the voxels
- Feel free to practice
- Exit build mode
- Move to Second Platform
Second Platform
removing/deleting voxels
- Point at construct and press [B]
- Select voxel tool
- Press [Alt+right click] to remove voxels
- Then remove wall to progress to next room
Third Platform
different shapes introduction
- Point at construct and press [B]
- Activate voxel deployment tool
- Press [E] to cycle through shapes
- Press CRTL-scroll to change size
- Place a cube
- Place a sphere
- Place a triangle
- Place a cylinder
- Place a tetrahedron
- Move to the next room to continue
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Fourth Platform
selecting, rotating, copying/pasting and deleting
- Press [B] to enter build mode
- Activate Select Voxel Tool (default 7)
- Select voxels and press [copy-C]
- Place voxel structure on construct
- Press [R] to rotate
- Press [ESC] to drop selection
- Press [CRTL-V] to re-select
- Press [DEL] to delete
- Go to the next room
Fifth Platform
voxels - precise placement and adjusting
- Press [B] to enter build mode
- Select ‘select element’ tool (default 1)
- Open Inventory and select steel beams
- Press [R] to rotate and place 2 beams
- Activate ‘move element’ tool (default 9)
- Select steel beams
- Position with arrows
- Set down with [left-click]
- Select ‘select element tool’
- ALT+SCROLL Mousewheel to set distance
- Set down with [left-click]
- Remove all elements with [ALT+left click]
- Go over to dispenser > get batch
- Head out to the waypoint
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Sixth Platform
Basic building - Summary of previous lessons
- Open Inventory [I]
- Equip static core by double clicking it
- Select ‘deploy ground element tool’ (default [5])
- Place static core (cannot be placed too near)
- Try to make a floor and use the abilities you’ve just learned
- Disable build mode [B] and go to the waypoint
- You can use [H] while looking at an object to find out what everything is
- Use teleporter to finish tutorial
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Congratulations, you have completed the construction tutorial!
As always in DualUniverse, there is a lot more to discover. Feel free to join you fellow Noveans for in depth discussions and additional information here: https://board.dualthegame.com/