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
- Tutorial preparation and basic controls
- Changing shapes - Smoothing and resizing
- Shapes / Voxel Dominance introduction
- Additional Tutorials
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Tutorial access
To get started with the advanced 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 advanced construction tutorial.
Tutorial preparation and basic controls
- Go to the dispenser and get some materials.
- Follow the line to tutorial entry and press button [F]
- Enter Room and activate build mode with [B]
- Activate line tool with [3]
equip voxels by double clicking them in your inventory first - Connect to two blue sections
Known issue: next step of tutorial may not trigger when connecting the sections - please use shift + pg down to advance tutorial - Press BACKSPACE to revert last step
- Connect to yellow boxes wrongly
- Rotate with [R]
- Rotate connecting point
- Resize with scroll wheel and CRTL
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Changing shapes - Smoothing and Resizing
- Move back to the lobby and press the smooth tool button
- Choose smooth tool and press [B] to enter build mode
- Activate smooth tool with [default 5]
- Click left mouse button to test with ‘cat’
- Undo changes with BACKSPACE
- Try shrink modifier with ALT
- Maximize brush size with CRTL+Mouse wheel
- Use ALT-LMB to shrink
- Activate select voxel tool
- Select and copy shrunk voxel and paste it
- Select voxel and try to shrink again with ALT-LMB
- Leave room and select the area smooth tool button
- Enter the area, enter build mode and select are smooth tool
- Select two points for the smooth tool at the shape provided
- Apply the change
- Select the green shape and enlarge with CRTL and click LMB to smooth
- Copy and paste the smoothed shape with tool [default 7]
- Leave area and get back to the lobby and select the paste priority button
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Shapes / Voxel dominance introduction
- Enter room press [B]
- Select ‘select voxel’ tool [default 7]
- Copy the blue line with the triangle on top
- Explaining existing dominance
- Paste near yellow shape > blue shape deformed > existing dominance
- Now paste yellow shape with Shift > yellow shape deformed >
- Exit the tutorial with teleporter
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Congratulations, you have completed the industry 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/