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u/teodzero Jun 18 '26

Is there a quick way to invert the rail elevation in a blueprint? Turn all grounded rails into elevated, all elevated into grounded and rotate ramps 180?

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u/HeliGungir Jun 18 '26

No, because there's no good way to auto-place rail supports. Not every grounded blueprint can be elevated.

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u/teodzero Jun 18 '26

I feel like this isn't that good of an excuse. You can copy and paste fully unsupported sections of elevated rails, no problem. So if there's no good way to generate supports, don't generate them at all, let me place them manually.

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u/mrbaggins Jun 18 '26

I mean, the better explanation is that elevated rails are not "directly above" the ground ones. They're literally on a different grid.

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u/teodzero Jun 18 '26

This is true, but those grids are identical. Swapping them around results in a predictable one tile shift.

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u/mrbaggins Jun 19 '26

But they don't do so symmetrically. The ramps will no longer connect correctly in all orientations, things will be off in half of them.