How to make armor blocks properly merge?

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Screenshot shows a portion of light armor blocks in a plane, part of a fairly large small grid build I'm doing. (This is for the mid-deck floor.)

After welding out the outline of the hull and each deck, I am now filling in the decks in, but for some reason this part of the floor has boundaries, like it's not considering it to be part of the rest. I know that as you weld armor blocks, they'll merge together to save on the number of polygons the engine has to manage. This is a large build, so I really want the armor blocks to merge as much as possible. Why does this happen, and how can I fix it once it is happening?

Image of light armor blocks failing to properly merge into a single shape






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Quick Answer about "How to make armor blocks properly merge?"

  • select any block from your toolbar so your UI is in "place block mode"
  • Select a color, either by using the color picker UI ( P ) or by aiming at an existing block and picking its color with Shift + P.
  • Aim at the block you want to paint.
  • Press middle mouse-button.




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