Using the camera to capture a ship design

[Antimidation 21]

Now that we can capture ship designs with the camera, i find it somewhat cumbersome to do so. Since ships can now be converted back and forth from travel mode to edit mode, I assume edit mode places it back on the grid? If it's on the grid it should be easy to trace a box around what you made it, but it's not. I had to place marker pillars on 4 corners in a general area around my ship (ships are pretty big builds) just so I could manage it...I also had to dive under water to visually see the square I was tracing with the camera and while using the camera you cannot use ladders, so, I had to make gradual steps with pier blocks so i could get out of the water and finish with the vertical selection. The last thing, the hull of the ship can't be saved with the design, it wouldn't let me...so after all that work of managing to get it all in the selection area I had to go back and just select the things I built on top of the hull. Is this suppose to be the case? At any rate I managed to save the ship design into my blueprints, minus the initial hull you plop into the water to build upon.
 

Are there any plans to make the camera more user friendly for larger selections?

 

Edited December 17, 2019 by Antimidation