Home β€Ί Help β€Ί Editing tools β€Ί Selecting, moving & deleting

Selecting, moving & deleting

Everything Airship generates is editable. The Edit tool (🏠, in the palette) is your main handle for houses and roads.

Selecting and moving a house with the Edit tool.
Selecting and moving a house with the Edit tool.

Select and move

With Edit active, click a house or road to select it, then drag to move it. A selected object shows edit handles. Click empty space to deselect.

Rotate

With an object selected, press [ and ] to rotate it. Hold Shift to constrain movement or rotation to steps.

Snap

Turn on Snap (🧲) in the top bar to snap objects to roads, footways and each other for tidy alignment.

Add a house

Click the 🏠+ Place house tool in the palette, pick a type from the house-type selector in the top bar, then click on the plan to drop a house of that type β€” drag as you place to position it (it snaps to roads and neighbours), and press [/] or use its handle to rotate. Keep clicking to place more; click a house you've placed to nudge it. Press Esc (or click the tool again) to return to Edit. Placed houses behave exactly like generated ones.

Why a separate tool? In Edit, clicking empty space only deselects β€” so you can pan, select and tidy without dropping houses by accident. Adding houses always goes through Place house.

Delete

Select an object and press the Delete tool (πŸ—‘) or the Delete key. On fences, Alt-click removes a single section.

Undo/redo. Use Undo (β†Ά) and Redo (β†·) in the top bar freely while editing β€” nothing is destructive.

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