The Custom Armor Block - a solution to finite shapes

One problem that every SE player has run into is that one shape they really need to finish the perfect build doesn't exist. I thank Keen for working to expand the shapes we have available through adding more shapes in SE 1 and alleviating some of this problem with the 25 cm grid system in SE 2. However, I think there's more that can be done.

I'm proposing a custom block designer embedded in SE 2. The way this would work is the player would navigate into a special block editor view from the main menu, in which they would select the dimensions of the block ranging from 25cm to 300cm for each side. Then, the player would create a 3 dimensional shape by defining points and connections between points to form planes. The editor would then generate vertices for those planes and map a texture to them.

Basically, what I'm asking for is a simplified 3d modeling tool to create SE blocks. The editor would export the block to a mesh and automatically add it to the user's game. It could make transition blocks, it could make 4x1x1 blocks, it could make even more complex blocks.

"Aren't you just asking for the ability to make modded blocks?"

No. There's a couple of very important distinctions.

The first is that real 3d modeling is not accessible or too complex for most users. I don't have the skills to do 3d modeling in Blender or whatever and I don't have the time to learn. I'm far from unique in this regard. What I'm asking for is much more basic and user-accessible and preconfigured to output a SE-ready block directly into the user's game. Children of a Dead Earth, developed by one person, allows users to design custom modules for their spacecraft and adds them to the game instantly.

I recognize that this isn't simple to make - I'd be perfectly on-board with it being offered as a DLC to support the development costs.

The shapes could all be accessible from a Custom Armor Block entity which, when mapping to the hotbar, let's the user search for by name or from a list of their available custom blocks to save on G-menu bloat.

A mod requires that the server and client side both have the mod. A blueprint with modded blocks requires the mods to be installed. The Custom Armor Block could work differently, sort of like scripts for the Programmable Block, in that a Custom Armor Block mesh on a client's device could be transmitted to the server and any Custom Armor Blocks on a blueprint would have their meshes saved alongside other blueprint data. The game could de-deplicate identical Custom Armor Block meshes (ie, two 3x1x1 slope Custom Armor Blocks from different blueprints would be detected as identical and treated as a single Custom Armor Block by the game) at runtime to avoid bloat.

This would allow players to easily play together or share blueprints containing Custom Armor Blocks with shapes outside of those predefined in the G-menu while still maintaining performance.