ub3rman123 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Why would you do that instead of xyz dragging? If that fails, you can instead move the interior object to match the items. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laynton Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 Im just having some difficulty getting thing to line up smoothly so I was thinking if I could at least get the Z coordinance the same by editing then I would make it that much easier to drag Xand Y. Bit of a perfectionist here so I like all my pieces to line up smooth and as clean as possible so was wondering if there was a faster way and thought that would be a fast way of doing things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetblanket Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 If you are talking about separate cells, you can just copy the whole cell and delete what you don't want in the new one. This can save a lot of time in some situations. Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding your question... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laynton Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 @wetblanket - thats exactly what I am doing. im copying a whole room from one place to another. the trouble im having is finding an easy way of lining the room I just pasted in line with its new surroundings. atm i'm having to either try and select the whole room ( including all the content inside the room) and drag it with the mouse, which is not that very precise and hard to get things just right. Or move every object individually by either dragging and/or editing its XYZ coordances (which is the easiest), but you cant do that with multiple object selected at one time. I'm trying to find out if there is a way to move multiple objects at once with accuracy that is greater than dragging it with the mouse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetblanket Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Actually, I think I did misunderstand. A cell is not the same thing as a room. You appear to be making a new room within the same cell. In which case, I know no better way than what you are doing. I was talking about duplicating a cell (as opposed to cut & paste of cell contents). Sorry about the confusion. :) Are you using the 'snap to grid' function? Using this and placing your first piece at 0,0,0 helps enormously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laynton Posted February 18, 2011 Author Share Posted February 18, 2011 Yes the snap-to-grid function works great when I'm first designing/building but the problem I have is I cut&pasted an entrance of a cave from a pre-made cave in the CS. So when I did that and pasted it into the new cell its no longer at 0,0,0 and I cant figure out either how to move it to 0,0,0 or paste it at 0,0,0 to begin with. But if there's no easy way of moving things then I'll just stick with what I'm doing. thanks for the help though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wetblanket Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 Well in that case, duplicating the vanilla cell and deleting everything you don't want *may* be quicker depending on the size of the original cell. Anyway, good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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