Allow us to merge two (or more than two) groups into one group please!
Allow us to merge two (or more than two) groups into one group please!
- Thread starter BryanChung
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Yeah it seems like you should be able to do this
We can't right now?
For building pieces? It's not possible to merge two sets of items that are based on different grids. What you do is place them how you'd like, then select tem all and turn them into a blueprint.
Once it's a blueprint it's still editable and you can add more pieces and save as a more complicated blueprint.
Like this:
I made a third of it, duplicated it twice, rotated and positioned the pieces and saved as a blueprint. After it's placed it's still editable and each third still has it's own underlying independent grid.
Hope that helps.
Once it's a blueprint it's still editable and you can add more pieces and save as a more complicated blueprint.
Like this:
I made a third of it, duplicated it twice, rotated and positioned the pieces and saved as a blueprint. After it's placed it's still editable and each third still has it's own underlying independent grid.
Hope that helps.
Ah I see. Okay. =D Hope they make it possible to just click and group next time! 
It's definitely a problematic pattern - you can continue adding non-grid prop items to a group to your heart's content and multiple groups together as long as they also have a maximum of one gridded group, but as soon as you try and add two grid prop groups you have to switch to blueprints - which is fine as long as you know that's how it works - not in game at the moment so can't check, but a pop-up message to say save as blueprint instead would be handy if it's not there already - otherwise it just appears to be broken.
Groups being separate types of things from Blueprints is good, one's more permanent and transferable than the other. But if you want to, say, have the front of a pitched roof overhang a wall the only way to do it is to put the roof on the building so it all lines up together, split the roof off in-situ, do your edits and then save the roof and the walls as a blueprint - which is probably what you want in the end anyway, it's just a bit counter-intuitive in terms of steps to achieve the end result.
Groups being separate types of things from Blueprints is good, one's more permanent and transferable than the other. But if you want to, say, have the front of a pitched roof overhang a wall the only way to do it is to put the roof on the building so it all lines up together, split the roof off in-situ, do your edits and then save the roof and the walls as a blueprint - which is probably what you want in the end anyway, it's just a bit counter-intuitive in terms of steps to achieve the end result.