Building Structures is Awful

emdanhan

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I tried my hand at building a shelter for my Hyenas only to find that it is basically impossible. I built a simple building with the african log walls with a little doorway without too much difficulty before trying to put a roof on it. I found the perfect sized thatch panel, only for the game to just fling it around everywhere but where I want to place it on the structure. This is ridiculous. It's a very simple shelter but the game won't let me put a roof on it. The worst part is it let me put one panel down where I wanted, but no others. For every other one the game either puts it down inside the shelter for floating above it. Wasn't a big aspect of this game that you could completely customize your zoo?
 

Firestar97

Firestar97
Try it with pressing ctrl.
You can also press the Shift-Key to change the height.
I think they should've explained it in the Tutorial
 

londonx

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Strange, I think building is really easy. Click and plonk. You are editing within the correct building "grid" right? When you first put a wall down the grid appears along with a "building" number, as long as you are editing this "building" ie the same grid area, all the pieces should click into place. When you select a piece of that building you will be asked if you want to edit that building number, you need to be in the edit mode for the correct building for stuff to easily click together. For roof pieces try zooming in and placing or from a different view angle. Z key turns the piece round at right angles.
 

Agathorn

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Sounds like you need to turn off the "Auto Stacking"

Is the building system finicky? very much so. But once you learn how to use it and all the tricks, and pitfalls, and what not it isn't horrible. Its.. Serviceable. What bothers me most if just the broken hotkeys right now that makes building so much slower and outright prevents some techniques I'm used to using.

For roofs specifically. Turn OFF auto stacking then put the peice in the grid you want, then hold shift and move it up.
 

emdanhan

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londonx said:
Strange, I think building is really easy. Click and plonk. You are editing within the correct building "grid" right? When you first put a wall down the grid appears along with a "building" number, as long as you are editing this "building" ie the same grid area, all the pieces should click into place. For roof pieces try zooming in and placing or from a different view angle. Z key turns the piece round at right angles.
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I thought so too at first but the game started freaking out as soon as I tried to place roofs. I was on the same grid and I kept moving around to try and get it at the right angle but the game just wouldn't place it right.
 

emdanhan

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Agathorn said:
Sounds like you need to turn off the "Auto Stacking"

Is the building system finicky? very much so. But once you learn how to use it and all the tricks, and pitfalls, and what not it isn't horrible. Its.. Serviceable. What bothers me most if just the broken hotkeys right now that makes building so much slower and outright prevents some techniques I'm used to using.

For roofs specifically. Turn OFF auto stacking then put the peice in the grid you want, then hold shift and move it up.
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Will do, thank you
 

londonx

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yeah forgot the shift trick, once the piece is aligned in the correct grid spot, hold down shift to just move the piece up and down on the fixed Y axis
 

Aero-Bubbles

Aero-Bubbles
Honestly I think it’s just a matter of getting use to how to use the controls and the building mechanics :) luckily there are many many tutorials on YouTube :D
 
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