Doodad placement...

[Unregistered]

Why is it that the RoC world editor won't let me place walls in consistency with each other? I can't seem to figure a way to place the walls the way I want them to... help me out please

 

[Darg]

On your numpad, press the arrow keys 2,4,6,8 to move the walls (and any other doodads or units) left, right, forward, back. Press pgup and pgdown to change the height of the object.

 

[Unregistered]

Well, it's not so much that I can't figure out how to change where the placement is, but with the walls in particular. If I try to move a wall next to an already placed wall so they are connected(kind of like __ that) the wall will turn red, not allowing me to place it... it only allows me to place them if they are a certain distance apart and it doesn't look like a wall just sections of walls.. example would be: _ _

It's pretty frustrating.. because I know there were walls in the campaign

 

[Unregistered]

No none able to help me out on this?

 

[Bomook]

hmmm, I've never really had a problem with this, are you talking about "short wall"s?

Please tell me the name of the doodad you're having trouble with, and I'll probably be able to help.

 

[Unregistered]

The walls I am trying to use are under doodads-trees/destructables they are the stone walls

 

[Sam56]

I have that same problem

I have that same problem

 

[Darg]

well if you're really fussy about wanting to place a new wall to make it instantly join with another, then simply go into the doodad editor and set the pathing map for the wall to 'none'. Having said that, however, I think there may be a bug in the game that crashes it when you do this.

Oh yeah I forgot to add something to the above post I made. Simply using the numpad and pgup and pgdown only gets you so far. You need to use the ctrl key in combination with these keys to get the walls to perfectly join up.

 

[Lakroth]

What doodad editor are you talking about? I don't see it anywhere in the RoC editor... and the page up+page down with control doesn't seem to work either.. :S

Scratch that.. I understand what you mean by control and the page keys.. but that doesn't seem to help with placing the walls next to each other.. unless I'm missing something

 

[Darg]

aagh crap, I tell everyone to say if they are using the RoC or TFT editor, and then I just go and plain ignore it when you all tell me which one you are using! maybe i need to make another sticky to remind myself to read the posts properly...........

sorry, no doodad editor in RoC. And yes, I know it is frustrating that you can't automatically place walls right next to each other, but unfortunately that's how blizz designed it, and there isn't too much we can do to change it. It's not like adjusting walls after placing them is hard though, it's pretty easy for me at least.

 

[Lakroth]

Well, it's strange.. because when I try to place a wall next to another one, the wall's are about 4 small grid squares apart...

 

[Darg]

Lakroth: I've pretty much said all there is to be said, there shouldn't be any reason why ctrl- arrow keys doesn't allow you to get walls right next to each other.

That is, assuming you're using a PC - if you have a mac, maybe that might change things.... (i have no idea though)

 

[Lakroth]

I finally figured out what it was... I have to hold control and use the arrow keys to get the walls in conjunction with each other. Thanks for the help, Darg!

 

[Darg]

hehe, np, sorry I thought that would have been an obvious thing, holding down ctrl and pressing the arrow keys, but maybe next time someone asks I'll make sure to explicitly mention this