[Building Mode] Change pivot of preview block? (SOLVED)

[Val]

Is it possible to somehow change the point where the mouse pointer touches the preview block, so I can attach the preview on another point than its boundary center?

[skullcowboy60]

Not sure if I grok your question, but if you press and hold the R key while in build mode it will bring up 3 axis circles around the block and you can use the mouse to rotate it along those lines. Is that what you meant?

[JayNic]

I don't think that's possible. But you might try changing the snap setting. Sometimes I turn snap totally off, to place something very specific. Other times I add a temporary block to build off of, then delete it: thus making it seem as if the block was placed somewhere else. This is good cause it keeps the grid active.

[Tsunamik]

Is it possible to somehow change the point where the mouse pointer touches the preview block, so I can attach the preview on another point than its boundary center?

 

It doesn´t seem possible with standard basic blocks, but it is possible if you copy and paste more than one block at once - such structures can be "handled" on another point, if you hold alt while placing it.

[Val]

@skullcowboy60 Hehe, when I re-read my question I was slightly confused too.

 

@JayNic I'd really like to understand this trick. You place a temporary block and build things on it and then delete the temp block? Whenever I tried that, I got the safe mode error and when I disabled safe mode and deleted the temp block all its child blocks were gone as well. I'm probably on the wrong path.^^

 

@Tsunamik The "Alt" key thing is exactly what I was looking for. Now that I know this, it opens up so many cool possibilities. I wish it would work for basic shapes tho I think I understand why it does not.