object disappeared

[dapper sable]

Why?! All I did was change the rotation and change it back again and it totally corrupted the item
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also why does it show up like this in the inventory?!

and why is it obscuring the player?

and why is it brown when the material is grey!?

[dense tree]

you seem to be in prefab editor and dragging your prefabs... somewhere?

there is no need to do anything when you are in prefab editor as changes are automatically applied to prefabs

[dense tree]

because you rotated the item? 🤔

you said so at least

icons are casted from 'icon' child of the item prefab

you can preview them by adding a camera to that icon prefab (make sure to remove afterwards!!)

[dapper sable]

I never set a rotation

[dense tree]

your first message says you changed rotation

I really dont know what to take away from this

[dapper sable]

it always does this even before I changed the rotation

And when I said I changed it just then, I immediately changed it back without bundling

the item is just invisible now and makes no noise when placing it :|

[dense tree]

'now' compared to when?

no noise because there is no 'use' sound and probably no sound specified in dat file

[dapper sable]

compared to before I tried fixing it

[dense tree]

this is not very informative

😭

[dapper sable]

sorry xD give me chance!!

When I first did it I set it to brown which was a mistake because it looked like wood, and furthermore I had forgotten to change the effects so it was actually sounding and hitting like wood too

Additionally it didn't look right in the inventory (see above)

And it would always place down upside down

and you had to rotate it upwards yourself

and it would say "blocked" unless it was specifically clipping into the floor

[dense tree]

what example did you duplicate to start with?

[dapper sable]

Maple Crate

hence why it had wood sounds and stuff attached

[dense tree]

so what are the current problems

[dapper sable]

well I've started from scratch so I'll bundle it and tell you what the problems are

[dapper sable]

1. The item shows up rotated in the inventory
2. When placing the item it shows up in this angle: (see picture) and moving it around is really difficult, like scrolling moves it left and right, and moving your mouse seems to rotate the object all over the place (probably because of how it's rotated)
3. No sound when placing

oh yeah and it's still completely massive when held by a player and clips into the player

[dense tree]

1. double click the item here

use these arrows to dictate what perspective you want the icon to be from

[dapper sable]

I'm not seeing half the options you are

[dense tree]

then click Icon once and click ctrl+shift+f to move camera to your view

the models are irrelevant in this

Im telling you how to fix your icon

[dapper sable]

ok

okay I've done that

[dense tree]

2. did you copy dat file of a freeform plate?

they have different placing than normal barricades

[dapper sable]

I

well I just changed the data file to say freeform

[dense tree]

well thats from freeform

and it will 'rotate all over the place'

xD

[dapper sable]

okay let me explain what I mean

I want it to be free form

but if I move my mouse left it appears to move in the complete other direction

or right or forwards and backwards

in other words, rotating the item is not intuitive because it seems to be rotating on a different axis

yeah I've figured out what it's doing now

if I move the mouse horizontally (while right clicking of course) it rotates the object across the what I think is the X plane

if I move the mouse backwards and forwards it rotates across the Y plane

if I scroll, the object rotates across the Z plane

that's all messed up, it should rotate on the Z plane when I move the mouse back and forwards

(also I am only assuming it's the Z plane because relative to me it's depth, and Y is height etc.)

in other words, the game doesn't seem to know what way the object is facing

Yeah my theory was correct

[dense tree]

honestly no clue on that one

[dapper sable]

I fixed it xD

[dense tree]

good

[dapper sable]

All I had to do was go to model_0 and change the rotation on the Z axis

okay

only other problem

well, other than this:

the only other problem is because it's still using the Crate's .. thingy.. it often responds as "blocked" when trying to place the barricade

this thing

I'm sure this is the problem

hmm maybe not actually :/ seems like it's tied to LODs

[dense tree]

its saying blocked because of its origin point/radius/offset

I think I explained it somewhere

give me a sec

[dapper sable]

oh wait is that done in the data file?

[dense tree]

#modding-archived message

[dense tree]

yes and no

you can change the radius and offset in the dat file

the origin of the object has to be changed in unity or through blender

[dapper sable]

and how do I change the sound of the object when placed?

I just want the default concrete placing sound or whatever

[dense tree]

PlacementAudioClip core.masterbundle:Sounds/WoodenPlacement.mp3

add this to the dat file

[dapper sable]

is wooden placement the only placement sound?

[dense tree]

I think theres like metal

look around the vanilla placables

the wooden is most generic

[dapper sable]

yeah

wood will do for concrete

And how do I stop the item clipping into the player?

that's the only problem left

[dense tree]

the item that appears in your hands is the item.prefab

so you need to do something about how its held or change the scale of that model

[dapper sable]

how do I do something about how it's held?

[dense tree]

placable items commonly use scaled down models for the item in your hands

use custom animations

or other animations

[dapper sable]

Is it really that complicated?

I thought it would just be moving it forward and scaling it down

[dense tree]

I said that OR

[dapper sable]

so custom animations or other animations 🤔

[dense tree]

?

[dapper sable]

oh that

hooray hooray