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I just had a question, how do you place furniture such as the neomodian birdcage and the tabletop lamps and such on other furniture such as tables and desks? I've tried playing with it and can't figure it out for the life of me...I'm guessing its something simple I'm just missing.

Erebuss Cloudrunner

Architect - Starsider Galaxy

Tatooine

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Xaoss wrote:

I'm guessing its something simple I'm just missing.

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Sorry to disabuse you of that notion, but the Devs decided that we should not be able to place anything on tables. Also we do not need the lights to actually work and God forbid we want to place torches on either side of our doorway inside the house to give us a little ambiance.

How the heck do you get furniture where and how you want it? I've been in some stores and other houses that look phenomenal with various items (mostly packs) mounted on the walls, lamps on top of desks, etc.

But whenever I try to place furniture, I can never get it rotated as I want it, nothing ever sits flush against the wall... it's either 3 feet inside the building or half outside the building, no lamps on desks... they sit under the table/desk, and I can't for the life of me mount anything on the walls.

So, what are the Secret Tips for decorating a home?

How do you mount items on walls?

How do you put lamps / vases / birdcages on tables or desks?

Target the furniture and type in the move commands

/move foward (insert number for distance)

/move back (#)

/rotate right (insert number for degree of angle)

/rotate left (#)

There is no up or down commands yet. You can play around with dropping items on the stairs them moving them to the tops of tables but I am not that patient yet.

Mount items on walls. That's my #1 wishlist item for houses.

Are you close to a wall? Is the object into the wall?

/pickup and then redrop.

You're not on test center are you? I heard that move forward was broken there.

Some homes are bugged like that. Just use the /move backward command. It makes things a bit more...interesting but it works just as well, only makes it a pain to move things back forward if you go 1 too far or hit the wrong macro and it's 10 meters behind you. I'd suggest using a chair to move stuff since you can always just /rotate it 180 to undo anything that goes wrong.

Anything to up my post cou....err help

This is a hard-to-exactly-pin-down bug that several of us have experienced recently (since the last publish?). I don't see it all the time, but get it fairly regularly and in all types of structures. /move back works, but it's a major PITA to have to move your toon when doing fine adjustments to item placement. You can't always "take back" a move that you didn't really mean.

Actually something that a friend and fellow interior decorator, zel, found out is to use a chair while moving things. Drop that and line it up at the right angle you want and then sit down, the thing you want to move is now 5 meters back at an actual 45 angle and it makes moving things forward and/or backwards alot easier then finding a line in the pixels. Let's you speed things up immesurably compared to the old method.