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Thread: Tuesday Tips on Wednesday – October 6th: Moving Furniture Made Easy
Each week, Q-3PO started a thread for you to share game tips with fellow players. Tuesday Tips will continue on. Have a little known command you use all the time, a cool place to visit, a trick (non-exploit) to getting more out of the game? Share it here. To get things started:
Moving Furniture Made Easy
Moving furniture with the radial menu is an ok place to start, but when you find yourself wanting a finer touch to fixing up your house, shop or other type of personal space, you really need a better way to easily move things around.
Try this set of macros to make things easy and fun:
· Move your tool bar to one of the layers you don’t use a lot. (Toolbar level #3 or 4 works well and stays out of the way).
· Press ctrl-A to pull up your “Abilities” window
· Select the “Macro” tab
· Press the “New macro" Button
· In the box where it says, “Macro Text”, add your movement. For example:
o /rotatefurniture left 5
o /rotatefurniture left 45
o /rotatefurniture left 90
o /rotatefurniture left 180
o /move forward 20
o /move forward 10
o /move forward 5
o /move forward 1
o /move back 20
o /move back 10
o /move back 5
o /move back 1
o /movefurniture up 10
o /movefurniture down 10
o /movefurniture up 5
o /movefurniture down 5
o /movefurniture up 1
o /movefurniture down 1
· Name it in the name window.
· Pick an icon and add it to the list.
· Then drag the icon to the tool bar and moving things become much easier by using the customized buttons you just made.
Remember that wherever your avatar is pointing is "forward". Then simply target the item or piece of furniture you want to place, and press the toolbar buttons to get it onto place just how you would like it.
I good source of ideas and a great example of what can be accomplished can be seen in GarVa's Home Show
(Sorry for the delay folks. I was out on Monday and I seem to be a day behind. My bad.)
Check out last week's tips 
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Message Edited by SakeO on 10-06-2004 11:15 AM
Number-1-Commando wrote:
I just wanted to say thanks for keeping Tuesday's Tips going
Thanks - - its my pleasure. Q-3PO started a great community and I'll always be happy to do whatever I can to make this a fun and cool place.
(rotating on all 3 axis would be nice - but what would you call the final one?)
Capt wrote:
The only things we're missing is /rot up|down and /move left|right, then we'll have furniture moving made easy.
(rotating on all 3 axis would be nice - but what would you call the final one?)
Z?
There is this one trick I have found out while utilizing the "/rotatefurniture" feature.
- Have a friend setup a "/rotatefurniture" macro by doing a "/rotatefurniture left 90" and repeat itself in increments of a "pause .234"
- Have yourself sit down in a master architect chair (doesn't matter which one, it just has to be in the master architect box)
- Initialize the setup by your friend
It is said to create an ingame time machine that affects the real life world as well. Perhaps this might help you out TH in bringing the Tuesday Tips back to Tuesday. I hope those BHs didn't bother you too much, especially that one with the chuba named 'rancorteef' 
Glad you're back we missed ya! 
Thunderheart wrote:
Number-1-Commando wrote:
I just wanted to say thanks for keeping Tuesday's Tips going
Thanks - - its my pleasure. Q-3PO started a great community and I'll always be happy to do whatever I can to make this a fun and cool place.
I think you can retire the 3PO reference you start off with.