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General Forums => Terrain Editor => Topic started by: popeye on June 14, 2024, 10:17:27 AM

Title: Placing objects in exact locations on a terrain.
Post by: popeye on June 14, 2024, 10:17:27 AM

Thought it might be interesting to put a few revetments in defensive positions near a base.  The problem was to find suitable locations on the terrain then find that exact location in the TE.

Discovered a dot command that would report the position of a vehicle in the terrain, ".placeobj".  So, in Offline Practice (it only works offline) I can drive a vehicle to the location where I want the revetment and execute ".placeobj" which will show the exact X and Y coordinates of my current position.  Then in the TE, enter those coordinates when placing the revetment.  Presto!

Probably other uses for ".placeobj" but just started experimenting with it.

Title: Re: Placing objects in exact locations on a terrain.
Post by: JimmyD3 on June 14, 2024, 12:32:56 PM

Awesome! Thanks for sharing. Is there a downloadable list of All the ".dot" commands?

Title: Re: Placing objects in exact locations on a terrain.
Post by: popeye on June 14, 2024, 01:28:40 PM

In the text buffer, type ".help" for a list of all the dot commands.