Argon L Housing Spire, bad snap orientation

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Scoob
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Argon L Housing Spire, bad snap orientation

Post by Scoob »

Hi,

I created the perfect placement for adding an Argon L Housing Spire to my station, however, it needed to be rotated for placement. I correctly rotate it 90 degrees on one axis, then 90 degrees on a second axis. Doing this means the Module is oriented HORIZONTAL with the snap point to the NORTH. I then drag the perfectly oriented module to snap on to an ARG "Base 01" connection. This fails as the game CHANGES the rotation of the module so it DOESN'T fit. I try again, replacing the "Base 01" with a "Cross 01" and the Housing Spire is STILL incorrectly rotated by the game.

Basically, the GAME is altering my CAREFUL rotation of a module, making it impossible to place. Both the "Base 01" and "Cross 01" modules were in their DEFAULT orientation and placed perfectly. The Argon L Spire Module's orientation is being CHANGED by the game, preventing placement.

This is a totally new Plot, so using the station designer should reproduce the issue. Is anyone else having problems placing this new Habitat Module?

Edit: These modules are an utter nightmare to place! The usual tricks simply don't work with them, making it impossible to place. You can orient them properly, then they snap with a totally made up orientation, NOT adhering to the player-set orientation. When doing a compact build, as I do, this makes it impossible to place this module as desired. I've been at this for 20 minutes at least!

Edit 2: The ONLY way I could get the Spire to snap in the desired orientation was to place a WONKY "Cross 01" module first, rotated approximately 25 degrees. With that Cross 01 at 25 degrees the Spire module then snaps FLAT compared to every other module. I'm going to upload the build plan, so you can see what I mean... well, I would do that but the plan is NOT showing in the Constructionplan folder, yet is listed in-game. Where does GoG put these? I have ONE construction plan in that folder, dated 2020, I have DOZENS of them, that I use, all showing in-game, but I don't know where GoG has put them...

Edit 3: Right here is my build plan. There was some bug so I had to overwrite the plan (that didn't exist) in order for it to appear in x4/constructionplan. Wierd.
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Re: Argon L Housing Spire, bad snap orientation

Post by Vertigo 7 »

I have problems with the station builder rotating modules against my desire all the time. They said they fixed it, but like most things, its still broken.
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