Combos

[Sean]

I understand combos, how to make and save them, etc. But when I goto put a roof combo on a house chunk the entire roof goes to the ground even though I have the z heights set to 5 and it is very annoying, so what I did was set all of the heights again to 5 but the roof is off a little from the house and I can't seem to move all of the roof sprites at once, only one at a time, and it just looks odd when i set each roof sprite one at a time. I've read through the studio docs so hopefully i'm not asking a question that is already in the docs. I guess what i wanna know is there an easier way to do this? Is there a way to move multiple sprites at once or am i stuck moving one at a time? Hopefully i explained this well enough for an answer.

Thanks,
Sean

[Dominus]

You can select multiple sprites with Ctrl

See http://exult.info/studio.php#control_obj

Also when you place a combo onto the map all the objects should be selected and therefore easy to move all at once.

Btw, it is okay if you ask for something that is in the Studio docs. These are a bit lengthy and the information is sometimes tightly packed but sometimes also all over the docs...
And as my recent plunder in the normal Exult documeantaion shows: I *do* make mistakes.

And also it is great to have someone besides the exult team do a lot of testing with Studio.

[drcode]

Do they place correctly if you set the "Edit at lift" box to 5?

[painful]

I've been doing a lot of testing with it too.. it's helped DrCode work on a bug that removes half the world's ceilings when using certain shapes or editing too much.

[Dominus]

oh well, then here goes much thanks to you, too! It *is* appreciated so continue "bugging" us so we might get it into more working shape someday.

[artaxerxes]

if there already is an object at a certain height, ES will not let you place a new item over the first one _at the exact same height_. It will either make it higher, or slide it.

The best way to solve the problem is to create your hut, select your roof combo, place it in an empty area (like a field), use CTRL to select all the pieces and use the page up/page down and the directional keys to move the combo around in the 3 dimensions.

Artaxerxes

[Sean]

Ah yes artaxerxes explained it well thanks! I am now one with the force
Now all I want is to be able to use the serpent isle sprites in black gate and vice versa and i will be a happy man!

Thanks for the help again.

Sean