Luanti Mod Review: Pick and Place

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00:00Welcome back to another Luanti mod review.

00:02Today we are looking at the pick and place mod.

00:06Now this mod provides an easy way to designate an area that you want to pretty much just

00:14duplicate within the world.

00:15So I have done a little work beforehand here and I created this beautiful tree and I went

00:23ahead and set this up so I can replace it multiple times within the world.

00:28So all I have to do is right click onto one of these white frame nodes here, I guess,

00:36handle node.

00:39And then I just go ahead and click where it says pick here.

00:43And you will see I now have this giant blue box which is the bounds of that.

00:50So if I want to place another tree over here, and yes you are definitely going to want to

00:54use fly for this because it is almost impossible to do otherwise.

01:00And then I am going to move myself up and down.

01:03It is a little difficult to just point because you are going in three dimensions of space.

01:11Again that is why it is important to use fly.

01:13And then I can just click and place it and what do you know I got a beautiful tree.

01:17Say I want a tree over here as well.

01:19I can go ahead and do that.

01:22Now if I have this tree in my hand, in this case it is a tree, and I right click I can also

01:29rotate it.

01:30So I can do 90 degrees, 180 or 270.

01:33If I do 180 obviously it is just going to do a straight up flip.

01:38So that should be the opposite direction of the previous, which wasn't really the best

01:44made of trees.

01:46So it is probably a little hard to tell.

01:49And then I can do a 270, no wait, do I want to do a 90 and a 90?

02:00Does this build on itself?

02:01I guess it does, okay.

02:04So there, I just placed a handful of these beautiful trees, very nice, very nice.

02:08So how do we actually do this?

02:10Well, I am glad you asked.

02:11So we are going to start, oh and by the way, once you have one it will tell you what it

02:17is.

02:18So it is a tree, rotation is at zero and it tells you the size.

02:22We are going to hide that over in the corner here and we are going to make a fresh one with

02:26this cross.

02:27So I should mention that all of these are, you can't craft them.

02:34There is one recipe that you will find, which is using a placement tool to create a pick

02:39tool and essentially use the pick tool to pick the location that you want to copy.

02:45And then when you've done that, it turns into the placement tool.

02:49But you just have to use the commands to get all of them.

02:53So that is going to be pick and place and you have pick, configure and replacement.

03:04So we are going to use a pick right now.

03:06And this one I actually, oh you know what, that is not what I want.

03:11Yeah, yeah, that is no good, I made a boo boo.

03:15So we are going to go ahead and return that over.

03:18So I want the full cube there and then I want the other full cube to be there.

03:24So now I can go ahead and place some more stone crosses.

03:32And again I can right click to rotate and you just kind of have to watch for when the

03:38bottom of it starts glitching through the ground to make sure you are on the ground level.

03:43Of course I could place it into the ground as well.

03:46Air nodes are ignored so I can just pretty much make a shorter version.

03:51Beautiful sunset in the background, very nice.

03:53But now you'll notice here that I have this once.

03:58So I could keep this placement tool, I could just stash it wherever.

04:02It doesn't tell me what it is so it is not very useful.

04:06And I could pull it back into my hot part and I could see the size of it.

04:09But I wouldn't know necessarily what it was.

04:13So this is kind of designed if you are just going to be copying something once.

04:21And then you know you could place a bunch but you are not planning on coming back to it.

04:25But now let's say you are planning on coming back to it, you know, such as this tree.

04:29It's something you want it to copy multiple times.

04:32Okay, so if we want it to come back to something multiple times, ignore the fact that I just

04:35changed the time.

04:37We're going to use the white option here.

04:41So I'm going to do the same thing.

04:43Just get my cross.

04:44Now I should mention I am punching for both clicks.

04:48And here we're going to get a name and a category.

04:50So I'm going to go ahead and call this cross and the category I am just going to give deco

04:56for decoration.

04:57But I don't think you actually have to give it a category.

05:02So then here you will notice I now have four points in the air surrounding it with the name

05:08of cross and the category of deco.

05:13So then I can go ahead and pick, which does as I've done before.

05:18And then I can go ahead and place it.

05:21And then the tool here will give me a placement tool saying cross so I know what it is.

05:28I'm just going to go ahead and turn that one back.

05:30Now I'm not sure what exactly the save does.

05:37Okay.

05:38I'm assuming.

05:39Oh, you know what?

05:40No, actually I do know what that does.

05:43And then mark with w would be for world edit, but I don't have world edit enabled.

05:47So you can save these and it will save, I believe, to the world directory.

05:51And then you could copy it into another world and place it.

05:55Although I don't know how you would pick that up.

06:03Yeah, I'm not 100% sure how you get an item.

06:08Wow, I can't even spell help.

06:09That's pretty sad.

06:11Not sure how you would get an item.

06:16Composition and a snap.

06:20Okay, well, that doesn't tell me anything about placing something from another world.

06:28Let's say, for reasons unbeknownst, I really like this little section of dirt and I want to copy it.

06:36So I'm going to go ahead and make my selection.

06:41I only want, there we go.

06:43I can go underground.

06:45And you'll see, it does give you the size of your selection.

06:52So, ten nodes tall.

06:56And now it's five nodes, but it's five nodes underground.

06:59So, I only want a single, no, actually, you know what?

07:02Cancel that.

07:03I do want it too, because I want the grass as well.

07:05So, I'm just going to call this hill and I'm not going to put a category in it.

07:11Okay.

07:12I don't know what the category specifically does.

07:15But let's go ahead and grab this hill.

07:17Pick it.

07:18Yeah.

07:19I want to place a hill right over here.

07:21Very nice.

07:22You know what?

07:23I want to put a hill in the ground.

07:25Oh, that actually, oh, because of the grass, of course.

07:28So, the grass goes into the ground.

07:30That makes sense.

07:31All right.

07:32Very nice.

07:33Very nice.

07:34I can place it on ground level.

07:35Or one, I guess one node below the ground.

07:37So, the grass itself places.

07:39But, I mean, the sand really wouldn't be because it's already there.

07:44But now, what if, you know, I didn't actually want this one here?

07:48Well, you can hold on the aux key.

07:50Oops.

07:51You can hold on the aux key.

07:53Let me try that again.

07:55So, let me put one out.

07:57And, just for lulls, let's put it into the air.

08:00Oopsies.

08:01There's not supposed to be a pocket under that.

08:03I don't want that there.

08:04I want to undo.

08:06Well, if I line this up and then hit the aux key, boom, it removes it.

08:11You can also use this just as a general, you know, remover.

08:15It doesn't have to be of anything you just placed.

08:17It'll literally just punch a hole in the ground in the size of that selection.

08:22So, you know, maybe, oh, I didn't line that up correct.

08:28Oopsies.

08:29I meant for that.

08:31Yeah.

08:32Anyways, that works like that.

08:35Then, lastly, we have these replacement notes.

08:40And, I am not entirely sure how these actually work.

08:45Because, in my testing, they didn't work so hot.

08:48So, I'm going to place a couple of these out.

08:50That's probably too many, honestly, because I have to fill them all now.

08:55And, then I can put stuff into them.

08:57So, we're going to do stone.

09:04And, I'm going to need some more wood.

09:07Default wood.

09:09Oh, I don't know.

09:1020 should do.

09:11I'm going to throw one piece of wood in each.

09:14So, wood.

09:16And, then a bunch of stone.

09:18Put it in a different spot.

09:21I don't think it makes any difference which slot they're in.

09:24You know, this one, we're actually going to put two pieces of wooden.

09:29Because, why not?

09:32And, then, this one will put two pieces of wooden as well.

09:37Just because.

09:38Alright.

09:39So, I have all of these.

09:41And, then we're going to go ahead and place some with, you know, actual material that we want.

09:48And, that center one.

09:50The center one will just leave empty.

09:51So, then I'm going to go ahead and take a new pick tool here.

09:54And, select that.

09:57So, I'm going to come over to this corner.

10:00There we go.

10:01Nope.

10:02Down a little.

10:03There we go.

10:04And, then to this corner.

10:05Alright.

10:06So, now I have a selection of that.

10:08So, when I place this.

10:10You know, let's place it in the ground.

10:13There we go.

10:14And, then let me just change my tool.

10:17So, we'll notice, if we compare the two of these, that our hole in the center.

10:23You know, we placed nothing.

10:24That was air.

10:25So, it was ignored.

10:26And, then we had wood and we had stone.

10:28We have wood.

10:29We have stone here.

10:30And, then we saw a bunch of stone placing around it.

10:34So, I'm going to go ahead and place another one of these.

10:37This one, I guess I have to do like that.

10:40Because, otherwise it's going to be in the ground.

10:43And, this one we won't be able to see the corner of, but that's fine.

10:47So, we'll notice, of course, our air node is always left alone.

10:52So, the SAM shows through.

10:54But, then these corner ones, there's some variation in them.

10:57This one placed with some wood.

10:59These ones are all stone, all stone.

11:01That one placed with some wood.

11:03So, it'll pick randomly.

11:06And, I know this wasn't a great way to demonstrate randomness.

11:08Because, I had a bunch of the same material.

11:10So, stone was favored in all of them.

11:13But, now, there's this group up here.

11:17And, I don't know, I don't know what this is supposed to do.

11:21Because, in my testing, it didn't work.

11:26So, I'm going to call a bunch group two.

11:29And, a bunch group one.

11:32So, this will be a group two again.

11:37And, then this one, we're going to call group three.

11:40And, then I need to redo that.

11:46So, now, when we select this, per what I read in the documentation,

11:51it made it sound like everything in group one should place as the same.

11:56Everything in group two should place as the same.

11:58Et cetera, et cetera.

12:02However, I don't know if that's actually the case.

12:09Because, let's go a little higher, just so that's not what I meant.

12:14But, that's fine.

12:15That'll work.

12:17Can we get one to break?

12:20Okay, see?

12:22I think this is broke.

12:24Because, isn't that corner one?

12:27I put way too much of this out.

12:28Let me turn fast more.

12:30All right.

12:31Well, now, I'm too fast.

12:33So, this is group two.

12:34But, that's group two.

12:35And, the corner is group two.

12:37So, those back three, theoretically, should always be the same.

12:39But, here, I'm getting wood, wood, and stone.

12:42These three are all stone.

12:44These three are all stone.

12:45These three are all stone.

12:46These three are all stone.

12:47These three are all stone, as are these.

12:49But, then, this one I get one piece of wood in it.

12:52And, this one I get one piece of wood.

12:54Per my understanding, that's not how that's supposed to work.

12:58So, I don't entirely understand what's going on.

13:03Also, don't leave open spaces in them.

13:07I'll just actually pull everything out.

13:09No, I know.

13:10I'll leave one in.

13:11Because, otherwise, it's really not proving my point too well.

13:16We're going to go ahead and select this one last time.

13:22There we go.

13:24And, there.

13:25Okay.

13:26And, I'll just place it in the air.

13:28Yeah, if you place, or if you pick a node that's empty, it'll place the replacement node instead of just placing air.

13:38Which, I don't know how I feel about that.

13:43Because, why would you ever want the replacement node?

13:48And, I understand if you just wanted to leave air, you would just not place anything.

13:55But, what if you randomly want there to be a chance for it to be air or for it to be, you know, a different node?

14:02IDK.

14:03Maybe you have to, you have to just do give me air, I suppose?

14:15Which, seeing as how, you know, you kind of have to have give in order to get all this stuff, I guess maybe that's a non-issue and you could just do that.

14:27Because, for a tree, that would make the most sense.

14:30So, you get some variation within your leaf pattern.

14:34You know, so, you know, that's what I would use it for.

14:40Or, you know, a patch of grass on the ground.

14:43Or, maybe you want to vary where the grass is at.

14:45So, you'd throw a couple with air nodes in and a couple with grass nodes.

14:49Or, you'd leave them blank, but then you'd get the replacement nodes, which, sure, you can go through and break, but nobody really wants to do that.

14:56Um, is that, is that all the things?

15:01Oh, um, no it's not.

15:04There's one thing, if you hold down the zoom key while you place it, it'll ignore all of your replacements.

15:13Um, I don't really know what the use case is for this, because, again, why do I want these red nodes?

15:23I don't know.

15:25Uh, but yeah, there you go.

15:27Relatively game agnostic, I believe.

15:30Um, seeing as how you have to just, you know, get them all using chat commands.

15:36Or have them given to you by somebody else.

15:40So, it should, as far as I'm aware, work with pretty much everything.

15:43And then, of course, it does have the integration with world edit as well, as we saw over on these, where you can mark with world edit.

15:50Um, so that would, if I had world edit enabled, it would just mark this as a world edit area, and then I could copy it, you know, 20 nodes to this direction.

16:00Or do whatever I wanted with world edit, clear it, whatever you have it.

16:04Um, but yeah, there you go.

16:07The pick and place mod.

16:08If you are interested in adding this mod to your worlds, I will have, well, you can download it from the in-game content browser, of course, as always.

16:15Or you can download it from my website, which will be linked down in the video description below.

16:19Thanks for watching, and I will see you next time.

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