Luanti Mod Review: Placement Preview

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This mod adds a neat visual aid to placing stairs and slabs, and some extra items as well. When you are holding a supported object and pointing at a location you can place said object a visual will appear showing the rotation the node will be placed in. You can get alternate rotations by holding the sneak key.  Download Luanti: https://www.luanti.org/downloads/  https://www.nathansalapat.com/luanti/placement-preview https://nathansalapat.com/SocialMedia https://nathansalapat.com/support-me

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00:00Welcome back to another MindTest and Mod Review.

00:03Today we are looking at the Placement Preview mod,

00:07which adds a preview to placing nodes.

00:11And you might be thinking, well, this is kind of silly, but I want that.

00:15Well, because some nodes place differently depending on where you're pointing.

00:19So, for example, we have this stair node here,

00:22and, you know, if I'm just going to place it on the ground,

00:25places as one would expect.

00:28But what if, oh, hey, that's, what?

00:34I didn't know it had that feature. That's neat.

00:39It's automatically doing a corner stair if I point it at the step.

00:43But raw.

00:46What?

00:47So, as you can see, yeah, it's doing corner stairs automatically,

00:53which I didn't even realize it was going to do.

00:54So that's kind of cool.

00:55But depending on where on the node I am pointing,

00:58it'll show me a different orientation that the node can be placed in.

01:02So, for example, let's go look at this tree here.

01:07I can either place the slab on the top if I'm pointing at the top half,

01:09or if I go towards the bottom half, it'll place the slab on the bottom half.

01:13If I hold down the sneak key,

01:14it'll give me an alternate rotation,

01:17which looks like that's flat onto the face.

01:22Yep.

01:22So I'm going to go ahead and do that,

01:23because I would like to have it flat on the face.

01:26And then if you go to the side,

01:29it puts it upright,

01:30or these will leave it flat.

01:33I kind of like that rotation effect there.

01:37Pretty, oh, wait, what was this?

01:38It does all kinds of crazy stuff.

01:42Yeah, let's put one up in there,

01:44just because.

01:47I mean, sure, why not?

01:50And now you might be thinking to yourself,

01:52oh, well, that's grand and handy and all,

01:56but what about non-stair nodes?

01:58Well, oh, I'm out of slabs.

02:03Well, it works on other nodes, too.

02:06There's a setting for this, though.

02:07So by default, you can either use the shortcuts of PP,

02:12or you can do the full placement underscore preview.

02:15And we will do, oh, oops, I have to put a space in.

02:19Only stairs slabs true.

02:25And then it will only show the placement preview

02:28for stairs and slabs.

02:31And basically that just goes off of anything

02:34in the node name having the word stair in it.

02:37So, yeah.

02:39Now I can't see which different ways

02:40I can place this tree trunk,

02:42which is quite sad because I kind of wanted to see

02:45which different ways I could place the tree trunk.

02:46So we're going to turn it back to false.

02:49And then I'll see, oh, if I place the tree trunk

02:50onto the edge of the tree,

02:52it'll be facing outward.

02:53And if I place it on the ground,

02:56it'll be facing upwards.

02:57And if I place it pointing at this,

02:59it'll be facing outwards.

03:01Quite handy, quite handy.

03:03Now the stone one I'm not really sure on

03:05because regardless of where I'm pointing,

03:09it doesn't rotate.

03:11And if I rotate, it doesn't change

03:14because stair isn't rotatable.

03:17It's not that specific draw type.

03:18So, yeah, that's kind of an odd option to have.

03:25Now I do wonder.

03:29Hmm.

03:32There we go.

03:35Um, yep.

03:36Mm-hmm.

03:37Uh, no.

03:38I want that.

03:40I want it so it places inward.

03:43Hey, hey, hey.

03:44Sweet.

03:45So that's pretty nice.

03:46Also, the animation's just kind of cool with it.

03:48Flipping around, doing all kinds of crazy stuff here.

03:51Whee!

03:53Something's going to get an epileptic's easier from that,

03:55so maybe I should stop.

03:57Nice little poppings.

03:59Oh, you know, I can't break that,

04:00so it's kind of pointless.

04:01Now, um, I guess this works for doors, too,

04:05so I'm going to have to quick bust some tree trunks here

04:07because I want to make a door

04:09to see, uh,

04:13see what that looks like.

04:17Um.

04:21Well, that's interesting.

04:23It claimed the doors.

04:24Um.

04:30Interesting.

04:32Maybe that's...

04:33Maybe that's only some other type of door.

04:38I don't know.

04:40If you hold down the sneak key, it'll change.

04:43Oh, and then there's one other setting I just pointed out.

04:45So notice how it kind of,

04:47our preview item is scooting back and forth here.

04:51If you find that distracting or annoying,

04:53you can turn that off.

04:54Um, and that would be...

04:56I believe that was smooth.

05:00I mean, if we change that to false.

05:03Yeah.

05:04It'll just pop from one to the other,

05:06which, I don't know, honestly,

05:07might be, uh, even worse, really.

05:10You know, the one thing that I wish there was a setting for,

05:13and, uh, it does not appear as if there is,

05:15is the pulsing.

05:19Like it popping in and out like that.

05:20I don't know.

05:24I, I think it's a little annoying.

05:29But that's just me.

05:30Um, I'm all out of wood.

05:33Uh, I think that's pretty much it now.

05:36Again, I don't know why the door's not working,

05:38because from reading the description on the content database,

05:41it would appear as if

05:43the door is supposed to preview,

05:46but it doesn't.

05:46Um, so, I'm confused.

05:50That's a possibility that is a

05:51mine clone

05:52door.

05:55Um, and not

05:56just the plain old

06:00my test game door.

06:02I don't know.

06:03You know, had I not wasted all this wood

06:04building doors,

06:09I could have made a chest.

06:11I could have seen if chest works.

06:12That's the other one that I can think of

06:13real quick off the top of my head

06:16that, uh,

06:19would kind of make sense to have that as an option.

06:21So, let's find out by making a chest.

06:29Okay, that makes sense.

06:33Really?

06:33Chests?

06:34Well, interesting.

06:36I did not realize that chests would even

06:38do that if you placed them like that.

06:41That might be something that the mod's changing.

06:44If I hit sneak,

06:45I get an alternate rotation.

06:47This one has no alternate rotation.

06:50Slabs do.

06:51But not chests.

06:53Alright, well,

06:55that concludes this video.

06:57Um, if you want to

06:58download this mod,

06:59you can grab it from the

07:00in-game content database browser.

07:03Or, if you want to download manually,

07:05uh, all of those links will be

07:06on my website, which will be linked

07:07down in the video description below.

07:09Thanks for watching,

07:10and I will see you next time.

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