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"Align" feature for building

Alan Jay
IRL: Alan Jenney
Join date: 10 Jul 2006
Posts: 26
08-01-2006 15:01
Obviously, the best way to get things in line it to build them that way in the first place, but I'd like to propose a little trick to help tidying up prims that need to be in a line whilst editing. The function would achieve something similar to pre-selection of "Use Selection for Grid", but would not require you to then reposition each object in line with the grid.

SELECTION: Click to select the master prim, then Shift-Click all the prims that you want to align to it.

EXECUTION: Press a keyboard combination that will move all the selected prims to be in line with the first one you selected.

Different key-combinations would be required for "align all selected prims with this one in the X-dimension", "... Y-dimension" and "... Z-dimension". In addition to Undo, perhaps an optional Yes/No dialog for whether this action should be taken would safeguard against mis-alignment.

This would seriously speed up placement of items that need to be on walls, floors, stacked in a pile, etc.
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Alan Jay
IRL: Alan Jenney
Join date: 10 Jul 2006
Posts: 26
Suggested Keyboard Shortcuts for Align feature
08-01-2006 15:40
Perhaps the keyboard shortcuts could be

Ctrl-Shift-X
Ctrl-Shift-Y
Ctrl-Shift-Z
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jrrdraco Oe
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Join date: 28 Oct 2005
Posts: 372
08-01-2006 18:28
Try voting proposals

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Alan Jay
IRL: Alan Jenney
Join date: 10 Jul 2006
Posts: 26
Vote 779!
08-01-2006 18:58
I see that Proposal 779 makes this request, but does not explain the functionality like I have done. I've removed my Proposal, so instead, please vote 779.
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