Auto lot alignment problem

[angelo 0]

This is driving me crazy. It was working fine till some days ago. Any lot i try to place next to a road, cannot be rotated so that it faces another direction instead of the road. I press pgup and pgdown like crazy, but the alignment arrow automatically resets to pointing the road. I can no longer place cool little paths and stuff next to roads the way I want. I have patched sc4 deluxe. Anyone has any idea?

[starrdarcy 4]

Originally posted by: angelo This is driving me crazy. It was working fine till some days ago. Any lot i try to place next to a road, cannot be rotated so that it faces another direction instead of the road. I press pgup and pgdown like crazy, but the alignment arrow automatically resets to pointing the road. I can no longer place cool little paths and stuff next to roads the way I want. I have patched sc4 deluxe. Anyone has any idea?quote>

 

Use the CTRL and also the Shift key to rotate the lot alignments.

[angelo 0]

Sorry I wasn't clear. The problem appears on ploppable lots, not on growable. I mean for example when I try to place a park next to a road, the arrow automatically snaps back to the road no matter how hard I push pgdown and pgup.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Try the Alt key.

Failing that, put the game in pause, bulldoze the road, place your object, then put the road back.

don't forget to take the pause off.

[angelo 0]

I've been playing sc4 for years, I know every hotkey and every little workaround like the palm of my hand I shouldn't have to do that (bulldozing the road) everytime I want to place something though. It's sad.

Look, the point is that this only started happening some days ago. Before that, I could freely rotate ploppable buildings before I placed them near roads, like I always could.

Could it be that some recent addon I installed, caused this weird behavior? Or perhaps I accidentally pressed a super secret hotkey combo that toggles "auto-snapping" of buildings?

This problem is very annoying and It's ruining my playing mood

[bwatterud 7]

Wait, aren't the "home" and "end" keys the the buttons that you use to rotate lots?

[Deever 23]

Wait, aren't the "home" and "end" keys the the buttons that you use to rotate lots?quote>

Yup. Page up and Page down rotate the camera.

[angelo 0]

Bah yeah, I made a typo, home and end is what I'm actually pressing. I'm loosing my credibility

Anyway, it's not that nothing happens when I press home and end, I can actually see the building rotated for 0.0001 second, before snapping back pointing at the road (without me moving the mouse).