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Sneak preview: interactive attached object placement

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Yesterday I started to work on a feature that has been on the wishlist for quite a while. I am not fully done yet, but since the results are quite nice already I want to share this preview video. In this video you see an interactive mode to place and orientate an attached object (in this case a light). With this new mode you can just click on the object where you want to light to be and then press on the ground or object to specify the direction it should shine.

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Yes, I can be very interesting. Orientation of lights for scenery and aircraft will be a plus.
 
I finally had a chance to play with this feature and it works well (after I took the time to watch Arno's video :oops:}.

It made attaching a logo light to my conversion a piece of cake and positioning the light on the model was much easier than the old modify the X Y Z co-ordinates 50 times to get it right method.
 
It is in the latest development release indeed. Did you select the right interaction mode before you clicked?
 
arno said:
It is in the latest development release indeed. Did you select the right interaction mode before you clicked?
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Likely that is what ; how do you select the right interaction mode ? I add a light and click right and left mouse buttons but do not move.
 
Either use the keyboard shortcut (U) or use the combo box at the bottom toolbar to go to update interaction mode.
 
In case you are not aware, I did make a video tutorial about the finished feature as well.

 
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