Cannot place blueprint grids/modules

Austin Schwarz shared this bug 20 days ago
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The video is bad quality but I cannot seem to place any of my blueprints/grids that I have saved, or copy/past ones that exist.

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I am also having this issue occasionally when cutting sections (ctrl +x) from ships imported from SE1.

There is usually a narrow angle I can visually see the ghost image of the cut grid if I ctrl + scroll it away from me and search around. However because I can only see or paste it far away at a specific angle, I can't use it in construction.

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So I think I have a workaround for this (that works for me anyway) and a theory as to why it is happening.

I think it occurs when the origin point of the grid (or first block placed) is too far from the actual grid. I think its inheriting some positional data from that point and it's causing some clipping issues with whatever system displays the ghost of the bp or copied section. Copy pasting doesn't fix the issue if you can find the right angle to actually place the thing down, the copied grid inherits the same data. But if you use the CTRL+P copy function it creates a fresh section without the inherited data. So just copy the entire grid (hoping you still have the originals around that you made the BP's from) and paste it, delete the old BP's and create a new BP from the copied section.

Hope this helps!

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So far no luck, the same thing happens for all blueprints. I was able to make them appear, but it looks like the rotation is is making it vanish making the module system almost impossible to use. Anytime I DO finally get it to snap onto the grid, it is never the proper direction. the moment I move it, it vanishes, the same thing happens if I finally do have the blueprint and move too close to the BP while it's out.

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Damn, that sounds exactly like the issue I was having. The resultant grid from using Ctrl+P to select and copy the entire grid has fixed the issue for me but I was only having the problem on one specific grid.

Sorry I couldn't help but hopefully as more people start playing we'll get more people reproducing the issue. Might be worth posting to the discord to get some more eyes on this because it's pretty game breaking.

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