Auto placing ghosts when out of range.

[ps666]

Hello,
yesterday, after 350 hours of playtime, i discovered the ghost placing feature (the shift-click an item funktion). What a shame! How could i live without this awesome feature?
I really hate this freakin error sound when you´re out of range or in the way. This drives me nuts, really!
Can someone make a small mod for me which use the ghost mode automatically (by clicking only the left mouse button) when i´m out of range or in the way?
And it would be cool when this mod could place a ghost always when i have only one item. Thereby i does not lose it and can place ghosts onward happily.

Thank you very much.

[ratchetfreak]

you can hold shift if you place to ghost a building

[ps666]

Yes, I know that since two days ago. I edited my post a little bit for better comprehension.

[SirRichie]

I think this is not possible at the moment.
There are only events that allow you to react to an item or a ghost being placed. But these events are not called when the item does not get placed, e.g., because the player is in the way.

[ps666]

That is really too bad.

[gheift]

It could be implemented in the other way: change your keybindings to build ghosts on left click and normal on shift left. Then create a mod, which replaces the placed ghosts near you with the real building.

[Supercheese]

I think this is not possible at the moment.
There are only events that allow you to react to an item or a ghost being placed. But these events are not called when the item does not get placed, e.g., because the player is in the way.

I would think the on_put_item Lua event would be able to implement this, just checking what the player's holding, the position at which on_put_item was triggered, and placing a ghost entity of what was held.

[SirRichie]

I think this is not possible at the moment.
There are only events that allow you to react to an item or a ghost being placed. But these events are not called when the item does not get placed, e.g., because the player is in the way.

I would think the on_put_item Lua event would be able to implement this, just checking what the player's holding, the position at which on_put_item was triggered, and placing a ghost entity of what was held.

Oh... are you positive it is called even when the actual build is not allowed?

[Supercheese]

I think this is not possible at the moment.
There are only events that allow you to react to an item or a ghost being placed. But these events are not called when the item does not get placed, e.g., because the player is in the way.

I would think the on_put_item Lua event would be able to implement this, just checking what the player's holding, the position at which on_put_item was triggered, and placing a ghost entity of what was held.

Oh... are you positive it is called even when the actual build is not allowed?

Yep. I use it for my Orbital Ion Cannon mod.

[SirRichie]

interesting... my bad then