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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.

you can hold shift if you place to ghost a building

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

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.

That is really too bad.

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.

SirRichie wrote: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.

Supercheese wrote:

SirRichie wrote: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?

SirRichie wrote:

Supercheese wrote:

SirRichie wrote: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.

interesting... my bad then