New Rail Planner won't do what I want

[gallomimia]

This isn't really a bug, and it isn't really a suggestion. I guess it's more of a lack in design. Anyway, a screenshot:

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So I pose the question: how am I suppose to tell the rail planner to make an offset? I started by placing it as it runs here, and found that's not enough space. So I moved the offset up a notch, and have a heck of a time placing the rails.

Can we find some way of telling the planner we want to do something different? Perhaps the R key or similar can make it change modes? Before, I would simply build the rails as I want, and while it was a pain to have 2 different types of rails, and for curves having to rotate thru 8 different orientations, but at least I got the job done. I eventually solved this problem by building twice, but it was quite the ordeal. Took longer than it would have to rotate all possible orientations of a curve.

[Zeblote]

I don't think the short rail planner can do S curves like that in one go, just do it in two steps. First create the curve to go north-west, then create the second curve to finish it.

That only takes you half a second once you figured it out. Still much faster than the old placing

[The Eriksonn]

Or you could use the ghost planner(holding shift while starting), it wont place the rails but it will give you a good indication about where to start building. The R key rotates the exit point, but only when in ghost mode.(holding shift in ghost mode acts as it does on blueprints, ignores trees)