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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: 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.

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

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)