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The default key for "reverse rotate" is SHIFT-R but the default key for ghost building is SHIFT-LMB. This is confusing because the rotation of the item on the cursor is changed when you are ghost building instead of building directly. At first I was confused why all my ghosted belts are facing the wrong direction and then I checked for this new hotkey.

I know I can change the hotkey in the settings (which I did), but it shouldn't be SHIFT-R in the first place. The default key for "reverse rotate" should be like CTRL-R or ALT-R.

How to reproduce:

* Build a lot of S bend curves with belts
* Remove the belts
* Try the same while holding SHIFT for ghost building
* Some belts are facing the wrong direction

Progman wrote:The default key for "reverse rotate" is SHIFT-R but the default key for ghost building is SHIFT-LMB. This is confusing because the rotation of the item on the cursor is changed when you are ghost building instead of building directly. At first I was confused why all my ghosted belts are facing the wrong direction and then I checked for this new hotkey.

I know I can change the hotkey in the settings (which I did), but it shouldn't be SHIFT-R in the first place. The default key for "reverse rotate" should be like CTRL-R or ALT-R.

How to reproduce:

* Build a lot of S bend curves with belts
* Remove the belts
* Try the same while holding SHIFT for ghost building
* Some belts are facing the wrong direction

That's not a conflict - you're holding down a modifier key while pressing other keys - that's working fully as intended. Don't hold shift if you don't want it to reverse rotate.

I'm holding SHIFT because I want to ghost build at lot of belts/splitters/tunnels but while holding the SHIFT key the rotation of the items at the cursor is now counter-clockwise. So when you place items the rotation is clockwise, but when you are in "ghost building mode" by holding SHIFT the rotation is counter-clockwise. How can that be intentionally to swap the rotation direction while in "ghost building mode"?