Best way to place units in buildings

[acoustic 82]

I am talking quite a few units in an apartment type building. 2d editor is pretty much out of the question and all of the 3d ones are hellish to work with. Any tips?

[twirly 11]

Here's a couple posts that might help you...

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=123191

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=102796

[zwobot 22]

The addon "Visual Building Pos" is very helpful in finding building positions. You can see the positions in the editor preview with hovering bubbles and copy the code to setPos a unit to the position for use in a unit's initialisation field for example.

[Koni 3]

Must say I have always used the old setPos and preview, over n over n over till I'm done :)

[hellfire257 3]

diag_log format ["this setPosATL %1; this setDir %2;",getPosATL player, getDir player];

That called from debug console will write the current position and direction of the player unit into the RPT. I just copy and paste the output into the init lines of units. You could replace diag_log with copyToClipboard but I find diag_log better for placing units in batches, per house for example.

Edited November 3, 2011 by Hellfire257