How do I rotate groups of objects? | Forums

[FlatSpinMan]

Hi
After grinding away at some very tedious ground battles and airfields one object at a time I suddenly was reminded that we have the ABILITY TO SELECT AND MOVE GROUPS OF OBJECTS!!!! Ca't believe I'd not used it after years of wanting it.
Anyway, selecting, cutting, pasting, etc is easy enough but I can't rotate them yet. What's the (no doubt very simple) method? Only started playing with these functions a few minutes ago.

[FlatSpinMan]

Okay, found it. Just use the numpad keys as usual but the trick is that once you have placed it you have to unselect all and then reselect them to be able to rotate.

[Treetop64]

... we have the ABILITY TO SELECT AND MOVE GROUPS OF OBJECTS!!!!

We can do that now?! What cave have I been lost in...?
Ok, so, how do you do that?

[FlatSpinMan]

I know! It's the revolution we'd all been waiting for- then forgot.
If you have 4.10 (or maybe 4.101) onwards, go to mission in the FMB, find a likely looking group of objects, hold-alt and left mouse. Draw a selection box around whatever you want. Right click to access copy/paste/ etc.
You can paste from map to map, it doesn't matter.

The future is here!

[wheelsup_cavu]

These features were added with v4.10m patch.

From the 4.10 Guide.

Selecting Multiple Objects
To select/deselect multiple objects in FMB you need to have these commands enabled in your
conf.ini. Check the [HotKey builder] section for these two commands:

• Alt MouseLeft=select+
• Alt MouseRight=select-

Hold down the [ALT] key and left mouse but-t-on press and 'draw' a rectangle around some
ground objects. All appropriate objects are grouped into a single selection (multiselection). Do
this again on another group of objects and they are added to the multiselection. Naturally, by
holding down the [ALT] key and right mouse but-t-on you can remove objects from the selection
by 'drawing' a rectangle around them. Not all objects can be added to the multiselection. Here
is a list of those than can:

• Artillery
• Stationary Armor
• Stationary Objects
• Stationary Aircraft
• Stationary Ships
• Rocket
• Objects
• Static Camera

If you want to unselect all objects you can do that through Edit -> Unselect All option in the
menu.


Cut / Copy / Paste / Delete / Move
Add these commands to your conf.ini

• Ctrl C=mis_copy
• Ctrl X=mis_cut
• Ctrl V=mis_paste

To be able to perform these commands. When you have some objects in multiselection execute
the copy or cut command. Click somewhere on the map and then paste them. You can paste
them multiple times. You can also delete the entire multiselection by pressing the [DELETE]
but-t-on on your keyboard. You can also move your multiselection. First add some objects to
multiselection. Then press and hold left mouse but-ton above one of the objects in
multiselection. Still holding the left mouse but-ton move your mouse cursor to the desired
location on the map.


Rotation
When you have created a multiselection, you can rotate the whole group of objects. Left click
somewhere on the map and use your numpad keys to rotate the group of objects around the
mouse position. There are two types of rotation: when individual objects change their
orientation with respect to the world coordinates (when the option Edit -> Rotate Object is
checked) and when individual objects maintain their original orientation.


Snap
Snap allows you to move objects along a grid. This helps placing objects with equal distance to
each other. This option can be reached through View -> Snap. Make sure that the option is
checked. You can also set the 'snap step'. Smaller step makes the grid where objects can be
placed denser.


Wheels

[Aviar]

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