How to rotate

[AltiarSaint]

It seems I am unable to orient the big yellow wheels towards the ground. They are stuck facing sideways for some reason. I am pretty new

[AltiarSaint]

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[QuackDuck]

You can use F or G to rotate the block into the desired position.

[AltiarSaint]

I tried that but it doesn't rotate, it just switches which joint is connected to the body of the vehicle

[Zappy]

Try to detach the cab from the Tech (or bring out a new cab), then connect the wheel to the side of the cab. Does it point downwards now?
If so, then as far as I'm concerned, you may have managed to rotate your entire previous Tech 90 degrees forwards (by attaching the cab rotated 90 degrees backwards), making the Tech's actual "down" direction be backwards, while big wheels can only face downwards.
(I don't know for certain if this is a possible problem... but it's the only one that I can think of.)


(Note: In some earlier versions of TerraTech, such wheels could be rotated to any orientation just fine. While it may help with ease of building standard Techs, I would personally prefer being able to rotate any block to any orientation (provided that at least one attachment point of the block connects to another attachment point, of course), regardless of whether or not it makes sense in real life.)

[QuackDuck]

Originally posted by Zappy:

Try to detach the cab from the Tech (or bring out a new cab), then connect the wheel to the side of the cab. Does it point downwards now?
If so, then as far as I'm concerned, you may have managed to rotate your entire previous Tech 90 degrees forwards (by attaching the cab rotated 90 degrees backwards), making the Tech's actual "down" direction be backwards, while big wheels can only face downwards.
(I don't know for certain if this is a possible problem... but it's the only one that I can think of.)


(Note: In some earlier versions of TerraTech, such wheels could be rotated to any orientation just fine. While it may help with ease of building standard Techs, I would personally prefer being able to rotate any block to any orientation (provided that at least one attachment point of the block connects to another attachment point, of course), regardless of whether or not it makes sense in real life.)

Looking at the radar, it seems that Zappy is correct, the cab has been rotated wrongly.

[AltiarSaint]

I fixed it. The cab was facing the right way with its wheels towards the ground. I replaced the big cab with the little one then I swapped them out again and it started working. Idk why it did that though. Thanks for the help though!