How does the measure movement toggle work?

[Smokalotapotamus]

I see there is an item toggle for "measure movement" but I am not sure how it works. I enable it, and I see no change when moving an object. Does this work for anyone else?

Edit:

SOLVED!!!

Ok got this solved. The measure toggle only works if you set the Line Tool (top left list of tools) to be "Auto" instead of "Free".

Most likely reason some people have it work and others do not is because it must have been set to default on for some newer installs for some reason and even a full uninstall wasn't resetting it because of some config file somewhere that isn't getting removed with the uninstall.

[LePiotr]

I'm having the same issue, the toogle does not work. This is apparently a bug.

[Baryonyx]

What object are you using this on? I tried a bunch and it all worked for me.

[Smokalotapotamus]

What object are YOU using it on?

[Baryonyx]

I tried it with all kinds of things, card stack, coin, die, player pawns, marble, custom model... it all worked.

[Smokalotapotamus]

And when you say "it worked" what exactly does that mean?

[Smokalotapotamus]

Ok just checked it with another player. It shows a line, but doesn't show a number for me, but she can see the line AND the number. We're in the same game. I picked up the same object, nothing.

Just more stuff that doesn't work in TTS. Chalk it up with the rest.

[Smokalotapotamus]

By the way I've verified local files AND done a full reinstall.

[Smokalotapotamus]

ok correction I do see her number when she's moving things, but again, nothing for me when I move things.

[Smokalotapotamus]

Also I am unable to delete mods. I have to use the third party TTS Mod Backup tool to track down and unsubscribe broken mods.

[Baryonyx]

You do know that you can edit your post, right? If you mouse over the right upper corner, there is an edit button. It is the third button, next to the trashcan and the arrow. It looks like a pen writing a line. If you use that, then you don't have to post five times in quick succession. It might be easier for you to make five new posts, but it is easier to read the whole thread if you edit your posts.

Back to topic: When I say it "works" I mean what you described. A line between the object and the point where the object used to be comes up and a number gets shown. Just to check, does your regular measuring tool work? You can access it either at the left side in the tool bar or by pressing and holding the Tabulator key. If that works, as a workaround you can grab an object, hold it, then press and hold the Tab key, move the object around and then let go of the object first, then the tab key. This should do the exact same thing as measure movement toggle.

[Smokalotapotamus]

Workarounds, always workarounds with this software. Pathetic.

[LePiotr]

To answer Baryonyx, nothing happens when I move a figure around with the property activated. The regular measuring tool does work. I'll try your workaround, thanks!

I second Smokalotapotamus: some mods don't get deleted when I delete them from the workshop from within the game interface.

[Baryonyx]

Originally posted by Smokalotapotamus:

Workarounds, always workarounds with this software. Pathetic.

If you apparently don't want to tell what objecs you try to use with this feature on, then workarounds are the only thing I can offer.

[Smokalotapotamus]

LePiotr: Search for TTS Mod Backup. It's a tool that lets you download and save locally the various mods so they can't be taken away from you AND it also makes it easy to see which mods are broken. Unlike the actual TTS program, when you right-click a mod in the backup tool you can go to the workshop page for that mod and hit unsubscribe. Often times the actual TTS application will take you to a non-existent page because it's badly coded.

[Smokalotapotamus]

Other people here suggested I manually go through the workshop page interface of steam to do that and I had a good laugh. So many wonky bad time wasting workarounds because of this badly coded game.