Is There A Way To Cut Corners Off Of Wooden Planks?

[Orca MS15LF]

Is there a way to cut corners off of wooden planks? The reson why I'm asking is because with my house, I'm going right into detail and I build some roof beams for a small roof outside the upstairs of my house and when I was laying small pieces of wood as the roof tiles the corners of the roof was going wrong where the corners of each piece of wood was overlapping into the corners of the roof. When I changed the grid hoping that might work it never, the pieces of wood were moving about in the wrong places and low down into my roof beams so they were also inside the roof beams instead of on top of them. Building a triangle-shaped roof with a wall up two sides is no problem, having a roof around all for sides of the house with corners in the roof itself doesn't seem to work. I'm wondering if we can cut corners off of the wooden planks to make things work.

[Avanar]

No, you can't cut parts of an existing plank.

But you can make it shorter from beginning on of course.

Also you can make the grid bigger / smaller with + and -

Additionally you can use ctrl right to hold the preview beam/plank in place without holding the mouse button.

Then fine tone adjusting setting to 1 and use arrow keys and pgup/pgdown to bring it in place as you need it.

[Orca MS15LF]

Originally posted by Avanar:

No, you can't cut parts of an existing plank.

But you can make it shorter from beginning on of course.

Also you can make the grid bigger / smaller with + and -

Additionally you can use ctrl right to hold the preview beam/plank in place without holding the mouse button.

Then fine tone adjusting setting to 1 and use arrow keys and pgup/pgdown to bring it in place as you need it.

Thanks. I'm already aware of the grid and other ways of ajusting wood, I just wondered if we can cut corners off.

[Avanar]

Unfortunately Not. But would be a nice idea.

[Orca MS15LF]

Originally posted by Avanar:

Unfortunately Not. But would be a nice idea.

Another thing that would be nice is if we can rotate slabs to build a stone wall or a brick wall a lot thinner instead of them looking like the Minecraft-looking walls where they are too think.

I love the way we can build with wood and change the wooden materials to different shapes and sizes and rotate them about. I've gone into main details for my door frames ans window frames. A serving hatch I built in my kitchen wall also looks great. It's like being a carpenter with a computer.

[Avanar]

You can spawn the planks and beams in the texture of i.e. A brick wall and make it as thin or thick as you like

[zfoxfire]

Originally posted by Orca Amity:

Originally posted by Avanar:

Unfortunately Not. But would be a nice idea.

Another thing that would be nice is if we can rotate slabs to build a stone wall or a brick wall a lot thinner instead of them looking like the Minecraft-looking walls where they are too think.

I love the way we can build with wood and change the wooden materials to different shapes and sizes and rotate them about. I've gone into main details for my door frames ans window frames. A serving hatch I built in my kitchen wall also looks great. It's like being a carpenter with a computer.

One of the overhauls planned for the construction system is to treat current blocks as construction objects. This will effectively remove all rotational restrictions and also allow you to stretch them as well. :)

[Orca MS15LF]

Originally posted by zfoxfire:

Originally posted by Orca Amity:

Another thing that would be nice is if we can rotate slabs to build a stone wall or a brick wall a lot thinner instead of them looking like the Minecraft-looking walls where they are too think.

I love the way we can build with wood and change the wooden materials to different shapes and sizes and rotate them about. I've gone into main details for my door frames ans window frames. A serving hatch I built in my kitchen wall also looks great. It's like being a carpenter with a computer.

One of the overhauls planned for the construction system is to treat current blocks as construction objects. This will effectively remove all rotational restrictions and also allow you to stretch them as well. :)

It would be nice if we can rotate slabs to make thinner walls out of brick ,stone, cobblestone etc. The only thinner walls we can make that I make are thin wooden walls where I build the wooden beams and place boards on each side. It takes longer but it's fun and the results are epic.

[Avanar]

You can make thinner walls already with wood beams/planks by spawning them in the texture of i.e. Brickwalls.

[Orca MS15LF]

Originally posted by Avanar:

You can make thinner walls already with wood beams/planks by spawning them in the texture of i.e. Brickwalls.

I thought of using the wooden beams but I prefer to go into more detail and make the wall frames with some wooden beams and then add wooden boards to make the walls themsevles. It's just like when carpenters make plaster walls except I'm using wooden boards intead of sheets of plaster boards.

[Avanar]

The c term wooden board might be irritating as you can imitate i.e. Brick walls with a beam. Just put them on top of each other, in the size you like, to build your own brick wall, not the block wall that's too thick