Place Anywhere mod problems

[Freddy Ilak Dion Plays]

Yeah got a problem here with this mod and that's I used to be able to use it to move objects to a certain position I wanted to but now suddenly I can't do that anymore, the hotkeys just keep changing other things instead of resizing or moving the object I want to move to a specific area that I can't do otherwise, can someone please help me out here?

[hawkeye]

Sounds like a config file is corrupted. Reinstall the mod?

There is a mod by kinggath, the sim settlements guy, called workshop plus.
I use it with Place Everywhere.

[SuperSledgeNY]

First of all, and this is important, change your folder settings so Windows doesn't hide file extensions for known files,

Once that's done, navigate to ........steamappa/common/Fallout 4/Data/F$SE/Plugins...... and see if you have a file called place.ini . If you do, delete it since it might be an old one.

Your last step will be to change the place_example.ini file name to place.ini

If you've previously made any changes to the default values, you'll have to make them all over again, otherwise you'll be good to go.

[Freddy Ilak Dion Plays]

Not sure how to even change the folder settings here, as in like, selecting a folder and doing it that way or what?

Besides that also got one thing, I don't see ini files but I see dll files instead, place.dll and place_example.dll. Do I still do the same anyways with this or no?

[Freddy Ilak Dion Plays]

And okay no reinstalling did nothing to fix the problem, even worse for whatever reason now one of the keys that would've been used to move a prop forwards or backwards suddenly now opens up a menu in the ENB thing ingame instead of doing what it should.

[SuperSledgeNY]

Dude, just do what I said in my post. I made it very clear.

Go to the folder I told you.

DELETE the place.ini file IF you have it.

RENAME place_example.ini TO place.ini

[Wasteland Project]

Install mod manager, Vortex is perfect and does not create these problems, it signals you when a mod is out of date.
Install Vortex, tell him to manage your mods, uninstall Place Everywhere and download it again.
You may have accidentally pressed sticky keys or something like windows, it is very difficult for the .ini file to get corrupted, unless the player changes the combinations..

[SuperSledgeNY]

Originally posted by Wasteland Project:

Install mod manager, Vortex is perfect and does not create these problems, it signals you when a mod is out of date.
Install Vortex, tell him to manage your mods, uninstall Place Everywhere and download it again.

Managing his mods with Vortex is a great idea but reinstalling Place Everywhere is NOT going to help him. Besides, he did that already.

A NEW installation of Place Everywhere doesn't come with a WORKING ini file and THAT'S his problem. If you Preview the File Contents you'll see what I mean. It even tells you this in BIG YELLOW LETTERS on the Nexus mod page, and this is where READING is helpful. :P

Once he does what I told him to do, the mod will work and once that ini file is created, all future updates of Place Everywhere will also work.

[Wasteland Project]

Originally posted by SuperSledgeNY:

Originally posted by Wasteland Project:

Install mod manager, Vortex is perfect and does not create these problems, it signals you when a mod is out of date.
Install Vortex, tell him to manage your mods, uninstall Place Everywhere and download it again.

Managing his mods with Vortex is a great idea but reinstalling Place Everywhere is NOT going to help him. Besides, he did that already.

A NEW installation of Place Everywhere doesn't come with a WORKING ini file and THAT'S his problem. If you Preview the File Contents you'll see what I mean. It even tells you this in BIG YELLOW LETTERS on the Nexus mod page, and this is where READING is helpful. :P

Once he does what I told him to do, the mod will work and once that ini file is created, all future updates of Place Everywhere will also work.

Ok, if it is written on the mod page the path to follow is yours, never had problems with PE maybe because I only use F1 and F2 keys LOL .

[hawkeye]

I haven't got a place.ini and it works fine. The example ini says to change the default values uncomment the entries (remove the ;). So there must be hard-coded defaults. Nonetheless creating a place.ini might solve the problem.

If it doesn't work I'd read all the bug reports. There are quite a few.

Some other mod at a higher priority or other mechanism might be interfering with place's hotkeys.

Or maybe the versions of the game, f4se and place don't match. Worth checking. Seen that happen before.

[YouWinAFREEiPOD]

The Num Lock key is off I bet.

[Freddy Ilak Dion Plays]

Okay renaming place_example.ini fixed the problem, thank you.

[SuperSledgeNY]

You're welcomed.

[hawkeye]

Originally posted by Freddy Ilak Dion Plays:

Okay renaming place_example.ini fixed the problem, thank you.

That's very strange as place_example.ini won't actually do anything.

The way that inis work is that the code looks for a section and parameter key name.
For example - main. togglable

However if the section or key doesn't exist then the lookup will fail and no value will be returned.
So
[main]
;togglable = 0

won't do anything at all as the comma in front of ",togglable" will cause a failed lookup.

As all entries in the exampla ini are commented out, the ini shouldn't have any effect.

And it doesn't explain the "but now suddenly I can't do that anymore".

In IT if something works and then suddenly stops working it's because something has caused it to stop working. There has to be a change that broke it.

[Bored Peon]

SuperSledge had the right answer all long.

[hawkeye]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

SuperSledge had the right answer all long.

So why did it suddenly stop working?