Auto stacking tutorial help please

[christina_kerr]

I am only in the second tutorial where you are suppose to untick a auto stacking check. The research bulding does not seem to have this and it won't let me go on in the tutorial until I untick this. I already placed the research building lol. I have looked at other buildings without finding it as well. Are there other buildings with the auto stacking on it so I can move past this part?

edit: I ended up starting the tutorial all over again, and the auto-stacking part didn't come up that time after I put the research building inside the already on the land shell. This means I was able to get past that part. *shrugs*

[Moving Target]

I don't remember this task from the 2nd tutorial, have you got a screenshot showing the task requirements?

[christina_kerr]

Originally posted by Moving Target:

I don't remember this task from the 2nd tutorial, have you got a screenshot showing the task requirements?

Unfortunately my screenshot button is broken. It's part of the Madagascar tutorial where you are placing the research building inside a shell and it wants you to undo the "auto stacking." My issue is I am not finding auto stacking option on anything to undo.

[✪ HB]

Originally posted by christina_kerr:

Unfortunately my screenshot button is broken.

You are playing through Steam, you can rebind the default F12 button for screenshots in Steam>Settings>In-Game.

[Krall]

It’s a tiny check box on the bottom right menu, first tab near the bottom of options.

[christina_kerr]

Thanks all. I ended up having to start the tutorial over, and then it didn't even give me the auto stacking part and let me continue once I put the research building into the shell. It was kind of strange but I did get past it.

[MrHappy]

This can be quite an intricate part of the building and scenery.

I think what's happening is you have placed a shop shell and the shop itself won't properly go inside it or line up with it correctly?

You have to notice when you're in edit mode for each building. For example, when you have placed the shop shell then you select an actual shop, these two items are not a part of the same scenery, but is you hover the shop over the shop shell it will show you an notification asking if you want to add building to this selection. Choosing yes will put the shop into grid mode in perfect alignment with the shop shell. These are now one item. you might just need to press Z a couple of times to rotate it the correct way.

This will happen every time you're building scenery. As long as you stay in edit mode for any given construction then all of those items will glue together as one scenery group.

When you've exited a scenery group you can click on it and you will see it selects all of the items in that group, click the pencil icon in it's info panel to go back into editing mode.

If you don't go into editing mode you can still build but it will be a different grid and a different scenery group.

[korebreach08]

I was stuck in this same spot. I finally figured out how to get past it. You select the research center to place it, then you select the shop shell to tell it that you're combining the research center with the shell. Then... the most important part... rotate the research center by pressing Z a couple of times. It turns out that the FRONT of the research center is not the side you think it is. The front should be the side with just a simple door, not the side with the window.