Pillars/walls seem a bit off to the side?

[TeamBreezy]

Hi, im pretty new to Valheim , i keep having this reaccuring problem when i build houses. Wooden poles and sometimes short walls are not straight when i place them upwards on top of each other if you know what i mean, so let's say i place 4 wooden poles, it becomes kind off zig zagy from bottom to top. What am i doing wrong? I cannot seem to understand the issue, is it the terrain? I thought first maybe it's because of the rain damage so i repaired everything but it doesn't help. I know you are supposed to give your structure good support strength and i've tried that too in various ways but it's always some poles that just seem a bit off, it's only visually but still pretty annoying too look at

[jonnin]

poles should align nearly perfectly. do you have a screenshot of a problem?

core wood poles should look like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2915062201

basic wood poles like this:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2915062221

[pipo.p]

Building pieces sometimes need temporary "rulers" to align correctly (addiitonal pieces that you remove once the alignment is achieved), but this shouldn't be the case on such examples as shown on the screenshots above. Or do you mean that the square poles look "rotated"? Mouse 3 button allows to rotate a vertical beam (a pole) around its axis.

[FissionChips]

Scroll wheel rotates pieces. Holding shift prevents snapping - maybe you're accidentally holding shift? Getting pieces to line up to snap can be a pain at certain camera angles, often a temporary ladder can help. For finicky pieces where you're building back downwards sitting can help you target underneath to snap, but your character stands back up after every placement.

In short, if you're not targeting a piece properly it won't snap - scaffolding can help you target properly.

[TeamBreezy]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2915081627
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2915081783

[TeamBreezy]

Here are some photos, do yall see for example in the first picture that one pillar seems a bit off to the right side or is it just myy imagination??? And the second one you can see that these short walls are a bit off, not by much at all, its difficult to capture on photo by i swear they are off by 2 milimiters

[FissionChips]

That all looks perfectly straight to me.

[Shadow Wizard Fluffy Gang]

It's just a texture thing. To give artificial variety to builds through random imperfections. No way to "correct" it.

[TeamBreezy]

Originally posted by FissionChips:

That all looks perfectly straight to me.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2915086668

i swear it ain't though

[TeamBreezy]

Originally posted by avatar.zero:

Are any of the pieces damaged, such as water damaged if you were working in the rain? The shape of build pieces changes depending on which of three levels of health (damage taken, not build stability) it's at..

They took some damage while i was building because it took a while to build my house done so it were raining here and there. But right now nothing appears to be damaged, i repaired everything.

[FissionChips]

I think at most that's camera perspective throwing you off, e.g. they also don't appear perpendicular in that shot either and yet we know that they are.

[avatar.zero]

Originally posted by TeamBreezy:

Originally posted by avatar.zero:

Are any of the pieces damaged, such as water damaged if you were working in the rain? The shape of build pieces changes depending on which of three levels of health (damage taken, not build stability) it's at..

They took some damage while i was building because it took a while to build my house done so it were raining here and there. But right now nothing appears to be damaged, i repaired everything.

Yeah, I got distracted by some text messages while making that post, so your pictures weren't visible to me when I submitted it. I actually deleted it after I saw them as it showed that they weren't damaged.

They look very normal, as far as the game goes - Entity Mystik's answer is about right. When you start building with stone, you'll see the variability in shaping with the stone wall pieces much more strongly.

[TeamBreezy]

It may be, im going to go ahead and agree with you on this guys and just continue experimenting, i haven't reached stone building yet

[UncleAcidic]

Originally posted by TeamBreezy:

It may be, im going to go ahead and agree with you on this guys and just continue experimenting, i haven't reached stone building yet

iv'e got hundreds of hours in this game just building and it all looks pretty usual to me. stone is REALLY gonna bug you out it's a bit irregular to the eye some times but it's totally usual for Valheim

[TeamBreezy]

Originally posted by UncleAcidic:

Originally posted by TeamBreezy:

It may be, im going to go ahead and agree with you on this guys and just continue experimenting, i haven't reached stone building yet

iv'e got hundreds of hours in this game just building and it all looks pretty usual to me. stone is REALLY gonna bug you out it's a bit irregular to the eye some times but it's totally usual for Valheim

haha damn, well i will probably get used to it, also its possible to bypass this somewhat if you make house a certain way, but nice to know its not something im doing wrong.

[jonnin]

It looks ok to me too. I see that one pillar in your upper window thingy is clipped into the other wood, and that looks better when done with stone but a lot of wood clipping is unattractive. The devs let you clip one thing into another and its a huge help most of the time (like trying to make rounded stuff without gaps), but once in a while you get an ugly.

You will get used to it, if you like the graphics of the game. I think the devs were partly going for a 'made with crude tools' for basic wood and stone structures, or at least in part. Later things with higher tier tools look smoother, better put together, but its a shame that the advanced wood doesn't have wall & floor tiles (yet?). I suppose you have fine wood now, as I see core wood there... look at a fine wood table, for example, it looks sanded and smooth.