Adjust ceiling pillars height - Simple tips & tricks

A simple method to adjust pillar height to your ceiling after building some foundations

(Screenshots tuto)

Basics build mechanic & Reproduce step

* Eventually extend your ceilling

* then build (-5) Wall height from final ceiling wanted height
* build one extra ceiling @ -4 between wall (-5) & (-4)
* rise pillar from this extra ceilling with middle pillar snap to ceiling
* duplicate pillar height from bottom pillar and rise them before building other ceiling top of them

(notice it's easier to snap pillar next to each other and report height when you start with the pillar the most bottom of your finished structure)




How it look @ceilling level (adjusted pillar right of the screenshot, regular pillar height comparaison left)

When you can't snap pillar next to each other on the ground

Wich happen rarely, when the terrain/ground height vary a lot:


* Use 3 ceiling from an adjusted pillar (bottom middle snap & top must be empty)
* Then use two pillar to report height


* Build 2 new ceiling top to attach the new temporary pillar

(notice that the pillar attach is slighty lower than the ceiling to ceiling attach, so pay attention to attach to ceiling and not pillar this way the pillar(s) won't be even seeable like on the first screenshot with the green circle)


* then remove the temporary elements ( the middle pillar and 3bottom ceilings)


* finnaly extend the new pillar to the ground with as many additionnal pillar as necessary

Final Result Overview

Under construction

[gamer nerd]

ok, thanks. :)

[Vince]

if i remind there's some mod that remove thoose kind of default restriction, something in the ini as well, all depend if you want to play vanilla or not ,check the wiki ini config entries or the workshop.

[gamer nerd]

is there a way for me (using cheats if ecesary) for me to build where it says i can't build? i am not gonna let the games lackign realisme ruin my creatin, so i need too know if i can cheat or somehow place whatever structure where ever.

[Vince]

Check a guide for bridges, mostly related to the fact that placing pillar next to each other using proxumity snap copy the closest pillar height (insteed of default height), so once you've set a pillar with the right height it's mostly chain reporting this height using auto snap prioritization. If you follow the step from the screenshots you should be oki.

Also sometime it's not possible to report from under but you can do the same top you just need an additionnal pillar to get the middle snap to ceilling available.

[Amris]

Could you please work on your description? It is so short that I don't understand what you mean.