Author Topic: Vertical alignment in brick type switch  (Read 388 times)

When we switch from one brick type to another with different height, the cursor with new selected brick is centered with the previous one in all directions. That is usually good for horizontal (xy) plane, especially because there is no preferred horizontal direction. However, vertical centering is almost useless and many times a pain, because it ends floating or overlapping with the floor or the roof.

The suggestion is to use bottom alignment in this case. The most common use case to switch bricks when building is to place different bricks over a plain floor or one over the other. To place over the same floor, it will be required to switch and move horizontally (today, we also need to move vertically too). To place over the other, just super shift up and then switch.

Top alignment wouldn't be much useful too, because is not that common to hang bricks under others, but it is still much more common to center aligment.

A consideration has to be made for existing scripts that expects this behavior. I suggest that the alignment could be defined between (bottom, center or top) by setting a flag.

Do anyone knows if there is any way to configure this currently?