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Question Building a plot?

Bolisaris

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Hi,
In the tutorial 'Create Your First Building', (in the Builders Toolkit), it says Find kgSIMBuildingStage and double click it. When you do this and create a building (Which I have not yet managed to do despite following the tutorial) how do you then go on to create a second building if creating a pack, The question is CAN you rename the kgSIMBuildingStage' file to something you want to create for example 'JB_WeaponsBuild_01' so you can continue to build more plots, it does not say anything about renaming files in the tut just says double click it.
 
Hi!
You can keep building more plots in the kgSIMBuildingStage, preferably on different layers so that you can keep track easier. Since this cell will never be visited by players during a game, it doesn't matter if what you place in the cell for building is overwritten by an other addon author also using the kgSIMBuildingStage.

But, players using xEdit tend to get nervous and report this (erroneously) as a conflict - so I find it easier to duplicate the cell and rename it something with your prefix in it (cell editor IDs can only take letters and numbers, no _ etc). If you rename the cell to something with your own prefix it will still be a conflict. Usually you never want to rename kgSIM or SS2 forms, you always want to duplicate them and give them your own prefix.
 
Ah so what you mean is that I can have multiple plots in the one cell, I thought (because there is only the one set of floor pieces in there) that I could only have the one. Thank you for clearing that up for me, I will try again and hopefully this attempt will more successful than the last.
 
Yup!
You can keep on using the same cell - after some time it will start to react slowly when you add items etc and by then it could be good to start a new building cell (duplicating the kgSIM Building stage so that you can keep the catch-tumbling-items- floor).
 
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