Yeah, so...


And yes, I'm mostly just meme-ing with the image. But honestly, for some reason the rotation axes in Precision Edit are so much harder to figure out!!! Take a nice rectangular platform for example, and you try to rotate it with Precision (because of course the regular Housing Editor can manage 89 and 91 degrees, but not 90 ), and you expect to finesse it to perfection. But instead of having a rotation along the edges or something (as you would intuitively expect), the precision rotation starts to rotate the item diagonally along one of the surfaces, and just at a random 51 degrees or some arbitrary degree.

I too have been caught off-guard by this. I don't know if that's an issue with Precision Edit, or if it only affects some items (like some items sometimes have a wrong 'pickup' spot or whatever that makes them harder to place and align), or what. But yeah the Precision Edit axis often doesn't line up with the regular one so it can get jarring.

The worst case was one of the constellation tiles that would not lie flat on the wall but was instead oriented to lie flat on a table. It’s been awhile since I placed it, but it was like there is no way to rotate it from that flat-on-a-table to flat on the wall without it twisting one direction or another.

It almost seems like two of the different axis rotations have the same effect or two different rotations are being applied at the same time.

The three rotations should be a right-angle coordinate system. When you move something, you either move along the x-axis, y-axis, or z-axis. It should be the same for rotations, but it’s not.

I’ll try to remember to do some testing tomorrow and see if I can get some video of what I am trying to explain.

Houses with walls at weird angles that make knowing the degrees of a turn pretty pointless, and the massive amount of furniture, especially books, that don't have their X Y X axis line up with the mid points of the cover and spine are the most annoying thing ever when trying to place into a bookshelf. The first item that brough to my attention how terrible ZOS is with this is the long squared beam from Clockwork city, which defaults to a tall pole state, I wanted to lay it flat to hang things from, and the contortions I had to bring it through to get there were painful. I also wish the numbers for location were under the corresponding control in the UI.