Better Placement Preview

Better Placement Preview Make construction holograms easier to read without changing how building works. Stationeers' uniformly coloured construction previews can make front panels, gauges, doors, pipework, and other model details blend into a dense x-ray of overlapping lines. Better Placement Preview keeps the familiar placement states while separating visible geometry from hidden geometry and making connection indicators easier to distinguish. What the mod actually does Keeps Stationeers' original green, yellow, and red placement-state colours. Uses the preview mesh as a depth mask so front surfaces hide most rear and internal wireframe edges. Reduces the filled hologram opacity so panels and major shapes remain readable. Keeps the outer placement box but displays it at 60% of its vanilla visibility by default. Preserves the original connection arrows, plus symbols, and port indicators. Recolours those original indicators to a restrained warm amber so they do not merge into a green preview. Shows localized connection names only while Shift is held. The mod does not add replacement arrows, port rings, custom placement rules, or new construction mechanics. Requirements BepInEx 5 StationeersLaunchPad This is a compiled StationeersLaunchPad code mod. It does not work as a vanilla XML-only mod. Controls Hold Left Shift or Right Shift while positioning a structure to display the localized names of its known connections, such as Power Input, Data, Pipe Output, or Waste. No other controls are changed. Rotation, snapping, placement confirmation, cancellation, and kit selection remain entirely controlled by Stationeers. Default visual settings Ghost fill opacity: 0. 18 Visible edge opacity: 0. 72 Edge brightness: 0. 07 Hide occluded edges: enabled Outer placement box visibility: 60% of vanilla Original helper opacity: 0. 70 Amber connection indicators: enabled Shift labels: enabled These values can be adjusted in the StationeersLaunchPad configuration window. Occluded-edge filt