Immersive Placing Update

Immersive Placing

Drop and place items exactly where you want them — no more items snapping to your feet. This is an updated, cleaned-up build of MaxCross's classic Immersive Placing, verified to work on DayZ 1.29. [hr][/hr]

Features

• Quick drop — tap the key to instantly drop the item in your hands at the crosshair.
• Immersive placing — hold the key to show a live placement hologram, aim to position it, then press your Use key to place the item exactly where the preview sits.
• Flip / re-orient — tap the key while the hologram is shown to change the item's resting orientation.
• Rotate — use the mouse wheel to rotate the hologram, just like vanilla deployment.
• Smart surface handling — items plate flat against walls and ceilings, lie flat on floors and tables, and drop onto the individual levels inside furniture such as shelves.
• No mid-air placement — you can only place where there is a real surface, so nothing floats in the void.
• Works the same in first-person and third-person.
• Items rest cleanly on surfaces without clipping into them.
• Does not conflict with items that already have a built-in deploy/placement action.

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Controls

Default key: Z (QWERTY) / W (AZERTY) — it is the same physical key on both layouts. Rebind it anytime in Configure Controls → Immersive Placing.

• Tap (not previewing): drop at crosshair
• Hold: toggle the placing preview on/off
• Tap (while previewing): reverse item
• Mouse wheel: rotate the hologram
• Mouse click (while previewing): confirm placement

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What's new in this update

• Verified compatible with DayZ 1.29 (server-side placement included).
• Rebuilt placement engine: works in first- and third-person, plates correctly against walls at any distance, and reaches the inside levels of furniture like shelves.
• No more placing in mid-air — a real surface is now required.
• Comfortable ground reach — place on the floor while standing, no crouching.
• A real default keybind — the original shipped unbound.
• Full localization in 16 languages (keybind name + every action label): English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Turkish.
• Hardened code (null-safety across the placement/hologram path) and a cleaned project structure.
• Lighter download (unused source art removed).

NEW — Extended lifetime for placed items (server-side, optional)

• Items placed with this mod (quick-drop or hologram) can be given a longer despawn timer. Vanilla drops are never affected.
• Two durations: one outside any territory, one inside the zone of a built flag (a flag pole with a flag attached). After the configured time, the item despawns naturally.
• Timers persist across restarts (handled by the Central Economy), with a light periodic refresh as a safeguard.

Server configuration

A config file is created on first launch at: <server profile>/ImmersivePlacing/PlacementLifetime.json

{
  "enableExtendLifeTime": 1,
  "lifetimeOutsideZone": 86400,
  "lifetimeInsideFlagZone": 604800,
  "flagRadius": 60,
  "refreshInterval": 1800,
  "elevationCorrection": [
    { "classname": "PortableGasLamp", "elevation": 2.0 }
  ]
}

• enableExtendLifeTime — 1 to enable the extended-lifetime system, 0 to disable it (placement still works).
• lifetimeOutsideZone — lifetime, in seconds, for mod-placed items that are NOT in a flag zone (86400 = 24h).
• lifetimeInsideFlagZone — lifetime, in seconds, for mod-placed items inside a built flag zone (604800 = 7 days).
• flagRadius — radius in meters around a flag that counts as "in the zone" (60 = vanilla default).
• refreshInterval — how often, in seconds, the server refreshes protected items so they don't despawn early (safeguard).
• elevationCorrection — per-item placement fix for the few items that don't sit flush. Each entry has a classname and an elevation in centimeters: a higher value pushes the item lower into the surface. Items not listed use the default (no correction). Leave the list empty to disable it entirely.

Note: the config is read at server start and synced to clients on connect. After editing it, restart the server and reconnect.

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Notes

The flip action rolls a new resting orientation each time, so for items with several placement offsets you may need to tap it a couple of times to get the side you want — this is the original behaviour, kept as-is.

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Server admins

No special server configuration is required — the mod works out of the box.

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Credits

• Original mod by MaxCross — Immersive Placing (original Workshop page)