@Stu: To be honest I just copied Hammer's zoom behaviour which is to multiply the current zoom by 1.2 each time. I could make that a configurable option, but since the zoom is a multiplication option you'll pretty much always get odd values, for example: 1/1.5/2.25/3.375/etc - unless 2 is the multiplier, which will result in 1/2/4/16/32 - however these zoom amounts are too large and are not very useful. Since zoom amount is largely arbitrary, Hammer's default zoom value seems to make sense to me.

The grid thing is a bit of a pain - I don't know how I'll get my hands on the right hardware to debug that one. It's in the bug list and I'll try and get it sorted as soon as I can. For the 3D grid - I just had a look, and 3D grid isn't rendering properly when no textures are loaded. Can you set up some WADs if you haven't already and let me know if you can see the 3D grid? That would make it a reproducible bug (since I just reproduced it)

Cordon doesn't render yet - it's in the next build, along with decal rendering, entity sprites, hide face mask, and transparent tool textures. I'm aware of the non-perfect selection handles, I'll add it into the bug list.

@Hotdog: Thanks, will do

Long list CapT! Here we go:

- Know of the used textures not working, it's in the list to be fixed.
- I didn't know the tool selection hotkeys went back to the select tool if you pressed them a second time, I'll be sure to add it in. I know of the hotkeys not working when popup windows are open, fixing that is on the list as well. Are you having other issues with hotkeys too?
- Hide mask is in the next build
- I Know about the escape key not deselecting stuff, you should be able to use Shift+Q for now as an alternative while I try and fix it
- Nudge is there, just turn it on in the settings! Or should it also nudge the box in the brush tool?
- I will add the option to change the opacity of the grey selection thingie
- Good!
- Holy shit I have never seen that thing before. I'll investigate and see what I can do

Thanks for all your bug reports! Keep 'em coming! I keep track of all the bugs here if you're interested: https://github.com/LogicAndTrick/sledge/iss
ues

Oh, no nudging in the VM tool yet, I must have got distracted halfway though because it's almost done

By nudging the brush creation box, I mean when you have drawn a box to create a brush and haven't pressed enter yet, should the arrow keys also nudge that box around?

Can you go into a bit more detail about the hotkeys...? Do they just not work at all, or what?

Also, are you the one who's getting errors in the settings window all the time? If so, can you send me your FGDs? It seems that Sledge is failing to load one of them.

Ah yeah, that's caused by tempdecal.wad. If you remove it it should work. I've fixed that crash in the next build. I might as release the next build now, so I'll have an update soon

Edit: New release! This adds a bunch more options, fixes some bugs, implements some missing features. So a bit of everything!

Change list:
* Check for invalid WAD lump types and don't load them. Fixes #34.
* Implemented 'hide face mask' toggle
* Implemented cordon render helper
* Added option to render transparent tool brushes and hide null textures
* Fixed an issue preventing decals and sprites from rendering in the 3D view. Fixes #29.
* Added option to apply browsed texture immediately
* Added option to customise the scroll wheel zoom multiplier. FIxes #36.
* Turn on line smoothing for the center handles. Fixes #35.
* Fix the 3D grid to render on untextured solids. Fixes #37.
* Tool switching hotkeys should toggle between the hotkey tool and the selection tool. Fixes #39.
* Escape key hotkey sequence was encoded incorrectly. Fixes #41.
* Allow the selection box background opacity value to be changed. Fixes #42.
* Implemented nudging for vertices in the VM tool.

Of course It helps that I happen to be on holiday this week so I don't have to waste valuable Sledge time at work
Let me know if you find any more bugs! Thanks for your help so far!

Thanks Rim, it looks like both Ati and Intel graphics cards don't like the grids. I'm going to try and fix those on the weekend. I'll fix the recent maps for the next version

Edit: Oh good, my (long forgotten) laptop has a Radeon card and doesn't show the grids, so I don't have to borrow someone else's hardware for debugging. Hopefully that means I can identify and fix the grids problem soon!

Haha, I can imagine - without the grid, it's pretty useless

So...new release! This should hopefully fix the missing grids. Stu and Rim, do you mind testing it out and letting me know how it goes?

Change list:
* Fix EditFace crashing when faces are no longer in the map. Fixes #46.
* Don't assume FGD choice keys are integers. Fixes #45.
* Add hotkey support to forms that require it. Fixes #44.
* Prevented the 3D view from moving around when hotkeys containing WASD are pressed. Fixes #40.
* Fixed the recent maps menu not opening the map when clicked. Fixes #19.
* All viewports zoom with the mouse wheel if control is pressed.
* Fix the grid so it renders properly on certain graphics cards. Fixes #26.

If you look back earlier in the thread, I answered the same question in detail in my third post. Basically - it has loads more features! Right now it's still unstable and missing some key features since this is an alpha version, but once those issues are cleared up it should be fairly good

Who's mainly working on it?

i would like to see the code myself

You fixed the recent files opened as well most of the shortcut keys i've tested work properly now, nice! =)

Now though, Sledge is very crash happy for me. sometimes just clicking on the inside the 3d window is enough to crash it, and ther is no error message or bug report created, but i get this from windows:



Should i try a fresh install or anything?

I should also mention i'm running windows with NO UPDATES on this rig, so just letting you know in-case that's causing problems.

Also, adding/removing wads in my steam profile is causing issues, and keeps giving me the OOPS message =P

YES! YES! I GOT THE GRID AT LAST

Unlike before, it took a few seconds to "load" the new (empty) map. I figure it's something related to the grid. I don't care as longs as it works, it's a small performance detail.

Bugs:
> I've noticed "Apply texture to all faces" is now in the texture application window as a modifier of the apply texture button. There's one detail though, and it's that it didn't apply a texture with right click AT ALL until I changed the list box to something else and back (set the left click action to "select" and then back to "lift and select" before right click worked).

> Shift+nudging with arrow keys. In Hammer, it would duplicate the object once and then move the copy around until you release all the keys. Here, the object is duplicated for every unit it moves, for as long as you're holding them; you get a gazillion copies and it ends up looking like an extrusion.

> 3D view mouse look: If the texture application window happens to overlap it by just a bit, and you press Z and move the view in that direction, when the (invisible) cursor goes over that window control it is released from the 3D view and you have to press Z again. I know, just put the window far enough from the 3D view, but it's there.

Small suggestions:
> On new map, remember the last configuration used and pre-select it. And an "OK" button for it might be handy as an alternative to double click.

> On the texture application window, perhaps making the scale/shift/rotation controls move by a larger amount if right clicking the up/down buttons. Moving the scale setting by 0.25 or 0.5, shift by 8 or 16, and rotation by 5/10 degrees. Or make it configurable, I don't know. Just thought it could be useful.

Questions:
> I can't say it bothers me because I've always used the default layout, but I've noticed that the viewport type selection is not there (you know, where you select 3D textured, 3D flat, 3D wireframe, etc.) Was this intentionally dropped or is it just not done yet?

> Does/will this run on linux? Because that would be killer.

> non development-specific question: I'm too lazy to turn on my old computer and find it there; where is the HL1 FGD in a Steam installation? Because I can't find it.

You mean integration with Oculus Rift? I'm all for it.

Hooray Stu, the grid is finally working

For your bugs/suggestions/questions:

> Yeah, there seems to be some bugs in the texture window. I'll have to do some proper testing on it to work out all the issues.
> Check again Hammer 3 doesn't do any shift+nudge cloning, and Hammer 4 makes lots of copies if you hold it down. It should probably be an option anyway.
> Not a lot I can do about the 3D mouselook thing. I tried a bunch of different behaviours and that was the best I could get. I might take another look at it, though.

> Yeah, the config select window bothers me. It'll definitely get revamped at some point.
> I could make the texture number boxes configurable, sounds like a good idea.

> Viewport type selection is not done yet, but I plan to add it at some point. It's a pretty big change so I've been avoiding it
> Linux support - maybe in the future. I hear Mono is reasonably good these days, however right now I'm focusing on just getting the program working properly on Windows
> I don't think the steam install includes the FGDs, you'll need to redownload them.

As for virtual reality support...the code is open! Feel free to add VR to Sledge, I wont turn it down!

i would like to see some stuff from blender 3d and 3dmax, like extruding and more :O

Cool that it hasn't crashed on you so far CapT Good luck!

I'm taking a break from bug fixes to work on major features now (revamped VM tool, automatic configuration, multiple open files, model rendering) so updates will be less frequent. Keep reporting bugs though, they won't be forgotten

For the toolbar clutter: eventually it will all be customisable. You will be able to configure what toolbar buttons you see, and change all the hotkeys as well.

Support bigger maps you say? How much bigger? Sounds really cool so far i'll have to check it out.

Sounds amazing PB, can't wait to try the new features!

That'd be getting close (in terms of 1x1x1 squares) to the estimated number of atoms in the universe.

I'll take your word for it, I have no intents of counting them.

@TJB: Nope, that bug wouldn't be there. You need to click "Apply" or "OK" to save any changes you make though. If you close the properties without saving, it won't apply them. Just changing tabs won't reset anything though.

Source code, obviously.

Yep, C#, and it's not a Hammer mod, it's made completely from scratch. All the source is available on GitHub.

New release!

This version adds a revamped version of the VM tool. I wasn't happy with the scaling tool hiding behind a hotkey, and I wanted to be able to add additional functionality to it in a way that was easy to see from a user's perspective without having to know all the hotkeys from the start.

Fixes missing features from Hammer:
- Split face (Ctrl+F), Scaling tool (Alt+E)
- Auto-selection in VM tool
- Click-to-select solids in 2D and 3D in VM tool
New features include:
- Switch between standard mode (Alt+W), scaling mode (Alt+E), and face edit mode (Alt+R)
- Real-time VM error list
- 'Reset to original' button
- Face edit mode: lets you poke a face (add a point in the middle) and add a bevel to a face.

It looks like this:


Let me know what you think! I know it's different to how Hammer does it, but I think having the dialog there is important considering that the VM tool is one of the more advanced features in both Hammer and Sledge.

Change list for this version:

* Added revamped VM tool. Fixes #43, fixes #25.
* Select automatically in the VM tool. Fixes #49.
* Show hotkey name in tooltip text for the main toolbar
* The manual tranform dialog switches to default values of 1 when scale mode is selected.
* Case insensitive format providers. Fixes #50.
* Null camera check on SetViewport. fixes #51.
* Check the compile tools are set up before compiling.
* Check for no entries before setting the Steam username selected index.

@potatis: Great catch, I never would have thought to increase the Windows setting to replicate that bug. Fixed it in this release (it was issue #51)

I suggested a logo before, but it looks more like Sredge



I agree for the GUI, an photoshop like GUI would be sick.