Easy Grouping Created 20 years ago2004-09-13 13:04:50 UTC by abs0lute11

Well I've been making my first map, I've built a few buildings and they are made of many brushes, I am trying to Group all sides of the building, all floors, lights, etc. Basiclly so I can clone the building.

I usually just try to hold ctrl and click on every side, but its tedious and sometimes i cant get every side. After everything is highlighted i know to push the group button at the top. Then I can hold shift to clone the building.

Isnt there an easier way to group all brushes that make up my buildingso I can clone it?

Maybe some way to drag a cube around the building i want and select all? I'm not sure of any other way then simply clicking on each and every brush. Please Help

Drag a selection box in one of the side-views, extend it in another side (front, top) view and hit enter. That should do the trick.

That method often highlights more than just the items you want. You can hold the CTRL button and unhighlight the items you don't want to include. Another way is to use the visgroups function to make brushes and entities disappear to make it easier to highlight the items you want.

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There's a tutorial on Visgroups, and you can select an option in Hammer to render pressing enter after multiple selections unnecessary.

It might be nice to know to beginners that visgroup information and the such is only stored in a .rmf file. A .map file is just brush and entity information, nothing else. Could prevent some confusion when you know this...

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