Journal #7994 by Captain Terror

Captain Terror

Posted 12 years ago2012-10-09 20:01:45 UTC

Captain Terrorwhen a man loves a woman

4 things i resisted using in hammer editor, and now i use them all the time:

Ctrl+e
Centers your 2d views on a selcted object(usually from the 3d view). Irreplaceable on a big/complex map.

QuickHide selected/unselected
Radio buttons next to the visgrouping ones, that temporarily hide selected or unselected objects. Again, great big/complex maps, specifically for quickly sorting out visual clutter in the 3d/orthograpic views, so you can more easily see what you are working on.

Paste Special
Pastes on the direct coordinates of the copied object. Great for reproducing multiple, off-grid stuff you could never otherwise align properly, because it's in-between gridpoints.

Cordon Tool and Cordon Compile
Isoloates an entire area from the editable/viewable area of the map(sort of like QuickHide, but for a whole area, not objects. Great for reducing your compile time for a specific area, and reducing editor lag for a busy map.

Striker

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-09 20:11:37 UTC Comment #55965

On bigger maps I got used to the Cordon Tool. I actually use it more often than vis groups.

Captain Terror

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-09 20:29:36 UTC Comment #55958

me too. i used to visgroup everything, but now much less using cordon. don't get me wrong, i still visgroup lots of stuff, and take advantage of the "auto" visgroups as well.

Blitzkrieg

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-09 21:31:07 UTC Comment #55956

ctrl E is a staple of my mapping. i never use paste special, when i get into my next mapping spurt i'll have to try utilizing it. the other two i use regularly. Although cordon compiling i had never used until Tetsuo informed me of it. I was compiling whole maps to check out one tiny little change for years...

Captain Terror

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-09 21:55:02 UTC Comment #55959

Ya blitz me as well, i never used cordon until hotdog told me about it during team mapping, and i thought he deleted half the map =P

Tetsu0

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-09 22:24:52 UTC Comment #55955

Cordon FTW.
Actually wrote a tut on it

Notewell

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-10 00:02:12 UTC Comment #55967

I've never used ctrl-e, but it sounds useful, so I'll probably try to memorize it and use it frequently. Also never used quickhide, but I only ever paste special and I tend to overuse the cordon tool on my maps because I compulsively playtest and don't want the fact that I haven't finished a room to prevent me from doing lighting passes on it.

Captain Terror

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-10 00:56:48 UTC Comment #55960

I asked dimbark to make a song about the cordon tool after the commercial success of his displacements tribute =)

Strider

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-10 02:43:16 UTC Comment #55952

Paste Special is a great tool for complex, curved geometry. I used it with the clip tool to make this monster tunnel eons ago. It's fun to experiment with.

Captain Terror

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-10 03:15:31 UTC Comment #55961

Holodeck on cough medicine and steroids! that is really cool strideh

zeeba-G

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-10 12:35:50 UTC Comment #55953

Omgosh strider, that is so hot!

Nice tools captain, I only really use the hide tool. Never used any of the others, nice to know.

Edit: "plays with paste special" whoa wtf. Why don't we know about these tools.

I use the hide tool to assign the selected brush/ objects to a visgroup and name them. Sort of like layers in most modern modeling programs. Then I can hide and reveal them in the visgroup's window while I work.

monster_urby

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-10 20:41:50 UTC Comment #55954

Sweet Jesus... Why am I still using GoldSource!?

Oh, right. The Core.

FML

Blitzkrieg

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-10 22:14:38 UTC Comment #55957

Tesu0 your tut is what taught me about it, props.

Stojke

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-11 09:10:29 UTC Comment #55968

CTRL + E is a great command! Thanks CT

Also, i never used paste special

Captain Terror

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-11 18:12:53 UTC Comment #55962

I keep looking at strideh's WIP Tunnel(espcially the last pic). Dang, it are just breathtakingly lovely =P

Stojke

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-11 19:30:08 UTC Comment #55969

Wpoly 9000

Captain Terror

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-11 21:01:03 UTC Comment #55963

u would need goldsource 9000; gold source could never render something that pretty, regardless the r_speeds =]

Captain Terror

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-11 22:07:09 UTC Comment #55964

OR COULD IT?!

Stojke

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-12 08:33:05 UTC Comment #55970

Of course it could! Gold Source be hard core.
Too bad after some point, no matter how good the PC is, it will still LAG.

Oskar Potatis

Commented 12 years ago2012-10-17 16:48:03 UTC Comment #55966

Thanks for sharing.

Journal #7994

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