Granted, I'm on an ancient OS (WinXP), but the software keeps crashing on me like every 30 minutes (I created a bug report some time ago). Miraculously, I haven't lost a single edit due to the excellent crash backup solution - I'm so grateful for that!

And truly, it's the best map editor of all I've ever tried. 

that crash should be fixed in the next RC. (also, Muk, that was 90% of the big list of crashes you reported a few months ago.) 

I'll make a new release soon that has the fix. 

Is there or could there be these functions:

Group selection of brushes, making brushes transparent so group selection can select brushes behind brushes, scaling brushes or group of brushes.

also in vertex mode there could be a mode where you see the visible plane only, this would make terrain making easier. 

You can select a group of brushes by making a large brush that covers the brushes you want and hitting "select all touching"

You can select brushes behind other brushes by selecting a brush and using the scrolll wheel.

Scaling of brushes will be introduced at some point, i believe.

Lastly, i also believe occlusion of "hidden" vertex nodes will be implemented as well. 

https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/releases/tag/v2.0.0-RC4

Getting there, but still some open bugs that I want to fix. This RC is mainly due to ericw's work who has held the fort while I was moving houses and settling in. 

Thank you SleepwalkR and Ericw! 

As the history of maps you opened on the startscreen isn't the only history I would want to clear...
If it isn't a feature yet then I request it,
If I'm just being dumb again then tell me where to click the UI. 

Without checking the configs files for TB, I'd recommend you CCleaner, a cleaning tool that's very good at deleting Most Recently Used file lists. It's also very good for general PC maintenance. 

�Texture projection/carryover as seen on JACK/Hammer: http://www.interlopers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20367
�Click on the texture name when a face/brush is selected to find it in the viewer
�A better way to wrap textures around complex geometry such as cylinders
�Hide duplicate textures
�Alignment tools 

 

Cant you do face and world alignment in JACK/Hammer?

TB needs that.

Throw in texture wrapping with it and TB will be catching up to Texture toolsets of other editors. 

 

http://i.imgur.com/2uX1W1g.png

Does anyone know how to get QS to run through the TB compiler? I tried using -game ad instead of +game ad but it just gave me an error about having the shareware version of the game (?!).

MarkV runs fine through this :( 

Your working directory needs to be where the engine is.

If Mark V starts with a working directory and can't find Quake there, it will check and see if Quake lives in the folder where the .exe is .. and use that as working directory instead. 

Baker that is a nice feature, it sounds like something QS should steal. 

Also, "couldn't load gfx.wad" has never been a helpful error message, that could be rewritten to suggest the most likely fixes. 

I have tried to get other engines to steal that for years. Tends to get dismissed out of hand as a non-problem. If Mark V actually does get the gfx.wad it very clearly says what is wrong, and then pops a message saying "Opening folder c:\path_to_engine ..." and opens the folder.

/Brief gentle tangent, .. hopefully not much disruptive to the TB thread 

I am officially taking Baker's side on this one, it's a serious pain having to use the game dir as your working directory... Especially because the compile tool doesn't have a working way to get the map's directory...

http://i.imgur.com/3i0nthn.png

I think I can use fully qualified names to avoid this, but it makes the parameters of my tools into even more of a mess than before...

Could someone tell me if i'm using ${MAP_DIR_PATH} wrong or something? I think this should probably have a github issue if it's genuinely broken. 

engine -basedir ${GAME_DIR_PATH} -window +map foo
or something.
(or +set fs_basedir foo for q2/q3)

some engines ignore -basedir. those engines are annoying.
an explicit path should always take precedence over a fallback/guess.

That said, default compile rules for TB would be really nice... it would save quite a bit of frustraction... at least until someone uses a path with spaces in it, anyway. 

Hehe

(I didn't have Spike in mind. He even has a different objection than I've seen before )

/@Spike - Mark V honors basedir and can handle paths with spaces in them like -basedir "Path to Quake". 

I've been pushing TB2 pretty hard this week especially using undo many more times than I would ordinarily do while mapping (a dozen or more steps back) and have had zero issues. Am I dreaming or did some of the default keyboard shortcut change or go away though? I think the only weird thing I've noticed was the transparency bug noted elsewhere on this thread and on Github. Amazing work guys. 

I never knew about this functionality in Hammer! 

I was able to make that work with QS, but only by using a fully-qualified path rather than the ${GAME_DIR_PATH} one you suggested. Did your suggestion work for you? Maybe there's something wrong with how my environment is set up.