J.A.C.K misbehaves or doesn't update settings changes unless you run in Admin (on Windoze).

Just curious, but why should that be necessary? I don't have any programs with that problem. 

Unless of course you have UAC disabled then the only evil location is C:\Windows 

Have you got the latest version? I know some old releases installed user-specific stuff to Program Files, but recent ones use a subdirectory of your Documents folder, specifically "Documents\\Jackhammer" for pre-Greenlight versions and "Documents\\J.A.C.K." since the rename. I just tested 1.1.1064 in Windows 10 and changed settings persisted, despite being a standard user with the most restrictive UAC options on and running without elevation. 

Also I just learned you need to manually escape backslashes to see them on this board's post preview page, but the published post does it for you so they end up doubled. Pardon my goofy looking paths. 

I never understood the logic of restricting programs installed in "Program Files" from write access anywhere but a few locations, while programs in "Program Files (x86) or directly in C: can do pretty much as they please. So much for security, eh? 

Last time I checked the Program Files (x86) directory had the same rules and limitations as the regular one, which seemed to be the case for others as well following a quick visit to el' goog.

And writing directly to the C:\ folder is hardly harmful. Ugly, perhaps, but last time I checked there's no risk from the user creating folders or files there. System files and subdirectories of the C: drive are protected individually... 

Did that get changed since Vista? I don't know, I don't use either one.

After I install something, I move its folder to another drive and do a system restore. If it won't run after that, I'll usually delete it.

Only exception is Steam and Steam games. They're on their own separate boot disk. 

I mostly dabble with map making as I have always seriously struggled with creativity! But I was messing around with J.A.C.K. tonight and thought.. wouldn't it be a cool feature to have a "create brush with selected texture" button? In the Surface Properties dialog box?

Could automate the centering of the texture and place it "selected" and "centered" in 3D/2D view?

Pardon my ignorance if this is silly, just seemed like it'd be a time saver(windows/door/buttons etc).

Thoughts... 

"f" toggles texture filtering in the 3D view. It would also be nice to toggle texture filtering in the texture browser at the same time. The texture browser defaults to that horrible texture blurring. 

I'm new to mapping, but so far (apart from some crashing) JACK seems to be about the best in class for editors, good job!

A small request - a spherical "effect radius" indicator/tool for entities which rely on a radius to determine their operation, such as env_sound and scripted_sequence/sentence (Half-Life).

The tool might draw a pale red globe in 3D and maybe a red circle in 2D, size based on the radius setting of the selected entity.

It would make determining the range of these entities trivial, in much the same way that trigger brushes have a clearly visible footprint. Currently it requires careful measurement and calculations in order to place these entities effectively.

BTW, thanks for adding "centre" to the bottom right co-ordinates display, that's so handy! :D 

Here's another one, when you select an entity a pale arrow appears in 3D and 2D views, starting at the origin and pointing in the "forward" direction of the entity, as set by its "angles" keyvalue.

This would make placing most oriented entities (squadmaker, scripted sequence, trigger_push etc) so much easier - you'd just plonk it down and spin the compass until the temporary alignment arrow is pointing in the correct direction, in 3D or x/y views. The arrow would disappear when the entity was de-selected.

Thanks :) 

I can't find any way to do it. I just want plain ole quake standard map format NOT Valve's 220 format. Am I missing something in the settings to allow this? 

At least for the first time. I can't get used to it. 

I think it is only selectable in the game setup. Check your quake setup and see if valve map format is selected. Otherwise maybe copy that format and make a quake-orig profile or something. 

I finally did find the option in the game config setup I overlooked. 

Have you added a way to move brushes that are grouped without ungroup them before?

After i updated to 1.1.1064 from 11700 (Win32), i kept finding brushes grouped with others that out of nowhere were moved a few units in horizontal or in vertical.

At first i thought that maybe was a mistake from my part, but i kept getting more, till i i got a leak and found out that a brush in a group i never touched much less ungrouped, in months was moved a few units in vertical, so it can't be a mistake from my part, except the only explanation i can think of is if you added such feature of editing inside groups.

I have also gotten always since i began using JACK times when one of the views i wasn't working in zoomed out a lot out of nowhere even though none of my fingers were even close to the numbers to zoom in and out and those are all the shortcuts i use, but i always thought that i was accidentally pressing some shortcut i didn't know of, but after what has been happening these last weeks, i am not so sure ... 

Allows to move brushes in a group without ungrouping. Present in VHE since the very beginning (AFAIR) and in JACK too, of course. 

Don't bump the numpad. It instazooms to different levels. 

Is this possible?

This would be more flexible than Ignore Groups. Click on a group in the 3D view to select it, and each subsequent click would select a subgroup, all the way to individual brushes. 

With this feature enabled brush entities will not show their properties in the Object Properties window. 

They do show properties even in the IG mode.
But! You can't select them. That's the point. 

Out of interest did you see the feature requests I posted in post #53 of this thread?

I just re-read them and realised I didn't communicate #2 well, it should read: The ability to snap a vertex along the edge of another brush, rather than to grid.

Is there any chance we might see some of these included in a future version? 

Maybe a different version does but this version does not show properties, only the Visgroup tab. Which is fine, I understand the point.

I only brought it up to let people know in case they forget and leave it on, like I did. Had me scratching my head for a few minutes, hehe. 

could you change it back to use the bounding boxes sizes for entities that come with the .fgd? Right now it uses as boxes ones that are the size of the model, but the collision boxes are different on most cases which makes harder to map as you do not know if they fit where you put them or not or if they are in the right position for something. They are also sized in xx.xx numbers.

Ignore Groups (IG)

Allows to move brushes in a group without ungrouping. Present in VHE since the very beginning (AFAIR) and in JACK too, of course.

Then its definitely not that what happened to me. If it were it should have been happening for years, not when i updated the program. Also pressing by mistake ctrl+Shift+W is near impossible, taking into account i don't use any of those keys at all in JAcK or Hammer.

I will investigate more into the matter and come back.

Zoom Jumping

Don't bump the numpad. It instazooms to different levels.

Whats that? Looks like it does match the second problem i reported, but I searched around in JAcK and could not find anything similar. 

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=850566384