everyone has said it better than me already. :)
I will say that it is a little bit awkward doing some brush operations without a 2d grid.

placement within the map coordinate is difficult to gauge, for example. i often put down point entities at the +- 4096 mark so I can keep track of where I am.

I have yet to start a map from scratch in TB, but i suspect the lack of a easily visible global coordinate system would be annoying. 

Personally I open my map with worldcraft to see if it's near the boundaries or not. It's also useful to see if I've made some bad manipulations. Now that I think about it, an error report window would be handy. 

error reporting is definitely planned. i think i'd just like some extra visualization stuff like being able to see '0 0 0' as well as the boundaries (or even arbitrary boundaries to help me keep a sense of place relative to the map origin). 

Necros said what I didn't manage to phrase correctly. I take it this would be helpfull then:

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would it be helpful if you could place a grid plane to help you find the proper coordinates? Is the problem that you can only see the grid where it is already projected onto brushes?
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had a grid plane that ran through its 3d view that also showed you the edge boundaries. Maybe a toggle version of this would suffice? 

 

I think this would come under a general 'helper objects' thing. Maybe including other stuff as well, like a tape measure. 

That's on my todo list along with a placeable grid. 

I sometimes find myself applying different textures in order to measure things. 

I moved my trenchbroom folder to my laptop so I can map during my studies' pasttimes, but whenever I try to use the Vertex tool, a message comes up saying an error has occured, and if I choose "ignore" the map just deletes itself and I cannot make a brush or spawn an entity. 

Check the system requirements stated on TBs download page.
Had the same problem, my hardware (gfx-card) was just too old to cope with OpenGL 2.1.
And you need to have the VisualC++ package installed, when running it under Windows. :) 

Report back if it doesn't help! 

Thanks SleepwalkR! 

Changelog:
- Keyboard customization
- Restrict to X or Y axis when moving objects
- Limit face points to integer coordinates
- New duplication options (drag to duplicate and duplicate in specific direction)
- New information bar at top of 3D view
- Moved search field to information bar
- Improved precision and stability of vertex tool
- Select objects by line number
- Brush resizing feels more natural and snaps more accurately
- Autosave when the applicaton exits
- More brush filtering options
- Better performance for view filters
- Clip tool remembers last clip side
- Clip tool adds new brushes to parent entities of clipped brushes
- Clipped brushes remain selected after deactivating the clip tool
- Double click on brush selects all brushes belonging to the containing entity
- Shift + double click on brush to select all of its faces
- Paint selection
- Show entity angle in 3D view
- Camera tracks for point file navigation and center on selection
- Show compass in 3D view
- Buttons for texture flipping in face inspector
- Hotkeys to activate inspector tabs
- Smooth camera navigation with WASD keys
- Customizable texture browser icon size
- Render skip / clip / hint / trigger and liquid brushes semi-transparently
- Numerous bug fixes

Download: http://kristianduske.com/trenchbroom/downloads.php 

Wasn't that on the 1.10 todo list? ;) 

Even more K�lsch for you!
Thank you Sleepy, you are awesome! 

Can't get this to work... bloody drivers!! 

 

I click it and it says "a problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available"

Probably would be worth me rolling back the drivers and reinstalling. 

With hw specs, windows and driver versions? Thanks! 

I will when I get home from work sure 

hope it helps. I have the next few weeks off work, I might try and reformat my machine and freshly install the latest drivers. I need to try this new version, and hopefully make something. 

As I wrote in the issue, I can't support the Surface as I don't have access to one. The latest build works in my Windows 8 VM, so I guess it's a driver issue. 

It doesn't come up with any insightful error messages either cause windows has always been a piece of crap in that regard.

It won't be a huge bother to reformat probably, I keep my machines fairly stock most of the time. 

Changes
- More natural snapping when resizing brushes
- Remove limit on maximum mip texture dimensions
- Don't fall back to software renderer on OS X

Download: http://kristianduske.com/trenchbroom/downloads.php