OMG dat texture alignment window ... Think of the hours that will be saved. 

By 'used' and then apply transforms across the whole map? 

what the texture alignment window is trying to show. It just looks like a big texture to me with lines on. Are those lines part of the brush?

For texture alignment it would be nice if we could skew textures in a similar way to Worldcraft. (you can make it angled but the horizontal stays the same)

I know not all mappers like the wait that looks but I think it would be a useful feature. 

would be a neat feature like ijed says. I currently do this in notepad if I want to make a huge change. 

If you've ever used a modeling app, that texture window should make you all tingly. Sure, it's still restricted to Quake's texture alignment limits but man WHAT a great idea. Being able to rotate and align faces in a UV editing style window will be SO much faster and more accurate than trying to do it in the viewport.

Unless I'm not seeing the right thing and am maybe projecting too much. :P 

Search 'UV map tool' and you'll get it. 

a modelling app. Or should I say, I never got the point with any of my models where I was making the skins and uv maps.

It's something I intend to pick up eventually, even soonish. 

- supports Valve's 220 format, i.e., UV mapping
- snaps texture offset, scale and rotation automatically to the edges of the face being edited, that is you can
-- move the texture around and it's edges (yellow lines) will snap to the face vertices / edges
-- scale textures (by dragging the yellow lines) and they will snap to the face vertices / edges
-- rotate (by dragging the white ball on the circle) and the rotation angle will snap so that the yellow lines are aligned with the face edges

Basically, you can very quickly fit textures to faces. The only thing I haven't quite figured out is how to make it easier to align textures on adjacent faces to each other, but I'm working on that, too. 

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you can drag the rotation / scaling origin (red lines / white circle) around so that you can rotate about any point on the face's boundary plane. 

seeing this in action. Looks interesting from how you describe it.

I really hope we see support for other games soon, I wouldn't mind trying my hand at quake 2 engine games (maybe even heretic 2 or something really obscure) 

Quake 2 is already supported and so is Hexen 2. I see no reason why Heretic 2 shouldn't work out of the box either, I'd just need to set it up with an FGD file.

I also plan to support Half Life out of the box, and later HL2 and Quake 3. 

Sleepy: Are you still experimenting/planning any kind of 2d view or virtual grid on areas where they are no brushes? 

Both, actually. TB2 will have 2D views for those who can't work without them, and it will also allow you to place a virtual grid in the 3D view. 

I think that defeats his objective with the editor. However I would really love to be able to create blocks of a certain size by typing in the dimensions rather than click/drag out the shape. A feature like this would have helped me a lot recently. 

My original vision was "What would level editing be like if you were in the game?", which is why I didn't want to add 3D views. But after having all those long discussions with many people, I do realize that somethings are just easier to do in 2D that in 3D. But TB will always put the 3D view first, and you will only have to switch to 2D for certain special tasks when you need that kind of precision. 

Will v2 have more primitive options? Cylinders and such? That's something that gets me whenever I fire it up ...

This is the point when someone tells me it already supports that and I'm blind. :) 

Another nice feature would be something like in UEd where you can select adjacent walls.

http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/Legacy:Selecting_Surfaces 

Something I've been doing on things like columns and curved walls is what I call "texture wrapping". It's similar to what was done in Doom editing where the texture tiles continuously across multiple surfaces with no breaks in alignment (DCK could do it automatically).

It's a pain to do in Quake because of the need to scale the texture when the surface isn't on 90 degree angles.

It might be something useful to add to Trenchbroom. I can make some screenshots if it's not clear what I'm describing. 

Auto scaling to compensate for off axis walls would be really nice. Hard to make it work with rotation tho. 

will only work on surfaces which have their normal parallel to either of the coordinate planes. For arbitrary normals, all bets are off unless you're using Valve's 220 format (which you should if you're working on a new map). 

maybe at some point, yeah. Or, in a more generalized fashion, procedural brush generators. 

Valve 220 is just something you toggle on/off in TB2?

That's awesome. 

Currently, there's no conversion process. You create a new map and choose whether to use standard Quake or Valve. But conversion from standard to Valve is simple. The other way around can't be done without loss of precision, though. 

I've tried to do it by hand before and the results are unpredictable.

Stripping out the extra data also has fugly results.

Looking forward to TB2!