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! 

Hammer has the alt-right click texture alignment, that will automatically align faces across edges. Ridiculously handy.

That and the targetname eyedropper are the two hammer features I really wish Radiant had. 

> Hammer has the alt-right click texture alignment, that will automatically align faces across edges. Ridiculously handy.

When it does this, is texture stretching also corrected for surfaces that are off axis (not on 90 degree planes), or is that already part of the Valve 220 alignment? 

"maybe I'm projecting too much" is the best / worst unintentional pun you could make about a texture mapping feature 

TrenchBroom 2's live issue browser with quick fixes: http://t.co/QCJToJLhkS 

Obligatory feature request:

'reload def / fgd file'

So that when writing / fixing one you can update with a nearby button instead of reloading the map entirely.

Probably not a common user feature though. 

 

I really am finding a lot of texture alignment stuff to be a pain right now.

Plus the idea of being able to map for other games is a huge bonus. 

why does trenchbroom render everything flat for even when i choose the option render with texture? 

 

Accidentally unbound escape from deselect, when I try to rebind it the damn thing no longer works! Am I doing something completely wrong here?1