Once again just checking here first...

Maybe I was hallucinating, but I seem to recall being able to do this in TB1: that you could select faces of separate brushes and -- provided they were directly adjacent and on the same plane -- edit them together (and thus e.g. easily get a texture identically oriented on all said faces).

Did I just dream this? Or has this functionality been removed from TB2?

Is it a bug I should report or a feature worth requesting? 

 

Using the "face" editor/browser to the right to change the texture angle, scale and offset, and the texture itself -- the way you can do with a single face (selected via shift+click) or with all faces of a single brush. 

Ctrl+Shift+Click to select more than one face. They don't even need to be adjacent or on the same plane! 

Yep, that works exactly as I remember it. Now how did I manage not to do that before?

Thanks, necros!

Sorry, SleepwalkR! 

Thanks for adding this to TB2, SleepwalkR!

I have a question about using this function (I tried finding some info about it in the official TB1 documentation, but I'm guessing it was added later and thus is not yet documented?):

Is it supposed to generate a new, untextured brush, while leaving the "pieces" it's made from? Because that is what happens when I use it: I select e.g. 8 textured wedges that make up an octagon, and when I do Edit --> Create convex hull, the 8 wedges are still there & unchanged, but I also get a new untextured octagonal brush in the same spot.

I only ask because I had imagined I would effectively be "gluing" the wedges together to create a new brush, so that the end result would be one textured octagon and zero wedges.

(Note: I'm not complaining, as I think it's a brilliant tool either way!) 

Pretty sure that's what it is meant to do, it's consistent with other tools. 

Thanks. :) 

I currently have two func_illusionaries (one is a duplicate of the other) and when I select one of them, TB2 draws a red box around both of them. It looks like a bounding box and it increases in size as I move the two entities apart. It disappears when I turn off "Show entity bounds" under "View" to the right, which suggests to me that it's supposed to be a bounding box.

But why would I need a bounding box for two separate brush entities that I have not grouped together? This would mean that if I finally have func_illusionaries scattered throughout the entire map, I'd then just see a giant bounding box surrounding the entire map when I click on one of them. Is that supposed to be the case?

Or am I missing something here? 

I can reproduce this: the duplicated func_illusionary contains the original and the duplicated brush(es). 

 

 

 

I get an error when I try to rebuild. Am doing git pull, cmake .. and cmake --build . 

 

[ 0%] Built target version
[ 0%] Built target glew
[ 1%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/TrenchBroom.dir/common/src/Renderer/SpikeGuideRenderer.cpp.o
In file included from /usr/include/c++/4.8/tr1/memory:50:0,
from /home/totalnewbie/TrenchBroom/common/src/SharedPointer.h:28,
from /home/totalnewbie/TrenchBroom/common/src/CollectionUtils.h:31,
from /home/totalnewbie/TrenchBroom/common/src/Polygon.h:23,
from /home/totalnewbie/TrenchBroom/common/src/VecMath.h:39,
from /home/totalnewbie/TrenchBroom/common/src/TrenchBroom.h:23,
from /home/totalnewbie/TrenchBroom/common/src/Renderer/SpikeGuideRenderer.h:24,
from /home/totalnewbie/TrenchBroom/common/src/Renderer/SpikeGuideRenderer.cpp:20:
/usr/include/c++/4.8/tr1/shared_ptr.h: In instantiation of �std::tr1::__shared_ptr<_Tp, _Lp>::__shared_ptr(_Tp1*) [with _Tp1 = TrenchBroom::Model::CompareHits; _Tp = TrenchBroom::Model::CompareHits; __gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy _Lp = (__gnu_cxx::_Lock_policy)2u]�:
/usr/include/c++/4.8/tr1/shared_ptr.h:995:25: required from �std::tr1::shared_ptr<_Tp>::shared_ptr(_Tp1*) [with _Tp1 = TrenchBroom::Model::CompareHits; _Tp = TrenchBroom::Model::CompareHits]�
/home/totalnewbie/TrenchBroom/common/src/Model/PickResult.h:44:30: required from here
/usr/include/c++/4.8/tr1/shared_ptr.h:556:34: error: invalid application of �sizeof� to incomplete type �TrenchBroom::Model::CompareHits�
typedef int _IsComplete[sizeof(_Tp1)];
^
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/TrenchBroom.dir/common/src/Renderer/SpikeGuideRenderer.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/TrenchBroom.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2 

It was a missing import. Sometimes, these errors only show up on specific platforms, unfortunately. 

Well, I'm glad I can be of some use in finding errors/bugs/other things that may go wrong, and that it's not just me being stupid all of the time (just some of the time).

Thank you again for being so fast in fixing many of these. :) 

I'm going back into hiatus tomorrow. Just took a couple of days off my work and felt like doing some coding. I'll be back at it by the end of the year. 

Is there a way of editing a group of brushes, short of ungrouping and then regrouping?

Say you've got a group of 50 brushes, where you just want to change one brush. Is the only solution to ungroup, edit that one brush and then select all 50 brushes one by one to create a group again? 

Double click on any of the grouped brushes to open the group. Edit away, then double click on anything else or the void to close the group again. This also works with nested groups. 

Thanks, this is going to be a massive time-saver. :) What are nested groups? Do you mean I can group a group within a group? 

Wow, so I can! 

 

Having played Quake on and off forever, I'm finally attempting to make my first map. I'm using TrenchBroom which is a very user-friendly tool.

BUT .. I can't figure out how to change the depth of a brush. I want to make a button that slightly sticks out from a wall. However, the standard brush dimensions are quite large so the button sticks out a long way.

http://i.imgur.com/o9tghlF.jpg

I think the depth of the button is 16. Can it be changed? Or is there another technique to make 'slim' brushes? Any advice gratefully received!