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! 

CTRL++ or - to scale the grid. or Ctrl+1 or other numbers to jump between scales.

I would also advise you to give the door some framing with an inset, or you will get nasty z-fighting when the door moves into the wall. 

Thanks for the scaling tip, I had no idea about that.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'framing with an inset' for the door. 

At the moment the door is flush with the wall. I mean making the door a bit thinner than the wall. So if your wall was say 32 units thick, make the door like 16 to have 8 units space on each side. It will look like the door is actually INSIDE the wall. 

Ah ok, got it. I think scaling is going to help a lot as I learn to map. Thanks again. 

 

trying hold shift when a brush is selected. Then as you move your cursor around you shall find different faces will be highlighted, you should be able to click and push the face in or out. 

Thanks FifthElephant, that's really useful.