I don't disagree with this statement but any culture is so much more than its stereotypes. 

Stereotypes have a tendency to stick around while the culture has moved on. For instance, you don't hear much accordion in french culture anymore. 

 

Omelette with cheese, not omelette of the cheese... ;) 

I just added steam to steam as a non-steam game so I could play steam while playing steam.

...I was bored. 

 

I just had a good chuckle over my early internet days.

I thought Methodus Toolz was sooooo legit.

I also remember thinking I was hot shit for being able to play sounds in AOL Chatrooms. I'd always play this one called "tongue". I cant remember what it played though :( 

(Using JACK) For some reason I almost always clip the ends of brushes to make them angular even though vertex mode takes one less motion.

I probably do it in the same amount of time either way. You know, I tend to dislike vertex mode. Maybe that's why I struggle to grasp Trenchbroom. I pretty much clip and stretch everything and duplicate brushes like crazy...I mean I so rarely add a new brush from scratch. Perhaps I just need to look up how to duplicate a brush while dragging it in TB.

Just thinking. 

TB has clip, in case you didn't know. Press C and draw a line with 2-3 points.
And I'm pretty sure it's ctrl+right click on a selected brush to duplicate+drag.

Vertex mode is alright, but I also find myself preferring clip when I'm angling brushes. At least for simple operations, that is. When I'm "trisouping" or whatever it's called I use vertex mode, even if all the little points can be a bit hard to make out from one another...

Eeek! 

even if all the little points can be a bit hard to make out from one another...
Yeah, TB would greatly benefit from an option to hide non-visible vertices. Feel like making it a feature request? 

both ctrl + left and ctrl + right duplicate a brush, just tried it out.

The strength in TBs clipping is using 3 points. 

 

"Toggle Unselected Vertices" has been something Ive wanted to suggest as well.

I wanted to include "Toggle Tint on Selected Brushes/Faces" at the same time cause theyd be used in conjuction with one another. Youd wanna turn off the tint AND unselected vertices for the most benefit whole moving vertices.

"Toggle Tint on Selected Brushes/Faces" would be really good for working with textures, as well.

When the toggle is turn off, the brush(es), when the mouse either hovers or moves off the selected brushes, would be given the Red Edges as seen in "Show Edges".

Sleep seems a bit backed up at the moment so I've left it on the back burner. Lots of other important stuff to sort out first. 

Realized how poorly that was worded:

When the toggle is turn off, the selected brush(es) would be given the Red Edges as seen in "Show Edges", when the mouse either hovers over or moves the cursor off the selected brushes. 

Here's what I would normally be looking at, rather than that image, since TB will hide edge verts if you select a corner and vice-versa. Not as bad, but still not great.

Hiding any more verts is problematic, unfortunately. Perhaps an option to cull/occlude ones that belong to brushes that are obscured from view, but that seems like a lot of work/processing to get that improvement.
And it would have to be an optional toggle, for that one guy who really wants to drag a vert on the opposite side to where his camera is for some damned reason... 

Perhaps "Only Show Verts of Brushes Under Mouse" or something like that. 

And it would have to be an optional toggle
Of course, that's what I meant by "option". We should be able to switch it on/off at will. 

Worldcraft would let you move verts around anyway you wanted. You could make an invalid brush, and if you did it was your fault. I found it pretty easy to use.

Radiant does some kind of constant checking to prevent invalid brushes, which tends to make vertex editing a pain. Sometimes to get from a to c, you have to go thru b, and if b isn't a valid brush Radiant auto-corrects. I finally had to switch to mostly clipping for odd shaped brushes. 

I'm trying to think of what shape you'd be trying to build if you had to temporarily make an invalid brush to do it. I'd love to read/see an example. 

You have a shape with 12 verts. You manually move each vert, one by one. Maybe when you move one, you need to move 3 more for it to be a valid vert. It's not like you need to compile the map every time you move one.

It's like pants. You are supposed to either have pants on or off.

Yet to do either, you have to put your pants on 1 leg at a time to reach that state.

If you were disallowed from ever having your pants in an invalid state, how would you get them on or off? 

It's like pants. You are supposed to either have pants on or off.

Yet to do either, you have to put your pants on 1 leg at a time to reach that state.

If you were disallowed from ever having your pants in an invalid state, how would you get them on or off?

http://i.imgur.com/inVz20S.gifv 

I use Vertex mode for making angled rafters and such. I just find it quicker to do with the same effect. I never really used the 3-point clip tool (I use 2 point a ton however) and I feel like I am missing out on it. I did however discover the power of TB2's brush tool and it's incredible.

Anyone have an example of what they created with the 3-point clip tool? Also, I suppose we can move this to the TB thread if this keeps active. 

 

Anytime you move one of the vertexes off the plane of a brush face (defined by 4 or more) the brush becomes invalid and when the editor "fixes" it automatically it's rarely what you actually want.

Looking down on a box (or truncated pyramid) and changing the slope of the sides by moving one vertex at a time is an example. 

in JACK using the split face and triangulate options fixes most of those irregularities and allows you to have more "complex" geometry.

I've been able to get some nice rock faces using these methods.