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Posted by Gorbachev on Wed Jan 12th at 9:43am 2005

For anyone who uses shortcut keys solely, or knows a bit about the newer one. Would you happen to know why now you cannot use Shift-C (camera) to move around while you have the texture application prompt open anymore? In the older versions I can select a face, and then camera around the solid to select multiple faces that are out of view without it defaulting back and closing the texture application properties.

It's not life or death, but it slows me down because out of habit I keep trying to change my view while texture application is open but it closes it when I change to camera. Anyone know where/if a setting exists for this?
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Posted by Stilton on Wed Jan 12th at 1:35pm 2005

oh oh!
i think i might know this one, have you tried pressing 'Z' to toggle in and out of camera view-mode.. then you use W-A-S-D to move the camera pos around..
You can do this whilst using the texture application tool. and simply press z again to turn it off

But i may have missed your point/query completely...
Hopefully i helped

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Posted by Leperous on Wed Jan 12th at 1:41pm 2005

Hey? I just use WSAD and the cursor keys to move around in the 3D window when I have the texture application tool open.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 12th at 1:43pm 2005

i am assuming, that this question has nothing to do with "spacebar+leftmouse"? [addsig]



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Posted by satchmo on Wed Jan 12th at 1:43pm 2005

I notice no difference in this behavior between the old Hammer and the new one. I can certainly fly around in 3D view and apply texture by right-clicking.

Check your setup option. Did you accidentally modify something?
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Posted by Stilton on Wed Jan 12th at 1:55pm 2005

Mwuha! i beat you all!
i am inviiiincible!

jest but seriously..

Orpheus: whats, spacebar+leftMb? im too lazy and searching for tutorials to find out, perhaps you could enlighten





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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 12th at 2:09pm 2005

its just camera mode in the 3d window.. or used to be. [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Wed Jan 12th at 2:19pm 2005

I only wish you could disable certain keyboard shortcuts - recently I've been hitting "shift-w" which toggles snap to grid (something I've never found occasion to use) and whatever it is for ignore groups (again, something that I don't often use and can get by with just the interface button). I don't hit these combos knowingly, it just sometimes happens accidentally and annoys me each time

By the way, you don't need to press lock onto the 3D mode with z in order to move around while in texture mode - provided your mouse pointer is sat over the 3D view you can just use WASD and the cursor keys alone.
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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Jan 12th at 2:28pm 2005

/me wonders if there is a lights.rad style text file you can edit for hammer?

i bet a customizable shortcut option would win some power points. prolly even get those stupid QuArk holdouts to switch over.

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Posted by Paladin[NL] on Wed Jan 12th at 3:41pm 2005

ctrl+n should be deleted since it's to damn close to ctrl+m



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Posted by Gorbachev on Thu Jan 13th at 6:04am 2005

? quote:

By the way, you don't need to press lock onto the 3D mode with z in order to move around while in texture mode - provided your mouse pointer is sat over the 3D view you can just use WASD and the cursor keys alone.


I'm reluctant to give the first reply as an answer because it's not quite the same thing. "z" worked in the other version as well so that's not quite what I'm looking for. It's just that when you switch to camera mode it gets out of texture application. And using ASWD doesn't have the mouse rotation ability, it just stays on the same plane, so that's not what I need. And because using Shift-C is a lot more natural for me than just z since I'm using shortcut keys only I like to be using the standard toolbar options..."z" seems to be laggier than the camera mode as well as lacking the camera hotspots.

Orph, I was thinking somewhat related to lights.rad but having a small program that manipulates that file for you, so it would have a little brightness slider, colour palatte and perhaps a sample of the texture and it could have a small database of the entries in the lights.rad file. I don't know if there's a configuration file for Hammer (which is what you were implying I gather.) but there might be settings around somewhere, perhaps in the registry...or there is a little hidden config.
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