Whats your favorite Hammer tool?

Well do you have a favorite tool? I know I do!

Mine is of course the Texture Lock tool and the clip tool.

Texture application tool

weird question btw :S

Vertex manip and texture lock of course.

Actualy, no..  Its the Hollow and Carve tools :razz:

clippeh

Well obviously my favourite Hammer Tool would have to be the "lightbulb" - Create New Entities.  More more more  :biggrin:

Vertex manipulation is my favourite and also my least favourite :biggrin:

Camera.

without this one, the rest are moot.

Save.

The block tool.

The empty grid...

possibilities are endless..

DocRock said:
The empty grid...

possibilities are endless..

probabilities are as well to some

..

Actualy, I hate empty girds, cause I never know what do to with them.

Clip and Copy + Paste.

Gorbachev said:
Clip and Copy + Paste.

Hold shift while dragging, I just made your life a whole lotta easier eh?

Particle Emitter...no wait, wrong editor

Free-Hand Polygon Tool...no wait, wrong editor

Actor Camera Lock(allows one to use the camera to determine which way an entity faces)...no wait, wrong editor

Terrain Editing Tool...no wait, wrong editor

Mirror Geometry/Actors...no wait, wrong editor

Volumetric builder...no wait, wrong editor

Color Coded Geometry density view...no wait, wrong editor

hmm, I guess Vertex Manipulation is about it really.

Clone - shift and drag.

Will you ever give up hope for us converting edge? :biggrin:

Not so much a tool, but the function F9 does. Compiling is good. Yes.

matt said:
Not so much a tool, but the function F9 does. Compiling is good. Yes.

bites tongue and thinks

MUST RESIST!!!

vertex tool, for nice rollable boulders  :smile:

The whole thing is rubbish.

I've recently started getting into the radial duplicator.

vertex manip. and the ability to copy and drag a section of your map.

fishy said:
vertex tool, for nice rollable boulders  :smile:

Nah, the "New Entity" tool wins again.  Make nice rollable boulders using a (visciously hacked) cycler :biggrin:

my wife...........

she pisses me off, i go and design something......gives me passion, and focus like nothing else...

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

Block tool

Brasso that av scares the hell outa me

Why on earth would you want a freehand polygon tool? You've seen what happens when you try to freehand in Paint or something, just imaging if such horrors could be transferred to map geometry :redface:

looks like vertex tool wins... but i would have to say that the brush tool roxorz...lol

seriously, i like the "grid in 3d view" tool, or button :wink:

Often I only use the brush tool once per map, I tend to leave it after the first few brushes. That Shift + Drag concept is pretty handy, I really have to memorize my shortcuts so I can have a completely uncluttered workspace.

Turn em all off, print out the shortcut cmds, and give yourself no other option.  Worked for me.

Vertex manip

it's a love/hate relationship

ReNo said:
Will you ever give up hope for us converting edge? :biggrin:

Tis all I have to open your minds to other ways.

Leperous said:
Why on earth would you want a freehand polygon tool? You've seen what happens when you try to freehand in Paint or something, just imaging if such horrors could be transferred to map geometry :redface:

It's a bit more refined than that, you can either place the vertices where you want, or create control points similar to Photoshop, then use various tools to bend the lines around those points to get very nice smooth curves, and then extrude the shape.

Definitely the clone and vert. manip....

 

Ugh.. flashbacks of my old quake1 mapping days when i didnt know i could just clone brushes to make my stairs. i miss quake1 mapping... those days were simpler heh

The block tool... :biggrin:

New QUESTION!

What would you do with out the block tool?hmm?

i would start mapping in notepad...LMAO :razz:

My favorite tool?

Not really a tool, but the rotating system! cntrl+m you rule.

Leperous said:
Save.

Ditto. Maybe the "New Map" tool is better though.

Campaignjunkie said:

Leperous said:
Save.

Ditto. Maybe the "New Map" tool is better though.

The Exit tool is always handy, of course.

Nononono... well, yes, maybe, but you can always quit by pulling your PCs power lead out, and start a new map by opening an existing one (make it in notepad if you have to!) and deleting everything- save comes in handy here because you don't have to open an existing map, delete everything, and create a map in a single sitting.

The best damn tool in the whole thing is easily the 'Prefab Factory...'

Yak_Fighter said:
The best damn tool in the whole thing is easily the 'Prefab Factory...'

Not hard to believe coming from you :biggrin:

i hate to point out this fact to you crazy mofos who vote for "save, exit, etc." notice the word TOOL... save, exit, new map, these are all not TOOLS, they are functions of the program. TOOLS are located on your TOOLS bar...duh

*takes his hammer TOOL and beats everyone about the face and neck* MUAHAHA :razz:

FAV TOOL: vertex manipulation.

YAK FIGHTER! HOLY CRAP WASSUP

This is egozoogo from PFL..

Humm... Favorite tool has to be the vertex manipulator

Favorite function, Shift Cloning

 

P.S. Look at my Spiffy NEW avitar.

You know what i went i tried this "Shift cloning" So i held down shift and dragged my mouse around a bit but uhh i didnt get anything. HAHA

Sinner_D could be the only smart one here... I feel pity for the rest not realize that earlier.... Whats is the world coming to?

It took me a sec to figure out the cloning...you have to select a brush first, either in 3D or 2D mode...then hold shift and drag wherever you want.

ME!!! smart?!?! quit spreadin them lies...all lies i tell ya.

oh wait... :razz:

shift cloning worked for meh... however i find myself still using ctrl+c ctrl+v...lol