ZylonBane on 23/8/2013 at 20:59

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I wish someone would reveal how to smoothly join cylinder ends for carving tunnels that curve.

ZylonBane on 23/8/2013 at 22:16

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Yeah, I remember seeing that thread. Would work well for modeling sewers or similar man-made tunnels. Unfortunately I'm after more organic meandering tunnels, something which CSG modeling seems hopelessly ill-suited to.

Yandros on 2/11/2014 at 20:02

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I knew of the first thing, I discovered it a year or two ago. Very useful.

The second one is new to me, so thanks for mentioning it.

qolelis on 3/11/2014 at 16:31

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Here's a list of small things I've become accustomed to (some are old and some are new, but I find them all useful and some I only learned about recently (after a lot of fiddling around and, more or less literally, clicking on everything), the list is probably not complete, but these are the ones I came to think of while writing this post):

* One thing I use all the time is the command brush_to_cam whenever I need to move a (cloned) brush a long distance:

The '2' means that the decimals of the brush's coordinates will be preserved, which is very useful when moving an object, which, for example, was previously aligned to a wall and you don't want to redo the aligning.

* Another command I use from time to time is brush_to_mono, which dumps info (grid (enabled/disabled and size), alignment (vertex/face) etc...) about the currently selected brush.

* The query function in the object hierarchy is pretty powerful. I find it especially useful when I need to find where I used a certain script or referred to an object in a design note. To further automate the process, you can save the generated list to a file and do a text search.

* Here's an old(?) command I use when I have a lot of area brushes and don't remember which one was me only:
go_to_meonly (you can also set the colour of the me only brush in dromed.cfg (e.g. "editor_col_6 200,86,14")).

* The command edit_links (without arguments) opens the list of links for the currently selected object. I've bound it to a key for quicker access.

* Double-Click the camera coordinates in the GFH if you need to move the camera to an exact position (this brings up a dialog where you can edit the coordinates). You'll need (to uncomment) show_camera_xyz in dromed.cfg for the camera coordinates to show up.

* Right-click/press the "Op" field's value (in the GFH) to bring up a menu from which you can choose the terrain brush medium. Make sure to keep the mouse button pressed until you have chosen a value or else DromEd will choose for you. Move the mouse away from the menu and release the button to cancel.

* Shift-click a brush face, with the texture palette open, to paint the default texture (-1).

* There's a new view mode in the 3D view called "solid + all wireframe". Apart from the obvious, it will also show any drawn links in the 3D view - which the old wireframe mode also does, but the new mode has the advantage of being able to view only the wireframes for the visible terrain by you issuing the command toggle_wire_zbuffer 1 (without it, the new mode won't be as useful, so I added it to my start up file to make it always on).
* The command list_obj_name can be used to find a named object when you only remember part of the name or are guessing.
* The command reset_brush resets the rotation of a brush.
* The command brush_centers shows the center of brushes (-1 = toggle, 0 = none, 1 = only current brush, 2 = all brushes). This can be added to dromed.cfg if you want to set a default. I find this useful when aligning brushes or when adding room brushes (whose centers shouldn't be inside other room brushes). I bound it to a key, so I can quickly toggle between the modes.
* The command brush_filter comes in pretty handy if you want to quickly filter out certain types of brushes. You can of course do this in the GFH, but it's quicker if you bound the command to a key. The command takes a decimal number as an argument, with 16 standing for terrain, 32 standing for lights, 64 standing for area brushes and so on. To combine two filters, you add their numbers together (e.g. terrain + object = 16 + 128 = 144). I have bound each filter plus often used combinations (terrain + light, terrain + objects, terrain + room and flow + room) to their own key combination.
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qolelis on 7/11/2014 at 14:27

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Yup, I've just become cautious about mentioning keybinds, because I've modified them so much that I no longer remember which are common and which are modified. I have bound most of the commands mentioned above to their own key (or combination of keys).