Editing Shortcuts

I  receive  a  boatload  of  questions  regarding
certain  editing  tweaks  so  here  are  the most
common ways to speed up the design process.

Below is a basic brush with one of the support  textures  from
the base folder.  As  you  can see only one face is selected  by
hitting  "crtl+shift"  and  using  the  mouse1 button to  choose
any given side.  If you want to select more than one face then
hit  "ctrl+shift+alt"  and  once  again  use mouse1 to select all
of  the  faces  on the brush and then apply the desired texture
from  the  texture window  to  cover  all  selected  faces.

   

The  next  little trick will be to adjust the vertical and horizontal
size of the texture on a single face by  bringing  up  the surface
inspector  by  hitting "s".  By increasing the value on either the
texture will compact and by decreasing  the  value  the  texture
will  expand.   Remember  that  you  can't  infinitely  stretch  the
texture or it will simply not show up when the map is compiled.
Try not  to  exceed  a value of  2.0  or you should consider using 
a  different  texture  or  changing  the  size  of  your  brush. 


    

Now with the texture adjusted to fit the height and width of your
brush,  you can select the additional faces by using the combo
of  "ctrl+shift+alt"  keys  and  mouse1.   Then with the faces that
you'd  like  to  change selected, just put the mouse pointer over
the  face  with  the  changed  texture and hit mouse3.  You'll see
all  selected  faces  change  to  the  same  texture and even line
up  perfectly.    This  can  save  a  considerable  amount  of time.



Now let's look at some texture hints with patches (curves).