Editing Shortcuts

Below  is  a  basic  cylinder  with  a brick texture applied and
for  those  of  you  who  have  experimented  with curves the
image  below  should  be  familiar.    Textures  that  are used
with  curves  will  stretch  over  the  surface  and  look   very
distorted.  The quick shortcut to make textures fit perfectly
over  patches  is  "ctrl+n".    Now  it's  sized  to  fit  the  brush.


   

The  other editing tip is  if  you'd  like  to  rotate  a  texture  on
a  selected  brush.    Just  bring  up  the surface inspector by
hitting  the  "s"  key and hit the rotate button.  You'll see that
you  can  move  the  texture  in  45  degree increments.  The
next shortcut is used when making jump pads, teleporters,
buttons,  or  any  trigger  and  target  combination.  Below is
a basic jump pad with the trigger push and target position.


    


Before  you  had  to  deal  with the entity window and enter
the key and value of each entity.  But a nice little shortcut
is to just select the trigger first or beginning of the entity
event  and  then  select  the  target  position  or  whatever.
Now  just  hit  "ctrl+k"  and  you'll  see the connecting line
appear  between  the  two.  You don't have to keep track of
multiple jump pads or teleporters within your map since
Radiant  will  automatically  apply  unique  values  to  all.

 

  Now let's take a look at the clone feature for brushes.