The Grid and You - Rotating the brushes

(shagileo) #1

In an attempt to understand more about ‘rotating’ brushes, I’d like to know how fellow mappers deal with this concept.
What’s the best way to rotate or angle brushwork to keep it clean? To be more effective? … etc.

To learn more about where this all came from, I gladly refer to this thread:
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29617

Relative replies :

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[li]Press E (drag edges)
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http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showpost.php?p=357819&postcount=15

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[li]Select your brush, hold Ctrl+ clickleft mouse button and move your mouse pointer around outside of the brush… (GTK 1.4 only)
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http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showpost.php?p=357930&postcount=18

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[li]try to use even ‘gradients’ when clipping
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http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showpost.php?p=358566&postcount=7

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[li]Free rotation
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http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showpost.php?p=358490&postcount=5

I’m very interested in other techniques and experiences as well.
Thanks in advance !

(Mateos) #2

Be sure “Snap to grid” is disabled, made me say rotated brushs always fit the grid >.> Sorry again KeMoN.

(shagileo) #3

Hm, I had some rather unwanted behaviour in the past with disabling snap to grid when rotating brushes. Sometimes, the brushwork was messed up leading into “see through” spots at certain areas

(KeMoN) #4

No problem :slight_smile:
It just doesn’t work when you build a complex building for example. When you rotate it normally it will still look like the original one but won’t be on the grid. If you enable snap to grid it will be on grid but its geometry will be destroyed.

That’s why I wanted to make my point clear on that. It is quite necessary that the stuff is on the grid.

(ronboy) #5

I believe there is also a button on Gtk Radiant called free rotation. It works for me.

(Loffy) #6

I try to avoid rotating - unless it is, for example, a simple 90 degree rotation - because somethimes the brush “goes bad”. It just gets fubar; and I have to re-do it. So, instead, I often prefer using the clipper tool to handcraft/create the shape i want.

I use radiant 1.4.

(.Chris.) #7

By ensuring you use an even gradient you will get an even spread of points on the grid along the edge of your brushes to which you can neatly cut into and join additional brushes to all of which align nicely with your major gridlines and such.

(shagileo) #8

I see - Goodie, thank you