Rotating objects doesn't work

Ida

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Sorry if this has been asked before, I don't come here often these days, so I'm not very much up to date.

Anyway, I just tried to get back into Hammer today and I was hindered by the fact that I simply cannot rotate any objects in the 2D view like you normally would (by grabbing the corners). The feature just seems to have disappeared, and I can't find a way to re-enable it.

Is there some cleverly hidden option or hotkey to toggle rotation, or is this just a very persistent bug? I've tried refreshing the SDK content and reinstalling Source SDK, but that did nothing.
 

GPuzzle

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Now that's plain wierd. I managed to do it.
 

Ida

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Oh god. After a few hours it finally clicked that you're supposed to click the object and THEN you can use the handles to drag.

Holy crap am I rusty...
 

A Boojum Snark

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I was actually considering posting "Simple stuff first: did you forget you have to click the object to change mode?" but then decided that was simply TOO simple. Occam's Razor prevails again...
 

Micnax

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Oh god. After a few hours it finally clicked that you're supposed to click the object and THEN you can use the handles to drag.

Holy crap am I rusty...

Uuughhh I guess this happens to a few of us then. After you play The Sims for a while you get used to hold-move instead of click-move like Hammer does. It's a real pain.