Hammer feature wishlist

[A Boojum Snark]

Also, along similar lines, this is more an engine thing than a Hammer thing, but I want the ability to set a physics prop's center of gravity, either in the prop's data itself or in Hammer. It's so stupid that there's no way to tell the engine that the orange lamp is supposed to be able to stand up on its base.

The center of mass can be defined for a model during it's compile. So you could probably do it with a recompile of the model. $collisionmodel

 

[Tehrasha]

real time lighting previews.

Which would then lend itself to the ability to build cubemaps during compile!

Navigation support for nDOF control devices.

Custom keybinds.

Undo History so you can see what steps have occured, and which key you bumped accidentally to screw everything upl.

 

[LeSwordfish]

oh, i have another one. setting a default texture.
and tagging the reflectivity, orange grey stuff with dev, i only get the red and blue textures when i put it in keywords. might be useful.

 

[gamemaster1996]

Displacements do not use grids to begin with, and sewing will make them meet up.

I mean where you position the cursor to create a displacement that appears to be set on a grid and also thanks for the tip on sewing.

 

[UKCS-Alias]

- The ability to design displacements using an image where each color is for an axis.
- Propper in hammer
- Drag and drop overlay placement (from corner to corner) instead of click and then manualy resize
- Grid aligning when placing something in the 3d view

And this also requires an engine change:
- Static path_tracks where the train instead uses 3 dynamic path_tracks all the time that simply move on the static path tracks. For payload maps this means you no longer have to worry about the smoothness of the track.
- Path tracks with a turn option for smooth turns rather than smoothing movement between the path_tracks.

 

[Attsy]

All I want is a way to bind multi-step things to one key. For example you press "1" and whatever is selected is instantly rotated 90 degrees on the z axis. But its all user customized, of course.

 

[Confidence Man]

Give me a shortcut to lock/unlock rotation. Aggravating when I want to rotate a poster just a tiny bit but I have to open up Tools --> Options --> 2D views and change it, then change it back.

 

[A Boojum Snark]

Give me a shortcut to lock/unlock rotation. Aggravating when I want to rotate a poster just a tiny bit but I have to open up Tools --> Options --> 2D views and change it, then change it back.

Hold shift.

 

[Confidence Man]

Hold shift.

Oh god how much time I've spent doing it the long way. hmy:

 

[nik]

this thread is probably more useful by asking for things then having snark tell you that they already exist, and improving your mapping speed