Grouping Brushes

[mattcottrell]

Is there anyway to group several brushes together? As far as I can see you can only group entities together.

 

Many thanks in advance

Matt

[DaviJade]

With your brushes (that you want to group) selected right click and choose func_group.

[FEXX]

What are the benefits of grouping things other than moving them all together at once? Are there other benefits?

[twoshadows]

The benifits are twofold - one, it shortens compile times, because vis considers any grouping to be one brush and two, it makes for a clean mapping pallete (spelling?).....easier to move stuff around.

 

Now I know your next question...."If groupings speed compile times, why wouldn't I just make my entire map one big grouping?"

 

Answer:

 

Because if any one polygon of that group can be seen, then the entire group must be drawn.....if the entire map was one huge group, then every poly would be drawn at all times..that would be bad

Also, never group any brush that touches the void ( the outer hull of your map ) as that would cause a leak. FYI

[FEXX]

Ah great.

 

This grouping information is very useful. I will try to experiment with it while avoiding exterior-hull grouping.

[chrispcarter]

Good, because I hear exterior-hull grouping is the path to the darkside (is it just me or do all paths lead to the darkside aat one time or another?).

[mattcottrell]

Cheers for the help davijade. It has made my life a lot easier

[Absath]

ive encountered a strange issue where i cant change or apply new entities or functions to groups of brushes...anyone else found that? or could tell me why?

 

 

 

-Abs