Another one of Blade's ideas... (For swordedit)

[Amy]

One of samucos swordedit had the square clicky thingie.

[ßlade]

square clicky thingie.

*dryly* Very helpful... >_>

[Amy]

ugh i thought you would understand since we were JUST DISCUSSING IT!

BAH!

the bulk selector box. Why can't people understand me...

[Samucos]

I meant my other commercial products for the mac app store. They may take a while to finish
After that I can probably get my BSP editor finished and implement all of these ideas.

Few things made me laugh:

Easier multiple selection. You know how to select multiple things, you have to hold down shift and CLICK each one? Wouldn't be easier to use select all in a defined space? Like hold down some key(s) and then drag mouse to create that box in swordedit that then automatically selects EVERYTHING in that space. Kind of like the select on the Desktop of Finder. Bulk Selection for the win.

In the selection window (options one on the right), check the box which says "Multiple Selection."
Switch to selection mode then click and drag to create a box which everything is selected inside. Im surprised you guys didn't know about it I use it all the time

Also wouldn't it be nice to control EXACTLY how much you zoom in with "w" in swordedit? Maybe someone *cough Samuco cough* could also make a value box where the user could edit how many frames is being zoomed in. You can sort of do this with the slider bar of how many frames (default 15) but you can still overshoot an item. >.<

Click on the camera button in the lower right, then change the Speed slider. Swordedit doesn't base movement on frames...

Hmm. I think it picks the one it THINKS your cursor is on. Unfortunately, swordedit's ability to accurately pick the item we are actually trying to select is pretty bad. Once it picked a scenery that was 4 hanger walls behind the item I was trying to select (there were more behind it though). It might also have a set value of a distance for selecting items.

If you have scenery inside other scenery, swordedit is selecting the scenery nearest to you (aka the frontmost scenery). When trying to select something inside scenery, the scenery object that is outside is technically the closest. Im not sure how I could fix this (probably is simple, but I don't have the code in front of me atm), but how about a button which allows you to ignore specific objects? Like you select the hanger box and click the ignore. Swordedit will then not select it until you click Remove Ignored Objects or something.


Now... back to my products

[ßlade]

Oh... is all I can say.

[Mgalekgolo]

ok, click cntrl (up) when selecting multiple spawn point, DONT MOVE IT AT ALL UNTIL YOU MOVE IT UP!!! that fixes the problem where everything scatters, but it will cluster them. samucos, I need you to enable controls completely. I created a template map with machines and controls with CE, and i plan to add AI, so i need that done.