Has anyone suggested the possibilty of saving different camera views behind hotkeys? That way I could easily fast travel between different places I'm working on the map.

While editing a map, I often go fetch something from another room, and sometimes, when the room is pretty much on the complete opposite end of the map, getting there can be painfully slow, especially using the WASD fly method.

I've sped up the travel process by drill selecting myself through all the clutter obstructing my view close to the entity I need to go fetch and then centering my view to the entity. That way I can travel to the room faster.

Another trick I've used, depending on the situation, is hiding all the entity types that I don't need, which makes the entity I need visible, and I can select it all the way from my location.

The above mentioned tricks do make things faster, but I wouldn't mind the possibility of making things even faster and more effortless, y'know. ;) 

That's on their to-do list. I am looking forward to it! Here's a tip: use info_intermission entities and jot down the origin. Then to navigate to them go to

View>Camera>Move Camera to...

enter the origin of the info_null

Warning the map will leak if you put the entity in the void. You could just jot down the origin and delete it. 

Meant info_null both time. It can be any point entity really. 

Meant info_null both time. It can be any point entity really. 

Will this ever be implemented? Hexmaker had a really useful feature that let you do this in any 2D view, while setting the initial brush height/length/width with a ruler beside the grid. It was really useful in letting you quickly block out a rough shape for a complex arrangement of blocks in one view, saving a lot of time. It's a lot harder to do this fast and accurately in the 3D view.

Somewhat related, is there a way to add both the front and back vertices to a brush in the 2D views? As it is now I can only add it for one side, then have to go into 3D view for the other.

Lastly, is it possible to group brushes together then make them into a brush entity? It's so useful for complex brush entities and much easier to select them all at once. 

Not sure about the vertex functionality in 2d modes.

Take a search through the Git page here: https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/issues

As far as grouping brushes together and making them entities:

Select the brushes you want and press Ctrl + G to make them a group. Now double click the group and you will see all brushes except for your group highlight blue. Now you can select the grouped brushes and make them a brush entity. It's sort of a hidden feature. In this mode you can then double click the brush entity to select the entire thing.

I don't use this often but give it a test drive. 

I have a room with non-orthogonal walls, and I'd like to make 16 map unit wide trims (see screenshot).

I'd like to duplicate-resize the highlighted wall section and drag it precisely by a length of 16 units. Would it be possible to have a distance indicator appear at the pointer when I start dragging the face?

According to the TB manual it should be possible for me to drag the face precisely by 16 units:

The distance is snapped to the current grid size, i.e., if you drag a face by 17.5 units along its normal, it will be moved by 16.0 units if the current grid size is 16. This is useful if you are resizing brushes which are part of a curve because their faces will line up after the drag.

In practice, however, I was unable to resize the face in the screenshot by 16 units, no matter how carefully I tried to drag. (I had made a reference by duplicating the nearby trim and rotating it and was never able to align the wall with it when resizing.) TB seemed to always prefer the other snapping method over the distance method. :'( Did I misinterpret the above quote from the manual or something? 

When I use the vertex tool and hover the pointer over a vertex, its coordinates are displayed. Could you make it possible to easily copy the coordinates (without having to resort to typing the coordinates manually to Notepad)?

Could you also have the coordinates display and be copiable when using the face and edge tools, too?

Being able to copy and paste coordinates would be useful for inputting the rotation origin in the rotate tool. 

Could it be made possible to define your own axes of rotation (see the illustration I sketched with Paint).

In the drop-down menu, where the user can choose the axis (x, y or z) about which to rotate the selected objects, an additional selection of "user defined" etc. could be added.

After having selected "user defined", more options would appear on the rotate tool (see illustration), with which the user can type in the two points that define the rotation axis. Alternatively the user can set the points by clicking on the map. (It would be nice if the center of rotation, too, could be set with the mouse, btw.) :) 

This release contains a few bug fixes. It also fixes a major memory leak and a few crash bugs.

https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/releases/tag/v2.0.3 

Is there any way that we can add mapping for Quake without the need for wad files? Iterating textures while working on a map is a pain by having to use TexMex, there's no need for an outdated and unsupported piece of software to be required in the tool chain.
TB2 supports Q2 mapping and that doesn't use wads, why should Quake in 2018? 

Trenchbroom is one of the nicest pieces of software that I've ever had the pleasure of using. Thanks to SleepwalkR and other contributors for all of their work on it. 

I'm quite indecisive when it comes to choosing a texture and I like to preview a lot of different alternatives before making up my mind.

To better see what the texture choice looks like in a room, I always have to deselect the faces to get rid of the red hue the selection gives to the textures (and also the red face edges).

Then, when I'm done assessing the the texture choice, I have to press undo a couple of times until the faces are selected again, so I can select another texture. It's kind of a pain.

I would really appreciate making it possible to toggle the red hue and edge lines on/off, so previewing texturing would become a breeze.

Thanks for all the hard work you've put on the editor. I might not be mapping for Quake if it wasn't for your editor. :) 

You should file an issue for this on GitHub. 

After you type a value in a key-value pair box and hit Enter, can you please please please make it so hitting enter escapes the mouse / focus from that box??

Every single time I do this, I then hit something on the keyboard to move the camera or whatever, and overtype my light value with S or my mangle with D or whatever. I don't think the mouse focus should automatically go back to the editor view, just out of the damn textbox so when I hit a key, nothing happens rather than b0rking my text entry...

Thanks!! 

The property editor is optimized for quick entry of multiple key values. It is also impossible to separate mouse focus from keyboard focus with wxWidgets. Sorry, but I‘m afraid you‘ll have to get used to clicking the mouse in the 3D viewport. 

I'm used to mangle = sd , it will be a staple of any of my future mapping ;) 

Contains plenty of bugfixes. Available on github as usual: https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/releases/tag/v2.0.4 

TrenchBroom 2.0.5 is functionally equivalent to 2.0.4, but was necessary to fix the macOS build scripts: https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/releases/tag/v2.0.5 

Get it as per usual: https://github.com/kduske/TrenchBroom/releases/tag/v2.0.6 

Even though I don't actively use TB, I still install every new version. Much appreciated how you continue to work on and improve the editor and to see what people create with it. 

Thanks must also be directed at ericwa, who not only contributes features and fixes, but also carefully checks my code (and catches lots of problems). His contributions, and feedback from the community, are very motivating. 

I've always called him Quake's MVP! 

with a finger in every pie.