Constructor/Reference/PreferencesForm

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Preferences Overview

The preferences form is a tab within the Tool Properties Form. It is also accessible through the System Tab of the main menu.

Following is a list of all the different preferences you can change with this form:

Grid

This section of the preferences form controls your grid preferences.

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Grid units

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Snap to Grid Spacing

Checking this box will make all of your actions conform to the grid. Meaning, when you go to create, resize, move, or an anyway modify a brush, you can only modify it in increments that conform to the grid. This applies to all selection modes, brush, face, and vertices.

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Grid Spacing

If you have Snap to grid enabled modifying the Grid Spacing will change the increments in which you are able to modify brushes.

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Tools

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Rotation Amt

Transform: Rotate tool rotation amount per pixel in degrees

Scale Amt

Transform: Scale tool scale amount per pixel

Select only

Tool operate only on selected items.

One Click

Mouse up on a handle produces a "make" event.

Modal Selection

Item selection may only be preformed when no other tool is active.


Light Display

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Enhanced Light

Enable the enhanced OpenGL lighting model

Inner Shell

Enable drawing a shell for a light's inner falloff

Outer Shell

Enable drawing a shell for a light's outer falloff

Face Display

Texture Planes

Texture Ref

TexRef Alpha

TexRef Cuttoff

Draw Normal

Brush Display

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Draw Bounds

Lock Bounds

Lock to Selection

View Camera

Draw Target

Free Cam

Move Speed


Map Saving

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Embed Albums

Package your albums with you .map

Undo

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Enable Paging

Max Mem (kb)

Max Entries