Filters in DR

[Destined]

Hi all, I finally found some time again to continue my WIP and think I found a bug in DR: When I turn on the filter for Visportals all nodraw textures are filtered out as well. Has this been observed by others as well? I presume this is because the visportal brush contains five nodraw faces. I am not sure if it is possible to distinguish between the two types of nodraw and thus if there is a solution for this problem. It is no major bug, but I was confused at first, when I turned off the nodraw filter, but my brush still did not appear. Turning off all filters and testing each led me to the visportal filter being the culprit.

[OrbWeaver]

The Visportals filter rule explicitly hides nodraw textures:

      <filter name="Visportals">
         <filterCriterion type="texture" match="textures/editor/visportal" action="hide" />
         <filterCriterion type="texture" match="textures/common/nodraw" action="hide" />
      </filter>

I don't recall if this is just for convenience or if not including nodraw textures leaves the five non-visportal faces of the brush visible.

[peter_spy]

If the visportal was just a plane, like zoneportal in older unreal engines, or had all faces textured with visportal material, it would have had more sense then.

[Destined]

Well, it makes sense that nodraw is also filtered. I just thought I remembered that it was different some time ago. But it is highly likely that I simply had no nodraw brushes at the time and did not notice...

As there doesn't seem to be a simple solution, just ignore my complaint.

[OrbWeaver]

Well, you're perfectly free to edit that filter or create a custom filter without the nodraw line, and see if it does what you want.

[Destined]

Well, this would filter out only the visportal face of the brushes, so it would not make the map that much easier to browse. I will just have to remember that nodraw brushes are filtered out as well. I was just concerned that otheres (especially newbies) would get confused as well, where their nodraw brushes went / why they cannot edit them after creating. Maybe we could rename the filter to something like "Visportals (including nodraw)" to avoid said confusion. It is what I will do for myself, at least.