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  1. 7 hours ago, SeriousToni said:

    How can I change the main view on the right to 3d? I can edit every "loose window" but not the view on the right:

    It's a limitation of the wxWidgets AUI framework that there is one "center" or "main" pane that cannot be removed or undocked or moved around. But you can swap out the main view with another one with a shortcut, have a look at the Edit > Keyboard shortcuts and look for the ones starting with ToggleMainControl. You should find one with ToggleMainControl_Camera - this one will replace the main orthoview with a camera view. By repeatedly pressing the shortcut you will keep changing between ortho and camera.

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  2. 7 hours ago, SeriousToni said:

    Now for 3.50 I want to remove at least the windows installation which was 2.someting but I fear that this will erase all my custom settings in 3.50 then.

    How can I keep my settings and properly update to 3.50? Just download the Windows installer and use the same directory?

    There's not much difference between the installer and the portable version. The installer just puts it into your Program Files folder and registers DR in the "Programs and Features" list for uninstallation.

    When uninstalling the data in the AppData\Roaming\DarkRadiant folder should and will not get touched, they stick around.

    If you plan on going ahead with the portable versions, just uninstall the old 2.x version and keep using the portable one.

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  3. I'd like to finish working on the user interface changes, it's taking shape already. A release is always a chunk of work, and since Linux folks tend to compile from source more than Windows users, I'd be inclined to not push out an emergency release. I won't be too long till 3.5.0, I'd like to keep the pace of doing a release every 2-3 weeks anyway.

    The UI changes are rather substantial, this is why it takes a bit longer than usual. After getting that back into master, I'm going to fix the most urgent issues like crashes or other annoyances, and 3.5.0 is done.

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  4. You can also drag-select items, so dragging alone wouldn't determine the action yet. One had to separate the drag-selection from the regular toggle selection command (they are bound to the same mouse action at the moment).

    Note, I'm not trying to defend the system, just stating how DR's code is determining things (it is still using the same old GtkRadiant principles, once you perform the click (mouse down) the action is determined immediately).

    Of course it's possible to fundamentally change the way DR is handling manipulations and selections, but for every such change you'll probably face differing opinions and/or resistance.

  5. 35 minutes ago, Baal said:

    I just changed the mouse bindings to cycle select with left mouse button in the camera view. Much more comfortable than Shift-Alt-LMB, but now I can't use the rotate and move handles anymore. 

    The 2d view has the same problem.

    So you have LMB assigned to both Sekection and Manipulation? I guess that's just a conflict of interest, DR can't know what you intend to do with the LMB.

  6. 54 minutes ago, SeriousToni said:

    Is it possible to filter by entity type in the future? E.g. Doors, humans, lights

    It depends on how difficult or expensive it is to classify the entities. Should doors be recognised by their classname, or by the model they use? If it's too hard to figure out for an algorithm, then the filter wouldn't be very responsive.

  7. There's no restriction on which layer you decide to put your map elements. The layer hierarchy is a purely organisational help, it doesn't impose anything to the map itself, all the layers are equally capable, whether a child layer has been assigned to it or not.

    Why can't you select a parent node alone? If you need that parent layer exclusively, right now you have to select the layer, then de-select the child nodes one by one. I could add a context menu option to select just the parent layer without children.

  8. 39 minutes ago, Baal said:

    Is it possible to reorder layers with drag and drop?

    It's sorted alphabetically right now. The layers don't persist any sort order in the map files.

    40 minutes ago, Baal said:

    Parenting and unparenting layers works; but it is trial and error.

    Yes, drag and drop works much better in Windows, the wxGTK port is not giving good visual feedback about where you're going to drop the layer. 😑

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