DR copy, paste problem

[SiyahParsomen]

I got problem with copy, paste anything in Dark Radiant which can be brush, model or anything. Loading map titled window appears at glimpse of time, but nothing happens. DR vers.: 1.4(default settings), OS: Win XP. It was working fine before formatting, but now I have lost too much time on my fm because of this problem and I'm trying to make it on time for the contest.

[Bikerdude]

Could you attach a basic example map and a little video of problem in action..?

Edited August 11, 2010 by Bikerdude

[HappyCheeze]

So you can get into DR but nothing appears?

[SiyahParsomen]

It's not something that I can put it into an example map. For eg: I create a brush and I copy it(ctrl+s), then I want to paste it in order to make them 2 brushes in total in same X,Y axis. Paste(ctrl+v) doesn't work although it looks like it does something(look at screenshot). I check total brush number, and it doesn't increase.

 

However, space works for this operation but I'm not used to it since it creates copy of selected in different X,Y axis which takes time to align.

 

[HappyCheeze]

ctrl+s? Thats save, copy is ctrl+c

[SiyahParsomen]

my typo mistake, I know what's what problem/bug still gives me headache.

[Fidcal]

Space copies a selection one grid size to the right and one down. This is so it is not exactly over the original and might be confused with it. To increase this offset, increase the grid size.

 

If you don't want the offset there are two things you can do.

 

1. You can disable the clone offset using a button on the right of the top menu bar.

 

2. An alternative is press X for clipper mode. When you clone then no offset.

 

Ctrl + V doesn't include the offset either. The new copy is at the same position as the old.

[SiyahParsomen]

thanks for the first tip! Now this operation is more fast than before that I used to, DR is so good it has many ways.

[SiyahParsomen]

I still feel the lack of copy paste. It was making things easy, but it doesn't work anymore. Worse than that, I had that old habit and it cost me a some amount of data.(argg! my beautiful bridge is gone). Lesson is learned: enable autosave.

 

btw. is it only me or this is broken for everyone?

 

edit: I'm using win 7 and final release of DR.

Edited January 7, 2011 by SiyahParsomen

[Fidcal]

I see it doesn't work to copy brushes and models in pre 1.5 but I've never used it before so I don't know if it's meant to do this. I do see a quick flash of a dialog that might be a progress bar as if it is copying though. If I try to copy a lot of stuff then that dialog is up longer and I can see it is a progress bar but completely empty and the title says 'loading map' so this looks like a bug for sure. I suggest you add it to bugtracker if it's not there already.

 

It works for copying textures from surface to surface though I don't really use it for that either.

[Serpentine]

I copy, paste all the time without any problems.

 

Just remember that when you paste the new parts will be at the same place as where they are copied from, and as such you may not notice them if you dont have the mover tool selected so that you can easily move them out of that place.

 

Also might be worth trying out the 1.5 beta tests, the latest one in the thread isnt giving me any real problems

[SiyahParsomen]

@fidcal

 

so it takes everything to mem, but can't return. I wonder what's the problem.

 

 

@serpentine

 

I'm not newbie I can easly figure out it doesn't paste anything since total number of brush, model etc doesn't increase.

Edited January 8, 2011 by SiyahParsomen

[Serpentine]

Hey I spent about 5 minutes tracing down an invisible brush a few days ago. I could see it there on the ortho view, but I couldnt see it anywhere else. It was a patch and I was underneath it

 

What happens if you use the menu items (edit -> copy/paste)?

 

Do you have any multi-clipbaord apps or download managers running that might try steal stuff? OneNote?

 

Seems pretty damn strange that it wont work correctly :/

[SiyahParsomen]

What happens if you use the menu items (edit -> copy/paste)?

 

it didn't help.

 

Do you have any multi-clipbaord apps or download managers running that might try steal stuff? OneNote?

 

I don't use them.

[Fidcal]

It's definitely not working for me. I tried in an empty map with a single brush. Like SiyahParsomen I looked at Map info and it shows a single brush all the time. I also after paste moved the visible brush out of the way to make sure there wasn't a copy underneath. Nothing. The dialog also is wrong. As I say it just shows an empty progress bar with no text except 'loading map'.

[Serpentine]

Hmmm, I just went and tested... same thing here.

 

But I also copy/pasted a few tunnels between my maps a few days ago?

[greebo]

So, I take it the Copy&Paste function is broken? Can somebody open a tracker entry if that can be confirmed, then I'll look into it before pushing 1.5.0 out of the door (finally).

[SiyahParsomen]

confirmed already three times. I opened a tracker.

[greebo]

It's fixed now in source.