Inability to drag a brush into existence

[grayman]

I see this now and then. It's been happening for a couple months now. But after a half-dozen instances in the past hour, I thought I'd post something.

 

I'm working with brushes, creating and dragging and moving ...

 

... and all of a sudden I left-click and drag to create a new brush, and nothing happens.

 

It's not a case of drawing in a hidden layer, or drawing with a texture that's filtered out.

 

The brush . simply . isn't . there.

 

The only recourse I have is to restart DR, after which brush creation is back to normal.

 

Anyone else seeing this behavior?

[Sotha]

Not me and I've been mapping very actively recently. Newest version from DR webpages, on windows. Just monsterclipped a lot of stuff and that workflow is constant drag-into-existence business. No problems.

 

Are you sure you didn't have clipper on or something?

[grayman]

Are you sure you didn't have clipper on or something?

 

Clipper's not on.

 

It's the mysterious "something" that I need to find.

[Bikerdude]

For some reason this rings a bell, but I cant be certain. I get other strange crap though, like being stuck in rotate mode on the camera view. But the way i get around this is to alt-tab out of DR and back in again, can you try that and see if that fixes it instead of closing and restarting..?

[PranQster]

... I get other strange crap though, like being stuck in rotate mode on the camera view. But the way i get around this is to alt-tab out of DR and back in again...

I've had that happen too a few times. Thankfully KDE also has Alt-Tab for swapping open windows, making it an easy fix.

[Tr00pertj]

Can any one tell me how to get at the warnings after dmap or any ideas as to what may be preventing the map from running.

 

I`m crashing when I try to run the map I`m working on, Doom3.exe stopped blah blah and in the info page it`s TheDarkmod.exe but I know it`s the map I`m on as other missions work.

 

I get a pointfile line but it seems to go in through a window and through a solid wall.

[ERH+]

I spotted this rotate camera issue shortly after I updated DR.

[Sotha]

@troop: are you sure the structures the pointfile trace goes through are worldspawn? Models and func_statics will not seal against the void.

 

Also: check if some nearby objects origin is in the void. Sometimes when you rotate func_statics, their origin gets outside the object. if it is in the void, you get a leak even when your geometry is impeccable.

[Tr00pertj]

@Virt Thanks for the ideas, will do.

[Tels]

I got the same issue under linux, in a permanent way. Cannot drag any brush into existance. Under linux it has to do with outdated libraries and the only recourse is updating the entire OS. I have no idea why this happens, tho.