Disappearing stuff when moving in DR

[DeTeEff]

Noticed a strange error; Sometimes when I copy entities/brushes and move them in DR, they just disappear...

 

Some time ago I read a post (I think it was Grayman) about an error creating brushes in DR. You have nothing seleced and just use LMB to create a brush but nothing is created. For the record, I've experenced

this bug also...

 

Someone else experienced this?

[stumpy]

for the copy and drag error, usually pressing the undo button brings them back, but somethimes it just delete's the copy, usually happens when you've not clicked inside the brush group your going to drag and it instead resize's the group to zero. it also happens when you create a func_static out of a bunch of world brush, and misdrag the result, it also disappears.

[DeTeEff]

Yeah, undo is the trick but sometimes stuff disappears for no apparent reason when moved long distances

[Kvorning]

I've had this bug a few times, but it's only visual. Pan the 3D cam in the direction of the entity/brush/patch, and it'll get rendered

[DeTeEff]

Thanks for the tip will try if/when the error occurs again and report

[grayman]

I see the disappearing object problem now and then, but it's usually a delay in DR drawing the object in its new position. Doing anything with the mouse usually makes the object reappear.

 

Not being able to drag out a new brush is a different problem; it simply isn't there. I found that hitting DR buttons on the side or top of the screen in any random order (don't do anything that would damage the map) usually gets me back to the state where DR will let me drag out a new brush.

[DeTeEff]

It usually results in some careful ctrl+z ctrl+y to get back to where I know things are as they should and then a backup of the map

[grayman]

Do you have snapshots turned on? You have to keep an eye on them so they don't build up to a ridiculous use of disk, but they saved my a$$ a couple times.

[DeTeEff]

Snapshots? Like autosaves?

[grayman]

Snapshots can be more frequent than autosaves. Where an autosave will continuously save to the file you opened, snapshots will create new files between autosaves. More granularity, which means if you mess up you don't have to go all the way back to the last autosave to restore.

 

Edit->Preferences->Autosave->"Save Snapshots"

 

They're saved in maps/snapshots/.

[Bikerdude]

I see the disappearing object problem now and then, but it's usually a delay in DR drawing the object in its new position. Doing anything with the mouse usually makes the object reappear.

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