Idea: No Shadow Shortcut

[jdude]

I find myself having to go through a lot of entities applying no-shadow, such as torch sticks, boxes ect ect to optimize maps. And I was thinking it would be a lot quicker if we had a keyboard shortcut you could press in order to simply apply the no shadow 1 value to an entity without having to go through the current process of opening entity properties, adding the value, and changing it to 1.

[Komag]

Interesting, I think that would make for a valuable addition.

 

Even just a "no shadow" button in the Entity Properties would make it a little bit faster.

[OrbWeaver]

Personally I think that entities should be non-shadowcasting by default (like TDS) with mappers manually activating shadows on needed entities. This ought to help performance considerably, since many objects don't really need to cast shadows but the cost of doing so is often underestimated.

 

Regarding DarkRadiant, I don't like the idea of ad-hoc shortcuts for specific properties, but there may be more efficient ways of allowing users to do this. You should already be able to set a property for multiple entities at once by selecting them all, then entering the key and value in the EntityInspector's text fields -- have you tried this at all?

[SneaksieDave]

You should already be able to set a property for multiple entities at once by selecting them all, then entering the key and value in the EntityInspector's text fields -- have you tried this at all?

Just gave that a shot in .95 with the latest snapshot. No good, unfortunately -- when more than one entity is selected the fields are disabled.

[jdude]

Personally I think that entities should be non-shadowcasting by default (like TDS) with mappers manually activating shadows on needed entities. This ought to help performance considerably, since many objects don't really need to cast shadows but the cost of doing so is often underestimated.

 

Regarding DarkRadiant, I don't like the idea of ad-hoc shortcuts for specific properties, but there may be more efficient ways of allowing users to do this. You should already be able to set a property for multiple entities at once by selecting them all, then entering the key and value in the EntityInspector's text fields -- have you tried this at all?

 

Actually I really like this idea the most, it would really help people out in improving performance.

[Sotha]

I find myself having to go through a lot of entities applying no-shadow, such as torch sticks, boxes ect ect to optimize maps. And I was thinking it would be a lot quicker if we had a keyboard shortcut you could press in order to simply apply the no shadow 1 value to an entity without having to go through the current process of opening entity properties, adding the value, and changing it to 1.

 

-It would work wonders if you could select multiple entities and quickly assign them all into noshadow with this feature. If you still need to select entities one-by-one there is not much gain from this feature, as the noshadow 1 text stays in the entity editor when you select a new entity.

 

Currently all you need to do is type in the noshadow 1 text in the entity browser and then select the wanted entity and click the green tick to assign the value that stays in the entity browser, then move on to the next entity and green tick again and so forth.

[Komag]

I much prefer shadows being on by default. Maybe we can have a choice, a toggle in the editor that all new objects have shadows on or off.

[New Horizon]

My own vote would be to have shadows off by default. Toggle might be a good idea though, if possible.

[OrbWeaver]

It would always be a toggle, probably a checkbox in the model selector dialog.

 

I propose to have it on (noshadows) by default for new users, but the setting would be persisted so that users who chose to turn it off would not need to do so each time.