[V0006] Microbrush 2 Demo 2009/Q3 - Features

This is a demonstration of the current state of the general-purpose all-3D level editor I'm working on. Check out http://shrinker.beyond-veils.de/ or http://www.intercomm.com/shrinker/ (mirror) for more information. I hope to be able to augment the mapping process for Source Engine-based games (read: Half-Life 2) with it, speeding up the process. The property system is a key feature of MB2, allowing for connecting semantic information with the geometry and entities. I have already used a specially named string property, interpreted by a converter, to texture a small HL2 scene. So far I'm not working with any texture UV settings yet, that will be added later. Actually showing textures (such as very simple HL2-lookalikes) requires more effort from my side. The "intersection" feature was actually an accident, just a case I didn't consider in my merging algorithm, but it seemed somehow useful, so I kept it. I already have a grammar at hand, from earlier projects, for parsing .VMF files, so I could soon program a lossy .VMF import too. Sudden jumps in the video are a result of cuts. There might be an inconsistency with the current color value at one point, that's also because of a cut (it does not mysteriously change on its own :P).
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Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• level
• editor
• 3d
• general-purpose
• half-life
• microbrush
• shrinker
• hammer
• grid
• brushes
• features
• clipping

[izvarzone]

Seems very good, much better than Hammer and even UnrealEd for brush creating.

Does it support per-vertex editing?

[Shrinker42]

Nope, that would actually be a LOT of work to implement the way it is now, and I'd have to limit it very much to prevent invalid brush shapes :)

[Shrinker42]

Hm okay. The graphics engine invalidates its window so it is redrawn whenever a certain sys timer is triggered. That timer has its interval set to zero milliseconds, so it triggers all the time in Windows. When you move the mouse, an interpolation animation is used... but the menu background is animated too, so I don't know. Maybe WINE doesn't let the zero timer tick when there are no window input messages.

[MDxm3000]

screen not updating I actually have to move the mouseview before the main menu fades away, and then as soon as I want to see if I made an object.That is description enough. But we'll see what adding the software at winehq appdb comes up with if you allow me?

[YTman]

The sex.

[SexyMelon]

Oh Christ. Fare thee well, Hammer...

[Shrinker42]

"Does not work right" is not a very accurate description, it could be that you are just pressing the wrong keys. Also no, I only officially support the Windows platform as of now.

[MDxm3000]

Nah Shrinker, you are dying to tell me. Hehe.

BTW, does not work right with standard settings in Wine. Isn't it possible to compile the software with Wine-dev now?

[Shrinker42]

That is secret :P

[MDxm3000]

Cool stuff, I really like it. What do you currently use it for yourself? ;)