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| - | ====== Grouping and VisGrouping ====== | ||
| - | Groups and VisGroups are useful features, that ease working with big maps or objects which are made of many brushes. | ||
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| - | Grouping allows you to combine two or more selected objects into a group, while VisGrouping allows you to toggle the visibility of object groups with one click. These grouped objects can then be managed using a groupname and actions on a group will be performed on all objects in the group. | ||
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| - | ===== Grouping, VisGrouping and their difference ===== | ||
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| - | If you want to select more than one object usually you have to click on them individually by pressing ''CTRL'' to get a selection of all objects (see [[mapping:cawe:editingtools:selection]]). | ||
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| - | {{:mapping:cawe:grouping1.png}} {{:mapping:cawe:grouping2.png}} | ||
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| - | Grouping combines selected objects into a group, which means, that they can be selected by selecting only one member of the group. This is very useful if you have for example a complex object made of many brushes and want to select the whole object to move it or rescale it. | ||
| - | If all brushes of this object are part of a group, you just have to select one brush and the whole object is selected instead of ''CTRL'' clicking all of them. | ||
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| - | The example screens show 4 brushes that are part of a group (displayed in the same edge color) and how they are selected all at once by clicking on the lower right brush. | ||
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| - | VisGroups on the other hand allow you to combine objects into a visibility group that can be turned invisible or visible. | ||
| - | You can for example put all object in the right corner of a room into one VisGroup and then make them invisible and visible again with one click. | ||
| - | This is used to ease creation of big maps, where a lot of objects aren't needed to be displayed for the currently created map part, but lower performance or block your view. | ||
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| - | The main difference between the two groups is that objects that are part of a VisGroup are not selected as a group, so if you select one object of this VisGroup by clicking on it in a 2D view only this object is selected. Grouped objects on the other hand can't be turned visible or invisible by one click. | ||
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| - | It is of course possible to combine VisGrouping and Grouping to use the advantages of both groups. | ||
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| - | Note that Grouping or VisGrouping objects has no effect on the treatment of these objects in the engine. Groups are only handled in CaWE to make mapping easier. | ||
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| - | ===== Grouping objects ===== | ||
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| - | First you have to select two or more objects using [[mapping:cawe:editingtools:selection]]. Now you can combine these objects to a group by clicking on the **Group** button in [[mapping:cawe:editingtools:selection]] options bar or selecting **Group** from [[mapping:cawe:menureference:tools]]. | ||
| - | The objects edges are now displayed in the same color in the 2D views and clicking one object selects the whole group. | ||
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| - | To ungroup these objects, you have to select the group and press the **Ungroup** button in [[mapping:cawe:editingtools:selection]] options bar or selecting **Ungroup** from [[mapping:cawe:menureference:tools]]. | ||
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| - | ===== VisGrouping objects ===== | ||
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| - | {{ :mapping:cawe:visgroups.png|:mapping:cawe:visgroups.png}} | ||
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| - | Like Grouping, VisGrouping requires objects to be selected first. To add them to a VisGroup you have to click on the **Hide** button in [[mapping:cawe:editingtools:selection]] options bar or selecting **Hide** from [[mapping:cawe:menureference:view]]. | ||
| - | The objects will be immediately turned invisible and added to the VisGroup list in the lower left corner of the screen. | ||
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| - | Here you can see all VisGroups and their visibility is marked by a checkbox. If a checkbox is selected the related VisGroup is visible and otherwise it is invisible. | ||
| - | It is also possible to click on a VisGroup in the list to turn it active and edit its properties (groupname, color) by using [[mapping:cawe:dialogs:editvisgroups]]. | ||
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| - | The **Select** button incorporates a feature from Grouping. You can select all the objects from the currently active VisGroup by clicking on it. | ||
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