reverse clip

[neillomax]

I need to know how to set the ~ key so I can use it to reverse my clip.....it's not working after new install.....thanks......

[PKM]

hell, i'd like to know what you mean by reverse your clip. in game the ~ key simply pulls up the console for me.

[neillomax]

if you don't map, you wouldn't know

[LeadHead]

I map, and I don't know what that means. I would like to know though.

[neillomax]

OK, I got it. Somehow after reinstalling radiant, and for the first time after 20 installs, it now defaults to another key. Why, I don't know.
LEADHEAD.... make a brush, look at it from the side view, hit the "x" key, click on your brush on 1 side and then the other. The brush should have changed shape....hit enter, it stays that way..hit esc, it goes back to the way it was. If you do a clip, and it didn't "clip" the way you wanted, you should be able to hit the ~ key, and it would reverse itself...try it. May not be the ~ key on your machine, but this is the first time it wasn't on mine.........that was the reason for this post..........thought it automatically had a default key........................

[tltrude]

It may have to do with a preference setting, like the 3 button mouse, or the eyeball icon. There may be something about it in the "tip of the day" sticky. What key did it change to?

[PKM]

if you don't map, you wouldn't know

been mapping for over two years, asked other mappers...........they didn't now either. is the same kinda clip those terrorists used in die hard II at the big church showdown ?

if you don't map you wouldn't know.........mighty elitist of ya.


edit: got it..........clipping.

[LeadHead]

Ahhh OK I see what you mean. I have just never heard it in that wording before. I do it slightly differently though (mainly because this was how I first learned how to do it). What I do is just simply hold ctrl + right click on the grid and it will place the little blue dots (just saves you the trouble of pushing x). Then when you choose which part of the brush I want to keep, I just hold shift + enter and it will keep both parts (because I had forgotten the key to push to reverse the clip), then I just manually go and delete the half that I don't want. Personally I think that its easier to do that than the way you do it, but that might be just because I have been doing it like this for years and I'm used to it.

[neillomax]

I just learned something new. Never heard of doing it that way. I'll keep doing it my way though.........old habits die hard....lol