VisGroups II
As I said earlier, things are different this time around. Instead of opening the Filter Control dialog and making up a bunch of VisGroup's, Worldcraft does it all for you with one click of the mouse!
Here's the VisGroups toolbar:
When you want to make a new VisGroup, press this button:
If you just pass over the button, a tooltip says that this is the Hide Selected Objects button. That's a little misleading.
What it's gonna do is make us a new VisGroup called 12 objects. If we already have the Filter Control dialog on the screen, here's what we'll see after hitting the button:
Note: To display the Filter Control dialog, click on View/Screen Elements/Filter Control
Oops! Looks like I missed a few walls. That's OK, because now I'm going to show you how easy it is to add objects to an existing VisGroup.
First off, let's rename this puppy. Click the Edit button:
Hmmm. This looks familiar. It should be. It's the same Object Properties dialog we had in 1.3.
Highlight the name and change it to room1:
Now, hit the Close button and our Filter Control looks like this:
Now, let's add those missing walls...
First we select one wall, then, holding down the CTRL key, we select the others.
See the little 'X's? Those are your selection handles. When you click on the X, you selects!
Now we have all the other walls selected. By clicking on the Hide Selected Objects button (which I call the 'Make VisGroup' button) we have a new VisGroup called 4 objects.
In the Filter Control dialog, click once on 4 objects to select that group:
Now, click it again, and holding down the left mouse button, drag it on top of room1. A new dialog will appear asking if you want to combine the two groups. Say YES, and now room1 has all its marbles.
Deleting a VisGroup is just as easy. Click on the VisGroup in the Filter Control dialog to select it, then, click/hold/drag the VisGroup outside of the Filter Control dialog. Here's what happens:
If we say Yes, the VisGroup is deleted. We'll stick with No for right now.
Another way you'll get that same dialog box is when you're combining groups. Make sure that the name of the group you're putting the new group into is highlighted in blue. That tells you that you're combining the groups. If you just drag the group out of place, you'll get the Delete Group box instead. I thought this was a bug at first - one time it asked me if I wanted to Combine the groups, the next time, it wanted to know if I wanted to Delete the group.