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Will mark this as resolved until feedback during beta tests. Feature is accessible through the Orthoview's context menu, through the console ("SelectByFilterYYY"/"DeselectByFilterYYY") as well as custom bindings to those events. |
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Feedback: I think it'd be better if filter selection selected/deselected whole entities rather than only individual members. I've been trying to isolate i.e. all nodrawsolid brushes in the map, but a lot of them are in func_statics together with other brushes, so when I perform the following procedure I only get a small fraction of the nodrawsolid brushes in the map: Select by Filter -> Nodraw Textures -> press I & h to invert selection and hide everything else It'd be more useful for me to have too much (i.e. nodrawsolid brushes and other brushes/patches in the same func_statics) than too little (only those entities consisting of nothing but nodrawsolid). |
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I understand what you want to achieve, but that's not how the filter system is working. When you specify to filter to hide or show a certain material (by name), it'd be against the logic if I told it to affect other objects too, just because they might share the same parent. Selecting objects based on filters has to use the same rules as the Filters for showing/hiding stuff. I guess what you need is a completely separate algorithm which checks the objects affected by a filter and then does something based on that, like selecting the parent entity. Maybe that would be a separate command or feature? Selecting the parent entity of any selected object? |
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"Selection by filter" actually looks like it selects the parent entities, so much so that I could move my selection to a blank part of the map if I wanted to take a look at all the entities containing nodrawsolid brushes - something I couldn't achieve before. The problem only arises as soon as I press i to invert the selection, because then I tend to lose a lot of those parent entities because they weren't purely nodrawsolid brushes. Maybe if there were an alternate selection inversion, ctrl + i, that extends my current selection to the parent entities before it performs the inversion? |
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Yes, I was having something like this in mind, like "Select Parent Entities" or something more intuitive sounding. |
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I've looked some more into why I was losing a lot of my "Select by Filter" selections when I perform invert & hide: it turns out that if I use "Select by Filter" -> press i, the currently selected children stay selected, now in addition to everything else belonging to that parent. This doesn't happen when I use "Select Group Parts" -> select a child -> press i. For demonstrating this, I've attached a room from a WIP, in which the focus is on the bed in the northeast which is a single func_static consisting of both clip and visible textures. My aim is to evaluate the bed's clip brushes, so I want to hide everything but keep the bed's clip brushes (or at least the whole bed entity) visible. 1) Select by Filter -> Clip Textures -> this selects the clip textures belonging to the bed func_static as well as the chest's lone setfrobable brush. 2) Move the clip textures into the void so you have a clear view of them for the next steps. (This would've been difficult to achieve without "Select by Filter") 3) Press i to invert -> the clip is still selected despite the inversion, together with everything else in the map 4) Press h to hide -> nothing is visible anymore. |
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Also, I noticed that De/Select by Filter doesn't respect layer visibilities - so it'll select/deselect everything eligible in the whole map. |
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I can confirm the last one, invisible objects have been selected by the filter. I switched that off in the recent commit. As for the selection inversion weirdness, I think this behaviour is somewhat unrelated to this feature here. It's more of a general problem when single primitives of entities are selected and the selection is inverted. You can open a new issue report for that if you like, but I don't think that this can be solved easily since DR technically cannot invert the selection if a single child is selected. If the entity itself is selected, all the children are implicitly selected too. So, when inverting the selection of a single child, DR would need to select the parent entity and all its children *except* for that initially selected primitive - which is not possible, since the parent selection affects all the children. |
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That's strange, because if I use "Select Group Parts" to select single primitives inside an entity I'm able to invert and hide correctly within this and other "Group" entities. The only problem in that case is that "Invert" ignores non-"Group" entities. I understand that "Select Group Parts" works differently from "Select by Filter" though, and if it's a larger problem I wouldn't want to hold back 2.8.0's release, which sure is already chock-full of goodies. |
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Yes, the invert selection algorithm is sensitive to the selection mode you're in (Entity, Group Part, etc.) Maybe you can get near what you want in your scenario by switching the selection mode before hitting invert? |
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Setting this to resolved since my quibble seems more related to the inversion algorithm than this new selection algorithm (child selections staying selected after performing "invert"). And it's in fact the new "Select Parents" feature that lets me achieve my desired functionality - not "Select Group Parts", since that deselects everything. |
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