0006717: Feature request: Automatically copy shader to clipboard

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0006717	DarkRadiant	Map Editing	public	31.05.2026 12:38	31.05.2026 12:38

Reporter	Frost_Salamander	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	normal	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	3.9.0

Summary	0006717: Feature request: Automatically copy shader to clipboard
Description	When texturing surfaces, there is a lot of copy/paste shader operations, especially when texturing around corners to make it look continuous (e.g. when you cut out a window or door). Usually the workflow is something like this: 1. Select a brush face 2. copy shader 3. select a target brush or brush face 4. paste shader in the course of building a map these operations are executed hundreds or thousands of times, and reducing the number of steps would be really helpful. Could we have an option to combine 1 and 2 into a single operation? That is, if you select a brush face then it will automatically copy the shader to the clipboard. It needs to do the exact same thing as if the mapper actually did a copy shader - that is the texture scale and orientation needs to be preserved (so not the same as just selecting a texture from the media tab and adding it to the clipboard). it might be that mappers wouldn't always want this, so perhaps we make it a configuration option? Not sure where - maybe under Preferences -> Textures?
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
31.05.2026 12:38	Frost_Salamander	New Issue