General Half-Life 2/Editor
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Easy to use VIS groups, makes life so much easier.
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vis, groups, group, visgroups, visgroup.
Before I can teach you how to create “visgroups”, I’m going to have to explain what they are.
First of "visgroups" are not to be confused with the "vis" option in the compiler they are totally different. "visgoups" stands for visibility groups, which is merely a tool in hammer to organise your map so when you have loads of entities, brush's and objects you don't get confused. “Visgroups” when toggled will hide anything which has been allocated to its group in hammer, but when you compile make sure all your groups are visible otherwise it will not compile the hidden groups causing them not to show up in game.
Compare organisation of “visgroups” to the organization of a file on your computer. Often people separate the files into different folders so everything looks clearer and its easier to navigate, same principle applies to “visgroups”.
Okay now to explain how to create vis groups.
To place objects in a “vis” group select what you would like to go in the group, right click then scroll down to properties.
Click the “visgroups” tab along the top, click one of the squares with its group name next to it and a tick should appear now just hit apply.
And that’s it, simple but effective, now I will talk about editing your “visgroups.
To organise your “vis” groups click edit on the small “visgroups" window on the right of hammer and it’s pretty simple from there on. You can change the name, the colour, add or delete your “visgroups”
Click on the box’s with the ticks in inside the “visgroups” window to see an example of a “visgroup” toggling what you see in hammer.
Hammer will always create a VisGroup called Auto, which very basically organises your objects, but I much prefer creating my own.
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Example Map
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