Trenchbroom: Feature request : drag apply (and align) textures on faces

[bstordeur]

This was discussed on the Discord a bit.

It's great that we can drag select faces (and brushes) in TB, like this:

But to align textures properly along complex surfaces, we need to do it little by little, by re-selecting the previous face between each step, like this:

If we do it directly we get this kind of mess:

It would be great if we could drag-apply and auto-align textures to neighboring faces. Ideally we just shift-click to select our starting face, and then alt-shift click drag over the other faces to achieve the final results like in my second gif.
Something similar to this:

[kduske]

I feel like this was requested before and we closed it... but yeah it looks useful.

[ericwa]

So for every new face that gets dragged over, it would transfer the texturing from the last face that was dragged over (using either the alt+click or shift+alt+click algorithm, depending on whether Shift is down)?

We're not using Shift+Alt+Drag or Alt+Drag for anything when there is a face selection so this could probably be squeezed in without a new tool or command.

[bstordeur]

Kristian, yeah might have been suggested before, but always more convincing with some gifs! ;D

Eric, yeah that's exactly the idea.

[kduske]

@ericwa I was thinking the same, use the same modifiers and put the implementation in the same tool, too.