Level Design tools not quite fast enough, for solo level designers.

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@;95126

But aren’t you clicking or performing a keyboard shortcut to do the same thing in the other 2 you have mentioned? you click and hold, push pull, release mouse button to do what you are asking in UE4, is that not easy enough?

Well, I’m fairy sure UE4’s BSP tools can’t operate quickly like I want, but all you need to do to add/delete blocks in voxel editors is right-click or left-click…in full screen single viewport…with no tool boxes open. I think in UE4, you still have to select a BSP brush before you can edit it, right? The entire level is just ‘one big brush’, in these other editors.

@;95128

There are 2 theories about (possibly more), but I really don’t see it happening anytime soon, if ever. There are many technologies in the past that were supposed to be the future, only to find it either a pipe dream or a tech that could have been the best if a new tech had not come out while it is in development and become the new thing.

I have heard the voxel wars many times over the years, but have yet to see any other major company come out and repeat Carmacks claims (let alone use it to make a game). So really it depends what happens, but even if it turns out great, there will always be other ways of doing it as well.

You can’t replace art and artists, but the idea is to replace the limitations of texture maps(heavy file sizes) and static meshes(limited poly counts) with procedural data. I don’t see it happening any time soon either, but at least the voxel block games are going strong, and at least Carmack is/was trying to make it happen. I myself prefer BSP over blocks and static meshes, as you might be able to tell, heh.