View Navigation

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  1. Getting Started
  2. View Navigation
  3. Basic Construction
  4. Creating a Room
  5. Applying Textures
  6. Adding Point Entities
  7. Creating Brush Entities
  8. Adding Light
  9. Adding Prop Models
  10. Saving and Compiling

Moving the camera is vital if you want to be able to see what you are doing. Hammer allows you to navigate manually with the keyboard and/or mouse, and to switch between several cameras in different locations.

Tip.pngTip:If you haven't created any brushes yet, you can use the origin mark of the map (the red, blue and green lines that you start at) for something to move around.

Navigation

3D views

Camera tool

You can navigate through a 3D view with WASD and the arrow keys: WASD are forward/backward/strafe as they are in-game, while the arrow keys turn your view. The scroll wheel can be used to give you a speed boost forwards or backwards.

If you want to look around with the mouse, you can do so by selecting the Camera tool Hammer camera.png from the left-hand menu. Now you can spin the view by dragging with the left button, pan it by dragging with the right, and strafe by holding down both at once.

Tip.pngTip:Press Z to enter or leave mouselook mode, which does not require you to hold down LMB.

2D views

You can pan across a 2D view using the arrow keys or scroll bars (if enabled), or by holding Space and dragging with the left mouse button.

To magnify, you can scroll the mouse wheel, use +- (on the keypad!), or press 1 through to 0.

Tip.pngTip:Holding down ctrl in combination with +- or the mouse wheel will synchronise all 2D views to the same scale.

You can also use the Magnify tool Hammer magnify.png with left or right click.

Creating a camera

To set up cameras, select the Camera tool Hammer camera.png from the left-hand list of icons.

Click and drag your mouse in a 2D view to create the camera, as shown in the image below. The 3D view will snap to the new camera, and the 2D windows will display your camera as a blue circle with a line leading from it.

Create a camera by dragging out its position

You can change the position of the camera by dragging the blue circle around with the mouse in the 2D views, and where it will point by dragging the tail in the same manner. The 3D view will update whenever you release the mouse button.

Hold ⇧ Shift to create multiple cameras. Use PageUp and PageDown to switch between them and Delete to remove the active one.

See also

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