DEdit Basics – Keyboard Shortcuts

DEdit Basics – Important Shortcuts

These are the most used keyboard shortcuts you will execute constantly when working with DEdit. Jump down to Table with all Shortcuts

General

ctrl+b            Brush Editing Mode

ctrl+g            Geometry Editing Mode

ctrl+h            Object Editing Mode

ctrl+c            Copy selection

ctrl+v            Insert selection

ctrl+t            Apply selected texture

All Views

t+lmb            hold down to select brushes or objects

u            deselect selection

+/-            increase/decrease grid spacing

x+mouse        move green Location Marker around

Perspective View

i+mouse        move camera forward/left/right

i+mouse+rmb        move camera up and down

o+mouse        turn camera around

Top/Front/Back/Left/Right View

i+mouse        move around the grid

i+mouse+lmb        move around the grid faster

o+mouse        zoom in and out on the grid

DEdit – Table of all Shortcuts

The following table includes all the keyboard shortcuts available in DEdit. Most users might never use most of them when working with the program. Throughout the table, Mouse indicates moving the mouse without holding down a button, LMB indicates Left Mouse Button, and RMB indicates Right Mouse Button.

Key/Action	Edit Mode	View	Result
SPACEBAR	Brush, Geometry	All	Create a vertex on the grid. This will start a new polygon if you’re not already drawing one.
CTRL+SPACEBAR	Geometry	All	Snap to the green vertex. You can split polygons by using this on two points on a polygon.
I+Mouse	All	Perspective	Walkthru Move Mode: Move along XZ plane.Orbit Move Mode: Dolly to or away from focus.
SHIFT+I+Mouse	All	Perspective	Walkthru Move Mode: Move along the Y axis.
O+Mouse	All	Perspective	Walkthru Move Mode: Change orientation.Orbit Move Mode: Orbit around focus.
I+Mouse	All	Parallel	Move along plane of grid.
O+Mouse	All	Parallel	Zoom in and out.
P	Geometry	Perspective	Set the focus point to the green point.
T+LMB	Brush	All	Select brush. Each click cycles to next brush under mouse.
U	All	All	Un-tag all selections.
G	Geometry	All	Place the grid along the red polygon.
(8,9,0)	All	Perspective	Place the grid along a principle axis (x, y, z).
B+LMB	All	All	Drag out a rectangle to select multiple vertices, brushes or objects.
E+RMB	Geometry	All	Drag to extrude the red polygon.
Q+RMB	Geometry	All	Drag to scale the red polygon.
R+RMB	Geometry	All	Drag to extrude the red polygon and delete the original. This is useful for bringing out tunnels or doorways.
W+RMB	Geometry	All	Drag to scale the red polygon and delete the original. This is useful for creating doorways.
INSERT	Geometry	Perspective	Insert a vertex at the center of the green edge.
DELETE	Geometry	All	Delete the green vertex. Note that this only deletes the vertex, which will most likely interfere with your geometry. To delete an entire polygon, use End.
END	Geometry	All	Delete the selected polygon.
+/-	All	All	Modify grid spacing. First select the view pane then use these keys.
Z+RMB	All	All	Resize the grid.
F	Geometry	All	Flip the selected polygon. If it isn’t textured, it’s a good idea to have normals on.
C+Mouse	All	Perspective	Move the far clipping plane closer or farther.
H	All	All	Move a brush so it intersects other brushes and press H to carve the selected brush’s shape out of the intersecting brushes.
CTRL+B	All	All	Enter brush mode.
CTRL+G	All	All	Enter geometry mode.
CTRL+H	All	All	Enter object mode.
CTRL+O	All	All	Open an existing project.
CTRL+A	All	All	Apply color to gridlines of the selected brush.
CTRL+T	All	All	Apply texture to selected brushes.
CTRL+Y	All	All	Redo.
CTRL+Z	All	All	Undo.
F6/SHIFT-F6	All	All	Next pane/Previous pane.
X+Mouse	All	All	Move the green marker.
M+LMB	Brush, Object	All	Move selected brushes and objects.
M+LMB	Geometry	All	Move the green vertex.
S+LMB	Geometry	All	Move all tagged vertices.
K	All	All	Reinitialize texture on selected brush or red polygon.
Y	Geometry	All	Tag the vertices of the red polygon.

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