Suggestion: draggable origin for brush entities

[untodesu]

Say, I have a func_rotating and I want it to rotate around a specific point (without painting a separate brush with a magic texture because I'm not mapping for goldsrc ). In Source Hammer (if I recall correctly), this would be achieved via dragging a helper point around. It would make sense for brush entities that define origin(origin) in FGD to have this. Editing the origin in inspector moves the geometry.

If there is already such a feature, I'd like to know. Thanks in advance!

[ensiform]

The origin brush method is the gold standard for q3 engine too. But it would be cool alternative

[untodesu]

To clarify, the expected behaviour is this:

I stole this gif from TrenchBroom/TrenchBroom#4347

It seems to be a thing at least in DarkRadiant

[untodesu]

manually setting origin

Brush entities act unwise when manually setting origin to whatever value, I doubt it's intended

initial entity origins

This code block in DR appears to be the equivalent to that one in NRC

In DR's code, this piece of code figures out the origin to place:

// set model KV above

// Take the selection center as new origin
Vector3 newOrigin = selection::algorithm::getCurrentSelectionCenter();
node->getEntity().setKeyValue("origin", string::to_string(newOrigin));

// other stuff below including parenting brushes to entity

I'm assuming there is an un-CXX-ed way to call up to the selection system and get its center.
Would also make sense to have that be an option in the gamepack's configuration

[Garux]

This has been discussed here:
#153 (comment)
To add, it could have use for rotating stuff, but not easy to implement and access intuitively.
E.g. you want rotation pivot to move with an entity (which in fact is only origin key change, nothing else). How to define whether this or actual geometry transform is wanted.

[untodesu]

but not easy to implement and access intuitively

Fair enough