UFORadiant/Main Window

Main window is where most of the time is spent during mapping. Understanding what each component in there does can help in the process.

Main window components

This is how main window looks right after starting up UFORadiant. As a lot of things can be customized, look may differ depending on e.g. used screen/resolution.

UFORadiant 1.6

If you open a map, many areas are populated with map data. Here's how Radiant looks with map opened (main areas annotated):

Context menu

RMB on a 2D view will open Context menu.

Toolbar icons

Main toolbar

Icon	Tooltip text	Action
		Opens file selection dialog to choose map file
		Saves current map
		Undoes actions
		Redoes actions
		Flips selected object on x axis
		Rotates selected object on x axis
		Flips selected object on y axis
		Rotates selected object on y axis
		Flips selected object on z axis
		Rotates selected object on z axis
		Selects brushes that are touching the selected brush
		Selects brushes that are inside the selected brush (?)
		Subtracts selected brushes from all other brushes
		Merges the selected brushes, if possible
		Redoes actions
		Enters vertice selection mode
		Enters edge selection mode
		Enters face selection mode
		Toggles cubic clip
		Selects translate tool
		Selects rotate tool
		Selects scale tool
		Selects QE/resize tool
		Selects clipper tool
		Enables/disables texture lock
		Opens entity list
		Opens Radiant console
		Opens Radiant texture browser

UFO:AI toolbar

Icon	Tooltip text	Action
		Selects brushes marked to appear in a particular level
		Toggles actorclip brush displaying
		Toggles weaponclip brush displaying
		Toggles nodraw brush displaying

Statusbar contents

Statusbar contents

Area	Description
	Shows selected tool name
	Shows position of mouse cursor
	Shows brush and entity count in the current map
	Shows copied texture name. Currently not too useful in resolutions up to 1024x768