Keyboard Commands:

The Keys have been almost completely redone for v. 0.40 (so you may want to print this to have it handy)

  • Keys Ctrl-0 - 9: Select/Deselect other "potentially hit" brushes. Based upon left mouse click in the XY View.
  • F1-F3 Select Clip Point 1-3, respectively.
  • F5 / F6 Move current Clip Point up or down, respectively.
  • Esc If clip plane is shown, gets rid of it. If not, deselects and current brush.
  • F9 Redraw the Edit Window
  • F12 Subtract selection
  • Keypad "-" Delete selection
  • Alt-Return Change mode between wire frame, flat, and textured.
  • Ctrl-Return Change 2D view mode between XY, YZ and XZ.
  • Ins Carve selected brushes by Clip Plane
  • Ctrl-Space Copy selected brushes/entity to clipboard
  • Ctrl-/ Flip normal of Clip Plane
  • Ctrl-P/Alt-P Change perspective distance in/out (like zooming)
  • Ctrl-M/Alt-M Similar to O/P, but changes "magnification" (finer tuning of perspective distance)
  • Alt-R/Alt-F Move far clipping plane in and out (see status bar while changing to see current value).
  • Alt-A Move camera left, forward, right, or back (aligned to current XY normal axis).
  • Alt-W Same
  • Alt-D Same
  • Alt-X Same
  • Alt-Y or Shift-Up Arrow - Move camera up along Z axis.
  • Alt- H or Shift-Down Arrow-Move camera down along Z axis.
  • Keypad 2/4/6/8 Move selected brushes down, left, right, up in XY View
  • (changed v. 0.42) Ctrl-< and Ctrl-> (comma and period) Move selected brushes down or up along Z axis
  • Left Arrow - Rotate camera left
  • Right Arrow - Rotate camera right
  • Alt-Left Arrow - Strafe (sidestep) left
  • Alt-Right Arrow - Strafe (sidestep) right
  • Delete / PgDn Pitch camera up or down (might be roll).
  • Home / End Roll camera left or right (might be pitch).
  • PgUp : reset roll, yaw and pitch angles
  • Up / Down Arrows Move forward / backward
  • Alt-B Rotate camera by 180 degrees.
  • [ Increase step size (for moving camera with keyboard)
  • ] Decrease step size (for moving camera with keyboard)
  • Ctrl-W - File Close
  • Ctrl -N - New File
  • Ctrl-O - Open File
  • Ctrl-S - Save File
  • Ctrl-A - Save File as new file name
  • Ctrl-Q - Quit BSP
  • Ctrl-Del - Lower Scale
  • Ctrl-Ins - Raise Scale
  • Ctrl-PgDn - Lower Grid
  • Ctrl-PgUp - Raise Grid
  • Ctrl-E - Restore/minimized entity browser
  • Ctrl-T - Restore/minimized texture browser
  • Ctrl-G - Restore/minimized group browser
  • Ctrl-B - Restore/minimized selected brush view
  • Ctrl-C - Copy to clipboard.
  • Ctrl-V - Paste from clipboard
  • Ctrl-Minus - Switch to Previous Map
  • Ctrl-Plus - Switch to Next Map
  • Alt-S - Snap current brush to grid
  • ` - (on tilde ~ key) Select All
  • Ctrl-R - Rotate selected brush
  • Alt-C - Move camera to center of map
  • Alt-G - Turn grid on/off
  • Alt-N - Turn display of names on/off
  • Alt-Ctrl-Shift-C - Turn grid coordinates on/off
  • Alt-I - Turn hits on off