I just started mapping yesterday and have been following the guides thus far which are excellent, but I cannot figure out how to create a door.

The guide states 'Select one of the walls by holding shift and leftclicking in the 3d window', but when you hold shift + left click in the 3d window, it selects the whole house! The only way I can select a single wall is by holding shift, control + left click, but then I cannot clip it.

Help please

I think, the problem will be that your house is only one big brush.
So you can't clip a door in it. You have to build up your house with different brushes (one brush for the floor, one for the top and four for the walls. Than you'll be able to select one separate wall to clip a door in it.

thanks for replying mate.

how would I go about creating each brush separately? As I said, im new to mapping and need a helping hand!

Create a first brush (for the floor) and resize it (eg. 512 units wide, 512 units long and 8 units tall). Then deselect it (pressing esc). Then create a second brush (a wall) and resize it too (eg. 512 units wide, 128 units tall and 8 units long). Then move it to the right place over the first brush and deselect it). Then create the next brush and so on.
Watch out that the brushes don't overlap.
You can also create a big brush and use the hollow tool to create 6 brushes but than all brushes will be overlap and you have to resize all of them.

There is also a video tutorial for beginners.
http://www.modsonline.com/Downloads-full-3190.html

edited on Jun. 23, 2007 06:38 am by OLD_MAN_WITH_GUN

I also have a nice little tutorial section on building a house in my manual.