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	{{Property row\|name=Match Active Brush\|type=Check box\|default=On\|desc=When drawing in empty space, copy elevation and height from the selected brush.}}		{{Property row\|name=Match Active Brush\|type=Check box\|default=On\|desc=When drawing in empty space, copy elevation and height from the selected brush.}}
	{{Property row\|name=Correct UVs on Extrude\|type=Check box\|default=On\|desc=When you drag a face to extrude it, the side walls' textures are laid fresh from their world position, so they do not stretch.}}		{{Property row\|name=Correct UVs on Extrude\|type=Check box\|default=On\|desc=When you drag a face to extrude it, the side walls' textures are laid fresh from their world position, so they do not stretch.}}
	{{Property row\|name=Default Brush Elevation\|type=~~Metres~~\|default=0\|desc=''Orthogonal Viewport.'' Where along a 2D view's depth a box drawn over empty space starts, when neither the selection nor the last box gives a depth.}}		{{Property row\|name=Default Brush Elevation\|type=Meters\|default=0\|desc=''Orthogonal Viewport.'' Where along a 2D view's depth a box drawn over empty space starts, when neither the selection nor the last box gives a depth.}}
	{{Property row\|name=Default Brush Height\|type=~~Metres~~\|default=1\|desc=''Orthogonal Viewport.'' How deep a box drawn in a 2D view is when it starts over a brush. Also the height of a box whose base you draw looking straight at the floor.}}		{{Property row\|name=Default Brush Height\|type=Meters\|default=1\|desc=''Orthogonal Viewport.'' How deep a box drawn in a 2D view is when it starts over a brush. Also the height of a box whose base you draw looking straight at the floor.}}
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Level Editor: Box tool page

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{{Tool infobox
| name = Box
| location = Toolbar, shape tools
| shortcut = {{Key|Esc}} or {{Key|Right mouse}} cancels
| makes = A new box brush
| settings = Tool Properties
}}
The '''Box''' tool draws box-shaped brushes: floors, walls, blocks, platforms. It is the tool you will use most for blocking out a map. Boxes can then be cut, carved, extruded and reshaped with the other tools (see [[Level Editor/Workflows/Brushes and CSG|Brushes and CSG]]).

== Drawing a box in the 3D view ==
# Pick '''Box''' on the toolbar.
# Press on a surface (or empty space) and drag out the footprint. It snaps to the grid, to smart guides and to the corners and edges you can see.
# Let go, then move the mouse up or down to set the height.
# Click to finish the box.
{{Key|Esc}} or {{Key|Right mouse}} cancels the box you are drawing.

Start on an unselected brush and the box stands on its face. On a slanted or turned face, the box is built square to that face and on its own grid (hold {{Key|Alt}} as you start to use the world grid instead). See [[Level Editor/Panels/Snapping#Smart grid on faces|Smart grid on faces]].

If you look straight down at the floor while drawing the footprint, there is no height step: the box is made at once, '''Default Brush Height''' tall (or as tall as the selected brush, with '''Match Active Brush''').

'''Pushing and pulling a face:''' hold {{Key|Ctrl}} and drag on a face of an existing brush to move that face in and out along its normal, making the brush longer or shorter.

{{Key|Alt}}+{{Key|Q}} selects the brush under the mouse without leaving the tool.

== Drawing a box in a 2D view ==
In the Top, Front or Side view, drag a rectangle and the box is made at once. Its depth (the size you cannot see in that view) comes from:
* '''What you start on.''' Start over something the view shows and the box stands on it, as one drawn there in the 3D view would: from the surface under where you pressed, '''Default Brush Height''' towards you. A box drawn in the Top view over a block sits on the block's top; one drawn in the Front view over a wall sticks out of the wall. A cut view starts it on what the cut shows.
* '''Over empty space''': the depth of the selected brush (a wall drawn in the Top view is as tall as the selected floor is thick), unless '''Match Active Brush''' is off; else the depth of the last box you made; else '''Default Brush Elevation''', '''Default Brush Height''' deep.

== Settings ==
{{Property table start}}
{{Property row|name=Collision Type|type=List|default=STATIC|desc=What kind of collision the brush gets in the game. '''STATIC''' is a solid, still brush: use it for almost everything. '''NONE''' has no collision. '''KINEMATIC''' and '''RIGID''' export it as other kinds of physics body and are rarely wanted.}}
{{Property row|name=Collision Layers|type=Number|default=1|desc=Which collision layers the brush is on. Leave at 1 unless you know you need otherwise.}}
{{Property row|name=Collision Mask|type=Number|default=1|desc=Which layers the brush collides with. Leave at 1.}}
{{Property row|name=Alignment|type=List|default=Align to surface|desc='''Align to surface''' builds on the face you start on. '''XY Plane''', '''XZ Plane''' and '''YZ Plane''' always draw the footprint on that world plane.}}
{{Property row|name=Match Active Brush|type=Check box|default=On|desc=When drawing in empty space, copy elevation and height from the selected brush.}}
{{Property row|name=Correct UVs on Extrude|type=Check box|default=On|desc=When you drag a face to extrude it, the side walls' textures are laid fresh from their world position, so they do not stretch.}}
{{Property row|name=Default Brush Elevation|type=Metres|default=0|desc=''Orthogonal Viewport.'' Where along a 2D view's depth a box drawn over empty space starts, when neither the selection nor the last box gives a depth.}}
{{Property row|name=Default Brush Height|type=Metres|default=1|desc=''Orthogonal Viewport.'' How deep a box drawn in a 2D view is when it starts over a brush. Also the height of a box whose base you draw looking straight at the floor.}}
{{Property table end}}

New brushes wear the material selected in the [[Level Editor/Panels/Materials|Materials]] tab.

== Tips ==
* Keep the grid coarse (1 m or 0.5 m) while blocking out, and go finer only for detail. {{Key|[}} and {{Key|]}} change it.
* To make a room, draw a solid box the size of the room and use '''Tools > Hollow...''' ({{Key|Ctrl}}+{{Key|H}}).
* To make a slope, draw a box and, in the Front or Side view, [[Level Editor/Tools/Clip|clip]] it from one top corner down to the opposite bottom corner.

== Related pages ==
* [[Level Editor/Workflows/Brushes and CSG|Brushes and CSG]]
* [[Level Editor/Entities/Brush|Brush properties]]
* [[Level Editor/Tools/Edit Face|Edit Face]]

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