Keeping textures when copying brushes in UnrealEd

It's a very old and a very simple trick, however I don't remember that I posted it anywhere here. It was very handy in my early mapping days, when I was building maps mostly by copying different things from other maps (I opened two UnrealEd instances, one for my map, one - for the maps to copy from) or using prefabs (see Deus Ex Constructor for the best collection of prefabs). The problem was, when I was copying or adding a brush from a different place, UnrealEd used to reset the textures of the brush, if they had not been preloaded before, so I had to assign textures again on a newly added brush.

The solution is simple: 

1. Go to DeusEx/System, open DeusEx.ini (for UEd2, go to DeusEx/UEd2 and open UnrealTournament.ini).
2. Find 

   [Editor.EditorEngine]

3. Add somewhere under it:
   EditPackages=Airfield
   EditPackages=area51textures
   EditPackages=BatteryPark
   EditPackages=BobPage
   EditPackages=Catacombs
   EditPackages=Cmd_tunnels
   EditPackages=Constructor
   EditPackages=CoreTexBrick
   EditPackages=CoreTexCeramic
   EditPackages=CoreTexConcrete
   EditPackages=CoreTexDetail
   EditPackages=CoreTexEarth
   EditPackages=CoreTexFoliage
   EditPackages=CoreTexGlass
   EditPackages=CoreTexMetal
   EditPackages=CoreTexMisc
   EditPackages=CoreTexPaper
   EditPackages=CoreTexSky
   EditPackages=CoreTexStone
   EditPackages=CoreTexStucco
   EditPackages=CoreTexTextile
   EditPackages=CoreTexTiles
   EditPackages=CoreTexWallObj
   EditPackages=CoreTexWater
   EditPackages=CoreTexWood
   EditPackages=Dockyard
   EditPackages=Effects
   EditPackages=Extras
   EditPackages=FreeClinic
   EditPackages=G_Station
   EditPackages=Hangar18
   EditPackages=HK_BuildingExt
   EditPackages=HK_Decorations
   EditPackages=HK_Helibase
   EditPackages=HK_Interior
   EditPackages=HK_MJ12Lab
   EditPackages=HK_Signs
   EditPackages=HK_VersaLife
   EditPackages=InfoPortraits
   EditPackages=MJ12_lab
   EditPackages=Mobile_Camp
   EditPackages=MolePeople
   EditPackages=Moon
   EditPackages=NewYorkCity
   EditPackages=NYCBar
   EditPackages=OceanLab
   EditPackages=Palettes
   EditPackages=Paris
   EditPackages=Render
   EditPackages=Rocket
   EditPackages=SubBase
   EditPackages=subway
   EditPackages=Supertanker
   EditPackages=UNATCO
   EditPackages=V_Com_Center
4. Save and close the file.

Notes:

• This will increase the loading time of your UnrealEd, however it saves time and makes selecting textures easy (you don't have to load the packages anymore).
• Ded (the author of Project: 2027) also said that preloading reduced lag in his mod.
• If you're using UnrealEd2 and your map contains non-standard textures or other stuff, I guess you'd agree that it's a bit annoying to preload all of them, by picking one by one from different folders each time before opening the map. Just add these custom packages to EditPackages= of UnrealTournament.ini and forget about preloading.

Written by Daedalus.

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