Fixed, Things mode: in some cases selection labels were not updated after editing a thing.
Fixed, Things mode: selection labels were positioned incorrectly on things with FixedSize setting.
Fixed, Sectors mode: fixed a crash when selecting self-referencing sector when selection labels were enabled.
Fixed, Visual mode: in some cases Auto-align texture actions were not working when "use long texture names" Map Options setting was enabled.
Fixed, MD2/MD3 loader: available animation frames upper bound check was performed incorrectly, which would cause a crash in some very special cases.
Fixed, Game configurations: most Hexen/ZDoom teleport actions use TeleportDests as teleport targets, not MapSpots.
Added, Linedefs mode, Things mode: sector tags can now be displayed and can be toggled using the "View Sector Tags" mode toolbar button.
Fixed, Classic modes, DB2 bug: in some cases text label size was queried before it was calculated, resulting in text labels being rendered when they shouldn't.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_LogFloat).
Changed, Classic modes: bigger Thing arrows are now rendered when thing sprite rendering is skipped.
Changed, Classic modes: when "Fixed Things Scale" option is enabled, thing size stays at 2x scale instead of 1x when extra bounding box is rendered.
Added Preferences -> Appearance -> "Things transparency (Things mode)" slider.
Renamed Preferences -> Appearance -> "Things transparency" to "Things transparency (other modes)".
Externalized thing bounding box and arrow texture, used to render things in Classic modes (Textures/ThingTexture2D.png).
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_SetUserVarFloat, A_SetUserArrayFloat).
Added Preferences -> Appearance -> "Hidden Things transparency" slider. It controls transparency of Things hidden by Things filter in Things mode, of all things :)
Fixed, "Find and Replace" mode: "Find and Replace" window no longer closes when no results are found and Replace mode is enabled.
Changed, "Find and Replace" mode: renamed some search modes for better grouping.
Changed, Draw Lines and Draw Curve modes: "Auto-finish drawing" option now works regardless of "Continuous drawing" option (previously it worked only when the latter was enabled).
Changed: position and size of the "Errors and Warnings" window is now stored while the editor is running.
Internal: rewritten parts of long texture names support code. It now involves much less special handling.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_QuakeEx, A_CheckBlock).
Updated ZDoom_ACS.cfg (QuakeEx).
Updated ZDoom ACC (QuakeEx).
Added, Draw Line and Draw Curve modes: added "Auto-finish drawing" setting. When enabled, the modes will automatically finish drawing when currently drawn lines and already existing level geometry form a closed shape.
Changed: sector-wise linedef flipping is now done using the new "Align Linedefs" action. "Flip Linedefs" action works the same as in DB2 again.
Changed: when a map was already loaded, using "Open Map" action will use that map's directory as the starting directory.
Changed: official IWADs can no longer be saved.
Changed: disabled lump ranges/duplicate entries checks for official IWADs.
Changed: wad type is now preserved when saving a map (previously all wads were saved as PWADs).
Changed: moved Updater.exe launch much closer to the editor termination point to avoid any chance of it closing the editor before it properly closes itself.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_Blast).
Updated documentation.
Changed, cosmetic: elapsed time is now displayed after resources loading finishes.
Changed, internal: changed Clock.CurrentTime type to long.
Fixed, Tag Statistics window: in some cases the map view was not updated after selecting items in Sectors/Linedefs/Things columns.
Fixed, cosmetic: Draw Curve mode icon was missing a shadow.
Changed, Draw Ellipse mode: lowered minimum subdivisions to 3.
Fixed, Browse Action and Browse Effect windows: first option was always selected for any generalized action/effect parameter during generalized action/effect setup.
Changed, Draw Ellipse mode: Increase/Decrease bevel actions now always increase (and decrease) to the next even number.
Changed, Test Map drop-down: warning icon is now displayed when associated test engine executable can not be located, question icon is now displayed when the editor is unable to get the icon from the associated test engine executable.
Changed, all drawing modes: changeable drawing mode settings are now persistent.
Changed: "Dynamic grid size" mode is now disabled when changing grid size manually.
Documentation: "Command Line Parameters" topic contained a lot of incorrect information...
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Fixed, general interlace: in some cases "Show Editable Vertices in Visual Mode" top toolbar button showed up when using Doom/Hexen map formats.
Fixed(?), Classic modes: probably fixed an rare issue when map element dragging was not starting when supposed to.
Fixed, Visual mode: fixed Classic sky texture generation artifact when Bilinear filtering was enabled in Visual mode.
Fixed, Visual mode: fixed Classic sky texture generation artifact when non-power-of-2 Sky textures were used.
Fixed, Visual mode: dynamic lights flickering on surfaces nearly-perpendicular to lights centers should be much harder to trigger now.
Fixed, Map conversion: game mode flags were ignored when converting from Doom map format to UDMF.
Fixed, Edit Selection mode: when "Drag selection automatically on paste" setting was enabled, it was possible to start rotating/scaling map elements instead of dragging them after pasting.
Fixed, Map Analysis mode: fixed a crash when trying to dissolve an invalid sector when one of it's linedefs referenced it on the both sides.
Fixed, Sectors mode: fixed incorrect undo description when deleting sectors.
Internal: joined declaration and assignment of some more variables.
Internal, Renderer2D.RenderArrows(): only visible lines are now rendered.
Internal, API: renamed public Line3D properties: v1 to Start, v2 to End, color to Color, renderarrowhead to RenderArrowhead.
Fixed several issues with "Synchronized Things Selection" setting:
- Things were not deselected after dragging a single sector.
- Things were not deselected after editing properties of a single sector.
- Things sector references were not updated after using "Join Sectors" and "Merge Sectors" actions.
- Things (de)selection is now applied to all things, instead of only the ones visible using current Things Filter.
Fixed, Visual mode: brightness of 3d floors with "disable lighting" flag was calculated incorrectly.
Fixed, Sectors mode: 3d floor linedef indicators were not updated after using "Join Sectors" and "Merge Sectors" actions.
Fixed, Classic modes: 3d floor linedef indicators shown in Classic modes were not updated after finishing sector drawing.
Updated ZDoom ACC to git rev. f92fbb9.
Updated ZDoom_ACS.cfg.
Fixed: 3d floor linedef indicators shown in Classic modes were not updated when 3d floor creation was undone in Visual mode.
Performance optimization when selecting sectors in Sectors mode with "Synchronized Things selection" setting enabled.
Sectors mode: removed "Move Things in Selected Sectors" toolbar button.
Sectors mode: added "Synchronized Things Editing" menu item, action and toolbar button. When enabled, things dragging will be synchronized to sector dragging. Regular, Paint and Rectangular selection will also select things (holding Alt while selecting inverts this behavior). Deleting sectors will also delete selected things.
Linedefs mode: added "Synchronized Things Editing" menu item, action and toolbar button. When enabled, selected things will be dragged when dragging linedefs. Rectangular selection will also select things (holding Alt while selecting inverts this behavior).
Changed: selection info now always displays info about all types of map elements.
Fixed: .dbs containing only current map settings was created when trying to save unchanged map.
Fixed, Visual mode, "Copy Texture" action: when "Use long texture names" option is disabled, texture name as stored in Sidedef should be used, not the 8-char texture name.
Updated documentation.
Fixed: "Select Things in Selected Sectors" action was clearing selected sectors without updating the display.
Changed, Sectors mode: number of selected things is now displayed in the info panel.
Changed, Game Configurations window, "Testing" tab: game engine executable browser now opens up when clicking the "Add game engine" button.
Changed, Game Configurations window, "Testing" tab: default game engine display name is now generated from the folder name game engine executable is in.
Changed, Visual mode: Sector_Outside (87) sector effect is now taken into account when determining sector fog color.
Game configurations: added "defaultwalltexture", "defaultfloortexture" and "defaultceilingtexture" parameters. These define textures used when drawing a sector (usually the first sector of a map only).
Game configurations: classic game configurations now use "-warp" command to load the map.
Game configurations: factorized testing parameters into "Includes\Test_params.cfg".
Added internal functions to Hexen acs scripting configuration.
Updated documentation ("Game Configuration - Basic Settings" topic).
Added "makedoorceil" game configuration property. Works the same way as "makedoortrack" and "makedoordoor", but for ceilings of door sectors.
Changed, Game configurations: the editor no longer tries to load DECORATE/MODELDEF/VOXELDEF/GLDEFS/REVERBS lumps when "decorategames" setting is not specified / is set to empty string.
Changed, General interface: "Tools -> Reload MODELDEF/VOXELDEF" and "Tools -> Reload GLDEFS" menu items are no longer shown when current game configuration doesn't support DECORATE.
Fixed a crash when pasting linedef/thing properties in Hexen map format.
Fixed, Visual mode: Visual Thing resources were not fully unloaded when resetting D3D device leading to crash when switching to the editor from a DX-using game engine (like ZDoom) running in fullscreen.
Fixed: in some cases, when current game configuration supported multiple script compilers, it was possible to open/create a map or change map options without selecting any script compiler.
Fixed, New Map Options window: default map name was not updated when switching game configurations.
Fixed: copied map element properties were not reset after switching to another map.
Fixed: stored textures for "Make Door" action were not reset after switching to another map.
Fixed, Game Configurations window: currently selected test engine name was not updated when pasting test engines from another configuration.
Fixed, Game Configurations: all "Heretic in Doom map format" configurations were using Doom sector effects list.
Fixed, Game Configurations: all "Strife in Doom map format" configurations were using Doom sector effects list.
Added "Paste Properties Special" actions in "Classic" and "Visual" categories. They work the same way as "Paste Special" action.
Added: "Copy Properties", "Paste Properties" and "Paste Properties Special" options are now shown in the Edit menu if current classic mode supports them.
Changed, Paste Properties Special window: only options relevant to current map format are now displayed.
Changed, Paste Properties Special window, UDMF: all UI-managed options are now available.
Fixed: MAPINFO parser was unable to process "include" directives.
Fixed, General interface: selection info was reset to "Nothing selected" after few seconds regardless of current selection.
Fixed, Visual mode: thing bounding boxes were not updated when changing things positions using Randomize mode.
Fixed, Visual mode: event lines were displayed at incorrect height when entering Visual mode for the first time.
Fixed, Texture Browser window: when MixTexturesFlats Game Configuration option is disabled, textures/flats are no longer shown in the Used group when flats/textures with the same names are used in the map.
Fixed(?): probably fixed an exception some users reported when trying to initialize a Classic mode after switching from Visual mode with "Sync cameras" option enabled.
Changed, Game configurations, Thing Categories: a block must have at least one thing category property to be recognized as a thing category.
Changed, Visplane Explorer: the plugin now outputs more info when it fails to initialize vpo.dll.
Cosmetic, Thing Edit window, Doom/Hexen map format: adjusted UI layout so thing flags control no longer displays scrollbars in Hexen map format.
Internal: merged methods from UDMFTools into UniFields, removed UDMFTools.
Updated Inno Setup script (added VC++ 2008 SP1 distributive).
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (A_CheckBlock).
Updated documentation (added "System Requirements" page).
Visual mode: fog distance calculation is now much closer to GZDoom one.
Visual mode: thing brightness calculation when a thing is affected by floor glow is now much closer to GZDoom one.
Linedef edit window, UDMF: added "Reset front/back brightness" buttons.
Sector edit window, UDMF: added "Reset ceiling/floor brightness" buttons.
Internal, Visual mode, Things mode: persistent event lines are now updated only when map objects are changed instead of doing it on every display redraw.
Internal: improved Dictionary lookup times when using map objects and textures as keys.
Internal: added "Release + Profiler" solution configuration.
Updated ZDoom_ACS.cfg (Warp).
High-DPI: fixed many issues with incorrect controls size (Tag selector width, Comment Editor size, icons size, tabs size etc.).
Cosmetic: changed map geometry dragging undo messages to more descriptive ones.
Fixed, Textures Browser, cosmetic: "Show textures in subdirectories" checkbox should be repositioned when "Long texture names" one is invisible.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg (added A_SetFloatSpeed + a couple of fixes).
Removed, Texture Browser: removed "Show image sizes" checkbox. "Show texture and flat sizes in browsers" preferences setting is now used instead.
Fixed, Things mode: event line between pre-last and the last PatrolPoint was not drawn.
Fixed, Things mode: highlight range for sizeless things (things with "fixedsize" game configuration property) was calculated incorrectly.
Fixed: fixed a crash when opening Script Editor after using "Open map in current wad" command to switch to UDMF map with SCRIPTS lump when current script configuration was not saved in the wad's .dbs file.
Fixed: map closing events were not triggered when using "Open map in current wad" command, which could potentially result in plugin crashes/incorrect behavior.
Fixed: Sector Drawing overrides panel could trigger an exception when closing the map during resource loading.
Internal: added "Debug + Profiler" solution configuration, added 2 profiling methods to DebugConsole.
Internal: rewrote MainForm.DisplayStatus() / StatusInfo to handle selection info in a more structured way.
Fixed, internal: some destructors could potentially be executed more than once potentially leading to exceptions. Other destructors were not called at all.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Fixed, DB2 bug (partially): 4 settings were reset to the state saved in the program configuration after applying the changes made in the Preferences window.
Fixed: several Brushes were not disposed in ImageBrowserItem (DB2 bug) and ColoredComboBox, resulting in a very slow memory leak.
Fixed, Linedefs Mode, cosmetic: incorrect distance was used when calculating vertex insert preview opacity.
Changed, Script Editor: disabled indentation guides.
Probably fixed an exception when trying to check which program(s) lock the map file on Windows XP.
Changed: added an option to try to close all programs, which lock the map file when saving the map and the map file is locked (requires Windows Vista or newer).
Fixed, Preferences window: some trackbars had incorrect background color.
Fixed, General interface: in some cases status messages were almost immediately replaced by selection info messages.
Fixed, Edit Selection mode: sector highlight was not updated when switching from Edit Selection to Sectors mode.
Fixed, Edit Selection mode, UDMF: in some cases texture scale Y was flipped when applying/canceling changes made in the mode.
Probably fixed a crash caused by uninitialized Association when highlighting map elements.
Fixed, Comments Panel plugin: selection info was not updated when selecting map elements in the side panel.
Fixed, Tag Explorer plugin: selection info was not updated when selecting map elements in the side panel.
Fixed a typo in Hexen_things.cfg.
Visual mode, GLOOME: wall/floor/ceiling sprites are now rendered closer to the way it's done in GLOOME.
Sectors mode, UDMF: some cosmetic tweaks to comment icons rendering.
Classic modes: linedef rendering is now skipped when it's visible length is very short.
General interface: fixed a possible crash when clicking on the warnings count label when it was updated from the background thread.
Changed, Visual mode: changed thing fog calculation logic. Should be closer to GZDoom now.
Fixed, GLDEFS parser: "height" texture parameter was not treated as optional.
Fixed, text lump parsers: in some cases incorrect line number was displayed in error and warning messages.
Fixed, Visual mode: glow effect was not applied to sectors with 3 sidedefs.
Fixed, Visual mode: in some cases glow effect was not updated when replacing textures.
Fixed, general interface: "Full Brightness" button state was not updated during map loading.
Fixed, Drag Linedefs/Vertices/Sectors/Things modes: positions of line length labels were not updated while panning the view.
Cosmetic: added a bunch of new icons.
Cosmetic: changed Visual mode crosshair.
Changed, Drag Linedefs/Vertices/Sectors/Things modes: line length labels are now displayed the same way as in Draw modes.
Changed, Drag Linedefs/Vertices/Sectors/Things modes: "lock movement to cardinal directions" mode (Alt-Shift-Drag) now locks movement in 4 directions instead of 8 and doesn't snap map elements to nearest grid intersections when they are not aligned to it.
Added, Visual mode, GZDoom, DECORATE: FORCEXYBILLBOARD flag is now supported.
Added, Visual mode, GLOOME, DECORATE: FLOORSPRITE, CEILSPRITE, WALLSPRITE, ROLLSPRITE and STICKTOPLANE flags are now supported (implementation is somewhat broken ATM and probably doesn't work the same way as in GLOOME, because Windows build with most these features is nowhere to be found...).
Fixed, Visual mode: in some cases Thing brightness was calculated incorrectly.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Added, Things mode: the editor will try to reconnect the path when deleting InterpolationPoints and PatrolPoints.
Internal: RenderArrows method now works the same way in Renderer2D and Renderer3D.
Internal: Line3D now has "renderarrowhead" property.
Changed, Things mode, cosmetic: tweaked thing sprite/bounding box appearance a bit more...
Fixed, Linedefs mode, cosmetic: fixed event lines and sector highlights flickering when view panning was started while displaying action highlight.
Changed, Things mode: things are now rendered with a bit of transparency, so things beneath other things are now visible.
Fixed, Things mode: in some cases it was impossible to highlight a thing beneath other thing when their positions were the same.
Changed, 2D modes: changed thing bounding box and arrow image.
Fixed, cosmetic, 2D modes: in some cases thing arrows were rendered bigger than thing bounding boxes.
Sectors, Linedefs, Things modes: comment icons for appropriate map elements with comments are now rendered in these modes. This can be disabled using either the new "Toggle Comments" action, "View -> Show Comments" menu item, or "Show Comments" button on the main toolbar.
Changed, Edit Text window: the form is no longer accepted when pressing the Enter key, so line breaks can now be added easily.
Versioning: GZDB version is now determined by the first 2 revision digits, so now it's GZDB 2.3, not 1.14.
Changed: current 2D position and zoom is now stored in the .dbs file when saving the map and restored when opening it (should this be turned into toggleable option?).
Draw Lines mode, Draw Curve mode: you can now hold Alt - Shift to snap to 8 cardinal directions.
Draw Rectangle mode, Draw Grid mode: you can now hold Alt - Shift to draw square shapes.
Draw Ellipse mode: you can now hold Alt - Shift to draw circle shapes.
You can now hold Alt - Shift to snap to 8 cardinal directions while dragging map objects.
Fixed, Draw Lines mode: line angle is now displayed in 0..359 range (was -45..314).
Fixed, Linedef info panel: line angle is now displayed in 0..359 range (was -45..314).
Changed, Sound Environments mode: previously selected sound environment is now automatically selected when inserting a new sound environment item. Also it's now impossible to accept the form without selecting a sound environment.
Changed, Sound Propagation mode: single-sided lines with sound zone boundary flag are now highlightable and clickable.
Fixed, .obj Terrain Importer mode: the mode was unable to parse .obj vertex/face definitions generated by some (Cinema4D) modeling programs.
Changed, .obj Terrain Importer mode: vertical (e.g. perpendicular to up axis) polygons are now skipped during model importing.
Changed, Ceiling Align mode, Floor Align mode: changed rotation steps form 45 to 15 deg.
Game configurations, Strife, Doom map format: several thing flags were named incorrectly.
Game configurations, Strife, Doom map format: several linedef flags were listed as "Unknown".
Edit Selection mode: 15-degree rotation steps require more precision...
Changed, Things, Sectors, Linedefs, Vertices modes: we shouldn't select highlighted map element during the copy action when no map elements are selected.
Internal: removed some debug stuff from CheckTextureAlignment and ResultTexturesMisaligned.
Added, Visual mode, UDMF: added "Increase Scale" and "Decrease Scale" actions.
Added, Visual mode, UDMF: "Reset Texture Offsets" action now resets scale when used on things.
Added, Visual mode, UDMF: "Reset Local Texture Offsets" action now resets scale, pitch and roll when used on things.
Changed, Visual mode, UDMF: "Reset Texture Offsets" action now only resets texture offsets (previously it also reset texture scale).
Changed, Visual mode, UDMF: "Reset Local Texture Offsets" action now resets texture offsets, scale and brightness of sidedefs and also rotation of floors/ceilings.
Changed, Visual mode, UDMF: thing box arrow now displays pitch and roll for things, which have attached model and appropriate MODELDEF flags.
Changed, Thing Edit Form, UDMF: negative pitch and roll can now be entered.
Updated documentation.
Event lines: added event lines for polyobject anchor -> polyobject start spot pairs.
Fixed, Things mode: event lines were not drawn after finishing panning.
Visual mode: when "Synch camera position" setting is enabled, and the cursor was outside of a sector when entering Visual mode, camera height is now adjusted based on nearest sector (previously the height was adjusted only when the cursor was inside of a sector).
"Auto-align textures X", "Auto-align textures X and Y" actions, UDMF: alignment source sidedef part's horizontal scale is now applied to all aligned sidedefs.
Visual mode, UDMF: 'lightfog' flag is now automatically updated when changing sidedef brightness or using "Match Brightness" action.
Linedefs mode: added "Update 'lightfog' flag" menu item.
Game configurations: cosmetic changes in UDMF linedef flag names.
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Fixed, Visual mode: floor brightness was calculated incorrectly when "Disable Light Effects"/"Restrict light inside" 3d floor flags were used and the floor had "lightfloor" property.
Fixed: "lightabsolute" flag was accessed incorrectly in previous commit.
Sound Environment Mode: sound environments can now be picked by editing sound environment things.
Sound Environment Mode: detected sound environments names are now used as item names in the tree view.
Fixed, Classic modes: incorrect texture was used as unknown floor/ceiling texture (I broke this in r2199).
Fixed, MainForm: reverted MainForm.UpdateToolStripSeparators. By making it look simpler I made it work more buggy...
Updated ZDoom_DECORATE.cfg.
Fixed, Sectors mode, UDMF: surface cache was not updated after applying floor/ceiling brightness gradients.
Cosmetic, Sectors mode, UDMF: brightness gradient modes now have more descriptive names.
Internal, InterpolationTools: replaced EaseInOutSine equation with one, which actually works.
Map Analysis mode: selection color is now used when rendering affected things.
Fixed, Map Analysis mode, "Check unused things" check: checker returned false-positive results when used in Doom map format.
Fixed, Sectors mode: holding Alt to (de)select things inside of sectors worked only in band selection mode. Now it also works when selecting individual sectors and when using paint selection mode.
Fixed, Statistics Control: forgot to remove some test code in r2176...
Internal: removed several unused icons.
Fixed, Texture Browser Form: well, I broke "Tab" key functionality again (in previous commit)...
Maintenance: changed curly braces style to match DB2 one (hopefully not breaking anything in the process...).
Maintenance: changed private method names casing to match DB2 one.
"Find Any Texture or Flat", "Find Sector Flat" and "Find Sidedef Texture" options now support "*" (match any number of characters) and "?" (match any single character) wildcards.
"Find Any Texture or Flat" is now available any game configuration (previously it was disabled when "MixTexturesFlats" game configuration option was disabled, now only "Replace" functionality is disabled).
"Find Thing Flags" and "Find Linedef Flags" can now replace flags.
Added "Find Sidedef Flags" and "Find Sector Flags" search options.
Fixed, Draw Grid mode: grid triangles are now aligned properly with previously drawn triangulated grids when using the same map grid size and "Lock slices to grid" and "Triangulate" options are enabled.
Fixed, Draw Grid mode: not all grid cells were drawn in some cases.
Fixed, Draw Grid mode: current grid size was not increased when "Lock slices to grid" was enabled and the start point was no longer on the map grid.
Changed, Draw Grid mode: snap to grid is now always enabled and snap to nearest is now always disabled when "Lock slices to grid" is enabled.
Changed, Draw Grid mode: when grid's width or height is 0 when accepting the mode, a segmented line is now drawn instead of just a line.
Map Analysis mode: export to file command will now show "Save File" dialog instead of putting the file in the same folder as the map, also added some boilerplate.
Tag Explorer plugin: save to file command will now show "Save File" dialog instead of putting the file in the same folder as the map, also added some boilerplate.
Internal: reformatted GZCrash.log a bit.
Texture Browser Form: don't save current texture group when the form was canceled.
Keyboard Shortcut Reference export: generated html will now be saved to program configuration folder if working folder is write-protected.
Internal: added SupportedMapFormats property to EditModeAttribute. A mode with this property specified will be available only in specified map formats.
Interface: Ceiling Align Mode and Floor Align Mode are now enabled by default.
Interface: Ceiling Align Mode and Floor Align Mode are now only available in UDMF map format.
Interface: Visplane Explorer Mode is now available only in Doom map format.
Sectors mode: changed Alt-key handling. Now it only enables "snap to grid increment" mode.
Things mode: "snap to grid increment" mode now works in this mode.
Updated documentation.
Linedefs Mode: "Flip Linedefs" action now tries to align linedefs, so their front (or back) point towards the same sector.
Sectors Mode: "Flip Linedefs" action is now available form this mode, and it will also try to align linedefs, so their front (or back) point towards the same sector.
