Ability to turn meshes into brushes

[DVL-IAC]

Since we can now turn brushes into meshes, it would be neat if we could also do the reverse. Would be handy for making changes to custom meshes or default clutter without having to bring them into blender.

One example would be, so many clutter have missing faces so they look weird if you want to use them in a way that's different then the way they were used in the stock campaign, like having them knocked over. If they could be turned into brushes they could be fixed in seconds by just using the new vertex and face tools in RED to fill in the missing faces, applying a texture to the new face and then converting the brush back to a mesh.

Another would be if you want to just change a texture on a couple specific faces of the clutter. Would be much easier to do then swap texture because the mesh textures usually cover the whole mesh or a many areas of it.

Another would be if you just want to scale a mesh bigger or smaller.

Another would be if you want to set a clutter to no collide because you are over the hit box limit. Then you could quickly generate a brush of the clutter to apply all invisible texture to, to use as the collision.

Lots of use cases for turning meshes into brushes.

[GooberRF]

To be clear, REDUX can already do v3m -> rfg directly without needing to go through Blender, so this pathway already is available.

But I definitely do hear you, that being able to do it directly in the editor would be far more convenient. It's not a small task, but it should be practical to do.

[DVL-IAC]

Yeah there's definitely a couple different ways to do it, just none as quick and convenient as doing it right in RED would be. :P Also a bit of a pain to get the group perfectly aligned with where the mesh was, since it's going to import to world center when just taking a v3m and converting to rfg in another app.