Hey there.

I have a really strange problem with hammer and grouping.
I created some prefabs, which are grouped when I import them.
Now I use the 'ig' (ignore groups) button to edit single entitys.

But Hammer Does only display the 'VisGroup' Tab and not the Entity related Tabs.

You can try out what I mean with just a few steps:
1.) create a brush
2.) create 2 entities 'trigger_multiple'
3.) group all 3 created things
4.) now try to edit the properties of the triggers
=> does not work for me even with 'ig' on/off

Does anyone know how to fix this? This is really annoying.

On the right side of Hammer you can choose between groups, objects, or solids. By default "ignore groups" selects "solids". Solids allows you to edit single brushes in a solid entity, and this is not what you want. What you want is "objects" which will allow you to select entities as a whole and edit them.

Oh my god. Thank you so much dude!
You saved me alot of time.

So just to make it clear to anyone:
1.) select the 'Auto'-Tab on the 'VisGroups' Menu (right side of hammer)
2.) select the entity you want to edit (for example: 'triggers')
3.) click the 'mark' button
4.) now you can edit the entity as usual

wow... Iam so happy now and can go on with mapping without deleting the groups.