This may actually be more appropriate to the mapping help forum, and if it is please do move it, but this seems to qualify more as a general-use item than specific help or problems.

Anyway, I've written a little tutorial over on the Snark Pit on how to use vertex manipulation and/or Align to View to help align textures across 'curved' surfaces in HL. There's a specific example at the end showing the technique used on an ns2.wad texture, but other than that it's relevant to anything Hammer-related.

It's nothing revolutionary, but has some information some people may not know about... Thought I'd toss it up here.

http://www.snarkpit.com/editing.php?page=tutorials&id=80

Hope someone finds it useful.

Omg that is just *weeeee*

Never knew there was a method to align to view

Always thought there were only align to face and to world, and getting the texture-alignment-plane into any other position would need many work ...

Great stuff, and thanks man

Nice tut there KFS!

If only I had known this sooner...... that's probably HOURS of fiddle time that weren't necessary. Nice work KFS.

Ah, I always wondered if Align to View had any practical use. Good tutorial!

I've converted the entire tutorial so that QuArK users can also create such texture alignement:

Right click a face and select tag face.
Now experiment with right clicking other faces and selecting wrap texture from tagged, wrap texture around pillar or project texture from tagged. Note that the latter is also available in the tree view by right clicking an object, allowing you to project the textures of an entire brush or group at once.

I think this info should be added to the Mapping Help and Troubleshooting forum.