raycast selection?

[svenip]

why it is time intensive to set the radius ?? just press the B button on keyboard and with the left mouse button pressed move your mouse sideward. this controls the size.

but anyway, a plugin like the one in soft i don't know :D

[iC4]

hm ok this way is much faster than mine (go to the menu and set it there)

thx :)

[-wT-]

Could you explain (possibly with some pictures too?) how the raycasting works? With MEL, I think coding all kinds of tools is quite fun, but it's hard to get any decent information about tools in other progies if you don't have the opportunity to try 'em.

[iC4]

it works more or less like the paint selection tool in maya, but you don't need to set the radius.

Than you can klick everywhere on a face and it gets selected (not those little squares like in maya)

And you don't need to switch between normal selection and paint select....it's one tool

hope I forgot nothing

[-wT-]

Ah, ok I understand it now. Would be pretty nice indeed.

And just to let you know, it's very easy to change the selection from face center to whole face from the preferences... don't blame Maya if there's not a particular tool/feature if you don't see it immidietly, it's propably there just hiding ;)

[iC4]

AAAAAH, only 3 mouseclicks :bounce:

THX VERY MUCH :applause: :applause: :beer:

[wireFrame]

Polygon selection in Maya is easier than Softimage's raycasting in my opinion. I have hard time deselecting raycasted faces in softimage especially if I'm selecting the opposite side of the face which doesn't get deselected. Maybe I don't know how to do it properly or that's the way it is.

[svenip]

just today a new plugin came out on highend "wasabi_tools" with a raycast selection in it. didn't test it yet so far, so i can' tell how and if it works.

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.