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IHaveFirstController

01-25-2005, 02:00 AM

Hello. I recently started working with XSI, mainly because I love modeling with it, despite some quirks.

One thing however is really annoying me. I am working on a character, and if I select a point in the back of the head, in shaded mode, it selects that point, and a point in the front of the face as well. If I move the point, it moves both, which, unknown to me has ruined the face of my model. The only thing i found that I thought would help did nothing and that is the "Select single object in region" option found in the select menu. Is this just an xsi thing, is there something I am missing? This has affected me maybe 2 or 3 times now and it REALLY hurts when you work, save, and notice you distorted your model on accident. Anyone help?

thanx for reading.

Rabid pitbull

01-25-2005, 02:53 AM

press f10 to use raycast mode, then it will only select components facing you.

Serial

01-25-2005, 08:14 AM

yea, you're missing something, in the preferences there's alternative selection method called something like "ignore backfacing". I don't have xsi front of me atm so i can't remember correctly

hope this helps

IHaveFirstController

01-25-2005, 09:13 PM

Ahhhhh... That does help very very much. Couldn't find the option you mentioned serial, but thanks anyway! :) Back to modelling.

love this program

Ablefish

01-26-2005, 06:26 AM

Just in case... Hope you know about the M key to move single points too.

AdrianLazar

01-26-2005, 09:43 AM

AFAIK, xsi dosen`t have that ignore backafacing option (lika max has)...
also, i think that the lasso tool selects only the polys that are faceing you..

ThE_JacO

01-26-2005, 09:52 AM

AFAIK, xsi dosen`t have that ignore backafacing option (lika max has)...
also, i think that the lasso tool selects only the polys that are faceing you..

afaik you are mistaken ;)
the ignore backfacing option is present in the preferences, affects move point as well.

also most selections, including rectangle, can be made to work in raycast mode (ignore backfacing) using the raycast mod (F10) or just use the paint selection.

lasso is a naturally raycasting mode, but it can be made to select everything if the viewport is in a non depth-aware mode like wireframe.

oglu

01-26-2005, 11:07 AM

aktivate...
file > preferences > tools > selection > raycast in shaded mode

larious

01-26-2005, 11:29 AM

F10 for the Raycast selection tool & Shift+F10 for the Rectangle-Racast tool.
I thougt also from there you'll be able to select lasso etc. selection tool's.

Taka-

AdrianLazar

01-26-2005, 04:15 PM

uhhh, my bad :banghead:
thanks jacO

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