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Faeroon
11-16-2002, 09:51 AM
Mornin' everybody... *yawns*

Got a quick question to all the Maya masters
out there ;)
I've used Lightwave for some weeks now and now,
as I'm back to Maya, I'm somehow confused.

The problem is the selection type of Maya.

In LW you got the lasso and you can.. (ok, that's
a bit hard to discribe for me, hope you understand what
I mean) move your mouse over the faces and everything
that's under the mouse cursor gets selected. The same
goes for points - you just move the mouse back and forth
and here and there and - WOOSH - the points are selected.

Now, in Maya, if you want to select faces f.ex. you have
to click the point in the middle of EVERY face!! Not just rush
over the thing with your mouse and anything's fine - no!
Every face has to be selected with a click on the center point.
(Same thing with points *sigh)

My question is:

Is there ANY way to get the smooth and fast LW-selection way
or am I doomed to select every single face?

(I've heard something like using Artisan Paint tools for
selecting, but I haven't found anything about that yet)


If anyone can help me - plz!
Selecting every single face drives me NUTS!

Cheers

Fae
castelis
11-16-2002, 12:02 PM
Maya have lasso tool too. Go and use it.
Faeroon
11-16-2002, 12:14 PM
Thx for your "kind" answer castelis ..

I know that Maya has the lasso tool but even with
backface culling turned on the lasso tool marks
the faces in the front AND at the back of the model
(sorry if I'm to dumb to use it, but I thought backface culling would solve this)

On the other hand - the lasso tool was not my main
problem, it was the type of selection that has to be done
in Maya (selecting the faces by the center point etc.)
and I still hope someone can give me a hint how to do
the selection in LW-style - maybe with Artisan tools, a
plugin or whatever.

So... if anyone knows - let me know :)
TeK
11-16-2002, 12:38 PM
Go to Windows-->Settings/Preferences-->Preferences--> Selection. There you can change the Face selection from Point to whole Face.
Faeroon
11-16-2002, 01:30 PM
Aaaaaaaah - just what I needed :)
Thx Tek! :applause: :thumbsup:
iC4
11-16-2002, 01:34 PM
use the paint selection tool or the raycast selection plugin, thats what you are searching for
Faeroon
11-16-2002, 01:51 PM
@ic4-

Hehe - yep, that one's working grrrrrrrrrrrreat :thumbsup:

Thx for all your nice help!
*bows* :applause:
Technofreak
11-16-2002, 10:26 PM
can anyone post that raycast plug? i cant seem to dl it from
highend3d
iC4
11-17-2002, 10:58 AM
raycast plugin
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