protection tag shortcomings

[LucentDreams]

yea the protection tag is old now, very old and sereiously just doens't cut it, its more trouble then it is help.

Unfortunately there is no way to do what you want as of 9.5 trust me its something as a TD that I'm fighting for, the rpotection tag needs otptions on what it shoudl protect and should offer a lot mor control over things liek hierarchy as well. Also I'dlike a passweord option so one can protect something and others can't unprotect without the password.

[moka.studio]

It would be nice to have a ghosted option for objects , in addition to the 3 Editor Visibility options. (visible to not editable, selectable etc...)
Some cad sofware also have a ghosted mode, but with snapping on the object available as well.

[Decade]

Well, if you put the objects which you want to be selectable in a selection object, then enable 'restrict editor selection' - then you will be unable to select other objects in the viewport. This might not be practicle if you have 300 objects you want selectable & 1 which you don't.

[wuensch]

and you could make an Expresso that feeds the global Pos/Rot/Scale into the global matrix .
Obviously not elegant, but will make sure it stays where and how it is--

Olli

[tcastudios]

There was a COFFEE script by mdme_Sadie in a Resource thread in the head of this forum before. It works as you describe. If you select an object with that coffeeTag it will be immediately de-selected. Maybe mdme_Sadie knows where it is now. I tried a quick Search for coffee and select but didn't hit it.


Cheers
Lennart

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