making mesh unselectable..

[azshall]

Selection masks? ... Simply just turn off the ability to select geometry or whatever node you want. There is a tutorial at www.gnomononline.com that talks about setting up Marking Menu's for doing this type of thing..

I use them, they work great..

Seth

[underearth]

i know selection mask.. but i am talking about not letting animators select that object.. with mask they can accedently or knowingly turn on the mask an object become selectable..

[cpan]

you can create a script job with the SelectionChanged event to filter the new selections and unselect whatever you don't need.


//create the job and retain it's ID in the $myJob int variable so you can delete it after
//btw use this code to kill the job: scriptJob -kill $myJob -force;

int $myJob = `scriptJob -e "SelectionChanged" "myUnselect"`;


// now create the procedure that's called whenever the selectionchanged event is triggered

global proc myUnselect()
{
string $selection[] = `ls -sl`;
for ($item in $selection)
{
// now add code here to unselect whatever you don't want to be selectable
// in this example i make unselectable any object wich name starts with "a"

if (`gmatch $item "a*"`)
select -deselect $item;
}
}

wrote this from my memory so it might not work ok from the first try :)

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