soft selection, falloff hotkey?

[sam]

not a bad idea . . .

it is indeed possible, you just have to make a macroscript first and then bind a hotkey to it

i came up with a couple of macroscripts to do this. they rely on the keyboard repeating the key when you hold it down so you can quickly adjust the value of falloff up or down by holding down the hotkey. So make sure to have the keyboard set to repeat very fast.

I set it up so it works fairly nicely with the basic scale I like to work with for most things. As you can see in the code, it increments 0.5 with every repeat. You can adjust this scale by adjusting that value in the script should you desire to.

Basically copy these into text documents named whatever you like, rename the extension to .mcr and place in your UI/macroscripts folder and then go to Customize User Interface to hotkey them


first macroscript

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macroScript ShrinkSoftSel
category:"MyScripts"
toolTip:"Shrink Soft Select"
(
on isEnabled return
(
if (((getcurrentselection()).count == 1) and ($ != undefined)) then
if (classof $.baseobject == Editable_Poly) then true else false
else false
)

on Execute do
(
undo off
(
local tempvalue = $.Falloff
tempvalue = tempvalue - 0.5
if (tempvalue < 0) then tempvalue = 0
$.Falloff = tempvalue
)
)
)

--------------- [end snip] -----------


second macroscript

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macroScript GrowSoftSel
category:"MyScripts"
toolTip:"Grow Soft Select"
(
on isEnabled return
(
if (((getcurrentselection()).count == 1) and ($ != undefined)) then
if (classof $.baseobject == Editable_Poly) then true else false
else false
)

on Execute do
(
undo off
(
local tempvalue = $.Falloff
tempvalue = tempvalue + 0.5
$.Falloff = tempvalue
)
)
)
------------ [end snip] ---------------

[nukee]

WOW!, thanks man. I really appreciate that :D. You just made my day :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :thumbsup:

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