locking selection sets

[Sammy]

you haven't explained WHY you need to lock CVs well enough, but if you only want to effect a certain group of CVs on a model you can always apply an Animation > Deform > Create Lattice ... OR create a Quick Selection Set by first making your selection, then 'bookmark' that selection under Create > Set > Quick Selection Set... Access that selection set again under Edit > Quick Selection Sets The Selection Wizard mel script on highend3d is superior for managing lots of selction sets.

If you want to select a ring of CVs on a NURBS surface just do that in HULL component mode. If it's a poly surface you can select a ring of verts by orienting your camera properly and making the selection - while pruning off verts you don't want with Ctrl-LMB ... OR in EDGE component mode select ONE edge then hold down Ctrl-LMB and Select Contiguous Edges - again, while holding down Ctrl-LMB choose TO VERTICES.

-Sammy

[iso]

Thanks for the quick reply

i want to be able to lock selection sets to tweak the model. it just seems easier to be able to select all the cv's for a particular isoparm, then lock the selection set, then tweak the shape, then move on to the next set of cv's for the next isoparm.

i have seen that if i go to hull mode and select a hull that all the corresponding cv's are selected, but i don't seem to them be able to lock the cv set and tweak them individually, which is what i want to do, it only allows me to move, scale, or rotate the whole hull.

the selection set thing might work, but it is not really practical since i would then have a selection set for each set of cv's belonging to each isoparm.

[Sammy]

you can always select the hull - then move into CV mode and trim off the ones you don't want to include in your set.

Selection sets are the way to go here -- I don't think the function you describe exists within maya ... with selection wizard you can for instance make a contiguous selection - then break it up into segments and save those off as different selections, etc.

I think you're spending too much time trying to get too much control - just move the points into place like the rest of us do! :)

-Sammy

[iso]

I just have a hard time figuring out which cv i want to tweak, seeing as they kinda seem to just dangle around. for poly modeling i don't have a problem with it due to the fact that it is easy to identify which vertex needs to be selected.

thanks for the help

[Sammy]

have you worked at all with the sculpt surfaces tool ? It'd probably help you block out the changes you want to make without having to figure out CVs - just make sure you crank the default values (opacity and max displacement) WAY DOWN as the defaults are really strong and will pull your model apart really quick.

-Sammy

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