Problem Making Custom Marking Menu

[Blue Bird]

Try the tutorials at The Gnomon Workshop (http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/tutorials.html) and pay special attention to Custom Marking Menu for Selection Masks & Custom Marking Menu for Key Tangents.

[Kaiser_Sose]

I am not sure what to do with the selection mask marking menu

What do you do with these three commands

changeSelectMode -hierarchical; setHierSelectMode -root;

changeSelectMode -hierarchical; setHierSelectMode -leaf;

changeSelectMode -hierarchical; setHierSelectMode -template;




Thanks

[MasonDoran]

set the pick mask you like...ie particles or rigid bodies or whatever....then choose the "save to shelf" option under the black arrow next to pick mask menu to save the pick mask as a shelf button. then add these to your custom marking menu where u can rename it to what u like.

The ones gnomon supplied are for the higher up marking menus....like template and leaf and what not becuase there is no save to shelf option. so take these scripts and and drag from the script editor onto the shelf if u want to use them.

[Kaiser_Sose]

I turned every thing off besides just the particles and what not, saved it to shelf and made a murking menu of just that object maks but I dont think that is what I am after

I am trying to get a similar setup to what Alex from Gnomon has on his dynamics videos, he seems to have a custom marking menu for key tangents which he explains on the site but he also has this marking menu for dynamics where he can select particles and particleShapes, etc ... anyone know what he has in that marking menu



Thanks

[MasonDoran]

well this the mel for setting the Keys to what u want:

keyTangent -global -itt spline -ott spline;


keyTangent -global -itt linear -ott linear;


keyTangent -global -itt clamped -ott clamped;


keyTangent -global -ott step;


its global, so all keys will be done like this....itt in in tangent and ott is out tangent...just put these on the shelf or whatever.

and as far as the pick mask....if you can select it...then it will be under the pick mask menu so i dont see your problem for making a marking menu particles

[Kaiser_Sose]

Ya, I know, I am just having a hard time using them, ... the selection mask will not turn off and I assigned the release automaticaly

[MasonDoran]

the release is only to kill the marking menu when you release the hotkey and not display every time you LMB click....you will need an additional command in your marking menu to revert the pick mask to whatever you want.

[Kaiser_Sose]

So I will have to make a hothey for ' all objects selectable ' once I save that to my shelf



Thanks

[MasonDoran]

bingo:thumbsup:

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