"Rubber band tool"?
On 18 March 2015 at 10:40, Gaia <gaia.cl...@machinimatrix.org> wrote: > I made a simple experiment: > > - i select "keep UV selection in sync" > - then use the rubber band tool to select an UV island > > As a result i get the related vertices selected on the 3D View, > just as expected. AND i also get all UV vertices selected > which belong to other UV islands, which i also expect because > i have actually chosen to keep UV in Sync with 3dView... > > Now here is my problem with your argumentation: > If you say, the selection by UV Island is "wrong and unusable", > what makes it ok to have the rubber band selector available, > which actually "suffers" from the same issues? > > -gaia- > > On 18.03.2015 10:16, Antony Riakiotakis wrote: >> because selecting an island will also select its vertices, and those >> vertices can belong to other uv islands, and if you select those >> vertices you'll have to select uv vertices on other islands as well. >> Ergo, you either select more islands - which makes the tool useless, >> or you leave your selection state invalid. >> >> On 18 March 2015 at 08:02, gandalf3 <zzyx...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I would be surprised if this hasn't been asked before, but finding old >>> stuff on the mailing list isn't easy.. >>> >>> Anyway, trying to select UV islands with L while sync selection is >>> enabled gives the error "Cannot select linked when sync selection is >>> enabled". >>> Why must sync selection be disabled? I can't think of any obvious reason >>> why there would be a conflict of some sort.. As a matter of fact this >>> seems like it would be a really useful ability. >>> >>> Is there some technical limitation which prevents this? >>> >>> -- >>> -gandalf3 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bf-committers mailing list >>> Bf-committers@blender.org >>> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> Bf-committers@blender.org >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers