Re: SI selections driving me nuts...

[Sergio Mucino]

I'm really really not doing this manually. It happens when I hit F11 to go into Polygon selection mode (Maya keyboard layout). I wish I could do a screen capture for you guys. On 30/10/2013 6:49 AM, Martin wrote: Are you sure you're not changing to Raycast Polygon mode? I can't repro that. If you use the options inside the Select Menu / Modes it will change the selection mode and selection tool to whatever you are selecting. So if you are using this option and select "Raycast Polygon" your tool will be a raycast no matter what you were using before. If you use the buttons under the Select Menu it will only change the selection mode (filter). Raycast Point isn't very useful. I would recommend you these two options: 1. Use lasso to select points in front, and rectangle to select all points. or 2. Change your preferences to select Raycast in Shaded Mode with the Rectangle tool. This way you can switch between wireframe (or xray) and shaded to select backfaces. Martin On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 2:41 AM, Sergio Mucino <sergio.muc...@modusfx.com> wrote: I've noticed it goes back to Raycast in step 5, when I go back to Polygon selection mode. I'll see if I can find a preference for the selection method for said mode. On 29/10/2013 1:13 PM, Sergio Mucino wrote: I use the pop-over menu inside the "Select" button, at the top right of the UI. Raycast is pretty useless for me too in Point mode, but it just keeps coming back... Thanks for  the hotkey tip! I do use a Maya-based keyboard layout, but I'll find it. Cheers! On 29/10/2013 12:42 PM, Grahame Fuller wrote: Using the buttons at the top right changes only the filter not the tool, and it seems like activating point selection using Select Adjacent also changed the tool from Raycast to Rectangle. (Raycast selection being not that handy for points.) I'd suggest using keys: Y is Polygon Rectangle in SI mode -- I'm not sure whether there is an equivalent in Maya mode by default but you can always make one. gray From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:18 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: SI selections driving me nuts... I use my own selection toggle tools, but I've never had a problem like that and I can't reproduce your problem even if I try it only using my mouse. SI remembers the last tool I used when changing between selection modes. How are you changing your selection modes? On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Sergio Mucino <sergio.muc...@modusfx.com<mailto:sergio.muc...@modusfx.com>> wrote: Okay. I'm not sure if there's a preference for this, but I REALLY want to turn it off. This is what I'm doing... 1. Go into Polygon selection mode. For some reason, the selection tool is set to Raycast, so I'll switch it back to Rectangle. 2. Select some polygons. 3. Select Adjacent -> Points 4. Smooth Envelope Weights on the selected points. 5. Go back to Polygon selection mode. The select tool is set back to Raycast!! I have to change it with EVERY CHANGE I do! And I have to repeat this operation several dozens of times. SI is driving me crazy with this. Is there a preference somewhere to NEVER change the selection tool unless I explicitly do it? Thanks for any help! -- [cid:image001.gif@01CED4A3.D66FEC20]