3DSMAX - Selecting unwanted vert in symmetry

Enexus

I am new to 3dsmax and am working on the high poly spaceship tutorial. The problem I have is that when I select one vertex it automatically selects the middle vertex as well. When I turn off symmetry it doesn't do this so I know it has something to do with that. I followed the tutorial correctly and re watched the part many times and cant understand the problem.

Vertex I want to select on its own



Vertex select on both sides but also in the center.

Will Faucher

I'm not sure, but I think it might have something to do with have a face selected in your first edit poly stack. I may be way off, here, though.

Eric Chadwick

Your modifier stack is not helping. You don't need two Edit Poly modifiers, and you don't need to keep the Box primitive either. A single Editable Poly under the Symmetry will give you better performance, smaller file sizes, and less troubles. To get this, right click on the highlighted Edit Poly and choose Collapse To.

Mark Dygert

You probably have some geometry that is crossing the center point? I agree with everyone else about the messy stack. Collapse it, delete half of your mesh, apply symmetry and try it again.

Enexus

This was the way that the guy on the tutorial was doing it saying that having the original primitive and multiple edit polys would give some history to go back to. Thanks for the advice though, I found that the issue was the the vert in the center was highlighted but not select and if I just selected it then it works. Thanks for the feedback though guys, much appreciated.

Eric Chadwick

Sounds like the guy in the tutorial doesn't have enough experience to know better.