Selecting bones in 3ds Max

barnesy

Hi Polycount, 

I was wondering if there was a way of getting around having to select each layer/bone individually every time I want to select the bones to add to a skin modifier? 

I'm fairly sure that you used to be able to select the collapsed biped and it would automatically add all of the bones . 

Thanks in advance.

coven

You can double click on a parent and it will select all of their children. Another navigation feature is..
CTRL + Click a parent carrot will expand all children.
CTRL + Clicking again will collapse all children.

Martin

monster

You can type Bip* then Enter in the search field to get all the Biped Objects.

Since you have a mix of bone and Biped objects you can also Alt + Click on the Bone icon to show only bones. Type * then Enter to select all.