Questions about soft selection...
A few things that irk me about this tool because either they don't exist or I don't know how to accomplish them. Just wondering if anyone out there had answers to these questions or a suggestion for a plugin to solve the issue.
First, is there any way to scale a soft selection? I know about pinch and bubble of course, but I often find that these are inadequate to achieve the selection set and falloff that I want. I guess what I am asking is if there is a way to contract a soft selection along a particular local axis.
Second, is it possible to restrict a soft selection based upon face or edge angles? I often find that my selections tend to wrap around to other sections of my model that I do not want to be involved in the selection. Using edge distance hasn't produced the results that I would like to see, and if there is some way to, say, select only faces that are within a 15 degree angle of the original selection for example, would make things much easier.
I know there are other ways to select objects that might fit within the constraints of what I am trying to do , and that both of these are highly situational selection instances, but it just bothers me that soft selection doesn't seem to offer this, that I have been able to find in any case.
First, is there any way to scale a soft selection? I know about pinch and bubble of course, but I often find that these are inadequate to achieve the selection set and falloff that I want. I guess what I am asking is if there is a way to contract a soft selection along a particular local axis.
Second, is it possible to restrict a soft selection based upon face or edge angles? I often find that my selections tend to wrap around to other sections of my model that I do not want to be involved in the selection. Using edge distance hasn't produced the results that I would like to see, and if there is some way to, say, select only faces that are within a 15 degree angle of the original selection for example, would make things much easier.
I know there are other ways to select objects that might fit within the constraints of what I am trying to do , and that both of these are highly situational selection instances, but it just bothers me that soft selection doesn't seem to offer this, that I have been able to find in any case.
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To select faces with an angle tolerance, Orionflame has some great selection tools, the latest version is not free but an old version is (not sure though if it had those tools or not). Might try http://www.scriptspot.com.