Saving Component Selection in Maya

Funky Bunnies

Hey all, I've been slowly working on and off on this script for a while and I've been having a helluva time getting people to test it. Fortunately Tacit Math and StJoris have lent me a hand in doing so and I think it's about ready to be released now.

FBsaveSelection is a script that tries to mimic the behaviour of 3ds max and retain component selections.




It's all done with MEL, so it's slower than plugin solutions like you could get with NEX, but I hope to get into the Maya API at some point so I can speed it up.


Anyway, feel free to take a look and let me know what you think

pior

It's looking fantastic from here :P Will try it asap. That's one of these little things that hardcore Maya users swear they don't need, but then once you show it to them they are like oooooh that's useful!

Thanks for the hard work

Yozora

whoa thanks alot! Just tested it and it works perfectly, makes you wonder why the hell Maya doesnt do this by default in the first place -.-

so true pior

Just checked out the other scripts, that image plane one seems to be quite handy as well, thanks alot again

MoP

Awesome, Funky Bunnies. I have NEX at work so probably won't need it there, but I'll try it out at home

PolyHertz

Just tested it on 2k8 ex2 and works great. Definetly one of those things I miss alot when outside max, but no more! Thanks for the awesome plugin

Funky Bunnies

Thanks, guys
I hope it's useful for you all

I totally know what you mean about slight resistance to this and many other features. Some people can't see how useful they can be until they fully adopt it. Maybe that's why I've been having so much trouble getting some of my Maya buddies to test my scripts haha.

MoP

I don't get why people wouldn't want this feature. There's no downside to it at all.