Wow I had no idea this was doable in 3d max! And I realize this post is probably gonna sound really noobish for those who knew about this
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Its basically like silo/modo/nex with the mouseover highlighting of things, except if you enable the "multi" preview selection then it does all 3 component types, which means I dont need to manually keep switching between them with hotkeys anymore (which I used to do
very often!)
I'll still need to use the component hotkeys when I need to drag-select a certain component but it'll greatly reduce the frequency of usage (or I could just click on a component to enter it's selection mode instead, hmm... then I can replace those 3 hotkeys... edit: nevermind, theres no preview selection thing in unwrap UVW so I'll still need those 3 keys for that mode
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Funny how I never knew about this when its literally in my face 90% of the time (its in the top "selection" bit on the modifier panel)
Now theres only 1 thing I wanna know... can I enable multi-preview selection by default as soon as I create a editable poly?
Also... does 3d max have one of them multi-transform tools that combines move/rotate/scale like modo/maya/silo? I'm so used to switching between the 3 that I never thought of combining them until now~
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yea silly me wasnt thinking about scripting it, just a default option in max, thanks
I feel like a noob today
Actually you're right, after using it for a while today I noticed this too... what the hell is up with that
At least it doesnt happen when you hold shift as well~
Edit; Ok the ctrl thing seems to sometimes select things, which makes trying to select an edge to loop/ring extremely messy. So... in other words, this preview selection thing sucks big time, and now I see why no one else uses it or talks about it.
This. Any workarounds/scripts? haha
Also doesnt seem to like connecting edges to verts like NEX does >.<
I love NEX.. Is there a similar script/plugin for max? haha