aha! thanks, you see i was using shift+i which is the shortcut hotkey to isolate selection but Ive still found no shortcut hotkey to unisolate selection. I guess the button on the viewport will have to do for now, would be better if I could just hit shift+i again to reveal all.
I'm guessing you're coming from Max? In Maya people use groups alot more, usually you want to organise your scenes with lots of groups, which makes the outliner quite useful. Ctrl-g (create group from selected objects) p (parent objects to last selected object/group) and shift-p (ungroup selected objects) are all your…
I like to put the quick keys for selection hiding and unhiding on my shelf. It makes it really fast and easy. Having delete history, freeze transformations, center pivot, and flip normals is really helpful as well. I use isolate selection a little bit, but it is only active in that one view port, the functions I showed…
thanks yeah Im using the old split polygon tool for all cutting of polys these days. sorry to dig this thread up but I have another question: an ongoing issue my workmate and I are having with maya is that it doesnt seem to lock you in to an editing mode(eg vert or poly edit mode) once you are editing. So Im snapping verts…
Hey sorry Ged, I think when you do isolate selected it does something behind the hood cause if you run the script without isolate selected, everything disappears and re-appears when toggled back. I changed the script to add the object selected to the isolation mode. global proc isolateSelectedUber(){ string $currentPanel =…
Im doing my best to learn maya at work and Ive hit some walls. I really didnt want to do this but I would like to use this thread to ask my questions rather than litter polycount with random issues. First thing to note is that I have been reading a lot of the other threads on here asking for maya help etc so Im not being…
Just threw this together so if you wanted you could rebind isolate select to it. If you want I can do it for all the views.: global proc isolateSelectedUber(){ string $currentPanel = `getPanel -withFocus`; string $panelType = `getPanel -to $currentPanel`; if ($panelType == "modelPanel"){ if (size(`ls -sl`)>0){ string…
hmmm that is already unchecked by default...what does that do anyway? also theres an "auto select asset" checkbox that I see is checked...what would that be doing? I might just do some experiments now. thanks
Occasionally accidental "activation" of other models happens to me but it's stored in undo history so a simple Z stroke to undo keeps my work flow going mostly uninterrupted. If none of the things already suggested help your problem, it might be something you'll just end up having to work around. *shrug* I personally use…
hey thanks haiddasalami unfortunately that script just seems to go between isolated and normal mode which just hides everything and shows everything and doesnt actually isolate my currently selected object? still its pretty cool cause I have bound that script to "i" so i use shift+i to isolate and "i" to unisolate.