Sage: No, my whole initial point was that Maya has (by default) a way to select UV shells (or "elements" as Max calls them) in the viewport. This is the feature Jasp is looking for in Max, and by the looks of things it doesn't exist without a pluging or script. As various people have described, the only way to do this by…
EricChadwick: Yep, Soft Selection has been in Maya since Maya 2008 extension 1. Here's a diagram of selection methods comparing Maya 2008 and Max 2010. I'm using the same mesh and achieving the same results in both packages. I have documented the steps required to achieve each one. Conclusions For selecting geometry…
HAHA this question is the joke of the year :) but i guess you are new in 3D so it is fine ;) for the history of it this is a "fresh" feature in maya and a very old one in 3dsmax. 3dsmax still has far more selection options and methods. You can select in any way you need actually even in ways not available to other tools…
"There are only one or two extra options that Max has over Maya." I guess then you must be the hardcore maya type :) this might sound childish now but, can you list them please? "This is actually a horrible workflow compared to Maya's method - in Maya you simply select any element in the 3d viewport and CTRL+right click ->…
So your solution to speeding up the "select by UV element" workflow in Max is simply to say "sorry, you can't do that in Max, so stop trying!", and instead offer a workaround which actually requires more unnecessary work? I don't want to assign new material IDs or smoothing groups just to be able to select a set of UVs…
The reason for wanting a UV shell selection method is to be able to easily assign separate Smoothing Groups for each UV shell in order to improve tangent-space normal mapping results. Splitting the vertices themselves creates worse seams in the normal map. I only wish to split the vertex normals (thus, smoothing groups).…
Sorry but i have to reply to both of you in so many questions, i got jumped on as if i am a representative or something so don't blame me for yet another wall of text, you asked for it :) if we had remained to the selection features comparison we wouldn't have gone through all that. I have tried to split by placing a name…