This might be a locked core functionality but just out of curiosity. Would it or is it possible to disable moving a face or vertex without the transform gizmo? What I mean by this is.......when in polygon mode or edge or vertex......you are able to manipulate the face,edge,vert directly without using the gizmo.....ideally…
I knew this would be the first reply lol whilst I appreciate the advice and somewhat agree....I just find it's not intuitive at all to constantly switch between Q , W whilst modeling. Trust me I know the power of the smart select as I built a script that automatically places you in smart select everytime you make a…
You should only ever be in move/rotate/scale mode when you intend to perform one of those actions, the rest of the time you should be in Select mode ("Q" hotkey) to avoid accidentally transforming your selection.
We've talked about this before. How's your script coming along? https://polycount.com/discussion/196410/3ds-max-2o15-disable-move-amp-select-tool-free-moving
Just wanted to add, you can disable to inner box on the transform gizmo by running this script: tmGizmos.useCenterBox = false (you can also turn it back on by setting the value to true instead of false) That should greatly reduce the risk of accidentally moving the selection when creating new selections in…