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Can it not be coded?
I don't get it. One of my pet hates with max is that ignore backfacing only works if the surface is facing away from the viewport (self explanatory). But what about the majority of the time when there are vertices behind the surface you're woking on which get selected because they're not backfacing? Viewport clipping's a… -
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I believe ignore backfacing works the same way backface culling does by using the face normal to determine if it's drawn (or selectable) or not. This is why it's allowing these verts to be selected. Would it be hard to code something like that? Probably not, you'd just have to check if those verts are behind the drawn… -
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Yeah, you'd think so, not in Max though. The Ignore Backfacing button is basically pointless in Max, imo. @FicWill: I'm not a coder. I was hoping something was about :) -
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Im going to regret saying this but since installing .Net 4.0 im digging the ribbon. The default position is shit but Float a few toolbars go into expert mode.. JOY -
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There are MANY things in max that could be improved upon, but instead they add new shit that doesn't really matter, and leave stuff broken or un-reliable. They have made some aspects better, but I won't hold my breath for them to fix the other tools. -
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Selection Highlighting in max makes selection a lot more reliable, but then selection works completely different from how it normally does (holding ctrl without clicking flags everything you pass over with the cursor to be selected when you click) If only it worked more like Silo's selection highlighting. -
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It shouldn't be an issue really, backface ignore in blender will make only the visible polygons/vertices/edges selectable. I'm pretty sure other applications do it properly aswell. -
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I like the ribbon, yeah. I'd want to get in there and pretty much redo it (cut whitespace, for one!), but I do like it. Oh, and for it to be truly useful, it would have to work for more than just edit poly. For instance on curves etc.. as well -
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I would have to agree with r_fletch_r -
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I totally get what you're saying. Unfortunately in practice that doesn't always work. There's no guarantee that a face's verts will be visible. It's entirely possible (and common) for part of a polygon to be visible, yet all its verts are intersected into other geometry. While it'd be great to do a per-vert search,…
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