Selection types are the number keys. For example, in editable poly, 1 is vertex, 2 is edge, 3 is border, 4 is polygon, 5 is element, and 6 exits sub-selection and returns you to the whole object.
I also noticed that I was aways charging my selection Region from Rectangular, Circular, Fence, Lasso and Paint. The reason for this is my old habit from Maya of pressing Q to switch to Object mode in Maya. To fix this I changed the "Object Level" hot-key from 6 to Q. You can find this under Customize User Interface >…
Hello Polycount! I Know am not the first and I won’t be the last to try and learn Max coming from Maya and I thought I would document my experince and post any questions I have here. Hopefully others can save themselves some time while learning Max and if the also have some questions feel free to post in this thread…