Thursday, January 15, 2009

Hot Tips for selecting in 3ds max


So, you are having problem in selecting objects in 3ds Max? You click on the object in the viewport to select it. But the resulting selection is another object of the viewport. It seems that you are in the Perspective Viewport and you're set to Smooth and Highlight shading mode and you have a lot of objects in front of each other, isn't it ? Sometimes it drives you crazy. 3ds Max seems to perversely choose every object except the one you want.
Anybody ever experience this? Use to happen to me a lot. I think there's some coding behind it that performs a "z-cycle" which is to blame.

What to do now?

There is a fix. Toggle to Wireframe (F3). I don't know why it works, but it works. You can click on the wire of what you're trying to select and you will select it. Everytime.
Also gives your left hand something to do. That is pressing F3. Wireframe On/Wireframe Off. Try it.

Dont forget to email me if you like it really at support.3dsmax@gmail.com

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