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when trying to select a surface on the inside of an object that is inverted (the normals being inward and the surface type set to 1 sided) its rather annoying having to deal with the back faces of the outer surfaces especially since the back faces are invisible.
I'd like to see an option to ignore back faces (a little checkbox next to "gridsnap" and "select through" would be nice) |
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Still, it would be nice to be able to ignore hidden backfaces as a whole. Milkshape has this option, but Milkshape is a bit tedious for the type of work I'm doing here :P Last edited by avesthefox; 10th January 2014 at 11:28 AM. |
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It definitely seems that the hide surface script isnt entirely reliable...
the surfaces unhide themselves after certain operations. Is there a fix for this? |
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The surface hiding thing was a hack which is why it's not distributed in the main release. It is safe to use but as you've discovered, some functions reveal the surfaces again. To support surface-hiding fully would be very difficult and time consuming to implement.
I'll look into implementing an ignore-backfaces-for-selection mechanism though... |
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Oh man, this would make my sword modelling so much easier.
I'm making faceplaces for it, and then having to manually select all of the inside surfaces one at a time to copy/paste into the piece they attach onto. Its either that or cut away the back side in chunks. Being able to just select everything without grabbing the surfaces behind it would be quite nice.
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Have you tried the paint-select? hold down control+shift and left drag over surfaces to select them.
Last edited by Andy; 7th March 2014 at 03:42 PM. Reason: typo |
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set surf_label [label $hide_frame.surf_label -text "Surf:"] set UI(surf_selected) [cbutton $hide_frame.surf_selected " Sel " "ac3d surfaces_hide_selected" "hide selected surfaces"] # set UI(surf_unselected) [cbutton $hide_frame.surf_unselected " Unsel " "ac3d surfaces_hide_unselected" "hide unselected surfaces"] set UI(surf_unhide) [cbutton $hide_frame.surf_unlock " None " "ac3d surfaces_unhide_all" "Unhide all surfaces"] grid $surf_label -row 2 -column 0 -sticky w grid $UI(surf_selected) -row 2 -column 1 -sticky w # grid $UI(surf_unselected) -row 2 -column 2 -sticky w grid $UI(surf_unhide) -row 2 -column 3 -sticky w |
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Lol, one day we're going to have a long talk about all these undocumented features... :P
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