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Selecting in window and crossing modes

Selecting in window and crossing modes - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Selecting in window and crossing modes

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- [Aaron Ross] Concluding our chapter on the 3ds Max interface, I have one more selection tool I want to share with you. And it's called window crossing mode. Up on the main toolbar we have the select object tool that you're familiar with. There's a rectangular region by default for the select object tool. So if I click and drag, I get a rectangle and I can select something. Or I could use a different mode. I could select with a circle, click and drag. Or even a lasso. But in any case, by default if my selection touches the object, it is selected. Go back to the rectangular region. So this is called crossing mode. That means that if your region crosses or touches an object, it will be selected. But up here on the main toolbar, we can change it over to window mode. Click that button and in window mode, we have to entirely enclose the object within the selection region in order to select the object. So if I click and drag here, and I don't select the entire region then nothing gets…

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