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Selecting with Window/Crossing

Selecting with Window/Crossing - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Selecting with Window/Crossing

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- [Narrator] When you have multiple objects in the scene, you wanna be able to control how the Selection Tool works. You can choose to, for example, only select objects that are completely enclosed within the selection area. Let's take a look at different options for selection. Here on the main tool bar, we have two buttons. We have the Region Type for selections and then we have Window and Crossing Mode. So the Region Type is defaulted to rectangle and that means when we select using the Select Tool, we can drag a rectangle to select things. Going back up here to the Region pull-down, we can click on that fly-out and choose a different tool. For example, a circle. We can select based upon a circular selection. And every time you press the Q key on the keyboard, you're invoking the Selection Tool, but if the Selection Tool is already active then you're going to change the Selection Mode or the Selection Area Type. If I press Q, you'll see it switch to a different tool there. And now…

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