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Select objects in Cinema 4D

Select objects in Cinema 4D

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Select objects in Cinema 4D

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- Now let's start selecting objects in Cinema 4D. I've taken the character that we were working with, and I broke them down into as various parts. And so we're going to select some of these objects. Now, selection in Cinema 4D is done using the select tool. Now, the move rotate and scale tools can also be used to select, but we're just going to focus on selection by itself. Now if I pull down this main menu here, you'll see we have a couple of options. We have live selection, rectangle, lasso, and polygon selection. I'm going to go to rectangle selection. Now notice how my cursor changes with the little rectangle, but all I have to do to select in any of these modes is just left click on an object, and that selects. If I hold down the shift key, I can select multiple objects. If I hold down the control key, I can deselect objects. Now if I have multiple objects selected, I can deselect everything just by clicking on…

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