Auto Selecting adjacent edges

[quantumprime]

Hey everybody.

I'm new to both the community and maya. I've been attempting to teach myself maya mainly as a hobby. What you all create is quite amazing and impressive.

I have been able to create some small polygonal-styled objects. Though there is something I find that my maya does not react the same as some video tutorials that I'm following. Specifically, when I select a vertex, or an edge, the selected area becomes yellow as it should, though adjacent edges and vertexes become red, and when I manipulate the yellow selected items, it seems to indirectly affect the shape of adjacent areas.

How can I disselect the adjacent items being indirectly selected?

Thanks for any info!

[tokyopancake]

Hi, good question!

It's because you've got 'soft-selection' turned on (maybe by mistake). You can find the soft selection checkbox by double clicking the select tool, or the translation tools on the left sidebar..

The hotkey for this is b (toggle), but when you keep it pressed it will let you set the fall-off radius for this soft-selection. Quite handy. You probably hit 'b' by mistake and ended up here.

Good luck 

[quantumprime]

Thanks Tokyopancake! I'm glad I came across this feature because I can see how useful it is when you want it.

[quantumprime]

Just another quick question about a seeming "bug" I've come across which I cannot solve.

When I attempt to extrude a face and pull the face upward it goes downward by atleast 5 units. Is there a setting which could be attributed to this? I find myself forced to use the y-dimension to extrude upwards to obtain a fine result.

Thanks

[tokyopancake]

Just a shot in the dark, but try to go to editMesh>Extrude > OptionBox. It could be your default settings have been changed, and maybe your offset is set to -5.00 or something else? You can reset your settings with edit>reset settings in the optionbox menu.

Hope this helps? 

[quantumprime]

I tried that didn't work. Seems to be better when my POV is under the face... odd.T

Thanks never the less.