Cannot deselect in viewport

[hansesurfer]

I have some objects parented to a group node. When I need to select all children of the selected node I wrote that little script:

string $parentt = ls -selection;
select -hi;
select -d $parentt[0];

Unfortunately when I then need to deselect some of the objects, they are still active in the viewport, but in the outliner they are deselected!

any idea???

thanks!

[ricgreen]

try this

string $selectedNodes[] = ls -selection -long;
select -cl;

for($node in $selectedNodes)
{
select -add listRelatives -ad $node;
}

[hansesurfer]

many thanks ricgreen, it works!!

[joojaa]

Yes the script above deselects the parent.

Well thats because maya or rather YOU the operator have hard time seing what is selected and what is not. Since the higlight will color all nodes underneatth the sselected transform. You can still click on those objects to delselect them but theree will be no visual feedback on this.

The rasoning is that maya does indeed not highlight whats selected BUT rather whats affected by the selection. Why... well because you hardly ever select the objects themselves but rather a tranbsform dowstream (it does not realy matter if its downstream by 1 step or 1000). Now maya undrstands this and also understands that multiple things can be one object.

However maya has hard time doing the opposite wich is the downside of this wonderfull sytem. Treating everything as individuals. Partly because thet would be worse than the way it does now. Because thatway youd never se whan you selected the parent. (now maya could color them differently for you!)

Now personaly im confident enough so thet i can pick those objects blindly and know ive done so without much problems. Even tough i dont get any visual feedback of it,

[hansesurfer]

hmmm.. jooja, I do not know if I get you right.

Even if one of my objects might be deselected in the outliner, it was selected in the viewport, and, the point is, I could still go into component mode for that object and modify it.....

[joojaa]

No whahats selected in the outliner is selected in the viewport.

what highlighted is another thing. dont confuse terms. highlight is what turns objecst green or white on the screen. Whats highlighted is all objects benetah the selected transform.

So if you had a hiarerchy root selected then the entire hierarchy is highlighted. IT IS NOT HOWEVER SELECTED. just the root is. You can still shift select children in the viewport or shift unselect. However you dont get any visual feedback of this. on the monitor since its allready highlighted (it can only be highlighted once).

MAya selects the entire hiearachy because otherwise yu would not gaet any feedback at all. Bacuse you never ever select the saheps wich sis reraly what yiu se on screen.

Nad yes you could still go to component mode and modify it.

[joojaa]

No whahats selected in the outliner is selected in the viewport.

what highlighted is another thing. dont confuse terms. highlight is what turns objecst green or white on the screen. Whats highlighted is all objects benetah the selected transform.

So if you had a hiarerchy root selected then the entire hierarchy is highlighted. IT IS NOT HOWEVER SELECTED. just the root is. You can still shift select children in the viewport or shift unselect. However you dont get any visual feedback of this. on the monitor since its allready highlighted (it can only be highlighted once).

And yes you could still go to component mode and modify it.

MAya realy is consitent in this manner. Because most logic also works thisway.

[joojaa]

Ps are you sure you dnt want to operate on shape lavell.