Maya2011; Is there away to bring back Maya's old selection of Poly's method

[happycow]

Hi,

I noticed in Maya 2011 that polygons are selected as soon as you click on the poly face. In older versions, to select a polygon you had to click on a center dot in each polygon. The problem that I have with this new method is that if i marquee select, and I  only want certain faces in the back of my object from a certain view (in wire frame mode), its going to select all the faces in the front. as well.

I can bring back the center dots in the Maya Display options for polygons, but there just for display, they don't work the same way as they did in older versions. Also,if possible,  it would be nice to have that new "poly face turns red when your mouse is over it" off. But I can live with that, but the new selection method is hurting my work flow.

[joojaa]

Yes. Its actually a option thats much older then maya 2011. You can find it in maya 2009 for example. But i assume you've taken old prefs with you all this time

You can find it in

windows -> settings/preferences -> preferences -> (Settings) Selection -> Polygon Selection -> Select Faces with: Center

This is a option thats good to be able to toggle since there are sides to BOTH ways and if you do toggle its not practical to go all the way to prefs to do this. Since the mode can be deduced visually form screen (ie dots on screen or not) you dont even need to know beforehand what mode is on. So all you need is to mmb drag and drop following text to the shelf for a toggle:

polySelectConstraint -wholeSensitive (!polySelectConstraint -q -wholeSensitive); refresh -f;