Nendo /Wings 3d style polygon component selection plugin?

[loganb]

I was just having a discussion with a fellow artist about Nendo/Wings 3D style poly component selection:
If you rollover an edge/vertex/face, it hilights and you click to select that component.
They resposned "it would be cool if there was a Maya plugin or script for that"

Is there? 

[nowayfra]

No plugin needed for this. You just have to change the default settings. Go to Preferences->Categories->Selection and change "Polygon Selection -> Set Faces with" from "Center" to "Whole Face".

[loganb]

Not really about the face selection method...

In Wings 3d you can always select faces, verts and edges simultaneously -no need to switch to "vertex mode" or "face mode". The edges, faces, and vertexes are always "hot", and they hilight as you roll over so you know what you'll be selecting if you click. -The point is to avoid having to switch "modes" to select poly components via menus/hotkeys.

[joojaa]

Yes thats called the Multi mode (rmb + sw marking menu item), again a feature in maya 2009, 2010, 2011. After that the complete object is hot untill you decide later that object selection is what you need instead foa purely modelling mode.

 In any case you can not really use a plugin to do this because you woudl actually need the very raw selection buffer data, and unless you want to implement the entire maya gui anew you couldnt do it easily.

I bet the next question is going to be how to implement drag painting selection? Or how to go into projection mode.