Soft Select

[user_deleted]

Anybody familiar with the soft select option in max? Is there an equivalent in Maya???
Plug-in, mel script etc???

[joojaa]

no just the soft modification tool!

Maya seection itself is on or off nothing in between. Ofcourse feformers that have veifgghts per component canuse "soft selection" liek modifications So for example clusters can move points as if it was a soft selection.

[user_deleted]

As i suspected - thanks anyhoo.

[sheriffcicada]

You might try using some mel.... I used to use max, and that is a great feature!!! As I understand it you use the soft selection to define anything you want to effect with gradation right? Well you could define a set of points, and then using mel "paint" the value of those points within the set. It seems complicated but the guys in mel should be able to answer your question more completely. Let me know if you find a way!!! Clustesr are the current built in solution, but that only allows transforms ie Translate, rotate scale.... not as cool as you'd like.

Good luck

[joojaa]

Well if you just want to traslate point then use the soft modification tool.

Ofcourse the reason there4s no such thing in maya is because it MAKES no sense. Therefore the wquestion and the answer on this thing is a bit out of the door.

I mean the question and the answer dont realy come in terms with eachother because the real anser is BOTH yesd and NO at the same time because the way may aworks differently from max.

[quaidoralious]

Massive revival, my bad, lol old post but this is informative

There is a soft selection tool in maya

if you double click on the move tool it is in the setting and you can turn it on. or.. you can make a button with a melscript:

softSelect -e -softSelectEnabled true;

 and then once its on, to turn it off you have to hit the "B" key (Only the B key forks or it comes back on and haunts you for the rest of your life... or... you can make a mell script button to turn it off:

dR_softSelStickyRelease;
dR_DoCmd("softSelStickyRelease");
ModifyUpperRadiusRelease;
artDeactivateScreenSlider;
softSelect -softSelectEnabled false ;
getPanel -withFocus;

Would be nice to be able to interactively toggle it with the . it's probably out there, but i am just learning