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Visual cues for selected objects
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Visual cues for selected objects // Roundtable
Post by master_rigel2 // Nov 15, 2008, 11:06am
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Why is there no visual cue for when I select multiple objects.
When I select multiple objects, all that happens is the navigation widget moves. If I want to see what object is selected, I normally need to move the object first. Moving the object involves extra clicks that shouldn't necessary.
I find that navigation is the most obtuse aspect Truespace for me, coming across from Sketchup.
I want highlighting of some kind to show what I've selected and what I haven't. Preferably a bold border around the outside edges of the object, which I can set for myself that contrasts with other colors in the scene.
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Post by trueBlue // Nov 15, 2008, 11:44am
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You will find Wire Highlighting options in the Stack/Desktop, you can also change your perferred color by changing the Default aspect to Colors in the top right corner of the Desktop panel. |
Post by spacekdet // Nov 15, 2008, 12:52pm
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For a visual clue of where trueblue is talking about, see the following image:
You may also be interested in this sweet little addition. (http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showpost.php?p=83406&postcount=1)
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Post by master_rigel2 // Nov 15, 2008, 8:57pm
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Seems I always forget a minor detail in my forum posts. I apologize. For most intentions, I'm referring to the workspace. I am focusing on learning it, since I understand it is supposed to become the primary UI for truespace.
BTW: Adjusting those settings worked out. thanks. |
Post by spacekdet // Nov 15, 2008, 9:26pm
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trueblue's 'retro' widget brings the cage style widget back into Workspace.
It provides, among other things, an unmistakable visual indicator of which object is selected.
A virtual, highly functional, visually intuitive 'bold border'. |
Post by master_rigel2 // Nov 15, 2008, 9:42pm
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where do I find trueblues retro widget? |
Post by hultek43 // Nov 15, 2008, 10:35pm
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If you look closely at post #3 you'll find a link to it. ;) |
Post by master_rigel2 // Nov 16, 2008, 11:43am
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wow. that widget is amaaaaazing. It looks just like the modeler widget but it works in the workspace. :D |
Post by TomG // Nov 18, 2008, 3:43am
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Hope the author puts the widget on TurboSquid, so a search for tS content can turn it up - since finding things on forums is not easy once the initial day or two of its posting comes and goes (and even if you have a repository section it's not as easy as searching via tags and descriptions etc). I do encourage everyone to use that, as if adopted as a central resource for tS content, widgets, scripts, code, tutorials, models, scenes, light setups, layouts, etc, then it would become a very powerful tool.
If no-one moves this excellent content onto there, then that powerful tool will languish unused, and a lot of tS users will never know about the existence of these very cool and very useful items (nor about their authors).
HTH!
Tom |
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