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angry_panda · Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Adelaide, Australia

Hi,
I had an idea that would make life easier when working with cilanders, cones and spheres. Would it be very hard to add a feature that lets you select a "layer" of vertecies by clicking on one vertex in the layer?

Thanks,
Angry Panda

craouette · Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:25 am Post subject:

What is a layer of vertices ?
a user defined group of vertices ?
what I don't see is in which way the layer of vertices will help you with cylinder, cone and sphere.

if you want to select a raw of vertices,use the vertex loop tool:
select 2 vertices connected by an edge, then press 'L'.

You can select a ring ofvertices with the 'R' key.

craouette

angry_panda · Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Adelaide, Australia

Yeah sorry,
I probably didn't explain that very well. I ment a ring of vertacies, with the option to select a (row) going verticly, or a ring horisontaly.
I hope I'm making sense...I could explain so easily with a picture, oh well.

craouette · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:15 am Post subject:

The the 'L' and 'R' keys are the way to go. play a little bit with it to have a feeling of what these commands are doing and tell me if it is what you have in mind....

angry_panda · Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Adelaide, Australia

Ah yes,
I was aware of the lassoo and rec-select tools (just not their keyboard shortcut), but I beleive my idea will be much more useful in certain situations.

Because it seems too hard to explain without a picture, I am sending you one. The rest of my explanation will be attached.

craouette · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:49 am Post subject:

I'm waitting for the pictures.
but use the Upper case letter. and loop tool is not lasso.
lasso is map on the 'l' key, loop on the 'L' key.

angry_panda · Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Adelaide, Australia

Ok, thanks, that is pretty much the same as what I was thinking of.