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turning off wings annoying habit - crystalwizard - 01-05-2015
Wings has a very annoying habit.
Every time I hit space to unselect everything, wings promptly highlits vertex/edge/face and expects me to fight with the cusor to highlight what I want it to act on.
How do I turn this off?
If I have selected vertex, even after I hit space bar, I want to keep working on vertexs until I choose something else.
There are plenty of times when I am working on an object that I can't zoom in all that close on and I don't need to have to fight the cusor until it just happens to highlight the right thing.
And I don't want to have to stop my work flow, click on the thing I had already selected to work on, and then go back to what I was doing.
So while I understand it might be useful behaviour for some people for wings to do this, for me its a serious problem.
I really want to turn this off. Is there anyway to do so?
RE: turning off wings annoying habit - VladD - 01-06-2015
Quote:If I have selected vertex, even after I hit space bar, I want to keep working on vertexs until I choose something else.In the Preferences, General Tab, under "highlighting" check "conditional deselection". From now on, ONE tap of the spacebar will deselect without changing the mode of selection, and a second one will put you back into the default multi type mode.
RE: turning off wings annoying habit - crystalwizard - 01-06-2015
Excellent! Thank you very much
RE: turning off wings annoying habit - miahuff86 - 01-26-2015
Yeah many thanks Vlad! I was also having a hard time struggling against this highlighting quirk. Now it works just like I want it to.
RE: turning off wings annoying habit - Geta-Ve - 02-05-2015
Alternatively you could hit spacebar, to deselect and return to smart selection, and then hit v/f/e/b to bring yourself into whichever selection mode you prefer.
RE: turning off wings annoying habit - Anthony - 03-04-2015
Now why didn't I notice that before, retain selection, keep selection, selection hold, maintain selection mode, but oh no "conditional deselection" oh well.
RE: turning off wings annoying habit - oort - 03-04-2015
I wonder if it would be possible to have "conditional deselection" set to enabled by default with a first time Wings3D install??? Seems most people need it turned on. Is there a backwards compatibility issue if it is enabled by default?
Thanks,
oort