Tag Archives: selection

Remove Constraints: The Easy Way

Posted on 25/04/2008 by Spot

Another little time saver for Maya: It can be very time consuming to find and remove a constraint in the Hypergraph or Outliner in a complex scene. A better way is to select the object with the constraint in …

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a marking menu for selection masks

Posted on 03/02/2008 by Spot

inspired by a gnomon tutorial lately i also wanted to set up my own selection mask hotbox. since i work with maya with a gui completely turned off, the usual selection masks aren’t accessible from the status line any …

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toggle backface culling

Posted on 12/01/2008 by Spot

just to practice my mel scripting abilities a bit i extended my backface culling switching process to be a toggle so it can be turned on and off just with one hotkey. before i switched between backface culling on …

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maya, please don’t select the back face!

Posted on 04/01/2008 by Spot

as soon as you’re working on more complex objects than just the basic primitive polygons, you experience the problem that you select vertices or faces you just don’t want to because they’re on the back of your model and …

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