MidnightCarnival opened this issue on Jun 09, 2010 · 6 posts
MidnightCarnival posted Wed, 09 June 2010 at 11:32 PM
Ok, by now I've tried TONS of freeware modelers and the Japanese Metasequoia is still the poly modeler that is the most accessible to my approach at modeling but I am having a bit of frustrating issue when it comes to quickly selecting a portion of faces using the Rectangle tool.
For some reason, the Rectangle tool will not only select what I want it to but also go ahead and select some random vertices or leave the some random vertices out of selection that I didn't want it too.
I suspect this to be the fault of a selection threshold but is there a place to numerically adjust the selection threshold of the Rectangle selection tool?
manoloz posted Thu, 10 June 2010 at 10:06 AM
That sometimes happens in Silo, and seems to be related to the graphics driver. Try tweaking the anti aliasing, etc settings and see if that affects the selection problem.
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airflamesred posted Thu, 10 June 2010 at 3:51 PM
Select face (faces) - make sue you select around the whole face
I'm not sure what the problen is here are you selecting verts on the other side of the object?
MidnightCarnival posted Thu, 10 June 2010 at 5:58 PM
Yeah, I think like manoloz said it might either be my driver or video card (I'm using seven year old equipment).
What's happening, for example, if I opt 'faces' and use the rectangle to choose only the faces on the upper left half of a cube, once the selection has been set, and I scroll around the model, some random vertices will also be accidentally selected or some random vertices, that were meant to be captured in my selection, will be left out.
Sorry for the grammar - I'm typing like I talk. LOL.
airflamesred posted Fri, 11 June 2010 at 4:34 AM
If you really are selecting verts outside the marque then I guess it may be your video card. The only thing I can suggest is to D/L an older version of meta. I still use 2.49 with xp on an old laptop with no issues.
MidnightCarnival posted Fri, 11 June 2010 at 10:36 AM
I think, haven't tested yet, but think it has to do with Win XP setting me at PAL frame rate as I'm in New Zealand. I know Japan has a form of NTSC like the US and I just found out that I can adjust frame rates. THAT might be the issue but not sure yet.