Saturday, June 6, 2009

Tip of the Week: Soft Selection

Fist off, I apologize for not posting in such a long time. I've had a busy couple of months. Things are looking good for the summer though.

For those of you who have been using Maya 2009, you've undoubtedly grown very fond of the new Soft Selection feature. Here's a quick tip I picked up the other day -- It turns out that you can adjust the falloff radius as you would adjust the brush size with any of the paint tools. Just hold down b and drag the left mouse button to scale the falloff size.

Falloff Radius Adjustment

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

love the soft select

notanymike said...

Thanks, it's the same with Blender (though you have to press b twice)! Speaking of selection; I also discovered that you can adjust the move/scale/rotate tool handle sizes by pressing +/- in component mode, is that significant?

Paul said...

yup, using +/- to size the transform tools is a great shortcut

Paul said...

Also, I should have included originally:

Holding b lets your scale the falloff. Just hitting b toggles in and out of soft falloff mode.