> > 1: selecting hierarchies: > I don’t understand why Maya insists on making the whole hierarchy green > when I only select the top node. What is the benefit of this, and can I > turn it off?
Its really annoying but you can now turn it off!! go to the Preferences, then 'Selection' - there are options for 'Selection Child Highlighting' , turn it to 'Never Highlight'. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Gerbrand Nel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Guys > So I'm getting into Maya, and so far it's horrible. > I realize that Maya animators must be more passionate about 3D than me, > because there is no way I would have put up with this shit for the last 10 > years. > Rant aside, I was hoping someone could help me make sense of a few things. > > 1: selecting hierarchies: > I don’t understand why Maya insists on making the whole hierarchy green > when I only select the top node. What is the benefit of this, and can I > turn it off? > I also find that when I select multiple objects in a hierarchy, the second > last thing I selected goes white, but the thing I select stays green. this > makes it hard to tell weather I selected the object or not. > Am I using it wrong? > > 2: Is there a way to interactively see my frames rendering? I know I can > fcheck or load the rendered frames in aftreFX, but this doesn't help if my > frames takes 20 min a frame. > 3: I assume the outliner is there to do what the explorer in soft does, > but half the things in my scene is missing. Is there a comprehensive scene > navigator where I can see everything, like we can in the explorer? > > Thanks, I'm going to stop here before I get on the drama-lama. > G > >
