In my rather limited experience of Maya, I’ve found it’s far better to leave the highlighting on. So that if you want to apply a material to an object, you can be sure you’re applying it to the shape node, rather than it’s transform (and thereby causing all children to inherit the same material).
> On 19 Nov 2014, at 15:04, Peter Agg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did you try Preferences \ Display \ Affected highlighting ? > > Martin wins himself a virtual beer! That does the job, combined with the > option that Eric shows above: Now when I select something only the thing I > clicked on changes colour. > > One more small step. :) > > > On 19 November 2014 14:54, Eric Thivierge <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > That what you're looking for? > > <MayaNoHighlightChild.jpg> > > On 11/19/2014 9:27 AM, Peter Agg wrote: >> Yeah, that was a surprisingly helpful vid. Unfortunately though that option >> won't stop everything else turning pink, which is the bit that makes life >> painful for me. >> >> I guess I was hoping that's an option to toggle off the 'Active Affected' >> highlighting. Doesn't seem like that's the case though so I might just do a >> hotkey that toggles selection highlighting. > >
