I turned that highlight off as well, I couldn't deal with all the colors. One thing that is baffling me are sets, can't find a way of adding members to an existing set.. Is this even possible?
On 19 November 2014 15:27, Andrew Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I can imagine ;) > > > On 19 Nov 2014, at 15:21, Peter Agg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good point Andrew - I'm sure there's a logic in keeping the highlighting > on. But when you have something like a rig or muscle system to pick things > from having a haze of locators and curves all turn the same colour isn't > helpful at all. > > No doubt I'll discover a way this will bite me later, but it's very > helpful at the moment. > > On 19 November 2014 15:13, Andrew Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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]> 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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
