You can middle click drag them in. It's getting them out again that's painful. :)
On 19 November 2014 15:31, Cristobal Infante <cgc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <a...@andynicholas.com> wrote: > >> Yeah, I can imagine ;) >> >> >> On 19 Nov 2014, at 15:21, Peter Agg <peter....@googlemail.com> 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 <a...@andynicholas.com> 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 <peter....@googlemail.com> 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 <ethivie...@hybride.com> >>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >
