Maya 2017 3d Modeling Tutorial: My Top 5 Selection Tools

[@jlmussi]

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[@Casual_Posts]

Paint selection is my favorite😍

[@shaiyacoprez2812]

With the Select Tool, to avoid selecting faces on both sides, you can go to 'Tool Settings' and choose 'Camera-based selection'. This way it will only select faces on one side of the model.

[@lionsborn]

Ty so much!!!

[@darkbielz]

The TAB hotkey is an awesome addition to my hotkey addiction. For selecting poles I usually goes with Vertex Selection > Select the vertex at center > Hold the CTRL + right mouse button > And then select "Faces" and "To Faces". It select the faces connected to the vertex.

[@jlmussi]

TAB hotkey is awesome indeed. Yup, that's another great way of selecting poles!

[@jorari71]

Thank you Gabriel, good tip.

[@syaorandarkfire]

Really Thank you for this info. Tab selection and select similar is really cool. IDK why I wasn't using it till now! My favorite tool is Multi-cut + Quad Draw. That combo speeds ups modeling and editing instead doing right click and go to edge,vertex or face mode to edit them. Now it feels like " New Ability Unlocked " popup came to my mind. Really appreciated this video. Cheers! :)

[@jorari71]

FOR ME HAS BEEN REALLY GOOD. overall the "selection similar", because I couldn't expect that Maya could select similar subselection of faces, or (I don't know) edges...Good tip and powerful tool for Maya.

[@jlmussi]

Select similar is a life safer.

[@jorari71]

I come from 3DSMAX and this option I could use it only among objects, entire objects...This is why I'm impressed with it.

[@ipi223]

those tricks will save me years on the long run!!! good job! thank you!

[@1DInciner]

Nice tutorial, very useful. Nice model by the way, I also like organic shapes.

[@elvinkey9x]

Really cool tips which speed up my workflow!!

[@jlmussi]

Glad you found value in the video!

[@ind33d71]

For poles - I select centre vertice and make it to faces. This is more simple.

[@gurpreetk5008]

Thank you soo much ....i really need it

[@jlmussi]

Glad I could help.

[@АндрейГранкин-д3л]

Thanks, Bro. ) Very helpfull and beautiful perfomance. )

[@nekrosmantis1031]

That´s brilliant. Exactly what we need. thanks

[@jlmussi]

Glad I could help.

[@TheLillianYoung]

I thought you were about to say, "We the best music" - DJ Khaled style :) You have cool swag.

[@jlmussi]

Mixtape dropping soon! :-) Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@shrikantpalsambkar26]

so helpful

[@jobsonchelsea6434]

Thanks

[@dariaignateva8846]

thanks a lot! very useful!

[@jlmussi]

Glad I could help.

[@hyperanomaly1513]

Cool video for learners

[@jlmussi]

Thanks. Hope it helped.

[@ibtihajabrarbhuiyan3315]

Learned something new!

[@jlmussi]

Glad I was able to help.

[@programmingtacticalcode7968]

JL Mussi:Im new in maya and i coming from blender then i want to some joined part to be selected and separated ,What is way?shortcut somthing like that....

[@jlmussi]

Mesh tools>Extract off the top of my head. Just make sure you have the faces you want separated.

[@Kojimapowered009]

I need to change my brush selection size. How do you access the "paint selection tool" through the Hotbox? I could select it by clicking it in the tool bar by playing find the button, but it cramps my flow. Thanks in advance. -KP

[@jlmussi]

The hotkey for that is holding down TAB. To my knowledge there's no way to change the size of that radius as it's not an actual brush.