My normal display setting is smooth+highlights. Is there a way to have it add faced edges to the selected geometry when I select something?

Dean

Max Design 2012 SP2 / Win 7 Pro
NVidia Quadro FX 4800 x 2 (non sli)
HP Z800 - 2 Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz; 36 GB ram

To the selection only? I don’t think so (but I could, of course, be wrong). F4 should toggle Edged Faces, but it affects all the objects, not just the selected one(s).

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.

Yeah F4 is that I normally use. However, I am attaching geometry on the fly (without using the pick list) and it would help if it changed color or some sort of display change to verify that I am attaching the correct objects as I go. The are is just so densly populated that sometimes it difficult to verify correct selection by bounding box only.

Dean

Max Design 2012 SP2 / Win 7 Pro
NVidia Quadro FX 4800 x 2 (non sli)
HP Z800 - 2 Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz; 36 GB ram

In the viewport configuration, there is a check box for “Display Selected With Edged Faces”.

3ds Max 2013, Maya 2013
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Core i7, 12GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 (Driver 267.17)

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If i understand correctly you want some sort of highlighting of the currently selected object (not subobject) ? Thats perfectly doable, besides mapping a shortcut to “Show Selection Brackets Tooggle” in the customize UI panel, there’s also a “Display Selected with Edged Faces” toggle available there, if you want a more prominent display of your current object selection....

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