Hello,

I have a question about soft selection.

I have noticed that when I select a vertex, edge, or polygon normally without using soft selection the selected geometry turns the color red. When the vertex is red it is one hundred percent selected and when it is blue it is zero percent selected. When using soft selection the colors range depicting the softness of the selection.

Now, I have a model that has no modifiers on it, it is just an editable poly. I have been using soft selection with a pen tablet to select vertices on the model. I then would apply mesh smooth to my selection from the edit geometry rollout to increase the verts to add more detail.

Just recently when I use soft selection with my pen tablet the highest possible color selection is orange(not red). I am unable to apply a mesh smooth because the vertices are not one hundred percent selected. This only happens when I use the paint soft selection feature. When I am using soft selection without the paint feature on I am able to get the color red but when I use paint soft selection I can only get orange as the highest level of selection.

This only happens when I use “paint soft selection” so I thought it might be my tablet. I have reinstalled my tablet driver and this has not solved my problem. I have adjusted alot of the settings in the brush opptions menu and this has not adjusted the ability to get 100% selection. In the soft selection rollout the selection value is at 1.0 and the brush strength is at 1.0 This is the highest it will go.

Are there any other options for fine tunning the selection value? Is there something else that might be interfereing with the ability to use “paint soft selection”?

Please ask me if I need to give more information. Thank you so much for helping me, your time is greatly appreciated.

Joseph Feinsilver

Hi Ernestator,

Thank you for replying.

When I choose edge as a sub object and use soft selection with “paint soft selection” I am able to use mesh smooth from the edit geometry rollout. The mesh smooth affects the whole model though and completely disregards my selection. I have reset 3ds max and this has not solved my problem.

I recently updated my graphics card driver and this could be the problem but how?

Hi ernestator,

Thank you so much, the paint selection region works well but is there a way to turn on ignore backfacing when using paint selection region? I get alot of unwanted selections when I use this.

The HSDS looks very cool. Max really slows down when I use it probably because i don’t know how to use it.

I was able to use paint soft selection to select an area on my mesh and apply a MSmooth prior to not being able to now so I know it is possible. I just have no idea why I am currently unable to use MSmooth with paint soft selection.

Thanks, your time is greatly apprecieted.

Joseph Feinsilver

Im not sure how to use the soft selection Is confused

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