How can we select the faces that are in between an object or at the back of an object in maya 2010. I am able to select only the ones in front of the object(facing the camera)because of the way of selection(A face can obly be selected by clicking anywhere on it).

(In maya 8.5 faces could be selected using dots which appeared in the middle of the face and thus we could select any face by going into the wireframe mode and clicking on the desired dot.)

Any help would be good
Thanks in advance.

Yup i know that....
But still, thanks for help.

I personally cannot stand the way Maya 2010 is set up to select faces - the “Preselection highlight” and “Select by Whole Face” are very distracting and difficult (at least for me) to deal with.  I go right to the Preferences, highlight the “Selection” settings, and turn all that off - I turn on “Select Face by Face Center”, which gives me those nice little blue dots for selection.

To prevent selection of back-faces, you can turn “backface culling” to on, or you can adjust your camera far clip plane.  I make a little slider to control that, so I can pull it up close to my view to block the back faces from view when I’m working in tight on forward detail.

halfstone 25 November 2009 04:50 PM

I personally cannot stand the way Maya 2010 is set up to select faces - the “Preselection highlight” and “Select by Whole Face” are very distracting and difficult (at least for me) to deal with.  I go right to the Preferences, highlight the “Selection” settings, and turn all that off - I turn on “Select Face by Face Center”, which gives me those nice little blue dots for selection.

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I hate it too. ;)
Thanks alot for that info about switching face selection back to the way it used to be!

Now that i have reverted the face selection back to how it was in 8.5, and have been using it for awhile, I notice that is not completely the same as 8.5.
Previously in 8.5 I could select edges/faces with the cursor arrow by having them targeted within the cursor ‘box’. Now with 2010 I find myself having to sometimes click 2 or 3 times in some cases when selecting an edge before I can actually select it.
It seems the target area for the cursor has been shrunk down to the size of the very tip of the cursor arrow.

Also i notice a row of new icons representing the commands in the drop down panels below View/shading/lighting/show/render/panels.
This row of icons is taking up real estate in the viewable working area.
Is there an option to have this removed completely instead of just clicking on the black ‘minimize to the left’ line?

jamesryan01 15 January 2010 07:55 AM

Also i notice a row of new icons representing the commands in the drop down panels below View/shading/lighting/show/render/panels.
This row of icons is taking up real estate in the viewable working area.
Is there an option to have this removed completely instead of just clicking on the black ‘minimize to the left’ line?

I’m also interested in how to make this bar go away.  I like hitting ctrl space bar and making everything go away and having a glorious open space to do what I want.