Introduction to maya help

[kerragan]

I was using Introduction to maya and it is very usefull but there is one thing he doesent explain how to do. When he was using latices and when connecting the pipes to the engine when he selected CV he used the marquee and was able to just select the CV's on the thing he needed to change...but when i try that it always selects everything in the marquee. Is there a certain button i have to press or is it some setting? what am i doing wrong?

[Jak_Carver]

Your probably still in object mode, when you are, even if you drag select some cv's, any other object in range will be selected as well, even if its some distant cube object that isnt part of the object your working on. You need to select your cv's by going into subobject mode. Hit F9 to go into vertex mode and you'll be fine, plus its a faster workflow. If you have anymore problems post them up.

[laxman]

I used to have this problem. I'm not sure exactly what causes it but the default is to only select components from the object you have selected. So if you go to the preferences, and reset them, that should work. If it doesn't you can take your preferences folder and move it to somewhere else. Then maya will rebuild the preferences from default. if everything works then you can delete the old preferences. I remember looking for hours until I finally gave up and reset all my settings.

[kerragan]

yea, resetting the preferences helped, thank you all so much!

EDIT: ok THAT works but now when i rotate the cycylinder for the engine it also rotates the scale things. so now..the blue square is down, the red is correct but the green one is on the z axis. how do i fix this?...

EDIT2:nevermind, its the same on his, but is there a way to keep it like normal?

[laxman]

the scale is set to local mode, so the handels rotate with the object. Go to the optons for the scale tool and change it to world, that should make
y point up.