I am having trouble selecting things the way I used to.

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# 1 12-07-2003 , 06:39 PM

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I am having trouble selecting things the way I used to.

I am stuck in a weird selection mode.

for example, I am working on the subdiv dog modeling tutorial and when I click on the subdiv object I do not see the polygonal bounding box, and when I select faces the bounding boxes are purple and will not let me select or extrude the faces.

I must have something set up wrong please help

Ryan Biddle

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# 2 12-07-2003 , 08:58 PM

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could it be that your are not in polygon proyxy mode but in standard? rmb on model and drag to "polygon" will change to polygone mode.

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# 3 13-07-2003 , 09:12 PM

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Maybe yuo have accidently changed your selection masks..

Carsten Lind
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# 4 13-07-2003 , 11:46 PM

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Try pressing F8?

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# 5 14-07-2003 , 12:20 AM

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I think it sounds like you need to change to polygon proxy mode. I may be wrong but it's in the subDiv surfaces menu set.

try that then you will be able to select faces and extrude etc.

Alan

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