Soft Select not selecting 'deep' enough

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# 1 31-05-2013 , 12:10 AM

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Hi Guys,

First off i'm working with a model that is huge scale wise and i'm sure this is causing the problem but I don't know how to remedy it. If I use soft select from an orthographic view it should select vertexes all the way through the model but it doesn't. Has anyone seen this behavior before?

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-Ethan
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# 2 31-05-2013 , 12:39 AM

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It probably has to do with your camera's far plane. Increase it, and that should fix it.

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# 3 31-05-2013 , 04:06 AM

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Well I kinda thought that but I've turned the far clip plane to 100000000 and it doesn't seem to be affecting it. user added image

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# 4 31-05-2013 , 05:31 AM

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Eh well I guess it's just too big. I copied the ship into a new scene and scaled it down to 0.005 and soft selection works fine at that size. Who'd have thought at real scale the Titanic would break soft select....

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# 5 31-05-2013 , 03:43 PM

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By the way, why are you in Viewport 2.0? You should never be doing anything in there besides previewing things for a game. It breaks more things than it's really worth.

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