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Basic Selection Tutorial
The purporse of this tutorial is to demonstrate workflow of selections. In Blacksmith3D-Suite, all selections are
currently vertex based. A polygon is said to be selected if all of it's attached vertices are selected as well.
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Basic Selection Tutorial
The purporse of this tutorial is to demonstrate workflow of selections. In Blacksmith3D-Suite, all selections are
currently vertex based. A polygon is said to be selected if all of it's attached vertices are selected as well.
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Basic Tutorials
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Step 1. choose the "lasso tool" from the left side bar.
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Step 2. Click and drag out a loop around the area that you would like to select.
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After you release the mouse button, you will see a colored wireframe representing
the selection strengths for each vertex, and a marquee outline of the selection.
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Step 3. To add more vertices to the selection, hold the shift key and drag out another loop.
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Step 4. To harden the selection, that is, to make it all 100%, select "Harden Selection" from the select menu.
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Step 5. To soften the selection, select "Soften Selection" from the select menu.
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Step 6. To create a selection that is 100% hard from the beginning, set the stength value to 100% for the selection tool before selecting.
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Since hardness was set to 100%, the selection is completely yellow.
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Step 7. To remove part of the selection, hold the ALT key and trace a loop around part of the selection.
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