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Subtool selection highlighting (how to turn it off)...?

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#1

I apologize…Im sure the answer to this is totally obvious, but I searched the wiki and the forums here. While its been asked a few times, its never been answered, that I can find. I just now am getting around to render tests in Z3, so the issue has just become apparent.

How do you turn off subtool selection highlighting (where the selected subtool is brighter than the others) when you’re getting ready to render? There doesn’t appear to be any way to not have any subtools selected, the options for subtool selections in the preferences are related to opacity, not highlighting, and even snapshoting the object transfers the highlight to the canvas.

What am I missing here?

Thanks!

#2

hi Scott i think is not a render problem, my feel that you have an object with different parts(subtools) and when you render you some of then in the same render color and other (just one) with another right?
That is they are taked as part of the active subtool already worked, i made a test :
if you clone all the parts and select the main cloned object and append all the others render now is uniform.
Please excuse me if i did not understand or my explanation is so confused.
Cheers
Andreseloy

#3

Thanks Andersloy. I guess it just seemed odd having to go to the trouble of creating and merging a new model together to get rid of this. It seemed to me that surely there was some obvious thing I was missing. I mean, its no big deal to have one part of your mesh be a couple shades lighter…its just the principle.

#4

Hi , select all Subtools once and for each one go to Color=>Fillobject , make sure white color is selected or so. There wont be any difference anymore between subtools now , no more darker ones when selecting.

#5

Yes, you are right and…more easy:D :+1:
Andreseloy

#6

Cool solution.

Would also be cool to have subtool highlighting be an option. As would color coding subtools (though I realize fill color is an easy workaround).

#7

Yeah, while I guess its somewhat useful, I really dont think it should be enabled by default. Its very much the equivilent of having all the contents of your current selected layer in photoshop be two shades lighter than the rest, contaminating the final image. You can see whats selected right in the subtool “layers” palette. I suppose mistakes can happen with complex tools, but nothign Ctrl-Z cant fix.

Its a good example of “one feature too many” from Pixo, god bless’em. :wink:

[Edit] On further consideration, it is much more useful when not using the subtool pallette to select, but Ctrl-Shift clicking components directly in the window to select them. In that scenario, maybe if the selected component just “flashed” for a second then faded to confirm the selection took place…