So, i want to pose a character that I merged down a ton of subtools from. I thought this would allow me to draw an action line and select all the pieces along the action line. I didn’t use transpose master because I hated shift clicking every little subtool. Of course, now that I have a combined mesh, it still selects just the piece I click on first!!! is there an option to just let me select all the pieces on a limb without having to shift click everything?!?
They’re all going to be separate polygroups. What you’d need to do is use Tool>Polygroups>Group Visible to merge all the groups. Or if you need multiple groups still you can still merge some of the groups. You’ll need to start out by selecting the multiple groups you need but then you can use Group Visible to merge those groups so you don’t have to keep reselecting all the groups after that.
If topological masking is the issue then you will always find there are limitations as merging meshes does not change their topology (no vertices are welded). The simplest solution is to use lasso masking instead.