Script

select near cursor

By heejun · 2012-07-21

Version: 1.2
Version requirement: written for 3ds max 2011
Date updated: 2016-04-18
Votes: 5
Homepage: http://vimeo.com/heejun

Description

if you have many objects overlapped and placed close to each other it's hard to select specific one between them.
and I wanted to make this easy.
this tool pops up a menu that contains objects list for selecting.

update 1.1: added skin bone selecting in skin edit mode.
update 1.2: fix problem on same name objects.

Additional Info

run mcr file and you can find 'Select Near Cursor' in 'HJ Tools' category. assign a hotkey. you should run this through hotkey because this collects objects list right from under the mouse cursor. pick a item in menu with Ctrl Key pressed this adds to current selection and Shift Key pressed deselect from current selection.

Videos

Attachments

select_near_cursor.mcr — select_near_cursor.mcr2.1 KB
select_near_cursor_1.1.mcr — select_near_cursor_1.1.mcr2.6 KB
select_near_cursor_1.2.mcr — select_near_cursor_1.2.mcr2.6 KB

Tags: selecting, skin bone

Comments (7)

Pretty simple and cute

visualizer · 2016-04-23

Again... this is what task of clicking several times is in just at finger tips... well this is the same feature found in Rhino3D.
I was expecting similar to it since long...
QUestion si why not Autodesk people think of developing MAX's GUI to next gen now?

:))

Thanks

obaida · 2016-04-18

For making this , but it should select the objects by hovering not clicking , or we have to run the script many times until we find the right object we trying to select.
Thanks in advanced.

titane357 · 2014-07-30

Really nice, and FAST !!! thanks ! :-)

stenionet · 2014-07-25

Very useful script.
Thanks.

heejun · 2012-10-10

thanks for the reply

Хороший скрипт

n0name · 2012-08-06

Спасибо

kimarotta · 2012-07-23

Good idea... thanks