topic Re: Making a quick select set in Maya Forum

Making a quick select set

jdrober9 — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 22:07:09 GMT

I am trying to make a quick select button to add to my shelf. I want to be able to select all my animation controls at once so I can key them all together but I wanted to do it through the quick select sets. I was able to make it one time but that is it , will not give me the option anymore , I have reset the default preferences and made a new folder on the drive to be sure. My quick select set in the select tab does not work anymore . Any advice - it now says "no quick select set defined"

Thanks

Re: Making a quick select set

Parmenides — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:44:20 GMT

I just did a test with a quick set of NURBS curves and it works fine with 2019.2. Have you tried on a new scene? Curious that it still doesn't work after replacing the prefs. As a temporary workaround you may find it useful to put all of the controls on a unique layer and then you can right-click on the layer and 'select objects'.

Re: Making a quick select set

jdrober9 — Sat, 18 Jan 2020 17:35:55 GMT

I mean I figured out how to use the mel script and make selectable tabs for my shelf but I could never get the menu to activate it.

Re: Making a quick select set

Abdulla-Qaladzay — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 01:53:05 GMT

hi@jdrober9

there is so much free tool that you can use for selection sets or maybe a picker will be more useful for your purpose(selecting controllers)

to manage sets and quick sets I will suggest

-WL Quick set

and for pickers :

-anime School picker

-abxPicker....

Here is a very useful and clean documentation about Maya's sets and quick sets:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-Basics/files/GUID-8F030BC7-8F4A-4C01-978B-DECBB807B5B0-htm.html

Re: Making a quick select set

jdrober9 — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:18:59 GMT

Thank You