topic Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error in Maya Forum

Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

Anonymous — Mon, 01 May 2017 18:57:32 GMT

I'm having the same issue I think a lot of people are having with viewport selections using Viewport 2.0.

Sounds like this person is having similar problems as well.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/extension-2-selection-glitches-in-viewport-2-0/m-p/6973489/highlight/false#M40909

Here's a pic with what's happening. The frustration compounds when I'm trying to change component modes and random unintended objects get added to the selection in face/vert/edge mode.

Camera based selection/automatic camera-based selection isn't a viable solution. I've got a lot of parts and frequently move things around to create variations and adjust components. any help is greatly appreciated. Didn't have this issue in older mayas. Legacy viewport is the best work around I've found so far.

Any help is again really appreciated.

Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

mspeer — Mon, 01 May 2017 20:03:29 GMT

Hi!

This was reported several times and can easily be reproduced.

Viewport 2 0 sometimes react as if Shading was set to Wireframe, so when you hit an object where there is an edge of an other object behind it, the other object will be selected.

Please report this problem (bug?) to Autodesk.
Help -> Speak Back -> Report a Problem

Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

sean.heasley — Thu, 04 May 2017 14:03:23 GMT

Hi @Anonymous. I've had this issue in the past with Maya but not yet in Maya 2017 and I know a variety of things can cause it. I'm trying to currently recreate this issue in 2017 so I was wondering if you have a list of steps and or things you were doing when you got this issue that I could follow to recreate the problem.

Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

Anonymous — Thu, 04 May 2017 15:24:53 GMT

I've opened up a fresh Maya scene and can't seem to isolate where the issue begins or get it to start doing it. I tend to work in the same scene for an hour/hours before I save an iteration depending on how things are going. I do a lot of trial and error when I'm modeling. A lot of grabbing components, moving the pivot point around and making adjustments with extrudes, wedges and edge splitting.

Pretty standard maya stuff, No plug-ins or custom hotkeys. The only caveats are that I use Z-up and work at a large scale because of game engines. I'm quite the vanilla user 😛

I'll attach my the scene I'm currently working on where the issue is pretty rampant at any camera angle/distance.

If I select one of my buildings and export it as an obj and import it into a new scene and separate all the pieces the issue goes away. If I export the same building as a maya binary file and import it into a new scene the issue persists.

Thank you again for looking into the issue.

ps I'm using maya 2017 update 3. I don't think I mentioned that previously.

Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

mspeer — Thu, 04 May 2017 18:27:31 GMT

Hi!

It's easy to reproduce , just create a Torus and a Cube, move the cube over one side of the torus and ....

Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

damaggio — Thu, 04 May 2017 21:37:02 GMT

a long lasting problem indeed...

Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

sean.heasley — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:38:02 GMT

Hi everyone. Thank you @mspeer for the file that worked perfectly to recreate it and this is a known bug. The temporary fixes I've noticed are to change the viewport Legacy Default. Outside of that my recommendation, especially if you're working in a scene with many objects, is to have the outliner open and have all your objects named properly so you can select or deselect from there as well. I'm still looking into this as well for any other fixes/workarounds.

Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

Liee — Tue, 23 May 2017 10:03:26 GMT

Hi everyone,

I did a post recently because I had the same problem, and I finally found the ULTIMATE SOLUTION !

For me and probably for you too, in your Preferences > Settings > Selection, the Default Selection Box was set around 15, I set it at 1, and now it perfectly select the element my cursor was on !

As Student Version doesn't always keep Settings for the next sessions, I hope this one will stay as I set it ..

Hope it will help you . :- )

Re: Maya 2017 viewport 2.0 selection error

mspeer — Tue, 23 May 2017 10:17:24 GMT

Hi!

You had a problem of unwanted selection besides the targeted object, this is a problem of unwanted selection behind the targeted object, so it's not the same, but thanks for the information it still might be useful for others reading this thread.