Is there a way to only view outline of the selected object instead of the whole wireframe?

[ashutoshkbudhdeo]

Basically the title. In Blender, the selected object only has an outline around it's silhouette which IMO makes it easier to see, so is there a way I can do it in Maya as right now it feels very cluttered? I can do a little bit of scripting too if required.

Thanks.

[mspeer]

Hi!

This is currently not possible.

You could change the transparency on the wireframe

https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2023/ENU/?guid=GUID-F7824D16-1342-4879-A669-3121D9D3582C

or disable the selection highlighting at all (per panel), but an outline for the selection is currently not an option in Maya.

[ashutoshkbudhdeo]

Thanks for the reply.

Would it be possible to make a material that does this in the viewport, so that I can maybe write a script that switches to that material when an object is selected?

[shanemL33YK]

Not sure if this is possible before maya 2023, but @sepu6 showed me an envvar that will make this work. 

MAYA_VP2_SELECTION_INDICATOR=4

[ashutoshkbudhdeo]

Hey thanks for the reply!
I don't know anything about environment variables but after reading the documentation I tried
putenv "MAYA_VP2_SELECTION_INDICATOR" "4"
in mel but it didn't seem to change anything.
Can you please explain how do I set this up?
Thanks!

[damaggio]

Thanks guys, actually it worked quite well, it would be nice if this was implemented in Maya and maybe some additional options such as color and outline thickness options.  kudos @sepu6 .😁

[shanemL33YK · Accepted solution]

You can not do it at runtime. You need to either set it globally before launching maya, or put it in your maya.env file located in 

C:\Users\<USER>\Documents\maya\<VERSION>\Maya.env

You would want to add a new line to that file (if pre-existing content) and add:

MAYA_VP2_SELECTION_INDICATOR=4

[ashutoshkbudhdeo]

It seems to be working, but now I am unable to see the edges/faces in the component mode and I have to toggle wireframe on shaded to view them, but I guess that's the limitation of this.

Thanks for the help!

[MRENOUX]

hello, it works but how did you change the color and thickness of the outline? thanks

[ashutoshkbudhdeo]

I had changed my selection colors from Windows -> Settings/Preferences -> Color Settings, and for the thickness of the outline, I think that's because I have anti-aliasing turned on in the viewport

[xc278260759]

This feature is really useful, but it currently does not support USD. I hope the developers will improve this feature and add a switch inside Maya.

[mamorossi]

Do you happen to remember which color setting controls the outline in the color preferences? I can't find it for the life of me.