Select highlight

[ahmed.fawaz7h8fs]

Selecting an object without wireframe visible. 3ds max has a nice feature to display outline around object rather than its wireframe on selection. 

At the moment in maya when you disable selection highlight, you cant visualise what is selected in the viewport. 

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This function is available and can be set in preferences

[ahmed.fawaz7h8fs]

Please elaborate

[ahmed.fawaz7h8fs]

For anyone interested this is my solution which works well for me.

F2 display objects with wireframe and shaded faces. F3 disables wireframe on selection and drops the shaded face colour to something easier to see through. 

F2 hotkey:

displayPref -wsa "full";

displayColor -c -active polyFace 20;

F3 hotkey:

displayColor -c -active polyFace 01;

displayPref -wsa "none";

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//maya 2019.2
global int $CYJ_Display_Toon_Job ;
if(catchQuiet (`scriptJob -k $CYJ_Display_Toon_Job -f`) ){};
$CYJ_Display_Toon_Job = `scriptJob -e "SelectionChanged" "CYJ_Display_Toon_Do" -cu 1 -protected`;

global proc CYJ_Display_Toon_Do()
{
if(catchQuiet (`CYJ_Display_Toon`) ){};
}

global proc CYJ_Display_Toon()
{
string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
string $Toon = "CYJ_toon";

if(size($sel)>0 )
{
if (`objExists $Toon`){delete $Toon ;}
AssignNewPfxToon;
setAttr ".creaseLines" 0;
setAttr ".intersectionLines" 1;
setAttr ".lineWidth" 2;
setAttr ".intersectionBreakAngle" 0;
setAttr ".profileColor" -type double3 1 0.75 0.3 ;
setAttr ".profileLineWidth" 0.002;
setAttr ".intersectionColor" -type double3 .5 1 1 ;
setAttr ".intersectionLineWidth" 0.002;
setAttr ".profileBreakAngle" 0;
setAttr ".screenspaceWidth" 1;
setAttr ".template" 1;
pickWalk -d up;
rename "CYJ_toon";
setAttr ".hiddenInOutliner" true;
}
else
{
delete $Toon ;
}
select $sel;
}

[1006138663]

I made an interesting attempt. Run the above code, maybe it's what you want. Running the second line alone will remove the program

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//maya 2020 maya 2022
global int $CYJ_Display_Toon_Job ;
if(catchQuiet (`scriptJob -k $CYJ_Display_Toon_Job -f`) ){};
$CYJ_Display_Toon_Job = `scriptJob -e "SelectionChanged" "CYJ_Display_Toon_Do" -cu 1 -protected`;

global proc CYJ_Display_Toon_Do()
{
if(catchQuiet (`CYJ_Display_Toon`) ){};
}

global proc CYJ_Display_Toon()
{
string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;
string $Toon = "CYJ_toon";
string $layer = $Toon+"_Layer" ;

if(size($sel)>0 )
{
if (`objExists $Toon`){delete $Toon $layer;}
AssignNewPfxToon;
setAttr ".creaseLines" 0;
setAttr ".intersectionLines" 1;
setAttr ".lineWidth" 2;
setAttr ".intersectionBreakAngle" 0;
setAttr ".profileColor" -type double3 0.7 0.5 0.2 ;
setAttr ".profileLineWidth" 0.002;
setAttr ".intersectionColor" -type double3 .2 6 6 ;
setAttr ".intersectionLineWidth" 0.002;
setAttr ".profileBreakAngle" 0;
setAttr ".screenspaceWidth" 1;
//setAttr ".template" 1;
pickWalk -d up;
rename $Toon;
setAttr ".hiddenInOutliner" true;
createDisplayLayer -n $layer -number 1 ;
layerEditorLayerButtonTypeChange CYJ_toon_Layer;
layerEditorLayerButtonTypeChange CYJ_toon_Layer;
}
else
{
delete $Toon $layer;
}
select $sel;
}

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[Kranos_Orphydian]

where can this be set in preferences so that I get only the outline and not the wireframe on shaded?

Also , this should be the default behavior

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@Kranos_Orphydian  I didn't find this setting, so I implemented it through Mel. But the efficiency is relatively low