Saving Polygon Selections

[zayaz]

Saving Polygon Selections

It's great that Cheetah let's me select polygons and apply materials to that specific area, but it would be nice to be able to save that selection. I think it would make it easier to change materials later in the project.

This my first post, so before I forget Cheetah 3D rocks!

Thanks...

 

[hairball600]

You can do that using the "Polygon selection" property on your mesh. And yes, Cheetah3D rocks.

 

[podperson]

If you select a subset of the faces of an object and apply a texture, the selection is automatically saved.

If you click on the texture next to the object icon in the object browser you'll see which selection is associated with that material.

The only fly in the ointment is that Cheetah 3D doesn't currently merge selections if you apply a material to two different selections (instead you get two selections and two applications of the material). This is being addressed in 4.3 I believe.

 

[zayaz]

That's for the info, very much appreciated...

 

[zayaz]

You can do that using the "Polygon selection" property on your mesh.

The Polygon Selection works great.