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Help with 3d objects About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Help with 3d objects // New Users 1  |   Order by default Post by Goodbloke // Feb 26, 2009, 4:46pm Goodbloke Total Posts: 13 ok I know how to make a 3d cube and make a stack of boxes etc.\ What i need to know is how can i select a 3d box object. so for example http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/7333/boxpic.jpg (http://imageshack.us) And i want to select say the right box on top. Quick way to do it? Post by kena // Feb 26, 2009, 6:23pm kena Total Posts: 2321 If this is 4 objects, then you just click on the one you want. But that is to obvious, so I'm going to guess that the image below is one object and you want to select the 5 faces on the top right of the object.... Right click when the object is selected and you go into point-edit mode. Then at the bottom left of the screen, you select the icon to select faces. Press down the control key and select each face. Does that make sense? Post by trueBlue // Feb 26, 2009, 6:45pm trueBlue Total Posts: 1761 While in Point Editing. Select the top face. Select the Grow Selection tool. Select the Select Faces tool. Select the Convert Selection tool. Post by TomG // Feb 27, 2009, 2:18am TomG Total Posts: 3397 If there are separate boxes, then you should model separately, starting a new cube for each. This would make selecting the cube trivial, just click on it with the Object Select tool, and the whole box is selected. If they are modeled together as one object for a reason (exporting to a game engine as a static object for the background, boxes will never be moved or treated separately), and maybe you want to apply UV to one particular "box" in the stack, you would use things like CTRL and click to add faces continually to the select in Point Edit mode as mentioned. If you have the "box" painted a different material, you could use Select By Material. Generally though you would have modeled the boxes separately, in most cases that would be the best approach. HTH! Tom PS if these were created separately and then Encapsulate In 3D was used to make them a group, you can select and individual box by using the down arrow on the keyboard to move into the group, then the left and right arrows to move between objects in the group. Or you can open the Link Editor, enter the group using the orange arrow, then simply click on the relevant object shown in the Link Editor.

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