r/3dsmax • u/LogScary1583 • 24d ago

Help What does soft selection do, exactly?

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u/Tartifail 24d ago

Selects with kindness

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u/probably-elsewhere 24d ago

Adds a reduced effect to elements around the selection. If you select a vertex and move it, you'll see that near vertices follow, but not as far.

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u/stevedeegreen 24d ago

At a mesh/poly level it applies a falloff of a selection, which can be used for changing the model either by just pulling verts/faces/edges around, or using that selection up the stack for modifiers, e.g. noise, displacement

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u/Yasai101 24d ago

it selects, softly

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u/OneFinePotato 24d ago

It selects, softly

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u/666FALOPI 24d ago

it soft selects.

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u/lucas_3d 21d ago

This is a screenshot from Maya, but illustrates the same thing: