Welter4d>MagicWandSelection
for Cinema 4d
Magic Wand Selection is a tool plugin that provides serveral ways of selecting polygons and edges.
This selection mode allows easier "live"-edge selection. Once the user clicks on a mesh a small cursor appears, which goes along the edges from point to point, following the mouse as good as possible. All edges along the path of the cursor will be selected.
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The dialog box
• Polygon Smooth-Region-Selection
• In Polygon Mode the only option is to select regions of the mesh that are enclosed by phong broken edges. With a mouseclick on a polygon the first polygon is selected. From there the selection is automatically grown until it reaches phong broken edges.
In Edge Mode there are three selection modes: Phong Breaks, Edge Loops and User Guided Line.
• Phong Breaks
• In this mode the plugin selects lines of phong broken edges. With a click on a polygon the closest edge is selected. From there the plugin follows and selectes neighboring Phong Breaks, until it reaches a point with more than one neighboring Phong Break.
Edge Loop
• Actually it is not really a "Loop". Again, with a click on a poly, the closest edge is selected. Then the plugin follows and selectes regular structures as in the picture below
• It stops the loop if there are more that 4 outgoing edges from the current point.
Phong Broken Edges
The term "Phong Broken Edges" includes here both, the Phong Breaks that are created by using the Break Phong Edges command, as well as Phong Breaks that are introduced by the Maximum Phong Angle.
Phong Angle Override
There is the possibility to overide the Maximum Angle of the Phong Tag. That means if the Override Angle is smaller than the Maximum Phong Angle or the Phong Angle is disabled, then the Override Angle will be used. This way it is possible to select only planar regions. If you don't need it set the value to something high like 180 degree.
Deselection and "Add To Selection"
Magic Wand Selection behaves like the buildin selection tools in this respect. Pressing SHIFT will add the selection to the current one, and CTRL will deselect instead of select.
Selection Preview
There is actually some kind of preview mode for Polygon,Loop,and Phong Break Selection. While keeping the left mouse button down, the selection is continuously updated. The selection is final once the mouse
button is released.
a demo version here
