face select

adoorable door · Post by **adoorable door** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:03 pm

pretty straight forward..

how the **** do I deselect the face of a object? maybe it's the wrong term, I don't care. but when I open Edit Mode and click on the face select I will get the blacked out/shaded thing on the face I want to extrude. but after I right click to any face I can't seem to get the blacked part away, only move it. so what should I do?

Tehrasha · Post by **Tehrasha** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:03 pm

Try pressing A

It will either select the entire mesh, or deselect the entire mesh.

CoDEmanX · Post by **CoDEmanX** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:50 am

why the **** not rtfm?

adoorable door · Post by **adoorable door** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 3:34 pm

@Tehrasha A will select/deselect, but the face will still be blacked out.

CoDEmanX rtfm?

CoDEmanX · Post by **CoDEmanX** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:32 pm

how large or small is the face?

are you in texture mode?

is viewport shading set to GLSL and there's no lamp?

did you try different drawing methods, e.g. overlap or triple buffer?

Tehrasha · Post by **Tehrasha** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 1:34 am

I think he is only concerned that there is grey crosshatching on the last selected face..

adoorable door · Post by **adoorable door** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:36 am

Tehrasha wrote:I think he is only concerned that there is grey crosshatching on the last selected face..

that's exactly right. how do I remove that?

CoDEmanX · Post by **CoDEmanX** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 5:57 pm

as this indicates the active face in contrast to selected faces, it is important for modelling to have it distinguishable. There is no setting to disable that "pattern". But it could be added rather easily, but what for?