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Now I can't select my figure...

laststand6522732laststand6522732 Posts: 866
edited December 1969 in New Users

I was having a swell time, posing the figure using PowerPose. Then I realized I could no longer select the figure, or any of its children, using the (any) cursor. Other elements in the scene select with the cursor, no problem. Figure or children select fine in the Scene panel, no problem. Other files are not having any problem, only this one.

I've searched the settings dialogs for an hour. It's time to look stupid and ask for help. >:-(

How did I do this?

Thanks.

Comments

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,302
    edited December 1969

    I'm not sure what would be causing that. Can you select the figure from the scene tab?

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,721
    edited December 1969

    Sounds as if you may have switched the selectability off - it's shown by the arrow symbol next to the eye symbol in the Scene pane, I suspect you have an X on it. Select the figure and try clicking the symbol - if that doesn't fix it seelct all of the bones and use the Selectable button in the Parameters pane.

  • laststand6522732laststand6522732 Posts: 866
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    I'm not sure what would be causing that. Can you select the figure from the scene tab?

    I can select it in the Scene panel. I can select it in the Parameters panel. Both the Selection Tool and the Universal Tool have no effect. Close and reopen program has no effect. Everything worked great 2 hours ago. I'm sure I did something stupid.

  • laststand6522732laststand6522732 Posts: 866
    edited December 1969

    Richard Haseltine said:
    Sounds as if you may have switched the selectability off - it's shown by the arrow symbol next to the eye symbol in the Scene pane, I suspect you have an X on it. Select the figure and try clicking the symbol - if that doesn't fix it seelct all of the bones and use the Selectable button in the Parameters pane.


    I was fooling with that arrow in the scene panel before this happened. That may have caused it. However, I left it in the Selectable position. Toggling it a few times had no effect.

    The figure and all the bones are Selectable in the Parameters panel toggle.

    Selectability is the perfect word for this issue.

  • laststand6522732laststand6522732 Posts: 866
    edited December 1969

    Unwilling for a while to give up, I continued to look for an answer to this issue. I even exported the scene as an OBJ file, then imported it. The problem persisted. I could have spent a week looking for an answer, and still come up empty handed. Finally I did the one thing I knew would solve the problem, something I have done many, many times. I took out a clean sheet of paper and recreated the file, this time refraining from experimentation of any kind. It worked fine, as it always does.

    Once I thought that a time would come when I would no longer need to resort to such a drastic step. I would have learned all the undocumented idiosyncrasies, and would no longer have these unsolvable problems. I'm beginning to wonder if that's true. I don't want to think about what would happen if I had a complex scene open, and a problem occurred that I couldn't fix.

    Thanks.

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