Rectangle and Lasso Object Selection

[clintonman]

Script for simulating rectangle and lasso selection for scene objects. It basically creates a mesh based on the bounding box of all scene items and after you select the vertices the corresponding scene objects are selected.

http://www.clintons3d.com/plugins/trues ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[v3rd3]

Clinton thanks again for your efforts.

[clintonman]

Updated and found a danger in the script.

First the good news(version 1.01):

New icons for less confusion
Some recovery ability if the tool is not ended properly with some drag in the viewport
Automatic installer

Bad news:

There is a sequence of actions that can crash truespace
1. click the custom lasso or rectangle select button
2. right click ending PE mode but not the tool
3. add a cube or any other primitive to the scene
Result: CRASH

Click the button + drag in the 3D view = GOOD
Click the button + go do something else = BAD


Edit: October 7 2011 - fix so doesn't select invisible objects

[clintonman]

Update - no more crashes

Made the script more robust and doesn't crash anymore.
Right click will end the tool instead of just leaving PE mode and leaving the tool half done.
Ignores subsequent press of the rectangle and lasso buttons until after the selection is made.

http://clintons3d.com/plugins/truespace ... #rectlasso" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Draise]

Wonderful! That's a great improvement! I've been using it oh so carefully.

[clintonman]

Update September 2019

bug: now works with pre-selected cameras and lights - bug was cause by the fact that selected cameras and lights are set to invisible, so they were ignored
improved appearance during selection - edges not visible, only points visible
uses "Workspace" status instead of "Model" status

[clintonman]

Update: Sept 2020

Now respects the locking of objects from the unselectable script.

[clintonman]

June 22, 2021

Update:

fixed a crash bug - the reason for the update
added support for NURBS
selection of 3d groups instead of the 3d group members

http://clintons3d.com/plugins/truespace ... lasso.html