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Can't click on something to select anymore

Spacewarper7Spacewarper7 Posts: 140
in Daz Studio Discussion

I've been using DAZ on and off for a number of years, and have just encountered a baffling problem I have never experienced before and don't know how it started or how to fix it.

Normally when working on a scene I can select it with a mouseclick and start working on it with the Parameters, SAhaping etc tabs. I work on some complex scenes with a ton of props so this ability is a great timesaver. 

But lately I have been unable to do this. I have to go to the scene tab now to find what I want to work on. This slows me down a *lot*; especially as I use many props and I do not always remember what they are called. The problem is made even worse if I have several of the same prop and do not know offhand which one I am looking at to select until I hover the cursor over it. 

This loss of ability to select by sight is bugging the heck out of me. I assume I clicked on something by accident and changed some setting somewhere, but I have no idea what it might be so that I can try to reverse it.

Does anyone have any idea what setting  I did wrong and how I can fix it?

 

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  • Enchanted AprilEnchanted April Posts: 217

    Is it broken just for this scene or more generally? You have to search for "selectable in viewport". Parameter tab > Display > Scene View. And have a look on the scene tab. Do you see the little arrows marked with a tick or with a x? X means "not selectable", if so, click on it and it becomes a tick and is selectable again in the viewport. Maybe there is a main button to switch that on and off for the complete scene - but I don't know that.

  • Spacewarper7Spacewarper7 Posts: 140
    edited September 2022

    Enchanted April said:

    Is it broken just for this scene or more generally? You have to search for "selectable in viewport". Parameter tab > Display > Scene View. And have a look on the scene tab. Do you see the little arrows marked with a tick or with a x? X means "not selectable", if so, click on it and it becomes a tick and is selectable again in the viewport. Maybe there is a main button to switch that on and off for the complete scene - but I don't know that.

    Nah, I thought of that one right away. I have had individual objects do that to me before(quite a few times in fact), undoubtedly through fumble-fingered clicking on something I didn't mean to click on; but knew how to fix it in the way you are suggesting (at least; after a while). But this is *everything* in the scene, and everything is nicely checked rather than 'x'ed as well. I haven't yet tried to see to see if it is just this one scene/set or not however. It's occurred to me to do so, but I have the feeling that this problem is 'scene-independent' for want of a better way to describe it. Thanks anyway, but I'm afraid this isn't the problem.

    Edit: Just tried a different scene. I was right. It made no difference. Whatever the problem is, it's affecting the program settings not the set itself.

    Post edited by Richard Haseltine on
  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,485

    Do you mean you cannot select an item in the Viewport? Check the Node Selection Mode in Tool Settings tab when you using any of Node Selection, Universal, Translate, Rotate or Scale tools.

    Is there some transparent barrier beween you and the items in the scene? It won't show, but won't let you select anything behind it, unless you make it unselectable.

  • Spacewarper7Spacewarper7 Posts: 140

    NorthOf45 said:

    Do you mean you cannot select an item in the Viewport? Check the Node Selection Mode in Tool Settings tab when you using any of Node Selection, Universal, Translate, Rotate or Scale tools.

    Is there some transparent barrier beween you and the items in the scene? It won't show, but won't let you select anything behind it, unless you make it unselectable.

    That was it!!! THANK YOU!!! :-)) Soon as I clicked on that the problem went away.

    I think it probably happended as I guessed; probably something I clicked on by accident and never realized it. So I had no idea what to do. The node selection thing was definitely the answer.

    Have occasionally hit on the other problem you mentioned afterward by the way, but kjnew right away that wasn't the problem or it wouldn't have persisted no matter what i did or what POV I used. But nodes... I don't the first thing about nodes. So naturally that *was* the answer!

    Many thanks again. You're my new hero! :-)

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