Can I turn off roll-over object selection highlighting?

fiziwig

I prefer to select objects from the scene object tree. When I get a lot of objects in a scene I have large patches of yellow flashing on and off as I mouse over the screen, and very often they cover up or obscure the details I'm trying to look at. I'd rather objects did not highlight in the viewport since I never, ever select them that way anyway.

The scene I'm working on imports a prop from Poser and unfortunately it's a whole building instead of just the two interior walls I need, but it's built as a single object, so I can't delete the walls I don't need. As a result there are a dozen hidden walls behind the one I'm looking at and the whole screen turns dense orange as soon as the mouse touches the view port, and I can't see what I'm doing.

I checked all the options and preferences I could find in the menu but didn't see anything useful. What's the secret incantation needed to turn highlighting off?

IceCrMn

in the scene tab there are tiny check marks in front of the items.If you click that it will turn it into an x , this will make the item unclickable in the viewport.That will stop the roll-over highlight :)

fixmypcmike

Window > Panes > Draw Settings, under General set "Draw Style" to "Bounding Box Only".

fiziwig

Thanks both of you for the information. There is just so many new options to search for, and so much new information to try to absorb.

But I'm having fun. :)

IceDragonArt

Oh my gosh THANK YOU for asking this question!  It was driving me crazy in a background sort of way lol.

Szark

icecrmn said:

in the scene tab there are tiny check marks in front of the items.If you click that it will turn it into an x , this will make the item unclickable in the viewport.That will stop the roll-over highlight :)

That is a handy feature when objects get in your way in a crowded scene

Parris

Fixmypcmike said:

Window > Panes > Draw Settings, under General set "Draw Style" to "Bounding Box Only".

Setting the Draw Style to Wire Bounding Box, will set all items in the viewport to be drawn as bounding boxes. However, on the same Draw Settings tab, under General > Node Highlighting, you can set Highlight Style to "Bounding Box Only". This will then highlight just a bit of the edges and corners of things (yellow outline) on mouse-over rather than filling the selection's surface with yellow.

I think that is what Fixmypcmike actually meant.

rowlytiger_6a35025507

This has been updated again...

Window > Panes > Draw Settings > Node Highlighting > set Active Opacity to 0%

SlimerJSpud

There's a subtle difference in the options. Setting Active Opacity to 0 also affects the surface selection tool. You might prefer to have it highlight which surface is getting selected in that mode. Leaving Active Opacity at 30% and choosing Bounding Box Only achieves this. I agree that having the selection or universal tool flashing all the time is very anoying...