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Winter Ventura
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Join date: 18 Jul 2006
Posts: 2,579
04-27-2008 10:43
From: Winter Ventura, in Jira VWR-6918


Feature Request: Photoshop-Like "Hide Selection Outlines" with Ctrl-H (or similar) key combo.

For those of us who build, and even those of us who make our own textures, the "Selection Highlights" (those little blue and yellow outlines around selected prims) can sometimes really be in the way. Whether it's a matter of simply adjusting a texture to match up with another prim, or perhaps you're trying to do a complicated "skin-to-prim" colour match.. Sometimes you just want a quick and easy way to get those lines out of the way.

With the advent of "GLOW", these selection outlines have become rather oppressive at times.

Torley's recent foray into the realm of "Video Turtorials" reveals that there is indeed a method, whereby these outlines can be hidden, via settings in the Debug menu.

For those of us who build and texture and USE these tools on a daily basis, "open debug settings, change the setting, quit SL, log back into SL, re-select the prims you wanted to edit, make your edit, open the debug settings, change the setting, quit SL, log back into SL" is purely crazy talk.

Even still, there are something approaching half-a-dozen debug settings that appear to relate to Selection Highlights, only one of which seems to actually DO anything.

What is needed, or at the very least, desired, is a quick-command we can use WHILE selections are active, to "Hide/Show" the selection highlights "on demand", without all that tedious mucking about, relogging.


Please consider taking a few moments to vote for this feature request.
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-6918
Winter Ventura
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05-05-2008 22:21
Please vote!
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Bunny Zipper
Registered User
Join date: 10 Apr 2008
Posts: 36
05-15-2008 17:49
They can be hidden in the debug menu.

SelectionHighlight I believe it is.
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Rolig Loon
Not as dumb as I look
Join date: 22 Mar 2007
Posts: 2,482
05-15-2008 19:23
Yes, of course that's true, but read the Jira request:

From: someone
For those of us who build and texture and USE these tools on a daily basis, "open debug settings, change the setting, quit SL, log back into SL, re-select the prims you wanted to edit, make your edit, open the debug settings, change the setting, quit SL, log back into SL" is purely crazy talk.


The point is that that this method ALREADY EXISTS in the system, but it is clumsy as all getout to use. The request is simply to make it easier to use by assigning a keystroke shortcut to it. Sounds like a no-brainer to me, and almost zero work for some junior programmer at LL to do in her/his lunch hour.
Hunter Stern
Web Weaver
Join date: 7 Oct 2004
Posts: 377
05-15-2008 23:48
See: /8/d5/166902/1.html
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Bunny Zipper
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Join date: 10 Apr 2008
Posts: 36
05-16-2008 18:47
I don't change it back and forth, I set it and leave it.
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