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Post by marlie on Jan 30, 2011 2:00:12 GMT -5
I've been trying to do the pants tutorial and I do fine until I get to the part dong the pockets that have you hold down the ctrl key and pull in the selection for the pockets.
The manipulator is visible until I press the ctrl key and then the manipulator disappears. What causes this and how can I solve it?
I even tried saving the work at that point, closing down hexagon and opening it back up and reimporting the save in hopes that would solve it but nothing so far is solving this problem.
Any help with this would be most appreciated. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but hexagon does that a lot to me with the manipulator when I press the ctrl key to do anything.
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Post by heddheld on Jan 30, 2011 4:38:34 GMT -5
holding ctrl key is a shortcut for the extrude tool if u have lines selected should be a yellow ball pull on that an the lines move along the normals if u have a poly selected then will have one arrow and a box on the manipulator arrow moves in the direction of the normals an the box will scale it
wont work on points
hope that helps
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Post by marlie on Jan 30, 2011 23:56:48 GMT -5
Thanks for your reply.
The problem is that when I press the Ctrl key, all the manipulators disappear. I don't have anything at all there to move the selection of faces with. Not the yellow ball, red cube nor anything at all. All the manipulators just vanish once I depress the Ctrl key and no other appear at all of any kind.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled hex, rebooted the computer and still that didn't solve it. I have a windows 7 OS and I'm wondering if that may possibly be a problem with hex giving problems. I have 4.5gb ram with an intel core Quad processor so I would think that is sufficient for using hexagon.
I do have a lot of problems with hexagon giving internal errors quite often and I'm not sure what causes that either.
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Post by heddheld on Jan 31, 2011 3:39:44 GMT -5
ok guess thats a problem lol now I use win 7 on a 4core so thats not the prob could maybe be your graphics card!! try checking your drivers make sure there upto date the only other thing I know that might help is go into prefs / 3d display / open GL... the pull down has 3 options try the slow one first (no optimization) if that works you might want to try the middle one
I have used hex on a few comps but all had nvida graphics did have to roll a graphics driver back once but that was on an old card on a vista system (was a couple of yrs ago ) if the above dont work get back with your graphics card details and we'll see where we go after that
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Post by Ez on Jan 31, 2011 9:24:09 GMT -5
uninstalled and reinstalled may not all ways work because i think it keeps your preferences. do a file> user resources > reset all then re start hexagon
by any chance you wasn't holding down the space bar was you? that hides the manipulator
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Post by marlie on Feb 2, 2011 23:49:05 GMT -5
uninstalled and reinstalled may not all ways work because i think it keeps your preferences. do a file> user resources > reset all then re start hexagon by any chance you wasn't holding down the space bar was you? that hides the manipulator Thanks so much heddheld and EZ for your help. Doing a file>user resources>Reset all seems to have solved that problem.
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Post by Ez on Feb 3, 2011 16:13:43 GMT -5
YEAH! ;D
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Post by cloudes on Feb 20, 2012 8:19:41 GMT -5
by any chance you wasn't holding down the space bar was you?
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