Subtitles of the Movie

One of the first skills to cover in the model view here is how to select objects. The most basic way is simply to left-click, and each time I left-click I'm going to select a new object. You can see that the color of the wire frame switches from dark blue to this minty green. And now another way to do this to use a marquee selection, which is clicking and dragging a box part way around or all the way around an object. So I click out here in space and drag and now release the left mouse button, I've selected that sphere. If I want to select multiple objects I can use that the same marquee technique. I've left-clicked, dragged, and I've got two objects. Same thing. I can left-click, drag, grab these two objects over on the right, and you'll notice that the selection there was dropped. Every time you pick a new object in this mode just left-clicking or left-dragging a marquee you will switch the selection set, in other words, drop the old selection and pick up a new one. Sometimes you want to add the selection set, so in this case I've picked this sphere and I want to add the cylinder to the selection set. So I can hold the Shift key and left-click, and that adds. Again, hold the Shift key, left-drag a marquee, and add. And same for this cube: shift, drag, and I've selected the cube. Now I'm going to undo that last selection by pressing Control Z, and I'm going to press Control Z to Undo the selection of the cone. You'll notice that if I hold Shift and drag around all of these objects right now I'll end up switching or toggling the selection set. It drops the old selection and picks up a new one. This can be frustrating. Sometimes you have a selection and you want to add to it. You need to drag a big marquee around everything. So the modifier here is to hold Control Shift and drag around everything. Okay? I'm going to Undo pressing Z and try that one more time. Control Shift and left-click and drag. So in Control Shift mode, you can only add to the selection set. You're never going to replace the selection set and you won't see objects that you had picked get dropped. Okay? While I'm in this scene another thing I want to show is different view modes. Right now we're looking at wire frames of the models. If I press the 5 key on the keyboard, I can switch to a shaded mode. So these look solid now. If I press 4, I go back to wire frame. Okay. We're going to cover some other view modes later, texture mode and lighted mode, but four and five for wire frame and shaded are probably the two most common that you'll use when you're working.