Tip: Pick-Off Bezier Points . .

Grazie wrote on 4/20/2006, 11:52 PM
. if this IS in the manual I haven't seen it . .but .. After speaking on SKYPE yesterday, with one of our Veg-E-phytes, I came across SHIFT+SPACEBAR. This I allowed me to select not only individual POINTS but sequences of Points IN or OUT of sequence. Meaning: Points A,B,C,D,E,F,G, . . . I could go A+B . .or . .A+C+E+F or what ever combination thereof!

So, holding down Shift+Spacebar all I needed to to was Click on those points I wanted. Once "click" they also change colour to having a solid dark/black show up in their innards. Neat.

If this was known - apologies. But I can tell you this is a boon for any Bezier Captains out there wanting to Navigate around and pick off them pesky points!

Cheers,

Grazie

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Blues_Jam wrote on 4/21/2006, 12:06 AM
"If this was known - apologies"

Not known to me and I have tried everything I could think of to do just that (CTRL-Left Mouse, CTRL-Right Mouse, Shift-left, shift-right, ALT-left, and ALT-right)... I never would have ever even considered SHIFT-SPACE !!!

Thank you so much for that one, Grazie !

Blues
busterkeaton wrote on 4/21/2006, 11:51 AM
Grazie,

Great tip.


How do you work with the bezier points at that point?
busterkeaton wrote on 4/21/2006, 12:09 PM
Just came up with a feature request.

Context sensitive Keyboard Shortcut Map.

For example you open PAN CROP you hit a button on the toolbar and up pops
a small bar that shows you all the shortcuts available to you on that tool.

What do you think?
Grazie wrote on 4/21/2006, 12:46 PM
BK, sounds good. Kinda Rollover Tool Tips maybe? But I guess you're joking with me.

And how to use them? At that point - I don't understand? G

busterkeaton wrote on 4/21/2006, 1:03 PM
Is it that you can move a path but leave a few points in place.

or is it

are you only selecting a few points and leaving the full path alone?

not looking at Vegas right now, so I'm just wondering what the usage is and I'm too tired to try visual thinking right now.
GGman wrote on 4/21/2006, 2:07 PM
You don't need Spacebar. Just use Shift and click on points you want selected. Click outside the mask area to clear all selections. Many other techniques are explained in the Help file under Bezier Mask. It does appear they have a typo saying to use Ctrl when it should say Shift.

GG
Grazie wrote on 4/21/2006, 10:01 PM
Oh? - G
Grazie wrote on 4/21/2006, 10:42 PM
Yup, just Shift. That'll do it! - Thanks GG . .from G!